Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/17/2009 7:50:32 PM PST by Texas Fossil
This was the scene yesterday in Copenhagen. As you can see the scene is rather agitated with lots of police action, including use of billy clubs. As of this writing, no pictures or video is available of Lord Monckton’s account below. Hopefully somebody in the crowd will post some. I wish him well. I’ll also be glad when this conference is over. It has shown government at its worst.
Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Hugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left – and that means too many of them.
Previously Robert Mugabe, dictator of Rhodesia, who had refused to leave office when he had been soundly defeated in a recent election, had also won plaudits at the conference for saying that the West ought to pay him plenty of money in reparation of our supposed “climate debt”.
Inside the conference center, “world leader” after “world leader” got up and postured about the need to Save The Planet, the imperative to do a deal, the necessity to save the small island nations from drowning, etc., etc., etc.
Outside, in the real world, it was snowing, and a foretaste of the Brave New World being cooked up by “world leaders” in their fantasy-land was already evident. Some 20,000 observers from non-governmental organizations – nearly all of them true-believing Green groups funded by taxpayers – had been accredited to the conference.
However, without warning the UN had capriciously decided that all but 300 of them were to be excluded from the conference today, and all but 90 would be excluded on the final day.
Of course, this being the inept UN, no one had bothered to notify those of the NGOs that were not true-believers in the UN’s camp. So Senator Steve Fielding of Australia and I turned up with a few dozen other delegates, to be left standing in the cold for a couple of hours while the UN laboriously worked out what to do with us.
In the end, they decided to turn us away, which they did with an ill grace and in a bad-tempered manner. As soon as the decision was final, the Danish police moved in. One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day.
Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but firmly, to take his hands off me.
He complied, but then decided to have another go. I told him a second time, and he let go a second time. I turned to go and, after I had turned my back, he gave me a mighty shove that flung me to the ground and knocked me out.
I came to some time later (not sure exactly how long), to find my head being cradled by my friends, some of whom were doing their best to keep the police thugs at bay while the volunteer ambulance-men attended to me.
I was picked up and dusted me off. I could not remember where I had left my telephone, which had been in my hand at the time when I was assaulted. I rather fuzzily asked where it was, and one of the police goons shouted, “He alleges he had a mobile phone.”
In fact, the phone was in my coat pocket, where my hand had been at the time of the assault. The ambulance crew led me away and laid me down under a blanket for 20 minutes to get warm, plying me with water and keeping me amused with some colorfully colloquial English that they had learned.
I thanked them for their kindness, left them a donation for their splendid service, and rejoined my friends. A very senior police officer then came up and asked if I was all right. Yes, I said, but no thanks to one of his officers, who had pushed me hard from behind when my back was turned and had sent me flying.
The police chief said that none of his officers would have done such a thing. I said that several witnesses had seen the incident, which I intended to report. I said I had hoped to receive an apology but had not received one, and would include that in my report. The policeman went off looking glum, and with good reason.
To assault an accredited representative of a conference your nation is hosting, and to do it while your own police cameramen are filming from above, and to do it without any provocation except my polite, non-threatening request that I should not be manhandled, is not a career-enhancing move, as that police chief is about to discover to his cost.
Nor does this incident, and far too many like it, reflect the slightest credit on Denmark. We must make reasonable allowance for the fact that the unspeakable security service of the UN, which is universally detested by those at this conference, was ordering the Danish police about. The tension between the alien force and the indigenous men on the ground had grown throughout the conference.
However, the Danish police were far too free with their hands when pushing us around, and that is not acceptable in a free society. But then, Europe is no longer a free society. It is, in effect, a tyranny ruled by the unelected Kommissars of the European Union. That is perhaps one reason why police forces throughout Europe, including that in the UK, have become far more brutal than was once acceptable in their treatment of the citizens they are sworn to serve.
It is exactly this species of tyranny that the UN would like to impose upon the entire planet, in the name of saving us from ourselves – or, as Ugo Chavez would put it, saving us from Western capitalist democracy.
