Friday, March 29, 2024

Dutch Police Open Fire on Farmers Protesting Environmental Regulations

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Farmers and fishermen across have angrily protested the Dutch 's new environmental rules as the debate surrounding them has intensified.

Officials at the Hague recently unveiled their goals to mandate drastic nitrogen emission reductions of up to 70% in many places.

And as high as 95% in others.

The government says the measures are necessary to reduce emissions to protect nature and an “unavoidable transition” in the environment.

Dutch farmers, fearful of losing their livelihoods amid the imminent upheaval of the country's multibillion-euro agricultural industry, have risen and made their presence known in everyday life. Tractor-trailers in the tiny country have blocked food warehouses and supermarkets — leading to a Trudeauesque response by the government.

As Politico's Camille Gus reports:

Dutch police fired shots at tractor-riding farmers who were protesting against plans to cut nitrogen emissions on Tuesday evening in northern Netherlands.

Police said they were responding to a “threatening situation” when the farmers, who were attempting to push past a blockade to get onto a highway in the province of Friesland, started to drive their tractors into officers and their vehicles.

According to the Friesland police, their shots hit a tractor, but no one was injured. Three suspects were arrested. The Rijksrecherche, the Dutch government's internal investigator, said it would look into the events given police had discharged their weapons.

The standoff between some 40,000 farmers and the authorities at food distribution centers has sparked fears of a food shortage. Fishermen have also blocked some ports in a show of solidarity.

For now, the government appears unmoved.

Dutch Minister for Nature and Nitrogen Policy Christianne van der Wal defended the cabinet's controversial measures in a recent interview, stating:

“We have to emit so much less nitrogen, and unfortunately, the agricultural sector emits a lot. They have done an awful lot to emit less, but unfortunately, that is not enough. It still needs to be reduced a lot more.”

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17 COMMENTS

    • Already happening! Bill Gates has bought up thousands of acres of arable land, and will keep it from being cultivated. Over 40 MAJOR food processing company warehouses and manufacturers have “mysteriously” burned. It’s planned arson, and planned starvation. Make your own gardens, it’s not that hard. Raise your own goats, they’ll eat anything. Don’t give in! Support local farmers’ markets. Use cow manure for fertilizer. READ, READ, READ.

  1. In Western Europe and North America, the Left can riot, loot and burn without interference. The Right blocks traffic, and get shot at.

  2. I was going to suggest that the farmers trade in their oh so horrible natural resource fossil fuel tractors for mules and old-fashioned plows and harvesting equipment. Then I realized that mules fart.
    So never mind.
    I’m being sarcastic anyway.

  3. This is ludicrous. The left tries to make life impossible by saying they are protecting the environment. Meanwhile, their policies are designed to eliminate life.

    Carbon dioxide is a fundamental building block of ALL life on earth. The left wants to eliminate it in the name of saving the planet.

    Nitrogen is the major component of earth’s atmosphere. In addition, it forms a crucial part of biological molecules, the amino acids that are combined to make proteins.

    Without carbon dioxide, there is no life. Nitrogen is impossible to remove from the atmosphere, but the left will try.

    Who is behind these insane policy decisions? Could it be that the human extinction movement is so set on extincting humans that it has expanded its scope to all life on earth?

  4. Note the very same talking point being used in America regarding a “necessary transition”. This is the New World Order and it is being funded by money printing presses and controlled by billionaires meeting in Davos each January.

    If conservatives don’t purge these Marxists out of authority, they will drag the entire world into abject poverty, and starvation. That is their objective. Marxists throughout history promise the moon to brainwashed youth and deliver nothing but death. History is once again repeating itself!

  5. Read The Great Reset by Glenn Beck. Globalism being pushed by the World Economic Forum. ESG is a real thing and we see evidence of it right here in this article.

  6. Trees have many uses, especially their horizontal branches. Same can be said for lamposts. Combined with Hemp fibers made into strong rope, they all are allowed to achieve a usefulness suitable to the current situation, which will ultimately bring a better tomorrow.

  7. The govt. is as dumb as Obiden. You can’t have drastic radical change and expect it to be followed. Look at the Demoshits and what they are doing to America. Americans do not want the radical changes. Smart intelligent slow thinking that is reasonable and not destructive will help all. Everyone suffers from inflation except the politicians.

  8. We are in the thrall of MONSTERS.
    They have slithered into the government of almost every country.
    The Georgia Guidestones were at least an honest declaration of their goals.

    I wouldn’t be suprised if some Leftward-hurtling fanatic figured the agenda should NOT be allowed such public display.

  9. Atmosphere is up to 85% Nitrogen! It’s the way the world was MADE! Nitrogen is NECESSARY for the cultivation of food crops, but the DAVOS-led WEC wants to kill nations. They’re doing it by starvation. When are “the police” going to wake up and support these good farmers, just trying to produce? All this is from EVIL, and is prideful control at its global worst. If peoples don’t rise up, millions will starve. It’s a Global human population reduction. Hitler, Stalin, Mao cant hold a candle to these Satans at Davos! PRAY for God to intervene.

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