This was the scene yesterday in Copenhagen. As you can see the scene is rather agitated with lots of police action, including use of billy clubs. As of this writing, no pictures or video is available of Lord Monckton’s account below. Hopefully somebody in the crowd will post some. I wish him well. I’ll also be glad when this conference is over. It has shown government at its worst.
From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen at the SPPI blog:
Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Hugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left – and that means too many of them.
Previously Robert Mugabe, dictator of Rhodesia, who had refused to leave office when he had been soundly defeated in a recent election, had also won plaudits at the conference for saying that the West ought to pay him plenty of money in reparation of our supposed “climate debt”.
Inside the conference center, “world leader” after “world leader” got up and postured about the need to Save The Planet, the imperative to do a deal, the necessity to save the small island nations from drowning, etc., etc., etc.
Outside, in the real world, it was snowing, and a foretaste of the Brave New World being cooked up by “world leaders” in their fantasy-land was already evident. Some 20,000 observers from non-governmental organizations – nearly all of them true-believing Green groups funded by taxpayers – had been accredited to the conference.
However, without warning the UN had capriciously decided that all but 300 of them were to be excluded from the conference today, and all but 90 would be excluded on the final day.
Of course, this being the inept UN, no one had bothered to notify those of the NGOs that were not true-believers in the UN’s camp. So Senator Steve Fielding of Australia and I turned up with a few dozen other delegates, to be left standing in the cold for a couple of hours while the UN laboriously worked out what to do with us.
In the end, they decided to turn us away, which they did with an ill grace and in a bad-tempered manner. As soon as the decision was final, the Danish police moved in. One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day.
Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but firmly, to take his hands off me.
He complied, but then decided to have another go. I told him a second time, and he let go a second time. I turned to go and, after I had turned my back, he gave me a mighty shove that flung me to the ground and knocked me out.
I came to some time later (not sure exactly how long), to find my head being cradled by my friends, some of whom were doing their best to keep the police thugs at bay while the volunteer ambulance-men attended to me.
I was picked up and dusted me off. I could not remember where I had left my telephone, which had been in my hand at the time when I was assaulted. I rather fuzzily asked where it was, and one of the police goons shouted, “He alleges he had a mobile phone.”
In fact, the phone was in my coat pocket, where my hand had been at the time of the assault. The ambulance crew led me away and laid me down under a blanket for 20 minutes to get warm, plying me with water and keeping me amused with some colorfully colloquial English that they had learned.
I thanked them for their kindness, left them a donation for their splendid service, and rejoined my friends. A very senior police officer then came up and asked if I was all right. Yes, I said, but no thanks to one of his officers, who had pushed me hard from behind when my back was turned and had sent me flying.
The police chief said that none of his officers would have done such a thing. I said that several witnesses had seen the incident, which I intended to report. I said I had hoped to receive an apology but had not received one, and would include that in my report. The policeman went off looking glum, and with good reason.
To assault an accredited representative of a conference your nation is hosting, and to do it while your own police cameramen are filming from above, and to do it without any provocation except my polite, non-threatening request that I should not be manhandled, is not a career-enhancing move, as that police chief is about to discover to his cost.
Nor does this incident, and far too many like it, reflect the slightest credit on Denmark. We must make reasonable allowance for the fact that the unspeakable security service of the UN, which is universally detested by those at this conference, was ordering the Danish police about. The tension between the alien force and the indigenous men on the ground had grown throughout the conference.
However, the Danish police were far too free with their hands when pushing us around, and that is not acceptable in a free society. But then, Europe is no longer a free society. It is, in effect, a tyranny ruled by the unelected Kommissars of the European Union. That is perhaps one reason why police forces throughout Europe, including that in the UK, have become far more brutal than was once acceptable in their treatment of the citizens they are sworn to serve.
It is exactly this species of tyranny that the UN would like to impose upon the entire planet, in the name of saving us from ourselves – or, as Ugo Chavez would put it, saving us from Western capitalist democracy.
A few weeks ago, at a major conference in New York, I spoke about this tendency towards tyranny with Dr. Vaclav Klaus, the distinguished economist and doughty fighter for freedom and democracy who is President of the Czech Republic.
