Prevented from living our lives fully

What if your own government had a strategy to remove joy in life?

Lately it seems that it is a confirmed strategy here in Denmark to make every live like monks and nuns.

We such a thing like the Prevention Commission. The reason for establishing such a government thing was Denmark was decleared one of the happiest nations to live in some years back.

Denmark is a part of the European Union and they complained because the deal about this cooperation is that all nations have to be equal. They call it harmonization. So our government was forced to act so we would not be kicked out.

They have called for heavier restriction on tobacco. Today most boarding schools allows smoking outside. It benefits teamworks and the youth learn to know each other. It is easy to break the ice of silence when you are new and nervous in a boarding school when you offer a cigarette to a student.

They also want to raise the ban on alcohol purchase from 16 to 18 with no regards of the dangers it puts on the streets if youth can drive without knowing the dangers of alcohol in advance. They want to fight our alcohol culture. I find that they are trying to suck all joy out of life and creating a foundation a more extremist.

If you go some posts back you will learn that my son was detained at one of our continuation schools also called "Efterskole" in Danish. We were so lucky that he was able to be released before they raised the age limit for tobacco purchase to 18, but I still feel bad for those kids left behind and their parents who are facing a rather difficult logistic problem. All that suffering for no reason. At the school my son "attended" they learned to know eachother rather well when they smoke during breaks outside. As harsh as the program was with no alcohol allowed and fixed bedtimes (Unbelievable when we was talking year 2008), he made friends at this isolated and godforsaken place. He didn't left without scares. Nightmares are still a huge part of his life, which he has to thank them for, but the team work and the unity he met during the breaks was the one factor which made him decide to live instead of die.

I fear for your youth. If they make it harder to purchase alcohol they will turn to obtain something to party on by criminals. Criminals who will sell them drugs. Drugs that finance the on-going attacks made by youth gangs on Biker gangs.

Raising the alcohol purchase age will result in more crimes. It will properly result in an increased number of drug-users. It will properly result in more crimes.

So why do these things?

At least the policians in our parliament were quick to proclaim that they would not touch any of these suggestions. I guess they know that they have to be re-elected if they want to keep their jobs.

Sources:
Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth
Alcohol culture in Denmark
Commission: Rich and smart drink most - The Prevention Commission has declared battle on Denmark’s alcohol culture. Government supports the move.
Commission calls for more bans to protect public health

Who are we supposed to be most afraid off?

Just this morning the government annouced that a number of tickets given for traffic violations would be doubled in order to scare the population to remain at home.

Trust me, I am terrified with the shootings around Denmark due to the ongoing gang war between biker clubs and gangs consisting of second or third generation immigrants, but now where our government has taken side and has introduced new tough laws which means deportation of gang-members with non-Danish etnic roots, this war will end in short time.

However now the population will suffer again and this time it is the central government over in Copenhagen who is the tormenters.

It seems that we ordinary citizens are supposed to live in scare for the rest of our lives.

I am almost coming to the conclusion that I rather want to live with the fear of being struck by a bullet than living with the fear of ongoing monitoring by the policeforces from the central government.

What do they want from us?

First they order that hand-held phones are banned. So we all start texting because the quality of handsfree solutions under 50 dollars are poor. That means more danger in trafic than hand-held phones if you ask me.

Speeding is considered something to be proud off if you ask around inside Danish firms. When an employee is speeding he is also showing that how faithful the employee is toward both his colleagues and firm. The government is asking for an increase in unemployment and outsourcing of jobs abroad. Why sending more jobs to foreign countries? We send all our old ships to India already when they are sold for scrap, but ships are big in size. There is no profit in sending smaller items to the third world for scrapping.

This scare-tactics of our government is un-danish and we cannot recover from the present economical crisis if we all run around scared.

But it seems that our politicians has lost touch with the population and a solution to how we can regain the connection to them will demand too much from a beaten nation. So we have no choice but to live in fear.

I am afraid all the time.

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.

Cut off from my family

Early 2009 the central government in Denmark introduced new speed traps. They are unmanned and consist only of a pillar placed near the road with a camera.

Now I have to use a full day to visit my family. I live in the northern part of Sealand and my family lives in the southern part.

Thanks God for the internet. I will try to visit them once or twice per year.

However I am not alone. A lot of families are broken up due to this new ban in traffic outside the high ways.

I dont know why they suddenly would interfere in a lot of people lives in that way. It is not only family being forced to break up. It is also a question about infrastructure. This is going to cost jobs! Several experts are talking of about 250,000 - 500,000 people out of job in January 2010.

Why? We know about the dangers on our roads. We accept that mobility cost lives. We don't expect living very long and there is no reason for it when they have cut in the early retirement and the politicians refers to retired people as the burden of elderlies.

Totally unaccepted. Nothing else.

The most positive news for a long time

The Danish students are failing "Operation days work".

Operation days work is a leftover from from the ages of the cold war. Students with likely commnunist connection arranged a charity where students in High School became truant for a day and worked in various businesses and send the money they earned to specific projects in the third world.

First some of the project chosen by the group behind this event has been critised for being a cover of terrorism. Most of the teenagers today know very little about Nicaragua where left wing terrorist did overthrow the happy government, which had ruled the country for many years starting a period with killings and riots. Recently they supported regions of Mexico where drug lords also operate and the police are trying to bring order to the society by introducing a zero-tolorance policy. I could write for long about several other reasons for not supporting this project, but I will leave it to others representing both the right and left side in our parliament.

The most important question is: Why support third world contries at all?

