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?

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

Two types of awful television.

I happen to have seen two of the most disgusting TV-shows in my life this recent month.

First I watched the Danish version of the American TV-show Intervention. It Denmark it is called Ultimatum and the concept is that the family confronts the suffering abuser with two option: It is either treatment right now or a total cut-off from the family. While it is a new type of entertainment to broadcast in Denmark, it is also digusting to watch. Because it is not a matter of the abuser being ready to deal with the addiction. It is a choice between two kind of evilness. Either loose the support network or surrender to some kind of unknown and unsearched cultlike treatment. Treatment that in some cases has proven deadly because it is largely an unregulated area. Is that a free choice? Experts state that is not.

Here in Denmark we always were used to that people controlled their own destiny. They have free choices. Among those choices were also the right to destroy their own life. If they wanted to eat the best meat, drink the finest wine and enjoy the finest desert every day until they are overweigth and died from it, it is their choice.

After we have joined the European Union, Denmark have under pressure to a slow change where the free choices are no longer allowed. They pressured our parliament to pass a law with a lower limit on blood alcohol content so Swedish workers could work in Denmark without the social pressure to drink more than they generically are able to. In Sweden the alcohol purchase is heavily controlled and we are used to that they end up drunk down in Elsinore harbor and have to be carried aboard the ferry back to their homeland. Often they do that just by drinking skin milk. We have lowered our limit from the natural 0,08% to 0,05% so they wont kill people while driving home.

They have forced us to introduce a age limit on alcohol and tobacco purchase on 16 and 18 years. In Denmark it has been the custom for more than 200 years for youth to start enjoying these things when they are confirmed aged 14 or 15.

When we are seeing such TV-shows in Denmark it is a serious warning about that our culture is under international pressure and that we need to get our lazy butt out of the couch and vote for a person who wants to pull Denmark out of the European Union.

It is tomorrow. Remember to vote!

The other TV-show I watched was not broadcasted in Denmark. Thanks!

It is the TV-show: The world's strictest parents. You can see it on Youtube for the moment.

The consept is simple. You take two socalled unruly and troubled teenagers and exile them to strict parents far away.

These two teenagers were sent to Alabama to so religious parents, that I was wondering if they really were sent to Iran. Any minute I expected them to return home with a bomb belt strapped to their waste as we have seen it here in Europe.

They were forced to participate in volunteerwork, which is something you have when your country lack some steps in the development so such needs by homeless or others are solved by raising taxes. It was an huge example of disrespect on those two teenagers. In their developed country they pay taxes instead of doing volunteer work and while they were abroad they shouldn't be forced to take on local customs. In Denmark we are used to that some of the immigrants bring the violence they are used to back home to Denmark and while we don't like it, we recognize that it is the price of integration and being able to operate in a globalized world.

The productivity become far higher in a country if you let professionels handle social problems and leave the rest of the population unaware about what is going on, so they can use their time on start firms, work hard in their jobs and inventing products so the country can be in the frontline. That's a lesson we have learned and other countries can learn. The amount of volunteer workers have never been so low as it is in Denmark right now and we are handling the international finansial crisis far better than most nations.

Of course we have some volunteers but it is mostly lonely elderly people who wants to socialize. Basically they are not doing it to help others, but to avoid social isolation which is helping themselves.

So it was a nasty TV-show and it is my hope that we somehow will prevent such show to be broadcast in Denmark. We need to preserve our unique culture and that is yet another reason to step up and take responsbility and vote for a person who wants to pull our nation from the European Union, so we can get the Denmark we once knew back!

Please vote tomorrow June 7, 2009

Trigger-happy bastards

A couple of students wanted to film a movie as part of a school project. They wrote the airport in Copenhagen and asked for permission to film a movie on the airports property.

They got the permission and then all things were supposed to run smoothly.

It didn't

"Armed" student causes terrorist alarm, Politiken

Then I have to ask: What kind of movie did they believe the students was supposed to shoot? It is rather obivious that the script called for a gun.

The students was treated unfairly and once again the authorities showed that Denmark has lost the war against terrorism. We might as well redraw our troops from Afghanistan because the terrorists has won the moral war. We are a population living in pure fear!!!

It is not the first time our police overreacted. When the police helped a rather fundamentalist group to tear down the Ungdomshuset, the police confiscated a computer due to a exam task over nutrition

The written assignment was named "Riot or Diet". Riot was at that time a forbidden word in Denmark. Just putting it on print was reason enough to the destroy the future of this young student because without turning it in, she was unable to graduate forever because she would be so old when she was finished that she would't have years enough to pay off her student debts. A life destroyed due to just one word!

I don't know how it came to this stage of panic in Denmark. Maybe it is all the drive-by shootings conducted by immigrants because they want to control the drug market. Maybe it is the fact that a huge part of immigrants drove around in our streets celebrating 9/11.

But we have lost the most important we have left. We have forgotten not to take thing serious. It is very important when you pay more than 50 percent in income tax and have no access to early retirement longer. Just monday another woman was sentenced for using the b-word at the security when she was asked a leading question as if a terrorist will answer truthfully about this subject.

I have decided not to go near an airport in the future and I will advice everyone to do the same. It is just not worth risk prison just because our instict will cause us joke about the harassment we are put through.

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.

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