My God - can your own government do that?

I just read that a confidential DEA report explains that it was our former minister of justice - Lene Espersen - who called the former U.S. embassador Cain in to order him to let the DEA demand Camilla Broe extradited.

And it doesn't stop there. An article from the Danish newspaper  BT explains that they ordered the DEA to invent charges about 10 episodes with the narcotics smugglers. Our present chief of the police Reinmann gave the Americans a manuscript advising them how to fabricate their case. Apparently Americans must have little or no experience in writing charges down. Otherwise he wouldn't have done it.

I am quite shocked. It seems that her ordeal is fully based on that some politicians should achieve some political goal.

I am not blaming the DEA for allowing her back for a trial. It is free publicity for them that someone gives them a manuscript for a crime and all the have to do is to pick her up and issue a press release telling people that it doesn't matter for how long so-called criminals are on the run. They will be arrested in the end.

Most people know how Danes struggle with immigrants. I am a immigrant. I know my place and I know that I would never be accepted as a Dane on the same level with Danes who are coming from families who have lived in this the most developed country in the world for generations. I won't seek a shortcut which is associating with criminals. It is a solution sought by too many immigrants in Denmark. So many in fact that the newspapers are told to be quiet about the ethnic origins of a criminal to avoid accusations about racism.

I have not been in the United States but I guess that they see immigrants in the same way. I guess that they would like to tell immigrants that they should not come to the United States and take the jobs from ordinary tax-paying citizens and associate with criminals to get a job where their salery is coming from criminal acts. It seems that the wages Camilla Broe got for her work while she worked in the United States was profit from crimes.

In Denmark we always say that money does not smell. It should not matter how your employer gets his money to pay you for a legal job, but of course here we are talking law not morale. Of course if you work in a business who sells arms to countries in war, you must think about the victims in these wars. Of course you have to think twice before you walk in shoes made by small children who have just lost their diapers or drink a cola manifactored by a firm who have killed off employees from trade unions.

It does not made you a criminal in legal terms but you have a morale burden to answer for.

However here we are talking of actions which should never have reached the court systems. Danish tax-payers have paid for the actions of Espersen and Reimann - not Camilla Broe. It is unfair in a time where we are facing a financial crisis and people loose their jobs. It was expenses we could have avoided.

But more important the Danish parliament was mis-informed. It is against the law. Now we have no choice to ask members of our parliament to demand a vote of confidense. The present government must resign. The present minister of justice has a more serious problem explaining this case than he had explaining his role in a car accident months back.

Here is the articles:
Danmark bestilte udlevering af Camilla Broe, BT
DK bestilte udlevering af Camilla Broe, TV2

Why the silence in the Camilla Broe case?

When Camilla Broe was extradited to the United States under very little attention from the press due to the mass extradition of refugees from Iraq just days before, most Danes believed that it was just a matter of days before she would be placed in a show trial and handed some sentence of 60 years only to return home to be released.

After all most things pointed in a direction of a kind of exchange between Denmark and the United States where Denmark would receive a kind of reward (maybe a job for a high profile Dane) in exchange for her.

Then a judge steps in and has the courage to give a real judgment in this case which exposed poor and lazy work of the police. Not only did they take the woman down who gave them information of the entire case before court. They did it too late.

Then there is the conflict between the testimony given by a DEA agent and every political figure in Denmark. The DEA agent told - properly under oath - that it was the Minister of justice in Denmark who told them to use the Danish court system to have her extradited. It was denied 100 percent during a hearing in the Danish parliament. Someone is lying. It is not possible for both parties to speak the truth.

When the east high court gave the approval to have her extradited they specifically asked to have the statutes of limitation investigated in this case BEFORE she should leave the country. It was not done and now see the result.

Last but not least her case did not go before the Supreme Court because it was denied. By whom? By the same officials who could benefit from the extradition going through?

