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.

COP15 is a joke

Well, I tried to warn people from entering Denmark in the days before COP15 started. After all, our parliament created a set of emergency laws to protect property from foreign vandalists. People didn't listen. They entered Denmark and now they complain about how hard it is to pay the price.

Look how a young man from Sweden tells his story about he was detained in the Guardian.

According to my book the police did everything the right way. They did what the state of emergency laws allowed them to do. If you think their actions are wrong please write our politicians who have given them the rather extreme power.

But what was the alternative?

Denmark has seen how football / soccer fans have created riots in Copenhagen before. Regardless of how motivated and patriotic our police force is they simply hadn't the tools to prevent riots previously. Then some politicians choose that Denmark should house COP15. The price was extremely high as we can read in our newspapers that India voted for us in return to receive the right to prosecute our human aid workers for fabricated crimes. However export from Denmark to India is important as we are a huge shipping nation. Old ships have to be deposed off somewhere and India seems to offer excellent service in that regard.

So Saturday almost 1,000 protesters were arrested. The next two days we are talking 200 protesters per day and the worst is still to come. According to sources among the protesters they will try to force themselves into the meeting during the next couple of days.

If the criticism of our police and their effort to maintain peace in our country isn't bad enough, even the so-called politicians seems to act as rioters themselves.

Here I am thinking of representatives of the so-called G-77 which is a club of nations we are paying for through our aid to the third world. The money we pay to them, but we could have made better use of here. Did we ever receive even small thanks from these moochers?

What is the purpose of the attack on the Danish text? We all know that the Danish text represent the solution for the Earth. Personally I believe that Mr. Lumumba was sent out on a mission to remove focus on Human rights violation in Sudan. His actions are a combination of getting 5 minutes of fame and to guilt-pay us into believes that we cannot criticize his President because they choose to commit ethnic cleansing.

He could have chosen COP16 to do that. His actions don't belong in Copenhagen. When we are talking about Denmark, we are talking about maybe one of a few nations on this Earth who pays the United Nations what they owe. I know that the reason that some like the United States withholds their payment is that there is corruption in the organization. But as member of the European Union we Danes know that in any larger international organization corruption is essential to keep low-paid officials working at all. They are simply naïve.

The so-called Danish text will be an excellent End declaration. I know that our secret police arrested a critic of the COP15 named Tadzio Müller when he was finished speaking at the conference. He will “disappear” for some time. I really don’t like to write about this more dark secret side of Denmark but I have to point out that security after 9/11 has become more important. I will send my hugs to his relatives. They will need it.

I am just asking why they don’t take this Lumumba fellow from Sudan also. After all, his President is labeled a criminal and he is doing nothing good for the environment at the summit.

I just hope that we can overcome these last days without too much damage to our city.

Please stay home from the Copenhagen Climate Council

The Copenhagen Climate Council is just around the corner and if you want to travel to Denmark in relationship with that this political dinner meeting I have a plea for you.

Please remain at home!

Our politicians have decided that the issue to save the earth is a task for the political elite worldwide. If you choose to protest that decision you will be arrested for sure.

The police has announced that they have a secret prison ready in a huge store room with cages for 500 people.

Also one of our large prisons is rebuilt based on old blueprint as it was during World War Two where the Germans ran it, so there will be room for 400 extra inmates. It will basically function as an Internment Camp for 40 days starting from the day the summit starts.

In relationship with the summit Denmark introduced some emergency laws. The basic outline is.

• The police can detain you for 12 hours without charging you. There are no rules for how short a period there should be between the 12 hour periods. Some have been arrested not 30 minutes after they had been detained the first time. Your stay in Denmark could be extended for months.
  
  
• If you are caught up in a riot and you block the police by just as little as sitting or lying down because you would not take part in the riots, you will be sentenced to 40 days in prison. If you have trouble getting away from a riot use violence against the other protesters until you are safe. The riots a couple of years ago showed that our courts functioned as rubber stamps during riots. They haven't the capacity to investigate the matter fully, language will be a barrier and they will generally follow the recommendation of the police.
  
  
• Don't bring anything with you that could be interpreted as a weapon. Denmark has the toughest weapon law in the world. Possession of a scissors or a knife on public road will put you in jail for at least 7 days. The size doesn't matter. Even ordinary Stanley knives used for work has resulted in prison sentences for construction workers during lunch break if they failed to empty their pockets before leaving their workplace.

If you choose to travel to Denmark anyway even as a politician I have another plea for you:

Buy Danish!

Sex-workers will - as they do under every summit held in Copenhagen until now - have a lot of work because the 70% of the politicians and their workers who are just participating in the summit for a much needed break from their political work back home use them for various services.

However I have to point out that it is also common in relationship with summits in Copenhagen that some evil humans transport people from Eastern Europe and Africa to Denmark so these poor often young girls can work as prostitutes. I urge you to avoid buying services from these girls. Please do not support crime. Buy your services from the Danish sex-workers instead.

As an ordinary Dane I have to say that I just want to summit to be over with. Of course it results in some kind of official statement, but the politicians forget all about it when they return home as they have done with previous summits.

I know that we have done a lot to welcome the politicians who visit our country in relationship. Unfortunately one of the two most recognized leaders from Africa couldn't come. The leader of Sudan who has turned his country away from civil war has problems at home he need to address.

But the ender of Apartheid - Robert Mugabe - will turn up in Copenhagen. The hero and icon of a typical leader of a country in Africa will be there so he can steer the summit towards succesful goals. He had just had an easy task to governm his country so Danish students used this year to collect funds for schools in Zimbawe so he can silence the critics who stated that he would be unable to run the country in a way which would secure a proper schooling of children in his country.

We hope that he will enjoy his stay here. He is among the people we all hope will be able to reach results that can save the world at Copenhagen Climate Counsil,

I have to repeat the plea from the start of this blog-entry.

The climate of the world is NOT your issue or problem to worry about. Please leave it to those who have powers to change things for real.

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.

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?