While we still have one or two statesmen of his caliber, there is hope for Europe and the world. Unfortunately, he refused to come to Copenhagen, telling me that there was no point, now that the lunatics were firmly in control of the asylum.
However, I asked him whether the draft Copenhagen Treaty’s proposal for what amounted to a communistic world government reminded him of the Communism under which he and his country had suffered for so long.
He thought for a moment – as statesmen always do before answering an unusual question – and said, “Maybe it is not brutal. But in all other respects, what it proposes is far too close to Communism for comfort.”
Today, as I lay in the snow with a cut knee, a bruised back, a banged head, a ruined suit, and a written-off coat, I wondered whether the brutality of the New World Order was moving closer than President Klaus – or any of us – had realized.
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Agreed
Lord Monckton and Senator Fielding can see through the crap that the world has been fed. Every now and again the world is sidetracked by lunacy. This is by far the worst for a long time. We need people like these two who slice through the madness.
Sadly we will probably have to pay a large price for the madness until the world wakes up,
Thank goodness we have these two to provide a little sanity and hope.
Patrick Davis (00:08:06) :
I am appalled, this assualt on Lord Monckton is still not screening on MSM TV broadcasts.
As far as the MSM is concerned, Lord Monckton is an unperson who deserves to be dealt with summarily by the legitimate forces of law and order, as ordained by the high priests of falsehood.
Jackson “Tomorrow is a dawn of a new era not because what will be done will all prove to be correct or needed, but it is the first time we have acted are Earthlings responsible for our precious and fragile spaceship”
thats a true brainwashed comment, from the eco nuts.
its the start of the end. jackson come to us in 10 years or 20 and tell us how great you think this is. If we can if the net is allowed to continue. Thank god, there will be no kid of mine to suffer this world .
I am a steadfast AGW skeptic, but finding myself in bed with Lord Monkton is making me more and more uncomfortable. The man seems to have no ability to curb his other less acceptable views to focus on climate change issues–in this piece he refers to Robert Mugabe as “dictator of Rhodesia”. Blood-drenched dictator yes, but the country has been Zimbabwe for a very long time now and seeming to regret the passing of it’s status as a British colony is not helpful.
He is NOT a safe pair of hands. I think WUWT would do well to keep some distance from Monkton; associating with him will do you no favours even if he is right for once.
“For Chris: Sorry — you lay ignorance shows again. We use the DSM to define personality disorders (that’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) not “classic textbooks.” But if we want to play that specious insult game, though I admit no expertise, I’d classify you and tallbloke as “passive aggressives”
Hmmm…..interesting Jackson…..Tallbloke and I pretty much beg to disagree and correct you that we would be more accurately categorized in the
“Aggressive Aggressive” category.
Let’s meet sometimes. 🙂
This quote: “your lay ignorance shows again. We use….”
LOL…..who is “we.”?? your “power statements” as I call them, mean nothing.
Thanks for the entertainment, though.
You have certainly kept me up way past my bedtime all fired up to respond.
Cheers.
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
We should know nothing of this were it not for the internet. Thanks to the net we have greater freedom of speech, and greater access to”raw” information than ever before. Socialism does not like this, and after the events of the last few weeks can be expected to up the fight against internet freedom. WUWT, all similar defenders of truth, and every last one of us bloggers will need to gird our loins for the coming fight.
Lord Monckton is a courageous man. Not many in as public a position as him dare to stand up to the eco bullies. I salute him.
When I go to a demo that I know the cops will try to turn into a riot, I do as they do: Wear padding, a helmet, stout boots and take along my best kick-ass attitude. Half measures and reasonableness don’t work with these people. Then after I’ve been arrested and charged with disorderly conduct or whatever trumped up nonsense the forces of law’n’order decide to lay on, I go to court in my best clothes, speak with my best English, and make my point where the media can hear it. Then I pay my fine with good grace and make sure I get a good look at the officers who have given evidence for future reference, and file counter charges for police assault by employees not wearing visible numbers. To date, I’m in profit.
