Netherlands Police Detain Thousands of Climate Militants Amid Massive Traffic Disruptions
Germany’s DW TV: “An estimated 10,000 activists blocked A12 highway leading to The Hague for several hours.”
Dutch police arrested nearly three thousand militant climate activists as they tried to disrupt nationwide traffic over the weekend. The protesters, led by Extinction Rebellion and other climate extremist groups, were angered at government subsidies on fossil fuel as Europe faces record inflation in the wake of the Ukraine war.
“Climate activists blocked a Dutch highway on Saturday in anger at billions of euros in government subsidies for industries that use oil, coal and gas,” the French TV channel Euronews reported. “The protesters — from Extinction Rebellion, Greenpeace and other organisations — broke through a police barrier on Saturday morning and sat on a main road in The Hague heading to the temporary venue for the lower house of parliament.”
Dutch cops are finally clearing the #A12 of climate activists.#DenHaagpic.twitter.com/DG7YL8sRbf
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Many agitators took their children to the protests — in one case, even a kid as young as six. The police referred the detained children to the country’s domestic abuse watchdog. The referral apparently upset some of the parents who dragged minors to the protests, a report on the Dutch News website suggests.
The climate militants vowed to continue their protests if the demands were not met. “They threatened to stay until the subsidies are lifted, and to come back every day if the police remove them,” the Associated Press noted.
Germany’s state-owned DW TV reported:
Police in the Netherlands detained thousands of climate activists over the weekend after they shut down a major highway two days in a row.
An estimated 10,000 activists blocked A12 highway leading to The Hague for several hours on Saturday, according to the mayor’s office. Police arrested some 2,400 people at the time.
Hundreds of protesters did so again on Sunday, when police arrested another 500 people.
The Extinction Rebellion activists were protesting the Dutch government’s subsidies for fossil fuel companies, as they have done in recent months.
According to a report published earlier in the week by the Center for Research on Multinational Corporations, these subsidies total around €37.5 billion ($40.2 billion) each year.
“The seas are rising and so are we,” the crowd chanted.
Police fired water cannons at the protesters on Saturday and Sunday as they resisted requests to clear the road.
They also dragged individuals away to clear the highway.
Authorities said the activists had previously been given permission to protest and were asked to hold the demonstration at the nearby central station. (…)
Extinction Rebellion said it would continue protesting until the Dutch government stops using public money to subsidize the oil and gas industry.
The Dutch government has already signed on to the climate agenda as set by the European Union and the World Economic Forum. In the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the state is pushing regulations that threaten to close thousands of farms and put farmers out of business.
The Dutch government’s surrender to EU climate demands has only emboldened activists, who now demand even more radical measures hurtful to the interests of industry, agriculture, and ordinary households.
Thunberg leads the charge against fossil fuel
While working class Europeans face record inflation and price hikes, the climate agitators have intensified their campaign against fossil fuel. In June, climate celebrity Greta Thunberg was fined by a Swedish court for her role in blockading oil tankers in the port of Malm. Thunberg and her followers prevented oil tankers from unloading for six days.
She accused the oil industry of ‘taking away’ her dreams. “The real crimes continue inside the gate of the port,” a hysterical Thunberg told the BBC. “We are not going to sit and wait while the fossil fuel industry takes our dreams away from us.”
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As a penalty, remove their access to anything derived from fossil fuel. 90 days should convince them what idiots they are.
Should take a lot less than 90 days if you include heat, cooling, and food.
What a shame, we’d all be better off if they didn’t survive the ordeal.
That would take away most food, clothing, shelter, medicine and, certainly, EVs, whose batteries are very dependent on fossil fuels for mining minerals. An alternative solution might be to expel them to one of the African areas subsisting on very little fossil fuels. Give them what they want.
Another possibility would be for them to commit mass suicide, given how much carbon dioxide each of them emits per day. Greta could be the modern day Jim Jones.
Too bad we abandoned Afghanistan. Confining the militants to the “green” goat herding villages would be fitting.
A fraction of a degree over centuries and human contribution to that is too small to measure, if any.
There you go citing facts. You are apparently wasting your time. Quid Pro Joe told us “We choose truth over facts.”
How do these wackos manage to rouse TEN THOUSAND activists on the same day for a coordinated sit-in? I wouldn’t have believed that the Netherlands had that many people deranged enough to agree to such action in the first place.
This is the sort of thing that should have happened to Lujan, not “dozens.”
I would have assumed that “ten thousand” was the normal MSM counting bias (inflate the left, minimize the right) except that it’s tough to fake 3,000 arrests.
I can believe it. They have brainwashed at least two generations. There is in no plausible telling that the fossil fuel industry has ‘stolen’ Greta Thunberg’s ‘dreams,’ but the way it’s accepted by anyone, with a straight face even, reveals a VAST rejection of reality. Ten thousand sounds low, garden variety, they could probably do a hundred for a special occasion.
It must have taken a lot of buses and a few trains to get them all to The Hague.
Who said all the protesters were Netherlanders? Greenpeace alone should be able to marshal thousands from Belgium, France and Germany for “the cause”, and all just a short train ride to The Netherlands.
I’m glad that they are finally cracking down on this type of behavior. Their impact on normal everyday commerce is intolerable..
I’m organizing fellow climate lethargists for a coordinated event where we lie around all day in front of the TV munching snack food.
We need a large Hog rally Harley Davidson rally right down their throats
I hear Native American tribes here in the US have tactics and methods available that may be of use.
I don’t think they need any help. They developed their skills beating in the skulls of tractor drivers protesting the shutting down of their farms.
A good start, but it’s September and you probably just saved them from dehydration.
Really want to make an impression? Keep using that water cannon December through March.
Or is supposedly imminent and catastrophic climate change suddenly not quite as imminent or catastrophic when protesting actually requires some pain and effort on their parts instead of being something to do of a warm, sunny afternoon with friends and family?
These are Climate Cultist, that is probably the closest thing they have had to a bath in quite a while.
I suspect that most of these protesters aren’t committed enough to go to jail and have their employment or govt benefits threatened. Some are likely from other EU Nations so deportation is an option, as is putting a notation for future attempts to enter the Country for additional security screening and inspection.
Tighten up that nozzle and hit their bodies with a stream and not a spray. They did when aimed at the group sign, now do it to individuals and knock them on their butts.
Ship them off to Africa or somewhere else to live sans fossil fuels and modern conveniences.
Methinks they’ll be quick to change their minds. Or are they likely so far gone that their exclusive focus will be on whining about human rights violations on social media as soon as they can regain access?
They do still have some territorial possessions in odd places. Make arrests ship them to detention facilities in those local for trail. Either way leave their ass there post trial.
Ironic, isn’t it, that they are protesting what resulted from the pols they support! The greens have caused this mess.
Superglue them all together, leave them piled in a heap in a soccer field for a few days.
Superglue them all together and just leave them, They’ll eventually biodegrade
There ate several newish crowd control/anti riot measures. One is a quick hardening foam; sort of like the cans of spray foam insulation. It expands and begins gardening locking them in place. Another are two forms of non lethal spray. The first option induces vomiting, the second causes near instant diarrhea and the goal of both is make the crowd decide they have more important things to attend to and go home.
Sentence them all to six months detention in Greenland from November to April. No products derived from petroleum allowed.