Should we not just forget Trump and move on

What I saw during the last 24 hours I will properly never forget. If I ever had a dream about visiting the United States once this Chinese virus is dealt with, the dream is gone.

What I saw was a country in its last stages before break-up. Biden might be able to keep it together but then it will require that Trump use his last days in office pardoning himself, his family and helpers from present and future legal proceedings and just retire to play golf.

What I read is that democrats plan til continue making the media focus on an investigation of Trump. That would continue the bitterness caused not by Trump but by many administrations before going back to Reagans time when the United States raised it agelimit for alcohol to 21.

It was back then that the society began to be divided. Once young people stop drinking alcohol together as they do in Denmark when they are aged 14-15, they stop talking and socializing together under parental guidance. Everybody minds their own business and their own career and stops caring about the neighbor or distant relative or old schoolmates.

Everything is about getting success. As result many people are forgotten. They work ordinary jobs but they see jobs being moved abroad. They see the school nearby closing down. Their chance of real education or even attending university gone. They stop believing in the system. This is the people who marched into Capitol Hill yesterday and was gunned cruely down by the security.

There is no easy fix. There are no solution in procecuting Trump for having been selected to office by ordinary people because it is the very structure of the country which is wrong and damaged.

We in the rest of world is also to blame. We are too depended of the United States. Surely the United States should be given time to rebuilt schools in their local communities so every student regardless of birthplace can be given the chance to attend an university nearby putting the student into reach of the good jobs. Surely they need to time renegociate every trade agreement so the cost of bringing in goods is the same as bringing out goods from the United States.

They need time so the citizens can regain trust in politics. So they can see local people being elected to their parliament. People who is not elected because they have a good name or belongs to a old family of politicians, but people who care about the voters, they represent and deal with local issues instead of all the international ones.

We see the very same in Europe. Yellow vests in France. Parts of London destroyed as result of rioting. Norrebro in Copenhagen where you need army protection due to gang shootings.

In Denmark we fight crime by tearing down parts of our cities where the poor live. The ghettoplan will remove large parts of Danish cities forcing the poor to move out to the countryside where their children will lose every chance from ever getting a shot of an university education or a good job. We are following in the path of the United States. Christiansborg could be the next Capitol Hill.

This needs to be stopped. We need to lower our drinking age to 15 from 16. We need the 7000 cheap apartments in Copenhagen where students can live. We need the Danish government to active care about our work enviroment instead of leaving it up to the employers and a minority of the labor unions who just happen to support certain parties in our parliament.

We need to retake the power from the European Union so we once again can support farmers and other small firms vitimized by the Chinese Covid-19 virus so they can be supported and compensated for their losses during the pandemic.

But most important for the United States is now to move on. Forget Trump so you do not get stuck in the past.

People who dont understand democracy

The Danish media has covered religious movements in Denmark the recent month and they found a lot of cases where people are adviced against Danish law.

The core values they teach is not something which has anything to do with the values Danes based their values on. In some cases the people who follow this teaching will risk prosecution from the Danish police.

In Denmark it is illegal to marry several wives, to beat your spouse, to use corporal punishment on your children.

In Denmark we have customs, we have laws and they changed based on what the majority of the population want.

Right now the Danish population wants jobs. They are afraid that the tons of migrants will be guided into the jobmarket at a cheaper salary called "Job-training" as many unemployed Danes are pressured to do. If your case worker at the unemployment center knows a local employer you will find yourself working there for your unemployment benefit without earning the right to vacation, pension etc. pushing existing workers, who were being paid full salary, out of business.

Danes need their jobs back. It doesn't matter that companies like Lego, Dansk Bank and Nordea makes profit when it is caused by outsourcing production jobs or simple administrative jobs to the eastern part of Europe.

A number of foreign experts are now suing the Danish state. They were allowed to serve in Danish firms because they properly were so skill-less that they couldn't find work in their homecountry. Now they have the nerve to sue the Danish State because their work-visas were adjusted. Yes, it is a change. The same goes for the cut in the student grant my children were supposed to get and my retirement age.

