Eyewitness account: The December 16th Copenhagen Riots

Great report, Benno! Citizen's journalism in action.

Benno - it seems there are 2 fundamental issues (a) how you effect the domestic laws of the land i.e. (i) ask the squatters to leave nicely (the nice way of civilized people) or (ii) to use egregious violence against the squatters and their sympathizers (the authoritarian, proto-Nazi way) and (b) legality of such occupation in Denmark (evidently decided by the Court of democratic Denmark).

However, it must be observed that while Denmark is a "nice" democratic country, BUT in an international context through its linkage to UK-US state terrorism and US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST) in the Middle East, Demark is clearly a proto-Nazi, war criminal, anti-Arab anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist rogue state in its support for US Occupation of Iraq (international squatting) that has been associated with 0.9 million post-invasion excess deaths (war criminal mass murder by the US-led Coalition to which Denmark belongs) , 2 million Iraqi refugees in neighbouring countries (Genocide according to the UN Genocide Convention) and a UN estimate that currently 100,000 Iraqis are fleeing their country each month (continuing Denmark-backed US-UK-Australian-effected genocide).

Quite appropriate therefore that Denmark's new Princess comes from a place (Tasmania, Australia ) that on the theory of "terra nullius" (empty land, no occupation of the land) completely exterminated its Indigenous Inhabitants between 1803-1876 (the last completely Indigenous Tasnmanian, a woman Truganini, died in 1876 - her bones were on public display for years in Princess Mary's hometown Hobart). There are actually still thousands of Part-European Tasmanian Aboriginals (descended from married or raped Aboriginal women) and the Tasmanian Government has taken various steps to say sorry and even to compensate these descendants.

However the racist, genocidal, war criminal, Bush-ite Australian Government (and the Opposition) (who both support US state terrorism in Afghanistan - 2.1 million post-invasion deaths) are complicit in a continuing Aboriginal Genocide that commenced in 1788 (the Aboriginal population dropped from 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century), continued in the 20th century (with forced removal of 0.1 million Aboriginal children from their mothers and appalling living conditions); and is continuing in the 21st century: the "annual death rate" is 2.2% (for Indigenous i.e. Aboriginal Australians), 2.4% for Aborigines in the Northern Territory as compared to 0.4% (what it should be for Aborigines), 0.7% for White Australians and 2.5% for sheep in pre-drought Australian sheep farm paddocks; it has been estimated by a top diabetologist Professor Paul Zimmet that appalling health conditions mean that Australian Aborigines may die out by the end of the century (passive genocide by Racist White Australia, racist White Denmark's ally in Middle East war crimes, genocide and forced eviction of 2 million Iraqi refugees) (see: Sydney Madonna & Aboriginal Genocide.

Benno, it's with great pain that I read the news of the police raid and brutality on the people of Ungdomshuset. I can remember living in Copenhagen and hearing of the possibility of conflict with police some 4 years ago. It is truly a shame that resistance is contorted to terrorism and expression of self and freedom is misconstrued to be something which is actually against the rights which we seek to preserve. I wish things could change immediately, but I know that without such demonstrations we will not find change and without local activism we will only find constriction and intrusion into our ways of living. So, thank you for publishing this on the web. I know that the mainstream media here (US) did not go any farther than to report that there were riots on the streets of Copenhagen. Keep it up, my friend.

Great job, Benno.

Btw I found this because of our mutual friend The Sentinel...

What made the Sentinel go ape@!$%# was my article:

At midnightfire "dot" blogspot "dot" com

You googled it and then, by way of a Christmas miracle, Amos Keppler just stumbles upon this story. Of course. That's your story and your sticking to it.

Under your own (stolen) 10 defining features of fascism you qualify under at least four:

1) Disagreement is treason (You sought out dissenters to your version of events)

2)Obsessions with conspiracy theories (It wasn't the court order that sparked the riots, but right wing christians, Government intolerance, closet Nazis in power etc etc)

3)Speaking to people's emotions (patos) encouraging mass hysteria (Call anyone who diagrees a Nazi, once they are put into that neat little box anything they say can be disregarded)

4)Anything can be used to argument in favour of war (Spin any angle about the rights of squatters in order that they and their ilk can wage war against society)

I notice that you are unable to comment on the article I published in response to your comments, so you feel the need to vent abuse instead.

Rent paying not an issue? It was central to the whole thing.

As for me being a Nazi, how puerile, how childish. By your own admission you have only read one article in my blog and at no point is race mentioned let alone the Nordic supremacist version of the Nazis that was so readily embraced by your countrymen during the war, with thousands joining the SS. Your country did not even put up a fight to stop the Nazis.

Whereas mine, grandparents included, fought tooth and nail and very nearly lost everything to prevent Nazi rule in Europe, including Denmark. We have only just finished paying off the war debt this week.

If I were you I would keep very quiet about Nazi's.

But I notice that you a Dane of the ginger variety, which means that your ancestors are not Vikings but Viking 'booty' from the north sea coast and that explains a lot of your scorn for your fellow countrymen.

OK, I am already drunk and you are ridiculous. But before I slip into unconsciousness I would just like to say a few things:

a) You left factually inaccurate comments on my blog because you disagreed with the content. That's fine, I defend freedom of speech. I say you found it by referral, you say you sought it out. Either ways, you did not deconstruct the central thesis; instead you left bold statements with no foundation.

b) You have decided to label me a Nazi, again with no foundation, merely because I do not agree with your analysis of the events that took place.

c) You concede that Gideon Polya's comments above "seem like a crazy rant of a conspiracy theory madman" (because it is) but then agree with the comments anyway, presumably because they fit your pre-packed version of events.

d) The Danish army would have better served the Danish people by resisting the Nazi's by way of conventional arms, as was their duty, instead of waiting till they had been subjugated by that power. In any event, thousands of them donned the uniform of the SS and many more joined the ranks of civil administration and aided the Nazi occupation. The resistance uprising, in common with the French marquis 'uprising' did occur, strangely, only weeks before the liberation by the British.

e) The træl thing I picked up from Danish relatives and friends (admittedly it is more of an Icelandic preoccupation though) and was mentioned because invariably wherever I find people who express that they are anti-nationalists I find people who have reason to fear nationalism.

d) I did not place any label upon you, I merely stated that in your own regurgitated definition of fascism you fall in under four of them.

OK, anymore for anymore...