Switzerland was famous (or infamous) for staying neutral in World War II. It simply would not take a side between the Nazis and the rest of the world. However, when it comes to free speech, Switzerland has declared war on anyone who challenges certain orthodox positions, including gender policies. Just ask Emanuel Brünisholz.
Brünisholz is reportedly about to start a 10-day prison stint due to his voicing skepticism about claims that skeletons are transgender.
There is very little coverage of this story. Free speech cases are often downplayed by European media. So, we have only limited information coming from conservative sites.
In 2022, he responded to a Facebook post by Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner on the controversy. Some, including academics in the United States, are now claiming that you really cannot gauge the sex of individuals from their skeletons.
The wind-instrument repairman thought that such claims were unfounded and posted a comment that said, “If you dig up LGBTQI people after 200 years, you’ll only find men and women based on their skeletons. Everything else is a mental illness promoted through the curriculum.”
Brünisholz then received a knock on his door from the Burgdorf police and then a prosecution letter for engaging in “hate speech” and “publicly belittling” comments based on sexual orientation under the Swiss Criminal Code. He was convicted and fined 500 Swiss Francs.
If true, this sounds like just another absurd use of a criminal charge to silence those with opposing views. However, a court actually convicted him and then another court upheld the conviction. He was ordered to pay a fine or go to jail. He is now going to jail for simply expressing his view, a view supported by many scientists and citizens.
The court adopted an exceptionally broad definition of the protected class under Swiss law:
“LGBTQI means lesbian, gay, bi, transgender, queer and intersex, and denotes therefore different sexual orientations. It’s a loose group of people who consider themselves a part of the aforementioned sexual orientations. Therefore, LGBTQI is a group of people with specific sexual orientations.”
The case is only the latest example of how free speech is in a free fall in Europe. I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum, where European leaders gathered in one of the most strikingly anti-free speech conferences I have attended. This year’s forum embraced the slogan “A New World Order with European Values.” That “new world order” is based on an aggressive anti-free speech platform that has been enforced for years by the European Union.
Many Americans are allied with the EU and attempting to introduce such anti-free speech laws in the United States. Others are speaking in Europe and inviting the EU to hit U.S. companies with sanctions for failing to censor Americans.
Yet, there remain brave free speech advocates and groups still struggling to restore this indispensable right to their countries. By going to jail, Brünisholz is bringing needed attention to the crackdown on free speech in that country. Despite the disgraceful role of the courts in this effort, citizens like Brünisholz show that the cause of free speech is alive in Europe.
It’s a “loose group” alright I looked up the word Orientation, and some of it included words; lucid, smart, and other words that are far away from what the Swiss Courts have to say.
So, what happens if someone doesn’t like the color shirt, pants, or dress someone wears? Will that be considered hate speech, and then looking at fines or jail time?? This World is definitely going off it’s axis, or old school word, rocker!!
Definitely looking for the Blessed Hope
Titus 2:13
stephen Scott
17 days ago
Genesis chapter 1 Verse 27 God created man in his image.
In the divine image he created him;
male and female he created them.
The New American Bible .
Netra Halperin
17 days ago
Wow! Good thing Trump, and most Republicans are against this.
Hunting.Targ
14 days ago
I’d like to point out a few things:
• The skeletons in the picture are medically absurd. There is no bone structure associated with the female mamnary glands, and the pelvises of biological males and females are different from birth.
• The mention of “mental illness” in the comment might have drawn the ire of the currently progressive Swiss gov’t. Switzerland has laws on the books against making public disparaging statements of others, even if they are factual.
• The Swiss court system appears to share the progressive state of denial and confusion about the distinction between ‘sex’ (which is biological), ‘gender’, and ‘orientation’ (which are both psychological). Whether it was a poorly mounted defense by rhe defendant, or confusion or kowtowing by the court, making a statement about ‘orientations’ has no bearing on medical anatomy, which in the case of skeletons is unalterable without radical and highly experimental surgery. He was convicted based on the alt-sexuality community’s own self-identification assertions rather than the tenets of existing Swiss law. It seems to me that the court went way out of is lane to convict a man who expressed an ‘unacceptable’ viewpoint and make an ideological point rather than a legal one.
It’s a “loose group” alright I looked up the word Orientation, and some of it included words; lucid, smart, and other words that are far away from what the Swiss Courts have to say.
So, what happens if someone doesn’t like the color shirt, pants, or dress someone wears? Will that be considered hate speech, and then looking at fines or jail time?? This World is definitely going off it’s axis, or old school word, rocker!!
Definitely looking for the Blessed Hope
Titus 2:13
Genesis chapter 1 Verse 27 God created man in his image.
In the divine image he created him;
male and female he created them.
The New American Bible .
Wow! Good thing Trump, and most Republicans are against this.
I’d like to point out a few things:
• The skeletons in the picture are medically absurd. There is no bone structure associated with the female mamnary glands, and the pelvises of biological males and females are different from birth.
• The mention of “mental illness” in the comment might have drawn the ire of the currently progressive Swiss gov’t. Switzerland has laws on the books against making public disparaging statements of others, even if they are factual.
• The Swiss court system appears to share the progressive state of denial and confusion about the distinction between ‘sex’ (which is biological), ‘gender’, and ‘orientation’ (which are both psychological). Whether it was a poorly mounted defense by rhe defendant, or confusion or kowtowing by the court, making a statement about ‘orientations’ has no bearing on medical anatomy, which in the case of skeletons is unalterable without radical and highly experimental surgery. He was convicted based on the alt-sexuality community’s own self-identification assertions rather than the tenets of existing Swiss law. It seems to me that the court went way out of is lane to convict a man who expressed an ‘unacceptable’ viewpoint and make an ideological point rather than a legal one.