WEBVTT 00:00.613 --> 00:08.786 In the Swiss cantons of Appenzell Innerrhoden and Glarus, the voting population gathers once a year for the “Landsgemeinde.” 00:08.786 --> 00:16.195 In keeping with a long-standing Swiss tradition, they then vote on laws outdoors by a show of hands. 00:16.195 --> 00:27.023 Following this example, a symbolic Swiss Landsgemeinde was held for the second time on May 23, 2026, on Bundesplatz in Bern. 00:27.023 --> 00:35.186 Just outside Bern, between 500 and 700 participants gathered to vote on matters such as constitutional amendments, legislative 00:35.186 --> 00:40.331 proposals, and loans, as is customary at “Landsgemeinden.” 00:40.331 --> 00:43.664 Among other things, the following matters were discussed: 00:43.664 --> 00:46.104 “Switzerland’s Neutrality” (pursuant to Art. 173/185 of the Federal Constitution) 00:46.104 --> 00:49.059 “Vaccination Policies at the Federal and Cantonal Levels” (pursuant to Art. 10 of the Federal Constitution) 00:49.059 --> 00:53.459 “Framework Agreements vs. Bilateral Agreements III” (pursuant to Art. 2 of the Federal Constitution) 00:53.459 --> 01:00.088 The results of the non-binding votes were sent by certified mail to the Federal President, the two Presidents of 01:00.088 --> 01:07.315 the National Council and the Council of States, and the Federal Chancellor for their information. 01:07.315 --> 01:12.228 The organizers cite Article 6 of the Swiss Federal Constitution: 01:12.228 --> 01:18.765 It states that every person must take responsibility for themselves and do their utmost to contribute to 01:18.765 --> 01:23.832 the fulfillment of the tasks of the state and society. 01:23.832 --> 01:29.030 They want to make the public aware that politicians often disregard the will of the 01:29.030 --> 01:33.142 people and make decisions on their own authority. 01:33.142 --> 01:41.330 However, Switzerland should remain independent and not submit to organizations such as the EU, NATO, and the WHO. 01:41.330 --> 01:48.069 Ultimately, they are working toward a one-world government without nation-states. 01:48.069 --> 01:53.832 The five speakers at this year's Landsgemeinde also advocated for these goals: 01:53.832 --> 02:00.544 Christoph Pfluger, founder of the neutrality movement “bene.swiss”; Andrea Staubli, an attorney 02:00.544 --> 02:08.640 with the “Aktionsbündnis Freie Schweiz” (ABF Switzerland); and three other Swiss politicians. 02:08.640 --> 02:13.704 Christoph Pfluger, one of the co-initiators of the Movement for Neutrality, spoke out in support 02:13.704 --> 02:17.161 of the Neutrality Initiative during his speech. 02:17.161 --> 02:23.295 Swiss neutrality is being increasingly eroded, and Switzerland is gradually being integrated into the military 02:23.295 --> 02:27.946 structures of NATO and the EU through a creeping process. 02:27.946 --> 02:36.544 To preserve neutrality, it must therefore be enshrined in the Constitution, as called for in the initiative. 02:36.544 --> 02:44.305 Attention, Swiss voters: If you want Switzerland to remain sovereign and neutral, vote YES 02:44.305 --> 02:49.678 on the Neutrality Initiative on September 27. 02:49.678 --> 02:55.926 Take advantage of this opportunity for “direct democracy,” which could also serve as a model—and indeed send a 02:55.926 --> 03:03.089 strong signal—to other European countries, in order to break free from international interference. 03:03.089 --> 03:09.477 Now listen to some excerpts from the speeches by Christoph Pfluger and Andrea Staubli, which may also 03:09.477 --> 03:14.272 be of great interest to citizens of other countries: 03:14.272 --> 03:21.937 Switzerland is currently undergoing a transformation—and it is happening through military means. 03:21.937 --> 03:34.351 If we integrate militarily into the EU now, then later on we’ll hardly need to vote on these treaties with the EU at all. 03:34.351 --> 03:40.393 So neutrality is a very important issue. 03:40.393 --> 03:47.093 As you've all noticed, neutrality is being gradually eroded—and not just since the war in 03:47.093 --> 03:53.263 Ukraine, when it became obvious to everyone. 03:53.263 --> 04:07.945 Since 1992, the DDPS —or, on its behalf, ETH Zurich—has been conducting surveys to gauge our willingness to join NATO. 04:07.945 --> 04:12.824 This is an issue that has been on the agenda for over 30 years. 04:12.824 --> 04:20.709 And now I hope everyone has noticed, even though most of these changes happened gradually—in a bureaucratic, 04:20.709 --> 04:25.330 technocratic way—without the vast majority realizing it. 04:25.330 --> 04:33.529 But there's a lot at stake, and the problem is that there isn't an honest debate taking place. 