Governments began inserting the term “misinformation” into the mainstream narrative during the pandemic. The government has the sole discretion to determine what is considered factual. “Trust the science” is code for “trust the government” to dictate reality, and if you question that reality, you will be punished.
Swiss National Council member Andreas Glarner, Brünisholz found himself in a courtroom after posting on social media: “‘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.”
Police officers interrogated Brünisholz over the “intent” of his post on his personal social media page. The authorities determined that he had committed a crime under the new guidelines in the Swiss Criminal Code that ban any questioning of sexual orientation or sexuality.
The judge ruled:
“‘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 judge went on to rule that a hate crime had been committed as the comment “maintains that sexual orientation according to LGBTQI does not exist, but is a mental illness. He therefore denies the people who belong to this group their human right to existence.” Brünisholz was fined 500 Swiss Francs for his social media post and ordered to pay an additional 600 Swiss Francs in legal fees. Believing the ruling was unjust, he refused to pay the fines and was sentenced to imprisonment.
The Swiss courts imprisoned a man for commenting on anatomy. His comment is a scientific, undeniable, and tangible fact. There was no malicious or threatening act—he simply voiced his opinion online. Governments will not permit the people to speak out against their curated version of reality. His true crime was questioning that reality and stating that the government is lying. The premise is absolutely ridiculous, but this story illustrates how far governments will go to silence all dissent. The phenomenon of increased authoritarianism is a global phenomenon, and COVID was the gateway to seizing increased control. They aim to instill fear in the global population, tightening their grip as people start questioning the truth. Remember that the term “woke” was initially used as a slang term for those who felt awakened from government’s version of reality, but that is now illegal.