Laws are changed. That is a consequence of politics. People like me and the rest of the Danish population were cheated. These cry-babies should really drop their lawsuit and go back home and become the dish-washers their skills allow them to work as.

They are so insulting and have no idea what our society is about. They really should go at once.


Source:
Foreign professionals suing the Danish state (The Copenhagen Post)

A tragic Danish story, which could have been prevented?

2 weeks ago, the Danish police raided a house in the small village of Kundby. They arrested a 15-year-old girl of Danish origins and later a 24-year-old man from another part of Denmark. He had a family with foreign background. According to the present information in the case, these two people never met.

The girl was charged with housing a number of explosive and for publicly approving terrorist acts committed by ISIS. The question everybody ask if there could have been done something to prevent this girl to go down this path. Why wasn’t she using her afternoon in the Friday bar at her high school hanging out drinking beer or wine enjoying herself?

She was a former student at Isefjordsskolen. She redrew herself from the school some months before the arrest. Due to the court order of giving the police peace to investigate the case without the media watching as it has become common in terrorist related cases, people are told not to talk about the case. The school will not comment on the case or if they as they are subjected to do report the girl to the social services for not attending the normal social circles.

It has become focus for many schools lately. When terrorist acts are committed by single persons and so to say hired over the Internet, you can only catch them by reporting people who remove themselves from social circles in school or at the workplace. If they do not attend the weekly Friday bar, something is wrong. Personally, I suspect that the school reported her to the social services. The social services then reported her to the police when they discovered that it was not depression or other kind of mental illness.

Mental illnesses are rather shunned in the Danish society in such a degree that it could become rather expensive for the family to treat if the social services become involved. A stay in a group home caused by depression or even as little as sadness due to death or illness in the family are fined by the social services. In Denmark, only ordinary illnesses are treated for free in the hospitals. Mental illnesses often caused by family relations or heritage, the authorities do not like.

Some family friends pay more than 4,000 euros per year for the stay of their daughter in a group home because the daughter was sad about her mother’s depression and became a target for bullying in school. The social services paid her a visit and found too many teddy bears (around 50) in her room and diagnosed her to have become too shielded by her parents. I understand that you might find the state of Denmark too interfering if you are a foreigner but that is the social services in Denmark and how they work.

Then of course, in this case they have not been around at all after the arrest of the girl. The girl was placed in an adult jail despite her age but again terrorism is a severe charge. The jails in Denmark are not gender separated so it is not going to be a fun stay and of course, the staff cannot be around all time. Denmark has signed a convention preventing that but Denmark is very close to collapse in general due to the huge migration so the law cannot be uphold in all places even by the authorities.

For 14 days, her lawyer only visited the girl. The mother was not allowed to visit her. In addition, the social services are not used to severe cases like these either. Often hinting families solve more severe cases that it is time to move out of the town so a new department of social services in another city can start over with the family. However, the newspapers wrote about the social services not visiting and now there were forced to act.

The question remains:

• Could this case have been prevented?
• Could the school have reported her sooner so it had remained a case for the social services only?
• What is the role of the 24-year-old-man when they never met in person?

There are so many questions and they can only be answered if the police label it an ordinary case instead of a terrorist case so it can be dealt with in an open court.


Source:
arrested with explosives (The Local)

2016 - a new year with new challenges

I have been busy the last couple of months. Work took a lot of time. Because we are stepping into a new time I will reflect a little. At work some of my co-workers will stop and seek new opportunities. It is fine co-workers but their home is in Sweden and the office they are working in, is placed in Copenhagen.

Thanks to the newly introduced border control they cannot get back home and sleep before they have to wake up and start going to work. I understand them and I am divided on the question of border control. One part of me is Dane where I cannot understand why Sweden steps away from taking responsibility in the migration crisis.

But I am also co-worker. I have to have someone to drink beers with after work, which work is all about. Otherwise we could all work from home never meeting the persons we do business with.

And it is difficult to be a commuter. In Denmark driving to work equals being on the lookout for speed traps all the time. It is very stressful and many times I wish that I could retire early because when you arrive at work you are so stressful and you are not fun for anyone.

