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Copenhagen Climate Council is not for ordinary people

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Oscar:
Denmark has declared State of Emergency in relationship with the Copenhagen Climate Council.

A temporary prison has been made in a warehouse located here.

The police has purchased a lot of cages with as little place as the hobbit known from Spring Creek Lodge


Prison cage for one inmate - the shelf in the middle will be removed

The emergency laws allowed the police to detain you for 12 hours in such a cage without putting your before a judge and without ever charging you for a crime. There are no limit of the number of times they can do that nor how long there should be between the 12 hour periods. The police alone makes the judgment whether you will be detained and their decision are according to the law not to be questioned - not even by the courts. Before the summit the period was 6 hours and it was used against soccer fans, who is labeled to come from low-income households and therefore potential violent according to the customs in our country.

Second foreigners who is doing as little as just blocking police will be detained and permanently deported. It doesn't matter if they did just enter Denmark or they have been born here. If they havn't applied for citizenship they will be deported.

Third every kind of participation in a peaceful demonstration that turns into riot will be punished with 40 days in prison. It doesn't matter if you don't participate in the riots. You are the brothers keeper of other protesters.

In generally I urge you to stay away from Denmark. The politicians in Denmark don't want the population to disturb them while they treat the visiting politicians with food, girls and entertainment. See also this blog entry about the summit.

Anonymous:
I don't doubt that the Copenhagen summit will get its share of protesters and a standard police-state response, but I don't think we can really believe anything this idiot has to say, as many of his other statements are utter and complete bullshit.


--- Quote ---The leader of Sudan who has turned his country away from civil war has problems at home he need to address.
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The leader of Sudan turned his country away from civil war? :rofl: Sudan had a very successful genocide, killing hundreds of thousands of people with speed and efficiency. al-Bashir is literally a fugitive President, convicted of war crimes. He can't show up in Denmark because Denmark actually listens to the International Criminal Court.


--- Quote ---But the ender of Apartheid - Robert Mugabe - will turn up in Copenhagen. The hero and icon of a typical leader of a country in Africa will be there so he can steer the summit towards succesful goals.
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Robert Mugabe a hero and icon? :roflmao: Robert Mugabe has run his country into the fucking ground! Google "Zimbabwe Inflation" sometime. Or read up on what he's done to his MDC opponents, or how he's completely obliterated agriculture in the area, and unemployment rates, and everything else that makes the Western world think that Africans aren't smart enough to run their own countries. The man is a brutal, sadistic dictator.

Oscar:
Regardless of Mugabe's latest actions money were collected in Denmark so he can travel up here bragging of a working school system. The art of Politics is dirty. Can you find a single reason why the school system of Zimbabwe should be rebuilt for money collected by community service done by high schoolers in Denmark unless it was to give him some reason to visit Denmark?

For the former communist who is presently known as social democrats or members of the socialist peopleparty he remains a hero and if you look in the litterature and read how a Belgian journalist describe his visit in Central Africa around 1930 in the book by George Remi most children have seen during their childhood, he is an African leader in a way we expect to see.

As for the president of Sudan please remember that world leaders have immunity during such high profile summits as result of an agreement made in the U.N. It is sad but truth. He could have participated in the summit without risking arrest.

Oscar:
About the new laws:

Legislation gives police more power (The Copenhagen Post, November 27,2009):


--- Quote ---A new law passed specifically for the upcoming climate conference gives police pre-emptive powers of arrest

Legislation giving police the right to pre-emptive arrests in connection with the COP15 climate conference was passed by a decisively split parliament yesterday.

With the support of the Danish People’s Party, the government’s Liberal and Conservative parties were able to push through the controversial ‘agitator package’, aimed at limiting violent demonstrations by protesters at the upcoming summit in December in Copenhagen.

The new legislation allows police to detain those arrested for up to 12 hours under the premise that they ‘might’ take part in civil disobedience. In addition, protesters can be jailed for up to 40 days if police determine the activists have ‘hindered’ their work.
Fines for civil disobedience were also raised to 5000 kroner through the new package.

Parliament’s remaining parties continued to slam the proposal yesterday prior to its passing, calling it anti-democratic. They pointed to the very broad language that ‘persons who do not directly take part in protests but are in the area can be arrested and sentenced to up to 40 days in jail’ as being especially worrying.

‘I think it’s a very serious broadening of police authority that’s been approved,’ said Line Barfoed, legal affairs spokeswoman for the Red-Green Alliance. ‘People who live in the area and have just stopped to talk to their neighbours risk being arrested if there are any disturbances nearby.’

The package had earlier been criticised by the Danish Judges Association in an official hearing response to the Justice Ministry. The judges believed that a ‘considerably clearer legal basis’ needed to be shown to justify the broadening of police power proposed.

The Prison and Probation Service and Institute for Human Rights also expressed their opposition to the legislation.

But Brian Mikkelsen, the justice minister, said the government had a responsibility to ‘crack down hard’ on those who attempt to sabotage the police’s work.

‘We’ve seen in the media recently that activists are consciously planning illegal activities to hinder the police at the conference. We want to ensure a strong and consistent legal practice in cases of gross civil disturbance,’ Mikkelsen told Politiken newspaper.

Per Larsen, superintendent of Copenhagen Police, added that it would only be in ‘completely uncontrollable situations’ that the new legislation would be used.

Although the legislation was passed with an aim at COP15 protesters, it was passed as a permanent law that will remain in effect after the conference is over.
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Oscar:
Information from the police to visitors (In several languages - among them in English)

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