I have to ask this question because:

1) We have a lot of problems in Denmark which should be solved. We have no early retirement more. It was this single welfare benefit, which was the keystone in our welfare society. Without it, it is almost impossible to claim that we still are a welfare society. Why not start to help those in our society, who suffers every day?

2) Aid to third world countries do often damage more that they help. When people gets things for free, why should they go out in the field and work? People becomes lazy when they are helped all the time. Some third world countries have realized that. India are trying to send people to the moon. It cost a lot, while people die from hunger. When the tsumani hit back in 2004 India was ready to provide aid to other countries while their own population suffered. They were smart because they realized that the torment would enable their own population to work hard to regain their former status and put them in front in the global outsource business where they already are a huge player. They do not redistribuate their goods like most western countries do. They let the poor starve and even die, so the population are forced to work and be competitive.

3) Corruption takes their part. Corruption is normally a good thing which enables the businesses to pull themselves up and try to understand the mecanismes in the market they enter. Employees in a Danish firm was cleared in relationship with their export adventure in Germany because the court acknowledged that corruption was a tool in the market down there. If they hadn't done it, they could have stayed at home from the very start. The verdict enabled a lot of Danish firms to enter this market.

Thats why the recent news about the danish students failing supporting this project and use the day for sleeping out binge drinking from the evening before or simply work for their own good is a good news.

It shows insight when it comes to global issues and it promises good times in the years to come, when we at some point decide to solve the problems our society suffers from.

I am so proud of the new generation of Danes.

Mere end et spørgsmål om nogle få familiesammenføringer

This post is in the Danish language because it concerns only Danes:

Længe har den kørt - sagen om familiesammenføringer og integrationsministerens påståede fortieelse af at et hul i EU-lovgivningen tillader nogle mennesker at få deres ægtefælle til Danmark ved hjælp af nogle krumspring.

Nu ser det ud til at befolkningen anser selve ministeren får æren af befolkningen for at være skyld i sagen.

Men er landets befolkning virkelig så naiv?

Tilsyneladende er de ved at overse at vi står overfor selve nationalstatens endeligt. Lidt efter lidt har EU udhulet vores status som selvstændig nation, så vi snart har mere karakter af at være en af de snart hedengangne amter.

Hvad forsvandt med EF-domstolens afgørelse var ikke 24 års reglen. Det var de sidste rester af vores grænsekontrol.

Hvad værre er at man længe før at der var tænkt på den nuværende integrationsminister tilsyneladende har kørt et rænkespil som har gået ud på at smule små fodnoter ind i forskellige tekster så Dansk Folkeparti kunne få lov til at stå tilbage som martyr. Man har simpelthen regnet med at de ikke besad kapaciteter som kunne gennemskue tilføjelserne med de små bogstaver og man fik ret.

Så nu er alt hvad vi kender, de værdier vores land står for, under pres og måske tabt for altid.

Sådan gik det på trods af at vi i et stolt øjeblik havde samtlige EU-lande nede for at slikke vores fødder da vi dikterede dem vores 4 forbehold. Sådan gik det efter vi via tegningekrisen havde genrejst vores stolthed som nation.

Og stadigvæk så går mange rundt og tror på at det blot var en egenrådig integrationsministers handlinger og at statsministeren kan ordne alt over en kop kaffe.

Det er alt for naivt.

På trods af mit etniske ophav så ønsker jeg at man gerne må kræve noget af mennesker, som vil bo her i landet. Danmark byder på så mange goder, som kan friste dovne sjæle, der ikke vil byde ind med noget som helst, men blot nyde.

Vi ser en massiv strøm af udenlandske studerende, der tilsyneladende vil studere, men enten møder de aldrig op eller så bliver der kun bøvl med dem, når der kræves for meget af dem udover det strengt faglige. Vi er til mere end at læse en bog og så udfylde afkrydsningsskemaer på basis af hvad vi har læst. Vi forholder os kritisk til den information, som ligger foran os. Det er den kritiske holdning og konstante tendens til at sætte spørgsmåltegn med hvad der umiddelbart ser ud til at være fakta, som sikrer innovation i vores virksomheder.

Innovation som sikrer velfærd og som senest har kåret Danmark som verdens lykkeligste land.

Vores uddannelsessystem er second-to-none selv om netop vores kritiske holdning til alt medfører at den ofte er kritiseret ligefra de yngste klasser i folkeskolen.

Og selvfølgelig vil udenlandske studerende forsøge sig men da man ikke kan lave en formel 1 bil ud af en lastvogn, så falder de fleste hurtigt til jorden, når de for alvor skal vejes på basis af deres viden. Det gælder sjovt nok også nabolande, som helt har satset på at vi skal vedligeholde deres sundhedssystem med personale, så de selv slipper for at uddanne dem.

Men alligevel vil de gerne være her. Noget andet er 24 års reglen, som blev indført for at redde menneskeliv. Alt for mange unge er blevet presset til at gifte sig med en anden som de dårligt kender fra et fjernt land for at deres kommende ægtefælle kan nyde alle landets goder. Mange af disse ægteskaber ender i vold og i mange tilfælde endda med drab.

Så selvfølgelig måtte man have denne regel. Menneskeliv er kostbare og vi er ikke det eneste land, som vil redde menneskeliv. Her må man konstatere at EU's regler som de er konstrueret nede i den elitære kaffeklub modarbejder selve livet for disse unge mennesker og at ikke alene Dansk Folkeparti er blevet narret, men hele den danske befolkning.

Det ser sort ud for vores nation med en over 1000 årig historie. Vil Danmark være historie for vores børn eller børne-børn? Det er ikke længere et spørgsmål om, men hvornår.

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!