23.00 Totalt har 968 demonstranter gripits. Av dessa greps 913 vid demonstrationerna på Amagerbrogade.
968 arrested in Copenhagen.
Unfortunately, the translate function in TribExt does not work for me anymore, or I would give you some translated quotes.
In short, after some broken windows the police arrested the end of the big demonstration in Copenhagen. The police kept the demonstrators in handcuffs on the ground for hours before they were transported to the temporary holding facilities dubbed Climate Guantanamo, to be kept in crowded pens, still handcuffed. Many are reported that they were denied the possibility of going to the toilet, leading to many peeing their pants. It is also reported that one police said that those that looked like Mr and Mrs Denmark would be released.
In all probability this will lead to more violent protests, which will be used to retroactively motivate todays arrests until today was not the day when the police pissed of thousands (the arrested, their friends, and people who happens to dislike what happened), but the day the police saved Denmark from the violent terrorists. Just wait and see. A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
It suits the forces of control to find those (or invent them if need be) who can play their part of trouble maker and then characterise everyone in that light.
As far as the authorities are concerned, there is no such thing as peaceful protest that is different to violent protest. that's just semantics. All protest is de facto non-co-operation with the wishes of authority and is, therefore, opposed to the maintenance of order. So it is a disorder that must be opposed. If violence is a useful tool for the preservation of order, then it will be deployed without reservation.
The attack on the G20 climate camp in London exploded the idea that the forces of law and order would co-operate withe protest. There is no real right of protest when it inconveniences the state, and all protest or free speech even down to photography, can inconvenience the state or their operatives.
did anyone expect something different ? keep to the Fen Causeway
At least 30,000 people demonstrated in Copenhagen Saturday to pressure climate delegates to reach a pact at the UN Copenhagen summit. Police made 968 arrests, including about 400 members of militant groups from other parts of Europe.AFP - A planetary chain of protests headed by a mass rally in Copenhagen cranked up the heat Saturday on UN talks to roll back climate change as negotiators reported scant progress after six days of haggling. At least 30,000 people marched through Copenhagen in icy winds, demanding world leaders declare war on the greenhouse gases that threaten future generations with hunger, poverty and homelessness. The rally to the heavily-guarded Bella Center conference venue capped a day of lobbying by green groups around the world, staging peaceful, colourful protests from Australia to the Arctic Circle.
AFP - A planetary chain of protests headed by a mass rally in Copenhagen cranked up the heat Saturday on UN talks to roll back climate change as negotiators reported scant progress after six days of haggling. At least 30,000 people marched through Copenhagen in icy winds, demanding world leaders declare war on the greenhouse gases that threaten future generations with hunger, poverty and homelessness. The rally to the heavily-guarded Bella Center conference venue capped a day of lobbying by green groups around the world, staging peaceful, colourful protests from Australia to the Arctic Circle.
The algorithm functions best on Hemingwayesque text - at least in English to Finnish or Swedish. You can't be me, I'm taken