2016 will be a difficult year for me both as a Dane and as a co-worker. I am not happy.

A Danish girl sent to a wilderness program in Utah

My son had to write an essay about this e-book novel: Janice's Journey

I find it odd the mother in this story didn't accept that her daughter had lived so many years in Denmark that the daughter was totally embraced in the Danish youth culture.

I can understand that the daughter’s actions and choice might be unacceptable taken into consideration that the mother lived at a place where kids are not allowed to have fun. But I don't understand why the mother wanted to change the future of the daughter. Danes don't have to outlive their potentials. They have a welfare system and they have a destiny based on their social heritage.

It is just an odd story.

Denmark will be the most competitive country in the world

I watched the news a couple of days ago. One of the headlines was that social workers who spot a young pregnant girl who have been in the system will put a lot of pressure on this young girl to have an abortion. The reason given was the social heritage would result in greater chance of a negative result on this unborn child life income compared with the expenses the Danish state would have to provide to it.

Also if you are ill and unemployed you have to wait until those who are working are treated in hospitals.

The financial crisis has impacted our society in a huge way and now the time has come to measure every single future Dane to decide if this birth would benefit our society or not.

The price is paid by the poor families for now. As much as I hate to live in such a society, it is a necessary price because Denmark’s status as a welfare nation is a stake. In the United States they have introduced Obamacare. In Denmark you are no longer guaranteed free treatment of your child if the social services discover that the illness your child suffers from can be genetically connected to the parents. Then part of cost of the treatment will be billed to the parents due to a new law introduced last year. My cousin speaks of law number 498 of 2011, which have forced him to sell his house and move into a small apartment.

Our retirement age are planned to be increased maybe up to 80 years. Sadly the age where you can maintain your driver’s license without being forced to go to a doctor to be checked will not be increased. For us who are dependent of a driver’s license in relation to our jobs, this increase of our retirement age will leave us unemployed the last years before our retirement.

So it is basically necessary to kill unborn Danes for the rest of Denmark to be saved. I am kind of angry and believe that we have to demand a huge discount of the amount we pay to be member of EU. I also believe that we have to cut in the aid to the third world. But until our politicians cut in all the unnecessary spending to activities abroad, I sadly have to accept that murder is the path for Denmark to rise as the most competitive nation in the world.

For more information about the strategy of the social services, read these articles in Danish newspapers:

• Social workers prompting abortion? (Denmarks Radio)
• Concern over law allowing doctors to make unemployed wait (Jyllandsposten)

Protest against the social services in Denmark

Denmark is not Texas. In Denmark your child cannot get a restraining order when the social services try to "help" the child by placing it in an abusive foster family or a group home where there is 2 cases of sexual molestation in Denmark every single month.

If you abuse a child placed by the social services you hardly gets any punishment. Just last month a therapist got only 60 days because he forced a 15 year old girl to give him oral sex.

That's why the parents had enough and they are protesting in front of our parliament tormorrow between 12 and 15.

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.

Just saw the most awful TV-show on Youtube

One of the Australian TV-channels purchased the program concept called “The world strictest parents”. It is a TV-show much like MTV’s “Exiled” where teenager are taken from their homes and placed in potential dangerous countries to live for a week.

While they are away they live like the locals at a host family. Host families used to be very used by controversial drug treatment programs. Survivors speak of unbearable torment.

This time two teenagers were sent to South Africa to live at a family who were farmers. They also had to go to rather mysterious school where the student had to wear school uniforms and march in some military formation like it was known in the former East-block countries until the totalitarian regime fell down.

It was just an awful episode to watch. Where were the teenagers happily drinking alcohol while learning about each other and sharing life experiences?

Do they not create murderers and violent people by enforcing such a strict structure in school? Yes, they do! South Africa is one of the most dangerous countries to live in when it comes to the amount of murders. In Denmark we know how important it is to let youth buy alcohol in an early age and let them drink with each other. Sadly we have learned it the hard way because when youth don’t drink alcohol they tend to marginalized themselves and form groups of youth with another social values than the common population. As stricter the school environment get, the larger risk of violence and anti-social behavior gets.

