The Revolution Breezes Past "Stupid," Shoots For "Retarded"

From the AP: Anarchists flock to join Denmark rioters

More than 500 people, including scores of foreigners, have been arrested since the riots started Thursday. Authorities said more than 200 were arrested early Saturday following overnight clashes in which demonstrators pelted police with cobblestones and set fire to cars.

A school was also vandalized and several buildings damaged by fire overnight Saturday. One protester was reportedly wounded in the violence, while 25 were injured the night before in what police have called Denmark's worst riots in a decade.
Police said activists from Sweden, Norway and Germany had joined hundreds of Danish youth in the protests. Sympathy protests were held in Germany, Norway, Sweden and Finland.

Critics said the demonstrations were misguided because they target a Scandinavian welfare state that ranks among the world's most egalitarian countries.

"The spoiled kids in the Youth House woke up to reality in Danish society where you have a job and pay rent," Anders Fredrik Mihle of the governing Liberal Party's youth wing said, referring to the building where the squatters had been evicted.

Like its neighbors, Denmark has a generous welfare system supported by high taxes. Education is free and health services are heavily subsidized. However, leftists have criticized the center-right government for eroding the system with proposed reforms including raising the retirement age and trimming student grants.

The poor dears. Can't you see, when they attempt to burn down a school it just shows how much they are hurting on the inside. What if their student grants are reduced and they have to get part time jobs?! PART TIME JOBS!!! Who would go to the Nick Cave concerts then? Who?!?

As news of the riots spread, sympathizers around Europe rallied support for the protesters. The Danes warned like-minded foreigners Saturday that the borders were tightening after two nights of clashes had turned the normally quiet streets of Copenhagen into a battle zone.

"Solidarity among people has no borders, just like the Spanish civil war or the youth rebellion in the late 1960s. People recognize themselves in such causes," said Rene Karpantschof, a sociology lecturer at the University of Copenhagen and former squatter.

That's right. The eviction of a group from a building after 25 years of unlawful occupation and the exhaustion of the legal process, is obviously a cause that is the moral equivalent of the Spanish Civil War.

In no way are we supposed to think we are dealing with a bunch of thuggish violence prone youths more interested in getting drunk/stoned and beating the crap out of anyone who disagrees with them than anything else.

No, don't think that. These kids are principled.