So much have been wasted for this single mother of a 10 year old girl. This case clearly shows that you are an easy prey if you choose to leave your country to make a life abroad. It is simply not worth it to take the risk. Life in Denmark has taught me the lesson that you have to keep your head low and mind your own business. Do not speak up.

Camilla Broe should have learned the lesson. She should have remained in Denmark. But she didn't. Instead she traveled to Florida where they have the second largest prison population. There she made mistake number two. She actually became a consultant and gave valuable advices to firms which wanted to expand their markets in Europe. She became successful instead of just to settle for a job as waiter or dish washer.

Here in Denmark you can make it as an immigrant, but like Camilla Broe you have to learn that you have to take the low-paid jobs as first generation immigrant. It doesn't matter if you were doctor back home. Your education doesn't count in a more advance culture. In fact not even a year in a US High school can be accredited in Denmark.

It is your grandchildren which can make it to high paid jobs. It is the lesson of life for immigrants in both Denmark and the United States.Making a mistake of going for success too fast is the only crime Camilla Broe did make and it is costing her the highest price these days.

Hopefully the United States will extradite criminals as we did

I saw that a number of CIA employee has been convicted in a court in Italy.

I hope that the Americans will be on a plane soon. The United States have been quick to demand so-called justice in the Camilla Broe case. The show trial they have cooked for her is supposed to start december 7 unless the honeymoon the prosecutor is on will delay the case further.

Of course the government in the United States could claim that the conviction is a kind of revenge due to an unfortunately accident where an Italian spy was killed in Iraq by U.S. troops. The Italian citizens have also not forgotten how the United States violated Italian airspace when they were going after the murders of the disabled Leon Klinghoffer. A rather dramatic stand-off between the soldiers of these two countries took place in an Italian airport.

There are evil blood between them and right now the Italian goverment already have one hostage - the Icon for an exchange student trip going wrong - Amanda Knox.

But the relationship between the United States and Italy is not of my concern. As a Dane I just want Danes being jailed abroad back home and I want to stop any extradition of Danes to whatever country regardless of what they have done.

If the 23 CIA agents are not send to Italy we as Danish citizens must demand that our government orders the United States to return Camilla Broe at once.

Justice must be equal for everyone!

Exchange student - the final blow against an old tradition

I still keep my access to foreign newspapers. I happen to have stumbled over an article about Amanda Knox - a young American exchange student being framed on a murder in Italy.

Now they wont let her get access to independent forensic experts, so they can question the so-called evidence in the case.

I have to say so-called evidence.

Take my home. In my kitchen you will find knives. You will be able to find my DNA on them. Why?

Because I live here!

You will also be able to find DNA from the other members of my household on every knife in the kitchen because we happen to involve our children in the process of making food.

Amanda Knox and the murdered english woman none seem to remember the name on shared an apartment, so it is obvious that Miss Knox's DNA should be on every item they share in the home. It is hardly surprising.

Now we all know that they will find her guilty. She is without any real defense. There was never an intention of giving her a fair trial!!

Her case was a final warning that laws have changed in the world since 9/11. Now you cannot travel abroad and be secured a legal defense if something goes wrong. It is sad because it is important to secure travelers legal protection. It is not that people travel to another country with intention to commit a crime, but people are easy picked on when they are foreigners.

I remember a former Danish soccer player, who was sentenced to jail just because he happened to drive a car in a town where one of his teammates was involved in a traffic accident. I googled and found a website with more info about this case and some others where Danish citizens have become victims of xenophobia.

To make matter worse returning to your native country is not guarantee that you are safe. A Danish woman - Camilla Broe - was extradited on some very loose claims about her having covered up a crime made by a former boyfriend. She is facing a showtrial in Miami in December having left behind a 10 year old daughter.

It is as awful as it can get and I am so disappointed that the Danish courts let her go regardless of the fact that the charges they were presented for are far from those she is facing abroad. Then what is the point of letting Danish authorities look at the charges if they can be altered when she is leaving Denmark?

