The villains and monsters of Copenhagen
Who invited 45,000 "environmentalists" to Copenhagen for a fortnight? How could they all afford to travel to Denmark? Did anyone do their jobs when they were away? What was the size of their collective carbon footprint? Why was the Bella Center (which holds only 15,000) suddenly expected to contain three times that number? What was the point of this enormous farce?
The dependable Danes, who are noted for their effectiveness and politeness, are too courteous to point the finger, but behind the scenes, the source of the disorganization and incompetence has a name: The United Nations.
Inside the Bella Centre, there was a huge round of applause for Hugo Chávez, the Venezuelan national-socialist strongman, when he said, "Capitalism is a destructive model that is eradicating life, that threatens to put a definitive end to the human species." Chávez, by the way, is the leader of the world's sixth-largest oil exporter.
And who could forget the contribution of the Zimbabwean tyrant Robert Mugabe? "When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it's we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere, who gasp and sink and eventually die." A bit rich, this, coming from the man who has destroyed one of Africa's great food producing nations and turned it into a country with the highest inflation rate in the world and one of the lowest life expectancies.
And let's not forget Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping, the Sudan's UN ambassador, who said that the Copenhagen Accord "asks Africa to sign a suicide pact, an incineration pact in order to maintain the economic dominance of a few countries. It is a solution based on values, the very same values in our opinion that funnelled six million people in Europe into furnaces." One hardly needs to add that the Sudan does not need any lessons from Europe when it comes to barbarity.
Copenhagen was a shock for the Danes and decent people everywhere. Only the Danish police came out of the whole thing with honour.
