Posted on 07/06/2022 8:27:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
One of the many assurances we are given by our corporate overlords and their minions in the liberal press is that we should be more like Europe. By that they mean we should accept a social welfare nanny state and surrender our rights to our betters in the elite. The Dutch don’t seem to have gotten that memo.
About a week ago the government of the Netherlands announced it was declaring war on the nation’s farmers. In order to reduce what it considers nitrogen pollution the government has adopted a policy of drastically reducing herds, forcing many farmers out of business and cutting back on meat, pork, poultry, and dairy products for human consumption. The government wants to eliminate one-third of Holland’s 50,000 farms by 2030.
In response, all hell has broken loose.
Dutch farmers have blocked supermarkets, food distribution centers, and roads in protests this week. Supermarket shelves are bare throughout the Netherlands as food distribution has been brought to a standstill. Wednesday morning, farmers are expected to demonstrate at the Groningen Airport Elde, according to Dutch media. The farmers have been joined now by Dutch fishermen who are blockading ports in solidarity.
On Monday farmers appeared at the home of the Nature and Nitrogen Minister Van der Wal-Zeggelink. Hay was burned, fireworks were set off and a police car was pushed out of the way so tractors could enter the street. Farmers also emptied a tanker containing slurried manure into the roadway. Police were apparently unable to disperse the assembled farmers due to the size of the protest.
Farmers also protested in the Netherlands’ political capital, The Hague, where two cows were brought to participate in the protests as well. Prime Minister Mark Rutte called the actions “unacceptable and out of proportion” and condemned the farmers’ actions. He has characterized the massive protests as the actions of a small minority and demanded they stop. His comments have been echoed by other members of his administration.
IT is... ...the FARMERS of INDIA lead a 13 month long agitation against the government and won
Eco-Climate-Terrorists are clinically insane. Those same nuts want to do the same thing here in the US, and it appears that civil war is the only solution. You cannot reason or deal with these zealots.
NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT
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Or an Assistant Democrat
Ah ..... la Néerlandaise show the way.
...I would love to be person that unloads a tanker of slurried manure onto the white house lawn...and a cupla lawns in Delaware.
There are plenty of ways to deal with nitrogen run off.
The EPA imposed regulations on cattle farms years ago dealing with manure.
This is an obvious land grab in my opinion.
Evil revels in the misfortune of the powerless.
Walls and blindfolds. They don’t need a cigarette.
Talk about ricochet. I doubt they have the ammo for the cannon (if it’s operable), but if you fire on it with small arms, you risk it coming back at you or bystanders.
Bad news bears for everyone involved.
Some Dutch cellphone photographer might catch a judge or politician buying milk or meat, or if legal in the Netherlands, rummage through their trash for incriminating evidence.
Where the Dutch are screwed is that there is no 2A for them to keep themselves from being powerless, and the same reason exists for Americans to vehemently defend their rights to bear arms.
“Too bad they don’t have the guns and the will to make it stick.”
They vote for their government, don’t they?
This “sensitive step” is called communism.
And history tells us many, many people starved after this “sensitive step.”
“The government will simply take the farmland away from those who resist.”
The Germans flooded much of Holland in 1945 to try to hinder the Allied advance.
One Dutch person can flood 100 square miles.
I know who the Dutch protesters can get guns from.
The Dutch farmers have fertilizer and fuel.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Samuel Adams
A nitrogen minister. Probably making $400k. When govt becomes morbidly obese.
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