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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

You're trying to make a big thing out of a little thing. I support the Ungdomshuset squat because it is an experiment in an alternative life style which is the reason for most of its support from none residents. You will find that many bourgeois Danish folk didn't have a problem with it. However, when you get a heavy handed government wanting to impose its will at all costs then you get what you get in Danmark. The government has created a rallying point for mainly young people regardless of whether they are left ot right. It's no big deal, Europe isn't a fire, its just people out on a jolly. I hope the government gets a bloody nose and I hope the squatters take the Danish government to the European court of human rights because the government is making them homeless.

I heard about this on the radio but its so big, it doesn't seem to have made any of the papers. British/Dutch/ German or French, well not the internet versions. 

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ORIGINAL: Dtesmoac

Sanity - there is a long way to go before many Europen nations will start to move further towards the American Model. It may be that they are realising that they can not afford the provisions of the last 20 years but do not expect them to transform into the "me first formost and only" approach of American society.

The local policing model of some parts of the US is one that I see as being beneficial if brought into the UK. Haveing coparatively large numbers of police devoted tolocal nuisance crime and beahviour does result in a safer feeling in parts of the public spaces and particularly in more affluent areas. Of course I'm not sure if it is helped by the inability of other parts of society to reach these areas. 

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

They can't afford their pie-in-the-sky Socialism, but if they try to turn back towards reality there are riots. Looks like they're pretty much screwed!

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ORIGINAL: sleazy

So why should such people be allowed to inflict their hippydom on others who want no part of it?

According the OP they were told to leave years ago and have had plenty chance to go find somewhere else to drop out of society. Its not being hippy, its being an anarchist sod you I dont care kind of person.

Perhaps they should set up camp in the homes of some of the more liberal types and see how long such people remain quite so liberal

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ORIGINAL: meatcleaver

You are reading something into the situation that isn't there. The Ungdomshuset squat has been going on since the middle of the sixties, the building that has been evicted has been occupied by squatters since 1982. It is internationally famous amongst European youth and alternative life stylers. This isn't about lack of housing, it is about people wanting to opt out, its more hippydom than socialism.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2326223.ece

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ORIGINAL: Sanity

The Associated Press called them Anarchists, Leftists, and Punk Rockers. You call them Hippydomers. I think I'll go with what the AP says, if you don't mind. But regardless of what we choose to call them, if they want to "opt out" as you say,  why is it that they deserve to have anything just given to them. So they've been there since 1982 - they've obviously worn out their welcome, and so now their rent is due.