04:33.529 --> 04:40.241 This isn't about joining NATO; it's about vague notions of security that we 04:40.241 --> 04:47.039 supposedly can only achieve through NATO or the EU. 04:47.039 --> 04:55.525 We are gradually being integrated into the military structures of NATO and the EU. 04:57.157 --> 05:07.341 About a month and a half ago, Ursula von der Leyen said in an internal speech to EU ambassadors that defense 05:07.341 --> 05:13.006 and security are the new guiding principles of the EU. 05:13.006 --> 05:17.540 The EU is fully focused on war. 05:17.540 --> 05:28.289 And a few days later, our foreign minister issued a joint statement with the EU foreign minister, Kaja Kallas. 05:28.289 --> 05:36.095 This integration into military alliances is referred to as cooperation. 05:36.095 --> 05:44.664 But cooperation between a small state and a large state is not true cooperation. 05:44.664 --> 05:49.864 That is conformity, and ultimately, it is submission. 05:55.364 --> 05:58.799 And the military blocs aren't here for peace. 05:58.799 --> 06:04.686 They're doing nothing for peace; they're doing everything for war, and Switzerland is expected to 06:04.686 --> 06:10.258 get more and more involved in this step by step. 06:10.258 --> 06:11.995 What does neutrality mean? 06:11.995 --> 06:18.732 Neutrality means that Switzerland does not align itself with these power blocs. 06:23.380 --> 06:32.716 We have been neutral for 175 years. We have lived in peace for 175 years. 06:32.716 --> 06:41.142 For 175 years, neutrality and peace have been the foundation—it must be said—of our prosperity as well. 06:41.142 --> 06:44.470 And now all that is at stake. 06:44.470 --> 06:50.434 For 175 years, we have been mediators, not a party to the conflict. 06:50.434 --> 06:58.896 And the biggest, most decisive, and most important advantage—or the special characteristic—of neutrality is: 06:58.896 --> 07:04.717 When we make our own decisions, we are free and independent. 07:04.717 --> 07:12.868 When decisions are made in Brussels, Washington, or wherever the centers of power are located, we are giving up 07:12.868 --> 07:17.977 our sovereignty, and direct democracy goes out the window. 07:17.977 --> 07:26.386 But war is not fought only with weapons; it is also fought with information, with fear, and with psychological pressure. 07:26.386 --> 07:35.077 And there is an interesting document from the Department of Defense titled “Background Paper on the Information Space.” 07:35.077 --> 07:44.275 It's about 60 pages long, is full of NATO terminology, and describes how cognitive warfare is waged. 07:44.275 --> 07:53.352 – Not against the outside world, but against ourselves, against the people, against the citizens, against the sovereign. 07:53.352 --> 08:01.172 And this document—I have to show it to you—has 25 pages with blacked-out sections. 08:05.431 --> 08:15.676 It lists the measures, the cooperative structures, the new positions—everything needed to control public opinion 08:15.676 --> 08:25.508 in Switzerland and to silence those who advocate for peace and neutrality—and who therefore pose a threat. 08:25.508 --> 08:30.594 And this strategy was hatched right here in this building (the Federal Palace, Switzerland). 08:33.490 --> 08:38.240 It's a war against ourselves. 08:38.240 --> 08:44.823 That is why it is important that, when we vote on the Neutrality Initiative in September or 08:44.823 --> 08:49.129 November, we do everything in our power to support it. 08:49.129 --> 08:53.961 The point is to enshrine perpetual armed neutrality in the Constitution. 08:53.961 --> 09:02.448 That's not what it is now. That's why it's being modernized, updated, softened, etc. 09:02.448 --> 09:06.289 The initiative calls for: No accession to the military alliance. 09:06.289 --> 09:13.109 It also prohibits participation in economic warfare, that is, sanctions. 09:13.109 --> 09:19.375 Sanctions only benefit authoritarian regimes. 09:19.375 --> 09:26.752 They harm us and lead to more deaths. 09:26.752 --> 09:33.817 There was a pretty good study on the wars currently being fought. 09:33.817 --> 09:37.686 Peace is not a matter of chance. Peace requires credibility. 09:37.686 --> 09:40.450 We need a solid foundation in the Constitution. 09:40.450 --> 09:44.589 We need neutrality with backbone. 09:44.589 --> 09:49.401 Andrea Staubli, an attorney with the “Aktionsbündnis freie Schweiz” (Alliance for a Free Switzerland), 09:49.401 --> 09:54.333 advocates for the Swiss people’s right to self-determination in the area of healthcare. 09:54.333 --> 09:59.875 She points out that the Epidemic Act is set to be significantly tightened at the federal level. 09:59.875 --> 10:07.450 This also applies to the continued approval of gene therapies, including modRNA vaccination . 10:07.450 --> 10:12.502 It was approved during the COVID-19 pandemic without meeting scientific standards 10:12.502 --> 10:16.491 and—as we now know—led to serious side effects. 