Maybe the latter is who Obama should have used instead of the idiot he got to create his fake birth certificate.

I’m from Switzerland and if the USA come and try to meddle in our affairs… to quote a famous American film: we’ll give them a war they won’t believe. Not a military war but a war of will (although we’d kick their ass if they invaded).

Frankly I think Switzerland gave quite a bit of shit to the USA in recent years, which I’m proud of.
Last year Bush canceled a visit here after a group of citizens threatened to have the authorities arrest him for war crimes. The DHS (or was it the Secret Service?) shat their pants at the thought of an angry Swiss mob.

We also had the Polanski case: the USA refused to do all the paper work and provide all the required information about his first trial in the US. Instead of telling them “sure, we’ll ignore our own laws and send him to you” like most European governments would do, we told them “fuck you, if you won’t do as we say he goes free no matter what he did”.

And recently. Switzerland was one of the few countries who refused to sign ACTA.

Don’t get me wrong, we’re not perfect but we’re really closed to foreign interference of any kind.
And I admit we’re not really a pain in the USA’s ass, at least not when they don’t try to fuck with us. But that’s the thing, every time they try to mess with us they fail miserably because we don’t bend over to them.

Downloading here is legal, uploading is not enforced (the police won’t do shit about it. You have to sue people yourself, and then the courts would only force the guilty party to pay $1 per song they shared (no matter how many times they shared it).
We also don’t extradite citizens no matter what, unlike the UK or a few countries involved in the Megaupload shitstorm.

And if we need anything, we can do a referendum at any time to change the law or force the government to do what we, the people, want. If we cared enough about it, we could make file-sharing 100% legal, including hosting websites full of torrents and actual files. The thing is, we don’t care at the moment because as I mentioned above, downloading is legal and there’s plenty of sources to get the files from.
But this I am very sure of: if the USA could magically kill every source of “pirated” content on the web, we’d immediately have a referendum to make hosting and distribution of such content legal in Switzerland. We’d change the law so that anyone in the world could host a website like the Pirate Bay, except with actual files instead of torrents, on servers in Switzerland. I’m sure there would be enough young voters who’d strongly care about this to make it happen.
Seriously, a referendum is all it would take. Too few people would be against piracy AND care enough to vote to stop legalizing it through referendum.