Uh, I retract my earlier warning. Take 8.
"Your" kinda illiterate, and possibly insane, so nod off quietly, ok? Adults are conversing.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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.
Unusually confusing non-sequitur bookmark.
Uh, I retract my earlier warning. Take 8.
"Your" kinda illiterate, and possibly insane, so nod off quietly, ok? Adults are conversing.
Don’t ask me why I’m getting involved, other than I’m confused!? But for clarification fatima; does Monckton believe the Blessed Mother is an alien?
Hehehehhe Hello ,Did he say no.He said I was on drugs.Ask him.
Color me confused, as well. Methinks Fatima has Lord Monckton confused with someone else. He is a Catholic, for gawd sake. He was a SCIENCE advisor to Lady Thatcher as PM. Not relly likely he would hold such a belief as Fatima has put forth, but I’d be interested in some source for the claim.
Claim for what?
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”
Wm. Shakespeare
I officially and wholeheartedly invite the U.N. organizers to stage their next climate event in Texas. Just think of the fun we will have.
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. ... 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 ... and said, “Maybe it is not brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort.” Today, ... I wondered whether the brutality of the New World Order was moving closer than President Klaus – or any of us – had realized.
New World Order again. That phrase seems to keep popping up.
If it takes evacuating DC to allow the nation to once again Breathe Freedom lets Get It On!
There are NO Solutions found in DC, ONLY BIGGER PROBLEMS!
Old Chinese Proverb: “Today’s Problems were often Yesterday’s Solutions!”
LMAO
You are right it would be “fun” to see the try to sell that snake oil in the Lone Star State.
I do not think they would even “consider” attempting that. Even the Left knows better than that.
BWAAAAHHHH!
That sounds like it requires extensive and intense “product knowledge”. No doubt you were good in outside sales and management if you can create catalogues and promos.
I’m a numbers person. I’ll just keep the books for various companies that I have built a relationship with thru the years.
I sure hope I won’t need Quark!! That maybe above my paygrade, lol.
Quark is the easy part of the task. The real heavy lifting is getting the data string in shape to import. Once it is organized I can import 500 pages of data in less than 3 minutes. Then takes a while to clean up the columns and tabs that the extrusion process does not place properly.
The data stream is a total IT hack. The repeat process, is my own design. Once I have done a catalog section or promotion, I have developed a method to extract the item sequence from the .pdf document. Using PDFTK and Grep. Then through a database. Works great, use same process to extract page numbers for the items in the section. Requires a little preconditioning of the .pdf to take care of the repeating “1’s” in the document. (proportional spacing issue)
Anyway, it take some time.
This sounds to me like you are a programmer, as well as salesman and manager.
Very well rounded and intelligent.
Me...I’m just using canned packaging. And hoping for the best!!
No, not a programmer. Did a little year ago before PC’s developed (in Basic). Built my first PC in 1982 from junk.
Have been Ham Operator since 1976. Did a lot of home brew construction in the beginning. Ran around with several engineers who worked at the Labs (when I was living in NM).
Miss that a bit.
When I moved back to TX in 1986 there were not that many technical Hams.
I ran a Navy MARS station out of my home for over 19 years. love the Military personnel.
In 1988 I moved to near Oklahoma City and there were some good tech’s there, but I was gone a lot. We had a very active group though.
Moved back to TX about 12-13 years ago, and am away from the good techs again.
Have taught electronics (RF) at an AFB near here a couple of times. Summer short courses for GROL license exam. I have a Commercial license also.
But I spend most of my time Entering or Extracting Data from our AS400 IBM and composing it on my PC. Have several Linux boxes I use at times also, when I find something I need done that is not possible on the PC. Less of that now, some of the good Open Source Apps have been ported for Windows now.
If I could find an Open Source replacement for my CAD program and a scriptable Publishing Program I would not use Windows at all. Really like Linux. Have run it for over 10 years. Very fast and Stable OS.
Enough of that rambling, we have a political battle to fight, am sure my war stories are boring.
Have a good evening.
TF
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