So was I. No one really expected that result (not even the initiators of the initiative).
Oh and you are of course right that we have expirienced similar tendencies before. After the second world war the largest group of immigrants to switzerland were the italians. Today they are pretty well respected and integrated. At the time however the xenophobia peaked in an initative from James Schwarzenbach which wanted to limit foreign workers in Switzerland to 10%. In the year 2000 there was again such an initiative to limit it to 18%. Both of these initiatives were turned down in a public vote.
When comenting on the problems of integration Max Frisch said (freely translated) "We wanted workers, but human beings were arriving".
We should also just get rid of guns because not all bullets are effective.
No we should get rid of them because some of them are effective.
I'm sure your aunt would be just as much confused if she drove cars with an on/off button all her life, but this weird car has a key, like a house key, and you need to do something non-trivial with it!
Of course she would have been. But the point is that at the very least I would expect a rental car to have a manual on board. A short introduction is in the interest of the car rental company anyway. Who knows what someone who has never driven a car with an automatic gearbox may do to the thing.
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, signalled her government's readiness today to purchase stolen secret Swiss bank account data on 1,500 alleged tax evaders from an informant. The informant, who used to work at the Swiss arm of the British bank, HSBC, has offered to sell the data to the government for €2.5m ($3.4m) Experts say the information, which is contained on a CD, could reap up to €200m (£278m) in tax revenue.
Thomas Sutter, the spokesman for the Swiss Bankers Association, cautioned Germany over acquiring "stolen property". He said he did not believe that the German government "would want to be seen as the recipient of stolen goods".
All power corrupts, but we need electricity.