Talk:Christoph Meili

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can I add "so the next time someone gets in-yo-face about swiss neutrality, remind them of this, and say the modern day swiss are no better then hitler" or would that be too much of a POV?

Well you posed and answered the question yourself ;-) Only one such incident is known, albeit I would think a very serious one. Those who would like to draw conclusions of any kind are welcome to do so, without the information provider telling what it should be. NPOV always seems more respectful of people's mental skills: we provide information, while trusting you are very capable of thinking yourself. gidonb 10:48, 26 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sources?

Are there any (reliable) sources for the numerous allegations in this article? A few examples?

He discovered that officials at UBS destroyed the credit balances of deceased Jewish clients, which was a violation of Swiss laws since it is required that any credit balances that existed would be paid to the family members of Jews who had perished in the Holocaust. Which Swiss law were violated?

The Swiss authorities reacted with an arrest warrant against Christoph Meili Is there any evidence for such an arrest warrant?

Christoph Meili and his family are the only Swiss nationals in history ever to have been granted political asylum in the United States. Is there any evidence for this statement?

etc.

--ChristophMeili 09:55, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Article referenced and expanded a little. Lupo 14:29, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

BTW, this edit at the German Wikipedia was inappropriate. The paragraph is badly phrased, but a little reformulation could have saved it. Lupo 14:43, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

I've also removed the video link. The man shown may be Meili, though it's a bit hard to tell due to the extremely poor quality—cell phone cameras aren't exactly up to this task. :-) But in any case Wikipedia is not a platform for propaganda. If Meili has an axe to grind with the Swiss newspaper Blick, he should find other channels. (And in any case, I guess the mainstream media will pick up on that video soon enough.) Self-published works are not suitable as references or whatever for Wikipedia articles. Lupo 16:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)