Polish Farmer: “Everything was peaceful and suddenly the police came out of nowhere, there were loud bangs, the police started using gas and simply provoking people…”
As Polish farmers struggle with police, Czech farmers drop manure in Prague as part of a new round of protests.
Just before I left on my vacation, demonstrations by farmers across Europe had made an impact, as the European Parliament nixed some of its unrealistic green plans for a global utopia. Gone, for example, are rules to force the reduction of nitrogen (essential for fertilizers) and methane (generated by cattle) and plans to persuade European citizens to eat less meat. At least for now.
Protests are continuing, and in Poland, there are reports that farmers clashed with police.
Police used tear gas and said they detained over a dozen people and prevented the protesters from getting through to the Sejm, the Polish parliament.
Farmers are angry over European Union climate policies and food imports from Ukraine that they say threaten their livelihoods. Such protests have occurred across the 27-member EU in recent weeks, but this one was decidedly angrier than earlier demonstrations in the central European nation.
Police noted on the social media platform X that its officers “are not a party to the ongoing dispute” and warned that behavior threatening their safety “cannot be taken lightly and requires a firm and decisive response.”
The deputy agriculture minister, Michał Kołodziejczak, said he didn’t believe that “real, normal farmers caused a riot in front of the Sejm today,” and that it was necessary to isolate “provocateurs and troublemakers.”
However, representatives for the protesting farmers dispute the official accounts.
Tomasz Obszanski, a farmers’ union leader and protest organiser told Reuters that police began blocking protesters from leaving as the demonstration ended.
“Everything was peaceful and suddenly the police came out of nowhere, there were loud bangs, the police started using (tear) gas and simply provoking people leaving the protest,” said Obszanski, leader of the NSZZ RI Solidarnosc union for individual farmers.
. . . . Obszanski said that the farmers were leaving Warsaw empty handed after their request to meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was turned down and warned of further measures.
“After what happened today, there will be a blockade of the entire country … Poland will come to a standstill, because a Polish farmer will not allow himself to be treated in such a way, to be batonned,” Obszanski said.
Tusk has invited farmers leaders for talks on Saturday.
Obszanski estimated the number of protesters was in the high tens of thousands, while Warsaw city officials said they numbered about 30,000.
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Polish police are violently attacking and beating peaceful farmers protesting against the Green Deal.
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I will simply note that Poland recently elected a “centrist” government, with a leader strongly connected to the European elites.
Donald Tusk, a leader of a centrist party, returned as Poland’s prime minister for the first time in nearly a decade after a vote in parliament on Monday, paving the way for a new pro-European Union government following eight years of stormy national conservative rule.
Tusk, a former EU leader who served as European Council president from 2014-2019 and has strong connections in Brussels, is expected to improve Warsaw’s standing in the bloc’s capital. He was Poland’s prime minister from 2007-2014.
Meanwhile, Czech farmers dumped manure in front of the government’s office, blocked Prague streets with tractors, and taunted their farm minister.
Czech farmers, in their third protest since mid-February, rolled into Prague early on Thursday in hundreds of tractors, lining streets and a river road leading to the government offices, bringing traffic to a standstill in several spots.
Police said farmers dumped manure in front of government headquarters, leading to one arrest.
Farmers marched on foot before midday to protest in front of the government building, where they used whistles and sirens while shouting “shame” amid scattered hay bales and waving signs saying “Don’t take our jobs”.
“The government should take farmers’ demands seriously. Not only in the Czech Republic, but around Europe the future of farming is playing out,” 50-year-old farmer Ivo Kasal said.
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The EU’s world order policies, based on climate pseudoscience, will end with starvation and conflict.
See: Sri Lanka.
They will be a successful as Soviet Five Year plans…
Those police will have to go home at night. I wonder how they will be received by their families and neighbors. Such a shame that the Tusk government is made up of a bunch of EU thugs.
And for the Police nothing but contempt, this is a throwback to the communist days.
Police that enforce tyranny need to be treated like the traitors they are.
Nowhere to hide –
We
Have to stay and fight for future generations
Then, a masked black officer shot an unarmed Sir Force veteran in cold blood, just because she was peaking through a broken window.
The Poles voted for this so now they can
Just sit back and enjoy their EU approved Government.
Did they vote for it? I think election results that oddly favor the globalists should not be simply trusted.
Sadly they did and they will reap the benefits of an EU approved Government.
The Pole government is such a disappointment
This struggle between power of the ruling elite and free people seems to be breaking out all over the world. It is the age old conflict. The fight back is necessary if free people are to remain so.
This is sad to hear.
Poland was on the shortlist of countries into which (if things got bad enough) a white family could still vote with their feet to escape existential persecution by the woke and the globalists. 20 years ago, my libertarian acquaintances were bubbling with enthusiasm about establishing piéds á terre in New Zealand — the recent COVID gulags show what happened to that hope. Before that, it was Costa Rica, and… oopsie.
One thing has been certain for over a decade — there are no more English-speaking sanctuaries available for people who value their liberty… and my own inability to assimilate new languages assures I would die before becoming anywhere near functionally fluent anywhere else — assuming there were anywhere else in the first place, which is looking more and more contraindicated.
So my back is to the wall. Time to stand and fight, there’s no other choice.
Portugal or Slovenia. Both are inexpensive, and have large numbers of English speakers.
Ironic. Half Portuguese on my father’s side. All his generation spoke it. Mine learned only a few phrases, mainly the truculent ones. And there it ends, thanks to the melting pot. Those who vituperatively reject the melting pot are dug in here like pit bulls, with no intention of having anything more to do with their “Old Country.”
I don’t think Poland is wholly captured, not yet. The only way Tusk and Civic Platform stay in power is Newsom styled ballot corruption.
Here is the only place.
Ze police ah chust followingk ohrdeherz, jah?
Hmm, a January 6 in Poland. I’m not surprised.
Exactly what I was going to comment. The Capitol police did the SAME thing to protesters which STARTED the chaos….
Anne Applebaum’s husband is the Polish minister foreign affairs Radosław Sikorski.
Both are a weird fusion of hard left neocon. Both are CIA stooges.
“Anne Applebaum is on the board of directors for the most notorious CIA cut-out in all of US history.
So, you know, when reading her froth-mouthed hit piece today on Elon Musk, maybe take that into consideration.”
https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1731890545927024686
“Want to know what a real “organized online influence campaign” looks like? Welp, Anne Applebaum can tell you. She helped create them for her MI6-backed, UK Foreign Office funded political dark arts op.
Here’s her UK cluster:
https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/status/1701339195615178779
That video of the 3 cops wrestling with the guy on the ground is one of the strangest arrests I’ve seen. They didn’t appear to be beating him or handcuffing him just laying on top of him so he couldn’t get up. What an odd way to subdue some guy standing with a flag.
This beating of Polish farmers back into their ghettoes must make the elite wax nostalgic.
All the farmers have to do to win this –in every country– is to stop feeding them.
Let them all starve.
If the left is so adamantly against farming, then cut them off from it’s effects.
By so doing, the farmers will very quickly help them achieve one of their other goals –depopulation.