What happened...?

The last few weeks have been full of different events for me personally, but the last week I could only be sad...

What the hell happened to my city? I feel like I am in a friggin' warzone or at least in a bad B-movie...

Tuesday I came out of the train station at Nørreport and entered straight into the remnants of another demonstration, with several helicopters hovering above me and a weird sort of atmosphere in the air... I didn't know how fast I had to get home. And yet, the whole evening I could hardly hear myself think, for all the helicopters flying around and police cars with full siren on...

Don't get me wrong...

Demonstrate all you want. Be passionate about the things you believe in. Go for it. Try to have an influence on your little corner of the world. Everyone should try to improve things around them, we can all profit and get better from each others' efforts.

But... why all this violence? To me all it looks like is organised mob mentality. Based on the same principles the activists blames the mentality of 'society' at large for...

Simple, talk, discuss, go for it, but just keep your damn fingers of my city! Why is it necessary to walk around cloaked, hooded and masked if you feel you are doing something for a good cause? Why not face your 'opponents' open and above board? Looks like you are aware after all that you are just after some crap anyway, right?


Outside my place a poster had been set up on a scaffolding:


The text reads:
Youth House now!

"We have to get Copenhagen going more. Better possibilities to arrange concerts and cultural arrangements should enhance and strenghten life in Copenhagen". quote from the 'socialist' Mayor of CPH.

So, where is the connection between reminding politicians of their words (which I only can agree fully on) and through that point at their responsibilities, if you don't accept the same authorities anyway and go out and destroy half a city?

- What 'use' is destroying the inventory of a high school? Their library? Just because it is next door to Christiania? How fucking dumb can you be?

- What 'use' is it to burn the trucks of the transport agency, just because they had been hired to move some things from that house?

- What is the 'use' of destroying shops with molotov cocktails, just because they happen to be in the way? What about the owners? Ever gave 1 thought to the fact that their lives maybe be destroyed, as you take their livelyhood away?

- What 'use' is violence and destruction when (you say) all you want is a place to have concerts and other cultural manifestations?

I can only agree on creating a full and thriving cultural life in this city and not let in turn into a "Cafe-latte-city", as one report recently called it.

Already now I am missing too many concerts, expositions etc, but a greater choice and diversity is always welcome. Fortunately we don't all have the same likes and tastes, right?

Eva, Jochem's girl, had a good remark: "let's test 'their' solidarity principles, send them the bill that so far has reached 2 million euros and have them 'share' it".

Let's see if all these people that came so eagerly to fight from all over Europe will also take their responsibility and cough up for the shopkeepers in the area who had their livelyhood destroyed, because a bunch of spoiled brats can't control their hormones and get caught up in some mob mentality...

I have seen many of these kids... god, how perfectly groomed and dressed they look, and not one original thought in sight.
They have their clothes and dress down perfectly to the last detail... I feel like I am looking at some "tribute to the late 70s/early 80s alternative scene" fashion show.
Because, for all their so-called 'radical' mindsets, they are still kids that are trying to fit in with their peers and in Denmark, as everywhere else, that means dressing in the 'right' clothes. Other 'groups' only wear Gucci or Tommy Hilfiger, these kids wear their 'street wear'...
Pff... They honestly have no clue what they are on about and none have ever had to take any responsibility for anything ever... it's just too obvious...

Do I sound like an old cynical guy now? Maybe, perhaps... but I wonder how they would react if their parents would tell them to go find a job themselves, because of damages the parents are paying for what their spoiled brats have caused...

Basically we are seeing (minority) groups who demand 'rights' based on past grievances (if at all), rather than on present responsibilities...


You know, the worst thing of all this, is that I am afraid it will be the end of Christiania as well... whenever there is something with one of the 2, the other 'group' demonstrates for the other.

The problem however is that I am afraid 'people' can't distinguish and blame Christiania, just as a proper and constructive solution is on the table, to ensure it's survival and development.

I really love that place, in summer there are few better places to be in Copenhagen than in Christiania. For a stroll along the lake there, sitting in the sunset on the roof of Nemoland with a beer and friends, listening to some good jamsessions etc etc etc...

The diversity of the people there is heartening and it can truly be the cultural heart of Copenhagen, with the broad range of things it can offer: music, art in every form, theatre, architecture, discussion forums, and involvement in the political 'well-being' of the country in general.
Basically a cultural breathing space in lovely city....

I hope it is still possible... but the last weeks' events has done more damage than good to 'cultural development'... bwwweeehhhh... let life please return to normal soon, I feel miserable every time I look over and see police cars blocking off a whole area of a city :(

Guess how my mother is feeling right now? She grew up barely 100 m from where the center of all that crap happened? How do you think it feels to see your childhood go up in flames? (dammit, am I talking about Bagdad or sweet Copenhagen???)


UPDATE 17.50 hrs 9/3:

For f....s sake... I'd love to see some rational analysis of this... Activists taking over Magasin Du Nord, for 'fun'... waving their credit cards, shouting 'we have purchase power'... just how exactly does that last bit connect to the notion of rejecting the existing fabric of society? And who pays for the credit cards btw? They actually have their own purchase power or do mommy & daddy still cover their spolit little brats-in-black...? (and notice the difference, if you read Danish, between the way of reporting of different newspapers, quite interesting... but how laughable and pathetic this whole thing is becoming...!)