Right now the foreign departments in a lot of other countries warn tourists from visiting certain parts of Denmark where those non-drinking youth have armed themselves and are shooting at people who looks like they have owned or driven a motorcycle at some point.

It is groups who will support the terrorist behind the 9/11 attacks at any time. We know it because they did drive around the streets and celebrated that terrible act of terrorism when it did happen. It forced us to deliver the most damaging strike against the morale among the terrorists when we printed the pictures of some false prophet according to our religious belief.

I don’t know the reason for sending teenagers from a peaceful country like Australia to South Africa, but it’s just wrong. Danish youth is among the most reluctant you from traveling abroad and study. Of course part of this behavior is owned to the fact that the Danish education system is second to none worldwide. Our education system in Denmark targets the education of the whole person. It is not about studying for some test. It is about understanding the subject and yet remains critical to it.

Even a full year in a United States High School is not rewarded with credits once the student returns home. The level of education is just too different.

Today we are very aware of the fact that it is important to prevent fauna pollution. Various cultures do not mix well.

If a Danish Television channel should consider taking this concept up, I will create a protest group at once.

I happen to be very close to crying when I saw this torment Jono and Bailey was forced to undergo, which for Jono’s case even went to far to altering his appearance. I have spoken to not so few where just like a thing like shaving your beard is something which is against the religious belief and even that was not respected.

I don’t know what is wrong with the entertainment business these years. It seems like it is a question about topping the amount of abuse and torment in every show. There were Brat Camp where one of the participants became victim of happy slapping when he returned home so he was forced into hiding. Then we had Exiled where the participants went to countries where people are held ransom or countries which were in civil war just months after they left.

Now this!

Will it ever stop? Can we not settle by living happily in our countries without learning about what other people are doing, so our youth can focus on what it best in their lives?

I fear for my children

Just yesterday it was published that gangs rekruts youth from every part in our society. At the same time the so-called prevention commision wants to raise the purchase age for alcohol to 18.

Because youth wants to hang out and find unity, they become easy target for the rekruters which will provide them with alcohol and drugs if they cannot buy alcohol in the stores.

In some parts of Jutland younger children aged around 13-15, who used to drink when their parents sent them down to the shop to buy beers have turned to crimes and they steal boxes of beer from peoples sheds.

Why criminalize our youth. I decided to live here in Denmark because this country were known for its freedom to do what they want within the borders of the law. I have lovely wife, but it a man choose to live with a man, they can get papers on each other down at the town hall - almost as a marriage.

It seems that Denmark is on a slow path forward to a dictatorship.

Even the question how people wants to dress is adressed as if they were living in Iran. At some schools they don't want trousers that expose skin because they fit badly. As one out of three siblings I often got clothes, which was too small for my older brother. It was often too large for me, but I had to wear it anyway. All those rules. I am beginning to understand why every third of the students in our 9'th grade have been missing the last 14 days.

But also in town certain dresses can prevent you from getting inside. It is rather odd, because this socalled "Strudhætte" have been worn for more than 500 years. It is an old tradition.

I am beginning to fear that we force the youth into the hands of the gangs. What meaning does the words of Jesus have today? Did he not say: "Let the children come to me"?

Let us accept that youth are different. They experiment with alcohol. They want to try things. Accept those things regardless if the sight is not always pretty.

It is only by learning from their mistakes that they can get better people. If we choose dialogue instead of rejection, the gangs wont have it so easy.

Civil war in Denmark

Right now Denmark is suffering from a civil war. I am almost afraid to leave my house. I am only doing the necessary shopping. How did this civil war start? Here is some background information:

Back in the 1980's Hell Angels entered Denmark and started a war with an all Danish biker club called Bullshit. After introducing machineguns they wiped out Bullshit and took over the drug market which until 2003 was concentrated in a part of Copenhagen which proclaimed their independence of the Danish laws in 1971 (Christiania).