I’m getting a bit old to be a footsoldier in the front line these days, but we will be needing to teach the younger generation how to stand up to bullies with sticks in the near future I expect.
Jackson, to play devils advocate, the answer to most of your questions on US climate debt is no. To accept AGW, you must also accept the premise that industrialized nations are to blame. That is a core belief of AGW creed….like it or not. Dismissing US responsibility for CO2, would be like someone wanting to become a christian, but not quite sure Jesus ever existed. It’s that integral. To prove my point….ask those questions at a blog like Real Climate. They will tear you to pieces for daring to give the US a pass on CO2…despite decades of medical, military, and food assistance to the third world.
That was the devil’s advocate side. For me personally….should some cap and trade system be forced upon us, I would certainly expect a fairer shake than “damn those evil Americans. It’s all their fault…”.
As for dawn of a new era stuff you are posting. What exactly do you think you are getting from Copenhagen? Do you honestly believe that AGW won a victory here? All these grandstanding politicians are going to sign a worthless document filled with pledges with no way to enforce anything. Two-weeks of circus and you got nothing is how I see it. And in the year it takes to get to Mexico City, support will thin even further. I’m not looking to bash you, but you aren’t being a realist here. Copenhagen produced what it was scripted to produce….nothing more. The only surprise for me was that China with a space program, nuclear weapons, the largest military on the planet, and the most internet users by far…..is STILL a developing country. That alone should make you wonder about the whole mess.
Less people believe in AGW now, than before Copenhagen. Nothing truly binding is coming out. The UN showed itself to be bumblers in terms of organization. Fringe lunatic protestors embarassed themselves in front of the world press. If anything, this was a victory for skeptics IMO. But in all reality…it would best be looked upon as a big waste of time and money which produced a carbon footprint the size of a small city.
This is unsurprising, for years we have watched as the EU has been becoming a superstate run by an unelected elite who are not answerable to the electorates, the UN is of the same mentality. As they lost popular support they retreated from reality and live lives in a sort of bubble where they share their utopian ideals with others of the same benefit and mindset.
They elite share their bubble with career politicians and journalist hacks who mingle with unelected elite using first names.
In their bubble they are in denial, this denial has spread like a cancer into institutions like the BBC, Sky, Science journals and government. One of the few places where the denial has been challenged is on websites like this one, but this website.
In their bubble they have a fantasy that this site is part of a “right wing” conspiracy against their brave new world order. What has happened to Lord Monkton will not be reported much because they really do not want to face reality or consequences of their behavior, if they hear about it they will console themselves with t he thought that they are saving the planet.
One wonders how far this cancer will spread before it is checked by reality, will they find excuses for closing down sites like this in the name of liberty and saving the world?
Jackson……the annointed
Us……the lay unwashed.
I fear for the future….Jackson knows not what he unleasheth.
Nor do any of these so called friends of the Earth.
Nuclear Reich.
Jackson, can you think that far ahead? You have a PhD right so surely you can and it should terrify you.
It does me.
Do you really think there will be no political ramifications of this? Do you really think your side will stay in control?
Do you really think you can just put millions of people out of work and into the streets, destroy their livelyhoods based on lies percieved or not. and nothing will happen? Remember Weimar? Remember the war reperations? What happened then?
You did take history right…
Do you care? I want everybody to step back from this nonsense and think for a minute. There is a lot at stake here.
Jackson….enjoy that organic wine…
Monty
Roy (00:18:27) :
“I am a steadfast AGW skeptic, but finding myself in bed with Lord Monkton is making me more and more uncomfortable. The man seems to have no ability to curb his other less acceptable views to focus on climate change issues–in this piece he refers to Robert Mugabe as “dictator of Rhodesia”. Blood-drenched dictator yes, but the country has been Zimbabwe for a very long time now and seeming to regret the passing of it’s status as a British colony is not helpful.
He is NOT a safe pair of hands. I think WUWT would do well to keep some distance from Monkton; associating with him will do you no favours even if he is right for once.”
I challenge you to listen to these two impromptu interviews of the individual in question.
If your views remain the same after watching both of these videos [And I formally challenge you to subject yourself to the truth!!], then there is certainly no use for you and me to speak further.
