Florida wants to execute a Dane

[Oscar]

A Danish woman is going to be extradited to the United States where a group of criminals has pointed at her to be a master criminal so they could get off with a slap of the hand:

Florida wins extradition case (Politiken News in English)

It should be mentioned that she have been living a very modest life as a lonely mom with a 10 year old child. If she had been this drug lord they claim she is, she would own a mansion.

She is facing 63 years in prison according to the Danish newsmedia but none expects her to return alive because a lot people in the police and prosecution have made a career getting the convictions of the other members  and they would look like fools if she is sent overthere and all can see that she was only a naive wife with little understanding of US laws like Chantal McCorkle. They just have to put her down.

What can we do as Danes? Start a movement to redraw from Afghanistan?

[psy]

She didn't commit a capital crime.  She won't be executed.

[Oscar]

Most Danes believe that she will be killed in jail because she knows too much. Most Danish laywers state that she will be best served by confessing to whatever crime they will charge her with including the killing of President Kennedy because a deal has been made that allows her to return home 6 months after the trial to serve the reminder of her jail-time in Denmark. But its that justice?

It is almost funny if it wasn't a tragedy. If she is convicted to 63 years in jail, she will receive a tougher sentence than a 4 times murder who served 33 years when he killed 4 unarmed policemen.

[Anonymous]

Most Danes believe that she will be killed in jail because she knows too much. Most Danish laywers state that she will be best served by confessing to whatever crime they will charge her with including the killing of President Kennedy because a deal has been made that allows her to return home 6 months after the trial to serve the reminder of her jail-time in Denmark. But its that justice?

It is almost funny if it wasn't a tragedy. If she is convicted to 63 years in jail, she will receive a tougher sentence than a 4 times murder who served 33 years when he killed 4 unarmed policemen.

Why not protest en masse?

[Anonymous]

There are already 3 separate facebook groups with more than 1.500 members.

"Først kom de efter Camilla Broe..." (First they came for Camilla Broe...)
Save the justice - say NO to the danish terrorbills - Save Camilla Broe
Red retssikkerheden - sig nej til Terrorpakken - Red Kamilla Broe (Same as above but in Danish)

There are also Youtube videos:
Først kom de efter Camilla Broe (First they came for Camilla Broe...)
Camilla Broe Fængslet - Skal udvises til USA under terrorlov fra 2002 (Camilla Broe jail - to be extradited based on the 2002 anti-terror act)

She is nominated for the webpage for Danes who have exposed of xenophobia abroad (Link to Blog) and people are talking of ending our participating in the war on terrorism by pulling our soldiers from Afghanistan (Link til blog)

So a lot of things is happening. Next is to write to the governor of Florida and perhaps even President Obama.

We are talking of claimed crimes which are more than 10 years old and her former boyfriend got 6 years because she escaped from the violent relationship by fleeing to Denmark and they didn't have a case with her testimony which angered them and that's properly why they convinced him to testify against her so she is looking at 63 years.

[Anonymous]

I don't believe any of you know the truth and have probably never met her.
Just because she is a Dane it does not make her innocent.

[Oscar]

There is no question that she made some errors.

First she didn't run away but remained in a battered wife relationship. The experiences from the Faye Copeland case clearly states that a wife is responsible for the actions of her husband if she remains in the relationship while he commits the crimes.

Second she didn't understand that that she was in a country where you can be charged with both obstruction of justice and conspiracy. They are not charges we use in Denmark. The police don't need that. They have secretly collected DNA for the past 50 year. In the start they did not recognize that they did it when every newborn gave a small blood-sample that was stored for later research. But when the technoligy became mainstream, they had the register at hand. Second of all all phonecalls have been stored for at least two year in a digital format. It is just asking the judge to get permisson to access all phonecalls in the area where the crime occur. It sounds like big-brother and it is but the crime rate is so much lower. But had she told what her boyfriend did in Denmark her entire family would have been humiliated. Suicides would have followed. That's properly why she choose to run in the first place.

I just have to ask. Is it normal for the FBI to leave people facing more than 60 years in jail running free around without charging them or arresting them? She did run when they told her that they were thinking of charging her.

[Revenge Fantasy]

Prosecutorial discretion is a power like any other that can be abused. This woman’s case would not be the first its kind.
http://http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1204-30.htm
http://http://prisonsandfamilies.blogspot.com/
http://http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/69

[Oscar]

The latest update is.

Our supreme court ruled that they would not interfere because the case is not special. Of course it is the first time Denmark extradite a person to the United States, but as some know NATO got a new boss, so the relationship between Denmark and the United States must not suffer.

Because the crimes she is charged with would hardly result in any conviction at all, she was allowed to live in house arrest and attend her job in return of leaving her passport at the police. But she took the case to the European Court of Human Rights and as revenge the prosecutor got a appeal court to jail her until she can be extradited.

The European Court of Human Right are known to give some hard rulings on several of our laws, so if they can break her before the case is dealt with, our government can avoid the risk of loosing again.

It seems that the case is becoming more and more political.