In 1994 the second gang war started. This was called the Great Nordic Biker War. This time they used weapons left behind by the Red army. We were talking anti-tank rockets and of course machine guns. Our army was tied up in Bosnia and the biker gangs outgunned the police forces 10 times. The Danish police did however increase their firepower and political pressure and threats of recalling our army meant that the Tinndahn-Nielsen peace agreement was made in 1997.

This agreement divided the drug market in Denmark between the two groups.

Some years ago our present government invaded Christiania and closed Pusher Street. A huge percentage of our police force is now tied as an occupying force limiting their capacity in relationship with other police business.

The same year the age limit for alcohol purchase limit was raised from 15 to 16. As result of the invasion the drug market were spread out all over our country. Where the police in the old days stood at the border and fined people for drug use, drugs are now sold in every school all over our country.

But not only is the closure of Pusher Street to blame. Danes are introduced to alcohol by their parents aged 14 or 15 when they are confirmed. With the old age limit they could purchase alcohol in the shops without disturbing their parents. Personally I have no problems with a teen aged 14 drinking alcohol, but here kids are generally polite and leave us alone instead of asking for the same thing all day. Unfortunately the difficult access to alcohol means that they turn to drugs instead. We are now talking of 2 drugs users in every class-room when they are leaving middle school. We have a European statistic here.

After the second gang war the biker clubs became lazy. New groups of second generation youth coming from the Middle East entered the market. They are youth who celebrate 9/11 as a victory.

The official Denmark asked the media to start the Cartoon war. The cartoons were based on Herge's masterpiece from 1930 of a journalist from Belgium visiting the Central Republic of Congo. Our victory was huge, but it didn't scare the youth gangs away.

Last year the third gang war started and now people in certain parts of Copenhagen are strip-search both by the police and the youth gangs when they enter parts of Denmark no longer under control by the central government in Copenhagen. As ordinary and peaceful citizens we are placed in a loose-loose situation.

1) The police have given extra powers to strip-search people without reason. They can detain people for 6 hours as preventive detention. They don't have to bring charges forward and don't need to involve the court-system. The damage for ordinary citizens are huge if they are recognized by family, colleagues or business partners because it means guilt in the eyes of the public if a person has business with the police without protesting loudly. If we choose to leave our house our reputation and career could be damaged beyond repair.

2) If the youth gangs find tattoos or people are unshaved looking like a member of a biker gang undercover they are attacked with knife or guns.

3) In towns outside Copenhagen locals attack strangers. Several yokels attacked a college with foreigners because they had been insulted by people from Iceland. Unfortunately they started to shoot at people from Poland. In Denmark a person is regarded as a stranger if this person chooses to move more than 50 kilometers from his or her hometown.

Right now we are prisoners in our own home. We are waiting whether our government decides to pull our forces from the 11'th Christian crusade in Afghanistan. The gang war is now a full scale civil war. Just yesterday the police created a strip-search zone in Esbjerg in Jutland.

Just the last 48 hours, two people have been shot. One of them died. I am going to shut doors and windows and limit my time outside the home to a minimum.

Pain

I am tormented by pain.

My teeth are hurting and that is bad.

Denmark is a welfare country. At least the politicians claim that our country still maintain that status regardless the fact that the early retirement, which was the foundation in our system have been targeted for several serious cuts.

In a welfare society vital treatment are offered for free. Regardless what kind of illness I could be having - even problems with the heart are cured for free.

But the teeth are seen as purely cosmetic treatment, so that why so many Danes like me have to suffer in silence.

You can always decide whether a Dane is rich or poor by looking at his or her teeth. In some case you can smell it. People who for one reason go bankrupt can only get help to the dentist from the authorities if they are able to prove that they have been paying customers for at least 10 years before their mishap occurred.

Danish dentists are also among the most expensive in Europe. People who have been able to bring a translator abroad to assist them explaining the problem to the foreign dentist can save up to 50 percent.

