The history is always good for a Surprise. For example, this: In the Committee against the tightening of the arms to the right, we are on 19. May vote, is involved, a Zurich-based philosophy Professor. Unlike the shooters and the SVP-party tip, it’s not Josette Baer Hill in the first place, the obstacles in the shooting sports or the misgivings about the Swiss involvement in the Schengen area – you argued on the same intellectual level, the British enlightenment philosopher John Locke from the 17th century. Century.
Not that Locke had already had an idea of the effect of semi-automatic weapons . Locke went to the defense of individual liberty rights in the face of the emerging nation-States. Baer Hill sees the individual possession of weapons as a part of this human rights.
you will not understand three weeks after the massacre in the two mosques in Christchurch, new Zealand on the first attempt. But you will only be stated once curious be creative dissenting opinion in the University, where the British Conservative Niall Ferguson ever-increasing pressures of the left-liberal mainstream.
warning against totalitarianism
The Thurgauerin just want to be writing “interviewed” and then the print itself. You don’t trust the Tamedia publishing house, the media would not have been ready to publish a post that deserve the predicate “unbiased” way, says you on request. It will consistently denied that the Islamist attacks in France and Denmark, have not been performed with semi-automatic weapons, but with fully-automatic weapons, illegally imported from the former Eastern bloc.
Baer, Hill has been researching since the fall of the wall on the roots of totalitarianism. As Vaclav Havel was honored in 1990 in Rüschlikon with the freedom of price and Dürrenmatt made his legendary speech about Switzerland as a self-managed prison, the 52-Year-old at the beginning of their academic career. They specialized in Eastern Europe and the totalitarianism with research stays in Budapest, Minsk, Bratislava, St. Petersburg and the United States. Her monographs are devoted to the heroes in the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism: Alexander Dubcek, the political icon in the Prague spring was demoted after the invasion of the Soviets by the Prime Minister to the forest supervisor. A Seminar on Hannah Arendt warns you currently Zurich students in front of the totalitarianism.
protection against übergriffigem state
But now the stricter control on semi-automatic weapons in Switzerland in this context? Acquisition and possession of these weapons as a human right, against the case of the state? The Zurich philosopher Georg Kohler, who wrote a Foreword for Baer Hill, considers this to be a fallacy. The unrestricted right to gun ownership, he holds only in an environment, in the development of a functioning legal peace for all our people. The Switzerland seems to be a good piece removed.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 07.04.2019, 21:34 PM