10:16.491 --> 10:23.470 Staubli is calling for the abolition of all mandatory vaccination requirements at the federal and cantonal levels. 10:23.470 --> 10:32.911 Policymakers must immediately impose a moratorium on mRNA-based vaccines and enforce it without compromise. 10:32.911 --> 10:37.704 Below are some excerpts from her speech: 10:37.704 --> 10:48.413 We still remember exactly when the Director-General of the WHO declared a fake—that is, a public health 10:48.413 --> 10:55.295 emergency—of international concern on January 30, 2020. 10:55.295 --> 11:07.313 On February 28, 2020, the Federal Council obediently declared a “special situation” under the Epidemics Act, and on 11:07.313 --> 11:14.182 March 16, it even declared an “extraordinary situation.” 11:14.182 --> 11:20.554 And without further ado, he put us on lockdown. 11:20.554 --> 11:25.976 That doesn't have much to do with confidence anymore. 11:25.976 --> 11:38.223 That’s exactly how our Federal Councilors Sommaruga and Cassis explained it to us: “That’s what the WHO requires.” 11:38.223 --> 11:45.080 The Federal Council, the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH), and several cantons are currently in the 11:45.080 --> 11:51.681 process of fundamentally restructuring health policy in accordance with international guidelines. 11:51.681 --> 11:56.019 At the federal level, the Epidemic Act is being significantly tightened. 11:56.019 --> 12:03.761 For example, with regard to the “extraordinary situation” we experienced in the spring of 2020. 12:03.761 --> 12:18.371 The Medicines Act discusses so-called “advanced therapy medicinal products,” abbreviated as ATMP—make a note of this term. 12:18.371 --> 12:27.582 These include, for example, gene therapies, including mRNA vaccines—which should more accurately be called 12:27.582 --> 12:33.718 “modRNA” and are not vaccines in the conventional sense at all. 12:33.718 --> 12:41.162 According to the Paul Ehrlich Institute, this is a genetic vaccine. 12:41.162 --> 12:46.388 You may recall the outcry earlier this year in the canton of St. Gallen. 12:46.388 --> 12:53.586 The government is planning a comprehensive revision of the cantonal health law and intends to introduce 12:53.586 --> 13:01.166 a mandatory vaccination requirement, with fines of up to 20,000 francs for violations. 13:04.219 --> 13:11.464 That's not what the people of St. Gallen want—and neither do many other people in Switzerland. 13:11.464 --> 13:18.404 Within a very short time, approximately 2,500 responses to the consultation were submitted. 13:18.404 --> 13:21.062 People took to the streets. 13:21.062 --> 13:31.037 In light of this, the responsible state councilor made remarks to SRF to the effect that: If they had known that, they would 13:31.037 --> 13:42.910 have handled the matter differently and would not have referred to the vaccination requirement as a “mandatory vaccination.” 13:42.910 --> 13:52.076 In the canton of Zurich, however, there was no such outcry during the comprehensive revision of the Health Act, even though 13:52.076 --> 14:01.996 Zurich has had a mandatory vaccination requirement in place since March 2020, with fines of up to 50,000 francs. 14:03.646 --> 14:11.144 It's funny, isn't it? Are the people of Zurich really so different from those in St. Gallen in this regard? 14:11.144 --> 14:19.108 We don't know that yet. But here's what we've found out: The Zurich Department of Health simply omitted 14:19.108 --> 14:28.543 the penalty provision—that is, the 50,000-franc fine—from the consultation documents. 14:28.543 --> 14:34.384 In other words, whoever drafted the consultation document certainly did not comment on this penal 14:34.384 --> 14:38.469 provision, since it wasn't even included in the materials. 14:38.469 --> 14:42.460 Does this provide a comprehensive and complete picture? 14:42.460 --> 14:48.031 Does the Department of Health now know what the political parties, the associations, and the public think 14:48.031 --> 14:51.556 about the penal provision and the amount of the fine? 14:51.556 --> 15:01.407 The state councilor in charge apparently believes that the public comment period does not need to be repeated for this reason. 15:01.407 --> 15:04.513 We don't think that's the way to go about it. 15:04.513 --> 15:13.530 I therefore propose that policymakers and lawmakers must at all times guarantee and respect our right to 15:13.530 --> 15:23.021 self-determination in matters of health, particularly with regard to vaccinations and mRNA injections. 15:23.021 --> 15:31.103 It follows, therefore, that all mandatory vaccination requirements at the federal and cantonal 15:31.103 --> 15:37.221 levels must be abolished or removed from the statutes. 15:43.759 --> 15:56.639 And finally, that policymakers immediately impose a moratorium on mRNA-based vaccines and enforce it without compromise.