I formally challenge you to listen to the content. “Diverting food to biofuels while people in Haiti try to survive on mudpies, etc.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21SCR2yyETk
Your comments on Monckton are completely unwarranted.
Cheers
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
Letter sent to the bbc. (biased broadcasting corporation).
I advise all to follow suit.
“Sir, i have recently sent two complaints to your organisation regarding bias in broadcasting, specifically the almost absolute silence on the Climategate scandal which you appear to believe does not exist!
Only one has been responded to and that was woefully inadequate.
What happened to the other one? Filed in “denier” was it with a yellow star on the cover?
You continue to pump out predictions of doom and gloom from the climate change lobby with whom it appears you must be in league with, there is no other explanation for your continued refusal to acknowledge any other viewpoint with equal coverage.
You are supposed to be a neutral, impartial observer and reporter of ALL things of interest, plainly you are failing.
Perhaps your EU backdoor funding is part of the reason for your selective reporting?
Obviously you have a conflict of interest here, being pledged to report events with equal veracity on the one hand and being guided by the EU on what you may or may not report on the other.
It would seem that you have abandoned your founding principles in favour of a policy of ignorance and deceit.
For example.
Lord Monckton, beaten by copenhagen police- no report.
Climate science in turmoil- no report.
Robert Mugabe stands on the podium to applause- no report.
Hugo Chavez blames the west, capitalist leaders applaud- no report.
And so the list goes on.
Be clear of one thing- i intend to keep coming back and others will follow i guarantee it!
Such extreme bias as you are displaying goes against the provisions in your charter, your actions are those of treason.”
Roy (00:18:27) :
seeming to regret the passing of it’s status as a British colony is not helpful.
Being a second class citizen in your own country under a minority government is bad. Be a terrorized and hungry citizen in your own country ain’t that great either. Mugabe dispossessed the white farmers who made Rhodesia a prosperous and well fed country, and had his minions terrorize their ex-workers off the land so he could give the farms to his pals. Which is worse, semi-benevolent white elitist racism, or Mugabe’s tribal racism with added terror and hunger? Not PC to raise the issue of inter-tribal racism I know, but the data speaks for itself.
I personally believe the whites should have seen the writing on the wall many years previously and made a graceful exit, but then, I didn’t have several generations of hard work invested in land there.
A peer of the realm assulted by thugs of the Usless Nations. What a glorious future lies ahead of us. The UN and EU have much to answer for; but of course they never will. They laud and cheer tyrants as they seek to destory democratic governments. God gave the Queen. May she’ “..confound their politics and frustrate their knavish tricks..”
Please pass along my sympathy for and admiration of Lord Monckton. Without people of his intellect and courage the world would be a far poorer place.
At the other end of the scale of human values, Mugabe was an icon of the international ‘freedom fighters’ when the the last remnants of the old British Empire was being taken apart by extreme socialist nutters, who haven’t finished with the ‘free’ world yet. I am fearful of the violence that will kick off around the world when Mugabe, Chavez and their ilk don’t actually receive the flood of cash that they think is their due.
Tallbloke: I’m getting a bit old to be a footsoldier in the front line these days, but we will be needing to teach the younger generation how to stand up to bullies with sticks in the near future I expect.”
Agreed, Tallbloke. A daunting task in and of itself. They [the younger generation] needn’t think that THIS is the way things are or are supposed to be.
Not at all.
These people….these buffoons…..these idiots…..THESE are the ones running the world????
First: How stupid do they think we are?? [These are really not bright individuals…. it is obvious. But it is also pathetic…because they continue one thinking that they have pulled the wool…..]
Second: How in the hell did they get in power in the first place???
Third: Their days are numbered. Their reign will end soon [and sooner if I can help it].
Grrrrrr!
Chris
Norfolk, VA, USA
CORRECTION:
Agreed, Tallbloke. A daunting task in and of itself. They [the younger generation] needn’t think that THIS is the way things are or are supposed to be.
Not at all.
These people [not the “younger generation” but the boomers currently in power]….these buffoons…..these idiots…..THESE are the ones running the world????
