Don't weaken swiss national law: No selling weapons to countries with possible human rights issues!

The Swiss Law has been changed on 6. March 2014, so that military weapons can be sold more easily also to countries with human rights issues or otherwise unsure political situations. The economical lobby of the military industry felt at a disadvantage compared to other neighbouring countries, since Switzerland has a more severe law for this topic.

The Swiss National Assembly (Nationalrat) and the Swiss Council of States (Ständerat) have been debating and finally decided for a weakening of that law! They want to level up the economical disadvantage instead of keeping their good policy about having to check, where it is risky to sell military weapons and where it isn't! Now the Governing Councillors (Bundesräte) have to implement the changed law. 

Please listen to the heart of reason and of peace! 

I don’t want to read again and again about massacres and shootings of citizens, done with Swiss precision guns, ordered by misguided presidents and politicians, as it happened not long ago in Kiew, where the Ukrainian police shot demonstrating civilists with Swiss precision guns from Thun (Kanton of Switzerland)!

Don't listen to the voice of business, don’t listen to a really little part of economical fortune. Broaden up your thinking, open up your mind. There are so many other and better possibilities to make money for Switzerland, than by producing killing devices in 2014! 

Is that what you want to be remembered with? 

Is that what you want to teach your children? That it is ok to sell weapons to countries at war? That war is ok? That it is ok to hit first instead of talking and finding compromise?

How do you envision a future on earth?

If you could make a wish for earth, what would it be?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to envision and work for a globally more peaceful planet?

Please think (and act) again!

How could you possibly vote for this? Just for a little bit of money? That little bit can’t have that much of an importance compared to this whole issue and compared to the whole Swiss industries!

There has been one woman in the right wing to vote against the change. Thank you Natalie Rickli for your voice and your strength!

What are the other 14 women doing on this parliament, if you can’t manage to balance out the sometimes narrow minded masculine way of thinking? And what did you think of having no opinion, Christa Markwalder? Where did you leave your power, on that morning, when 62% of your male colleagues couldn’t think with their hearts?

Thanks to all of the 76% women who did try to make a difference!

One voice more would have made THE difference!

Just one voice! (94 yes : 93 no)

I dearly hope for our politicians, who are guiding our country, to develop a broad mind, which counts in all the global aspects and begins to think and work for many, many coming generations of peace on earth.