As IF Times

link Danish police hold 240 climate protesters | Reuters

As if. Who are these ‘climate protesters’? Who pays for their trip to Copenhagen? Do they bunk up or do they get private rooms? Who creates the placards, organizes the slogan shouting; is it all to be in English? If all the yelling and signs are in English, does that mean they’re catering to a specific audience? Who decides when to rush the cops and who is going to be dragged off yelling and screaming?

Are we to believe protesters showed up spontaneously and created impromptu demonstrations? If I had to bet, I’d wager that somebody, some months ago created and orchestrated this public display of activism because, well, cameras would be there.

Exactly what are they protesting? There’s already this great spectacle of nations coming together to try and agree on some terms for ‘fixing the weather’. Apparently, they protest that….the talks are not moving fast enough? Or is it that there’s not enough money thrown on the table? Frankly it’s unclear to me what all the pushing and shoving is about. Maybe the reporters were mistaken, perhaps it was just soccer hooligans; it is Europe. Maybe the bars had just closed.

A few points are worth considering before we get sucked into believing the media’s portrayal of how great the clamor is for movement on changing the weather.

1. How can 300, 500 or 1000 protesters expect to usurp the will of hundreds of millions in duly elected democracies in determining how to spend their money on this charade of an issue. Remember, that’s what we’re really talking about; money and a slamming of the west, as usual. If this were not the case, they would be demonstrating in Chinese or Hindi, since China and India are among the top weather contaminators.

2. During a speech given by the ever enlightened gasbag Hugo Chavez, the crowd in the room really showed their colors when he expressed the following (from Andrew Bolt Blog):

“…..When he said the process in Copenhagen was “not democratic, it is not inclusive, but isn’t that the reality of our world, the world is really and imperial dictatorship…down with imperial dictatorships” he got a rousing round of applause.

When he said there was a “silent and terrible ghost in the room” and that ghost was called capitalism, the applause was deafening.

But then he wound up to his grand conclusion – 20 minutes after his 5 minute speaking time was supposed to have ended and after quoting everyone from Karl Marx to Jesus Christ – “our revolution seeks to help all people…socialism, the other ghost that is probably wandering around this room, that’s the way to save the planet, capitalism is the road to hell….let’s fight against capitalism and make it obey us.” He won a standing ovation…..”

3. There has never been a calamitous ‘issue’ in the world that the west, mainly the U.S. and to a lesser degree other western nations, were not held guilty of perpetrating. Despite the fact that the west has been primarily responsible for ALL of the advances in technology, in medical achievements, charitable humanitarian giving and general increase in living standards for the world as a whole, somehow capitalism is evil. As a matter of fact the last thing the non western world developed was the number zero. The west just happened to run with it. Do we really want to cede control of our economy, our tax money and our right to self determination to people who think soccer is a entertaining? The real entertainment here are the self important ‘leaders’. What a marxist muppet show.

Sadly our own western politicians are looking like hand puppets.

link SUV crashes into departure level at YVR – Headlines – News – News1130 – ALL NEWS RADIO

In 1993, the World Trade Center was attacked deliberately by terrorists who detonated explosives packed into the trunk of a vehicle parked in the basement parkade of the towers. Although a few deaths and injuries occurred, damage to the structures was contained and subsequently repaired.

Fast forward to September of 2001 and this time, the terrorists succeeded by hurtling entire aircraft into the towers resulting in mayhem, death, destruction and led to a controversial war. In December of that same year, the idiot Richard Reid was thwarted in his attempt to light a fuse on his shoe while on an American Airlines flight from Paris.

For the past 8 years, millions if not hundreds of millions of air travellers have been forced to de-shoe their tootsies while going through airport security because of this idiot. This precaution must work because there have been a total of zero, zip, nada, none, goose egg incidents of this kind in the past 8 years. Not only that, there has not been even a reported attempt at this type of high tech shenanigan again. Frankly, to expect a repeat of this action is an insult both to terrorists as well as the rest of us.

Luckily, the fuse was on his shoe not in his underwear, or we’d see separate his and her security lines at the airport today. Oddly, we are still on guard against people with flammable shoes, but not on guard for vehicles packed with explosives driving into buildings. Wouldn’t it be easier to circulate in the general community hatching up car bombs than to stand in line at airports subject to the beady eyed scrutiny of security personnel?

The story in the link above caused me to think that although it was apparently an accident caused by a bad driver, ( hey this is Vancouver) such an incident could have been planned with malevolent intent by bad people.

“Well sure,” some would argue, “you can’t check every car that goes near a building” and this is true. But neither is it likely that future troublemakers will re-do the shoe thing again. Heck, it’s probably just as easy to glue some explosives in someone’s toupee or hat or turban or glass eye or denture plate. Diabolical minds will think of all kinds of creative ways to cause havoc. People have been conned to think this is a security measure which is implemented for their protection. It appears more likely this is bureaucratic measure that’s long past its usefulness, but which cannot find someone with the balls to push for its abolition. This has everything to do with PC again. Since no one wants to isolate or ‘profile’ individuals, far better to inconvenience everyone.

Again, it’s a puzzle to me why people, civilians and politicians, allow the on-going erosion of little dignities which characterize life in the so called free world. See previous post on global stupidity.