America has no idea what's happening in the Netherlands
Massive protests. Similar to the Canadian Truckers - except its Dutch Farmers using tractors. Things are escalating fast, as violence breaks out.
A massive protest conducted by Dutch farmers is underway in their home country of the Netherlands - and most of America has no clue it is happening.
Even a news detective like me didn’t know that this has been going on for apparently a week already. Hardly any media coverage in the States so far.
But I did find this on The Federalist: Dutch Government Launches Canadian-Style Crackdown On Farmer Protests
I found this story today on Twitter on an account called @NewsBlogMedia.
But before we get to their tweets, here is a good tweet to start at:
The tweet from independent journalist Keean Bexte is one I found while digging further into this story. This appears to be a working class protest conducted by farmers who were inspired to do so by the trucker protests in Canada:
Apparently, a teen farmer was shot at by Dutch police late Tuesday evening, and the 16-year-old was taken into custody. This appears to have angered people in the Netherlands and added fuel to the protests.
Good News: the boy appears to be fine, as the bullets missed him. However, he is being held.
According to Bext and his video footage, Dutch authorities are not taking their time and allowing the farmers to protest peacefully. The Dutch police are already taking farmers out of their tractors and placing them under arrest just one week in without negotiations:
According to Bext (who is a Netherlands citizen following the story) the Dutch farmers are protesting changes in their industry that Bexte calls “World Economic Forum law.”
Here is a map of the blockades happening in the Netherlands - posted on July 4:
Bexte is also sharing photos of bare storeshelves in the Netherlands as a consequence of the farmer protests:
Let’s transition now to some tweets from the NewsBlog Twitter account that include video of the situation:
The violence appears to be escalating:
It’s unclear if this last tweet below is related to the trucker protests. However, like a friend of mine said - a guy who married a Scandinavian and travels Europe frequently - when he learned about what’s happening: “Well, the Netherland police do have a reputation.”
This is vicious. (WARNING-May Trigger Negative Emotions) WATCH:
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