Waking up, at Nørrebro, dec. 17th:
Riots clearly always have a flipside. The disappointment when I see demonstraters from Ungdomshuset trashing cars, bikes, babycarriages and what not, using them for barricades and setting them ablaze: the violence becomes nothing but symbolic and a lost case. Or: it could be any case, and my sympathy crumble.

But which means are left for the squatters, the autonome movement, when politicians, in this case Copenhagen Citycouncil literally have sold out responsiblity? And what are the means when the same politicians let the proprietary right define a highly democratic problem?

I am frustrated, it is frustrating to see in year 2006, a good 400 cops in battleuniforms and dutch-cars occupying the neighborhood of Nørrebro, it constitutes a huge democratic problem, to let it happen time after time: it is nothing less than arrogant and senseless that the citycouncil sees them self free of responsibility, to see one the richest societys in the world not being able to solve the problem (which was infact solved by handing the house over to the squatters in 1982).

The agenda from the politicians seems as clear as they deny to take any responsibilty for the riots. By not dealing with the problem, they get the violent reaction from the squatters that becomes their ultimate argument for not neglecting any alternative solutions. Alas, they get what they want: away the unwanted, and their hands are seemingly clean.

Though I loathe violence, who can truly be a pacifist? I dont have the words to describe the utter rage I feel of living in a neighbourhood that have become a battlefield because of the clear-as-daylight incompetence of a few local-politicians.

two words though: no pasaran!