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Government To Strengthen Laws Against Demonstrators Before COP15

By Karl J. Hansen, klimabedrag.dk

The Danish government wants to increase penalties and detention for malicious demonstrators.  They want to give the police possibility to give harder sanctions towards demonstrators.  The government is concerned demonstrations could go out of hand or damage the reputation of the climate meeting in Copenhagen in December.

Rene Karpantschof, a Ph.D. student at University Of Copenhagen, says that this is not needed:  the police already have more sanctions than they had 25 years ago and demonstrations have turned less violent during the same 25 years.  Karpantschof also says that you would normally only change the law if there were specific reasons to do so, not least when you touch the citizens fundamental rights.

I can only speculate if the government expects loads of demonstrations because they know they have turned a non-climate issue into a catastrophic political farce. A farce that in reality will make no change to the naturally changing climate; but rather cause enormous economic change and increased poverty, thus hitting hardest on the poorest.