May your demise be an emblem of finality and change to the history of black oppression and racial division in the United States of America, and one which will inspire human equality worldwide. – Ian T. Sebàs –

I read in the newspaper, Tages Anzeiger, today, that the national unemployment rate for Switzerland has fallen to 2.7% and my first reaction was, “Have you ever read more BS than this right here?”
2.7%, really?
“Of the reported eight million, three hundred and seventy-two thousand people living in Switzerland, am I to believe that only 226,044 are unemployed?”
With this number calculating for every young and old person, men, women and children, the published 2.7% is either a lie, a figure to acclaim national false pride or one accounting only to Swiss-born individuals.
As an Ausländer (foreigner), who have lived and relentlessly sought jobs in Switzerland, years at a time, without success, I felt as if it is my duty not to only challenge the published 2.7% unemployment rate, but to highlight a hidden fact, that if this number is indeed true, then foreigners such as myself are not being counted as a part of the Swiss population.
Switzerland’s employment opportunities are as much in existence as the prejudicial gateways to reach them; in other words, jobs are available in Switzerland, but not to everyone, despite being qualified or unqualified.
The labour market in Switzerland might be regulated by Swiss laws and its government, but it is controlled by business owners and private boards; therefore, it is not only the political monopoly which denies qualified foreigners of suitable employment, but it is the mindset of the people, who resides in Switzerland.
And although the Swiss social service and its welfare provisions could be considered a consolation, in Switzerland, where 99% of government aid recipients are Ausländers, it is also a transparent view that a serious bias exist in the Swiss labour market.
Qualified foreigners, such as myself, of colour are ridiculed when an application for a job matching our educational qualification is submitted. We are rejected 99.9% of the time without reasons and the other 0.01%, we are noted as overqualified; either way, we will never get the job.
Most educated Black foreigners are denied suitable jobs and are forced to settle for menial employments, not because other jobs aren’t available, but because it is a great part of the Swiss labour market’s culture that Ausländers, especially Blacks, are only good for unskilled work, such as cleaning.
In Switzerland, if one should look closely, there is an employment tier system, which is blatantly structured by prejudice and some levels of racism.
The tier from an up to down direction is colour graded from white skin to black skin, so you will find the whitest of Whites at the top jobs and the blackest of Blacks at the bottom jobs; these positions equally reflects cleanliness of work and pay grades.
Interestingly, this bias has extended its way into the welfare support system of Switzerland too. In most cases, when an individual is being financially supported by the Swiss government, it is usually required that the recipient participates in a work integration.
Work integration is only a decorative term for slave labour, where the individual works 70% to 100%, doing actual work, but receives no more than a third of what the job would pay in a normal situation.
The bias can be seen where different job sectors, from recycling garbage to being in an office environment, are included in the integrational program; again, placements in these sectors are colour graded, without an income difference.
With these acquired findings, I challenge the Tages Anzeiger and any individual or organization to prove different.
There was a big hullabaloo over a British politician, who was discovered watching porn at work; apparently, the discovery happened a long time ago, but for some scandalous reasons, the police officer, who is now retired, decided that it was the right time to make it an addition to the evening news.
Despite having opinions on both, the police officer’s and the politician’s behaviour, the part that struck me the most was the public’s sneered reactions on the whole idea of watching porn.
Watching porn on the job, especially on the company’s computer, is an assumed established prohibition, by most, unless the company’s business is actually in porn, and for this, I side with all, who shunned the politician’s behaviour at work.
But, typical British, they were in utter denial and displayed pure disgust on the idea of watching sex films, in general.
Gone are the days when porn was scarce and could only be attained in magazines and on VHS tapes.
Today, porn is everywhere, we don’t even have to go looking for it anymore, because it is online; porn is so prevalent now, that it sometimes enters our lives, uninvited.
Without strict settings of our internet browsers, search engines will throw porn in our faces from the most innocent search words.
Search words such as tossing salads, pussycat, blowing, snatch, Dick, handy job, 69 and so on will have you apologizing to your colleagues and children, who saw the results.
So, it is clear that not all of us, who watches porn, deliberately searched for its subject or typed known addresses into our browsers.
As much as I have watched porn for reasons of research and could hide behind that guise, professionally, I have equally watched porn out of curiosity and to be entertained; I guess that confession puts me in the 1%.
But what amazes me the most, after watching the news, was the known footprints that viewers leave online versus the percentage of people in the UK, who denied watching porn.
See, years ago, when a person bought an erotic magazine, the only other person, who knew about it, was the cashier, then it was quickly tucked into a brown paper bag, before being hidden in a secret place at home.