There may be extenuating circumstances. Have you seen what those cops are wearing. No room for scarves, balaclavas or from the lines thick jumpers under those riot suits. You can see them visibly shivering and red faced with cold. Their so fantastically ill equipped that its a wonder they’ve held th line successfully.
I’ve wondered on Gary North’s web site that the security seemed lax. It could be an easy target for al qaeda. My biggest concern was the climate sceptics, lord monkington, Bjorn Lomborg, etc in the building. Now that’s fixed I believe. I don’t know if every sceptics shut out but that’s the implication.
With all the climate sceptics out of the building I’d say its an easy target. The police and the left is only expecting trouble from the sceptics and the Anarchists; thousands of them are behind bars. Al Qaeda’s not on the radar.
With the cops near exhaustion and the big anarchist push coming today or tomorrow there’s plenty of cover and opportunities for everything to end with a bang tomorrow.
We also can’t rule out the cops simply reaching breaking point and stepping aside, essentially going on a spontaneous strike. The revolutions in tsarist Russia and East Germany (the fall of the wall) came that way. Can you imagine the mess if that torrent of anarchists, communists and other idiots breached the line and flooded into the building.
How many body guards, do those politicians have between them; a dozen each ~ 300? How many in a crisis can under stand each other. If one draws a gun to fend off the mob do the others know who’s side he’s on? How many body guards of the extreme left would take the chance to just not stop one for the US president or even ‘accidentally’ put a round in Obama’s direction? Its not over yet.
I hope that all the politicians get to go home with their political suicide pact neatly signed. Given what we know we can see a huge ratification battle and elections coming up. The left in the west and a few others are very vulnerable. Some on the centre right; like Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel have obviously let their minders rule their mind. That will cost them at the next election. The new right will win but we need new political parties and new people, the old politics has proved no match for the bureaucrats.
Because to participate in criminal extortion is —- criminal, even if you are getting paid off for good things you did. The U.S. does those things because they were the right thing to do, not as a bargaining chip to extort money out of poor people who are trying to heat their homes or buy gas to get to work.
It is a moral decision not to participate in the carbon trading scam even if it was based on good science (which it is not)! Most of us here on this forum in America would refuse to participate even if the climate science had merit because theft by deception is still theft, and in this case it would be a hidden tax without representation.
We have low tolerance for the high and mighty who attempt to take from us what we have earned by the sweat of our brow. The current congressional leadership will learn that lesson in 2010, as they appear to have forgotten, that the common man in America does not suffer arrogant and condescending governments well.
They have pissed off a large fraction of the electorate, and have attempted to take a bridge too far. By their arrogant over reaching, they have awoken the center right middle class like no other action I can imagine.
You are right! Tthis is the beginning of a new era, but not the one you imagine in your delusions. Political back lash can be a fearsome thing, this next electoral cycle or two could result in a housecleaning that removes most of the senior leadership of both parties from Congress, and replaces them with a massive class of freshmen representatives that understand they serve at the pleasure of their constituents.
Larry
Oups Sorry me-lord I misspelled your name. lol.
I think Jackson has amply proven the fact that the flat earthers and earth centric galaxy are firmly siting on the eco-terrorists side of the discussion.
with his “The science is settled so we will batter belief into you.” comments
Lord Mockton is a man with incredible integrity and leadership. keep plugging ahead My friend.
Rhodesia
I am sorry but Monckton’s use of the old colonial name of Zimbabwe ruined another wise excellent account of what it is happening on the ground ( literally! ) in Copenhagen. It was a juvenile for him to use such a term and sadly, he will live to regret it.
Monckton’s many opponents will seize on this one word and in future MSM discussions Monckton will be introduced as the racist global warming denier. it pointless trying to argue that Monckton is not a racist and Mugabe is an appalling tyrant, this is how the story will be spun.
The assault on Monckton will be forgotten; referring to Zimbabwe as Rhodesia will not be forgotten.
A major, foolish misuse of the English language
Hello Christopher.
I hope you were not too shaken up.
Best wishes to you and your family.
And do, keep up the good fight.
Aqua Fyre
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