Last but not least: Uri, Schwyz and Guantanamo

 The CIA fax affair mercilessly exposes some thoroughly negative aspects of the Swiss national character that were thought to have been overcome: Boundless pettiness and a criminal lack of humor as well as military inferiority complexes (probably because we weren't really involved in the Second World War?). No wonder the International intervenes. For those who have not yet noticed: Three SonntagsBlick journalists will be brought before a military court in St. Gallen on April 17 because they intercepted and published a fax in connection with the suspected CIA secret prisons. They are accused of having considerably weakened the Swiss intelligence service. Since then, they have been subjected to absurd pressure attempts by the Swiss military, which have now taken on such Kafkaesque proportions that the regional group of the European Federation of Journalists felt compelled to take action in the matter. In a statement on Thursday, it strongly condemned the events in Switzerland and stated that the case was not a matter for military justice, but should be judged by civil courts. Furthermore, it is not the first time that Switzerland has tried to intimidate investigative journalists and prevent them from publishing documents that the government would prefer to keep secret. This is better suited to a dictatorship and not to the land of super-democratic nerds.