Now suddenly the membership of NATO has become an issue. It is rather shocking as Denmark has been among the most loyal supporters of the war on terrorism. While soldiers from most countries are drinking beer in Kabul and missed out on Iraq totally, Denmark has been in the frontline and several of our servicemen have paid with their lives.

[Oscar]

Update:

She is going to fly out tomorrow escorted by two marshall. Because she is not considered a flight risk in Denmark, she will be released from prison today so she can go home and see to that her house is in order and say farewell to her daughter - properly forever as too many people are interested in the case not going to trial. Somehow the authorities will try to keep her alive, but the hope is not that big. She knows too much about the deal made with the real criminals in the case.

New information is that she left Florida in 2001 without having been charged. She was charged in 2003 secretly so they could avoid her from moving away from Denmark and a political deal could be made which secured Denmark a high profile job in an internaitonal defense organisation. She didn't know that she was wanted until she was arrested in Denmark.

Second the charge she is being extradited on is Conspiracy. Conspiracy is not a crime in Denmark, so it is against the law to extradite her because the agreement clearly state that the crime people are extradited for has to be a crime in both countries. But it was discovered too late (by accident??) and the marshalls have used a lot of money to fly all the way to Denmark, so the extradition process cannot be postponed.

International politics can be so dirty.

[Oscar]

She just held a press conference at the airport. It is possible because she is not considered a flight risk here in Denmark. She left the press conference an hour ago to meet the Marshall who are going to escort her to Florida.

The charges against her continues to be unknown. A grand jury in Florida has cooked some new ones as the old one contained charges which are not crimes in Denmark. There were ready some 6 hours ago.

Because the new charges were not translated to Danish our courts and the department of justice would not judge them but allow her to be extradited beceause Denmark as a country has received the payment in the political deal, which have made the extradition process possible.

September 4 - 2009 will be known as the Day Denmark was humiliated by the justice system in Florida.

We will continue to hunt down former refugees hiding in Denmark to kill the thrist for revenge. When a foreign country removes someone from our middle so she can be taken to a showtrial, we want some others to be hurt. The first 22 people were dumped in Bagdad some 36 hours ago. Some are already missing.

Hopefully the newspapers in Miami will show the bodies of the women, children and men, who the prosecutors forced us to deport as retaliation for the insult against our justice system.

As a nation we are so angry as seldom before.

[Ursus]

You said it:

International politics can be so dirty.

[Oscar]

The preparation for the trial in Miami have revealed that took place back then.

The Danish woman seemed to have worked as an consultant and did advice firms how to meet European clients when it comes to dressing right. She met this charming Italian guy who owned an investment firm in Miami who claimed to have businesses in Europe and she schooled his employees to look more businesslike. Along the way she discovers that the investment firm was a front for a drug smuggling operation.

She contacted the local police, gave them names and offered to work as an undercover agent. She traveled to Denmark so her little daughter could be with her family if something happened to her. While in Denmark the case was turned over to DEA and they wanted the credits for catching these criminals for themselves. They arrested the lot and in exchange for a testimony against the Danish woman they got off extremely easy. Even the leader of the drug operation left jail after only 6 years for smuggling 100,000 pills worth millions.

Now yesterday December 1 the DEA agent in charge told the court under oath that it was the Danish minister of Justice who urged DEA to seek extradition for the Danish woman.

It could very well be the truth because a lot of Danish youth waste a lot of times studying abroad. Due to higher standards a Dane taking a year in a U.S. High school cannot get any credits and the goal for the last 5 years have been to minimize use of gap years and exchange student programs. The teory the politics built upon is that youth connecting with foreign youth causes fauna polluting of our superior culture when youth takes customs from abroad back home. A high profile case where a Dane is convicted of ridiculous charges in a show trial would scare potential youth and their families considering studying abroad from involving themselves in such projects and in this specific case the Danish woman would have been pardoned within 6 months when she according to extradition agreement should be returned to Denmark to serve out her sentence.

But the odd thing is that both the minister of Justice at the time and the Ministry of Justice themselves strongly deny that they in any way urged the DEA to demand her extradition.

We will write other members of the parliament in order to try to raise a question about this case, which the minister has to answer truthfully or resign.

The obvious question for the DEA is whether their agent did commit perjury yesterday if the Danish version is the truth.

We as Danish citizens will continue to digg in this case.

[Ursus]

Xenophobic nationalism run amok:

The teory the politics built upon is that youth connecting with foreign youth causes fauna polluting of our superior culture when youth takes customs from abroad back home. A high profile case where a Dane is convicted of ridiculous charges in a show trial would scare potential youth and their families considering studying abroad from involving themselves in such projects...

[Oscar]

Xenophobic nationalism run amok:

I cannot deny that it to some extend can be true, but please remember what kind of process Denmark is undergoing now. We are about to elect the first president of the European Union. In some generations EU will be United states of Europe. You can rest assure of that.

What kind of feeling could that bring for the ordinary citizens? Would i not be like giving up Obamas job in exchange for having the United Nations running the United States?