A few weeks ago, at a major conference in New York, I spoke about this tendency towards tyranny with Dr. Vaclav Klaus, the distinguished economist and doughty fighter for freedom and democracy who is President of the Czech Republic.
While we still have one or two statesmen of his caliber, there is hope for Europe and the world. Unfortunately, he refused to come to Copenhagen, telling me that there was no point, now that the lunatics were firmly in control of the asylum.
However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treaty’s proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of the Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.
He thought for a moment – as statesmen always do before answering an unusual question – and said, “Maybe it is not brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort.”
Today, as I lay in the snow with a cut knee, a bruised back, a banged head, a ruined suit, and a written-off coat, I wondered whether the brutality of the New World Order was moving closer than President Klaus – or any of us – had realized.
And the Blessed Mother is an Alien come down in a spaceship.
Thanks for the insight.
The first article I read about him was miss-leading and I did not understand how on top of this he has always been. He is one of the good guys.
It is becoming clearer by the day who our “wood be” Rulers really are.
We shall see what U.S. Patriots are really made of soon. I suspect DC is in for a Surprise.
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It is Time to DownSize DC. Eliminate Entire Departments (Education, EPA, IRS, etc)
Time to Force Congress & Senate to telecommute most of the year. Live in their home district under the thumbs of the citizens who elect them.
Move the Center-Of-Gravity of government away from DC.
And it is within those Gates that the Left truly dwells!
Yes, I know about a number of those conflicts you mentioned.
Lots of good Patriots have been killed protecting this great nation and some of our allies.
We shall soon see exactly how strong U.S. Patriots are.
“All Congressmen who voted for Cap&Trade are either Traitors or simply Too Stupid to Hold Public Office.”
Man, you said it! I said the exact same thing to my wife today.
“And it is within those Gates that the Left truly dwells!”
Then lets help them make it their Permainent residence.
Now that’s funny right there! I don’t care who you are.
It is Time to DownSize DC. Eliminate Entire Departments (Education, EPA, IRS, etc)
Time to Force Congress & Senate to telecommute most of the year. Live in their home district under the thumbs of the citizens who elect them.
Move the Center-Of-Gravity of government away from DC.
All of the above and........Leave us the hell alone!
Yep, Leave us Alone.
Texas is not where you were born but a State of Mind, Heart and Attitude.
Goes something like this>
“Leave us alone to live our lives in peace, and we will get along fine, if that is not satisfactory, we will deal with it.”
1 pill 4 times daily is not the same as taking 4 at once, dear.
“...Live in their home districts...”
“...Move the center of gravity...”
I try to believe that some of these folks start out honest. They either crash and burn or buy into the corruption and power. I don't think a normal, hard working person that wants to make a difference has a prayer in politics.
But by sending them home to their districts where the accountability starts, taking away the “elitism” and a lot of perks..we may get a “few good men (and ladies)”.
I like the elimination list of departments..and could add more.
Yes, first advocated this to a POL about 15 years ago. Now it is much more practical. (I have telecommuted for past year & like it -am 62 this month so even the not-young could make it work)
This would also remove the Pols from the Lobbyists.
Can you imagine the reduction in office expense moving the full time office from DC?
Do you agree with this..PS Don’t Dear me.Your friend thinks a spaceship landed in Fatima.Seems you like the way he thinks.Do you agree.Is the Blessed Mother an Alien?I once debated a real witch who accused me of taking drugs.Your kinda boring.
The reduction in expense would be staggering.
I’m in line to start telecommuting after the first of the year. Reduction in pay...but that out weighs the commute.
If it’s good enough for you and me..... :)
Great Tea Party platform.
I publish a 3,000 page distributor catalog and create the web images and descriptions for a wholesale hardware distributor. And the indexes. For 37,000 items. Big task. And I do all their promotions (some close to 1,000 pages) Publish from database into Quark for print.
Have VPN connection to office and can do anything in my home that I could do in my office. But it took me 4 years to get things in such a shape to allow this to happen.
I traveled for a living for over 30 years before I started doing this. Was in outside sales and sales management for that time.
The world is changing daily.
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