Climate Change: Copenhagen 09: Semiotics of violence at Climate Change conference

The image immediately called to mind the "ultra-violent" in A Clockwork Orange, a 1971 film by Stanley Kubrick, adaoted from the novel by Anthony Burgess (1962).

Even the UN's annual Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark--a tidy little country with a tiny intellectual elite that enjoys insulting religions, authoritarian and otherwise, with cartoons in the public press--is the site of purveying violence.  Emma Alberici details this component of the overall Copenhagen symbolism, viral-spiralling its meme out around the world on the wings of bureaucracry and political slosh&slop funding.  And, 'ganda in a multitidue of media. This time, the bureaux-funded media scenario includes money-voracious executive scientists who have cooked the books, massaged the data, bullied, and propagandized by capturing "peer reviewing" processes in the elite scientific journals for their own biases.   As to the violence symbolism:

Danish police raided an apartment complex housing a group of climate campaigners detained 200 activists.

About 200 police carried out the raid in the centre of Copenhagen in the early hours of the morning.

Activists were locked in the building for two hours while officers searched the premises and seized items they claimed could be used for acts of civil disobedience.

Campaigners say the police confiscated a power drill, an angle grinder, some pieces of timber, paint bombs and 193 riot shields.

The accommodation centre is one of a handful provided by the Danish Government for the protesters.

About 30,000 or 40,000 protesters are expected to arrive in the capital over the next week.
Police fear an international extremist group may also be on its way to Copenhagen to commit acts of violence.

Hasn't the crisis of leaked/purloined emails and docs from the Climate Research Unit,  University of East Anglia, UK (which was but one instance of several leakouts/stolen exposé-quality Green shenanigans) -- again, hasn't the crisis of leaks and clepts been devastating enuff to official climate-change science's crediblity?  Now, this other visage of violence on the same scene, threatening raw and ruthless, clouds our perceptions.

-- Politicarp