Online porn does not offer such privilege. Instead, it displays how many times a pornographic video has been watched, and if the need to know arises, someone, somewhere, out there knows exactly, which home, computer, tablet and or mobile phone was used to view the video; that is the price being paid for watching porn, today, online.
And despite this clear evidence, majority of the people in the UK denied ever watching porn online.
Alarmingly, some of these videos receive viewing hits ranging in the millions and depending on one’s location or porn search keywords, filters allow viewers to find only British porn, and like the viewing hits, British pornography videos are available in abundance too.
Still, despite the British porn-stars and the online footprints, left by UK viewers, no one there watches porn.
Porn – sexual intimacy captured on camera and displayed for viewing pleasure. Porn is legal in most countries of the world and usually ranges from soft to hardcore themes, performed by consenting adults.
Some pornographic videos are illegal to be produced and or viewed, including those with under-age and non-consenting performers; a legal responsibility is required from both viewers and producers.
Sex has always been a powerful subject of interest to humans and because of this, our existence continues to regenerate.
Humans are among the few creatures on Earth, who uses sexual intercourse for pleasure and the only known creature to find pleasure in watching others have sex.
And for this reason, online porn will forever receive hits in the millions, despite our denial.
© Ian T. Sebàs 2017
Under Swiss Law, parents who are absent from PTA meetings, which are deemed as ‘obligatory meetings’ can be criminally charged and fined Two Hundred Swiss Francs or be imprisoned for a maximum of two days.
In September 2014, my wife and I, while living in Glattfelden (Stadt Zürich), were given such a fine by Schule Eichhölzli, where our child attended at the time. We immediately refused to pay the fine, claiming the allegation as false, and the matter was transferred to Statthalteramt Bezirk Bülach (Governor’s Court) where we were subsequently subpoenaed to appear before a Judge a few months later.
The scheduled court date arrived in 2015 and our preliminary statements were given and documented, while a separate court date was scheduled for the representatives of Schule Eichhölzli, which included its Board President, Marco Dindo; my wife and I were allowed to be present as they provided the court with their preliminary statements and left.
Our expectations, thereafter, with the consideration of legal proceedings in mind, were that another court date would be scheduled, where the Judge would weigh up all of the evidences received, and a ruling would follow, based upon the guidelines of Swiss Law, but instead, we received individual fines, in the post, which amounted to more than Eight Hundred Swiss Francs.
Once again, we rejected the fines, appealed the decision while professing the transparency of legal mismanagement for delivering a guilty verdict without declared reasons.
Months went by before we received any correspondences from the court, which arrived without acknowledgement of our filed appeal, but with court charges amounting to more than Eighteen Hundred Swiss Francs and threats of imprisonment; again we raised our objections and rejected the fines.
Eventually, in 2016, our appeal was acknowledged and Hearings were scheduled for September 5, 2016 at Bezirksgericht Bülach, while the fines had reached a total of Two Thousand Two Hundred and Eighty Swiss Francs (CHF 2’280.-) or imprisonment.
Our lives were in turmoil, all this time, as we battled with Statthalteramt Bezirk Bülach (Governor’s Court), who in a sense, innocently adopted a fight while the true culprits, Schule Eichhölzli, who started the whole problem, laid dormant.
To our surprise, the court’s public listing drew an overwhelming media frenzy to the case, as it turned out to be the first time, in Swiss criminal history, surrounding matters of this kind, that someone had ever appealed the decision.
Court commenced at 2pm on September 5, 2016 and after three hours of evidence production and reviews, the Judge presiding over the matter at Bezirksgericht Bülach, found no evidence of guilt, declared our innocence which was supported by guidelines of Swiss Laws and, after two years, we were free from all charges.
In decree of the Judge’s ruling, “no monetary compensation was to be paid” to my family in the matter which we appealed, and we were satisfied with such ruling; after all, although fining us meant that the Statthalteramt Bezirk Bülach (Governor’s Court) found us guilty, and it was this decision we appealed and won, in reality, our underlying battle was not with Statthalteramt Bezirk Bülach (Governor’s Court), but with Schule Eichhölzli. Normally, there would be room for compensation, considering that the ruling of Statthalteramt Bezirk Bülach (Governor’s Court) was overturned, except, in this particular case, the Judge’s ruling included “no compensation”, which would be limited to time loss, anyway.
Compensation for time loss is small when it is compared to compensation for Defamation of Character, which Schule Eichhölzli is indisputably guilty of.
And with our victorious win and overturned sentences, no time is better than the present to file our lawsuits against Schule Eichhölzli .
© Ian T. Sebàs 2016