Unfortunately I don't have this option. Sweden would have been the natural choice, no sub-standard like in the Eastern Europe, where they are recovering from 50 years of communist rule. Sweden has the same standard as here in Denmark. However there is a problem. Even Swedish people are hard to understand and until recently the Danish language was forbidden.

So risking getting the wrong tooth treated is not worth it.

So like more than a million Danes I have to suffer in quietness.

It hurts a lot. Two old filling made by the an old over-the-hill school dentist who everyone knew on held that position due to his connections to the city hall are to be replaced.

A root-channel job on the right side did not turn out as my dentist anticipated. A gold crown broke off in the left side. So my pain comes from all over my mouth. I can only eat and drink very little.

That how it is for a poor Dane.

But if you ask me if it is worth having the pain just to remain in Denmark, I have to answer yes.

We have so many other things to be happy off.

My children can drink alcohol in public once they have been confirmed and they can buy it on their own, once they turn 16. If they stay together with other youth doing the same, they are not like all too many people on this planet in risk of being blown up by a suicide bomber.

My children don’t have to care about grades. There is no pressure on them if they choose to underachieve. They belong to the working class like me. We have given up battling the social heritage. The result has been a peaceful society where the lack of competition results in lesser crime and more peace.

Is that not worth if the price is severe pain every single day?

Yes: At any time!

Why it is hard to adjust being an immigrant

I moved to this country, now best known for their cartoons 10 years ago.

I learned their language. I allowed my family to adjust to their strange costums.

Now I feel beaten somehow.

First example:

I have a lot of kids - alot. It have never been a problem before, but suddenly new seatbeltsrules came into action. The government demanded that every child in the car should have their own seat belt.

I need three cars to transport my children!

I know that ethnic Danes only have about 2 children. I regards this new law as a racist invention to target the mobility of us immigrants.

Second example:

I choosed Denmark because of their high standard of education. First of all danish students have a team spirit like I have never seen anywhere before and I have travelled the world.

They use a term called "hygge" where they sit together and drink a few beer - even children down to 12-13 year of age as I have seen them sitting in parks and along beaches. In fact it is an old tradition for the parents to introduce their child to alcohol at an age of 14 when the child is confirmed. (With Gods approval so to say).

So the youth drink and socialize. They start to care for each other. In a drunken state they confide to each other, so when they put a team together they know what both the strength and weakness are for each team-member, but the boss also know what the employees think about him and it doesn't need to be positive. Even a negative view can be useful because then there are not time wasted on cover-ups and lies.

So I allowed my son to socialize with the Danish youth and he showed good results. So good in fact that I gave up a job offer in the States, because they couldn't offer schools with similar standard.

The the disaster happened. My son "borrowed" my car and the social worker decided (due to my status as a foreigner) that my son should attend a school in the other end of the country. (Denmark have very few juvenile facilities. The authorities use the so-called "continuation school" for punishment instead of jail and it works because Danes regards everyone being born more than 20 kilometers away as "strangers", which all the community should be looking for. Some of the parents of my colleagues have moved to another part of Denmark and even their children are regarded as strangers (It is for some reason worse if you move from East to West. Sealand is called the "Devil Island" by people in Jutland.)

So my son ended up in Jutland and he suffered, but as I told him "Do the crime, do the time". I don't know if 10 months away from home for driving without licence is a harsh punishment in other countries, but all I would have gotten as adult was a fine.

All that brought our familiy closer together. He is very lonely because our lawyer recommended that he sould avoid as much contact as possible because in criminal enviroment they exchange knowledge, which can result in a life of crime. Now a new problem has arised. He is a smoker and it is legal because Denmark have a 16 year limit on tobacco purchase.

But the government are thinking of changing this to 18 years and the school don't want to have tobacco on their property, he is suffering. We have been meeting with the authorities about a pardon, so he can return home where we can buy him tobacco and our hopes are up. But somehow I feel betrayed.

Legal access to alcohol and tobacco for my kids was something I moved to Denmark for. They had so much success with this approach.

In fact in Denmark it is normal that the kids committing crimes are the kids, who don't drink.

I thought that I had found a free country. Now I am in doubt.