Danish police hold 240 climate protesters
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.