Anyhow the Amanda Knox case is for me marking an end to a period where families could allow their relatives to travel abroad and study. I would never let my children travel abroad.

Disbelief - it cannot take place in a democracy

I saw this article about some High School students, who are punished for - being High School students:

Teenagers sentenced in Prom Party Case, Greenville News

Well, a teenager who is a son of one of my co-workers want to travel to the United States to study a year in an American High School. His parents would not let him. I understand him. There is a lot of dangers connected to such an entreprise.

I would certainly not let my children take a year in this country. They are integrated Danes today and use alcohol as almost every other Danish High School students.

They will be thrown in jail within 14 days if they should live like under laws the American students suffer under.

Second of all there is the question of legal procecution later in life. As some kind of political deal our supreme court was not allowed to deal with the Camilla Broe case. A decision which most legal experts do not understand. The poor single mother of a 10 year old girl are in the process of saying goodbye for the last time to her daughter as she is waiting to be extradited on some bogus charges in Florida.

The real tragedy in this story is that Broe does not seem to understand that she is victim of a political setup. She is in the process to collect 300,000 Danish krones to cover the legal cost. Those of you who are naive can learn how to support her here:

www.camillabroe.com

But the sad truth is that the extradition agreement between Denmark and the United States are an invitation to plead guilty. Remember, she will return to Denmark within 6 month after she has got her sentence. However, if she choose to fight the trial will last between 3-6 years and it is likely that the prosecution will demand that she is detained while the trial is ongoing. She will be broken and the money will last nowhere.

Most legal expert would advise her to plead guilty to whatever charges they can invent, because a defense based on the battered woman syndrome is useless. It proved of no value in the Faye Copeland case.

She believes she is innocent and she is not aware that she should use the Alford plea when facing a setup like that which only leaves her the choice to give the prosecutors what they want or be broken in a cruel jail.

But back to the son of my co-worker. I hope that they are succesful in preventing him from taking a year as an exchange student. To live a year on very limited freedom is nothing to long for.

The most cruel history this summer

A Danish woman is going to be extradited to the United States due to some claims of her participating in some kind of drug operation.

But the police in the United States won't send the papers needed to explain what she is charged with. They just demanded her to participate in kind of show trial.

But is those documents correct. It would not be the first time Danish courts are fooled by American papers. Kirsten Chesnut discovered how her child was stolen from her and while he is now 18 and can travel to see his mother a lot of opotunities and a bright future were stolen from him.

Even when her son Christian made it into an university with a scholership, it is nothing compared with the level of education he could have got in Denmark if the Danish court system hadn't made this terrible error back then.

It is common knowledge that Danish students who take a year in High School in the United States cannot get credits they can use in a Danish High School. The level of education in Denmark is simply too high. It is not the level in a single subject that is the problem. They don't simply teach whole people in the United States. They train to pass a test or exam. They have no social life as alcohol is forbidden for youth under 21 where we in Denmark need to apply a certain level of security so our students can spot a youth not drinking - a potential suicide bomber - at distance. A very important matter in a time where we have a war on terrorism where the criminals most important weapon is road side bombs and suicide bombers.

So Christian Chesnut and his mother had their lives destroyed.

Not it is another woman - Camilla Broe - who is facing what will result in her death, if she choose to seek justice.

Most people in the Danish legal world recommend her to seek a plea bargain, because a trial could take years. If she accept whatever charges they can invent - true or not - she can return to Denmark within 6 months, where she will get a new sentence which based on the fact that she hasn't committed any crimes since her arrival in Denmark many years ago would be a suspended sentence.

It won't be justice but with a primitive justice system like Florida where kids are being crushed every day, none can expect better.

So it is not a happy summer in Denmark this year and the cases have meant that people in Denmark are beginning to question both our participation in the war on terrorism, our soldiers presence in Afghanistan and even our membership of NATO