German Farmers in Flash Mob Protests against Green Fascist Regulations

Dec. 19, 2019 (EIRNS)—Many of the protest actions in the Netherlands yesterday were announced internally in the farmers’ organizations but concrete timetables were kept secret from the public beforehand, to have a maximum effect with surprise tractorcades and road/highway blockades during the morning rush hour. The actions were carried out in a quasi-flash mob modus—more of which are planned as farm organization officials hinted, with no new dates announced yet. Many actions lasted even into the night. Footage and photos of hundreds of tractors occupying a section of the central A1 highway in the Netherlands are impressive.

Farmers in the Wiesbaden region in Germany also used the flash mob modus for a spontaneous protest in the late afternoon on the main artery of Berliner Strasse. Similar surprise actions were staged elsewhere in Germany as well, for instance, there were road blockades in the afternoon rush hour in Neubrandenburg, and in the Uckermark region. “No Farmers, No Food, No Future!” and “We Produce What You Eat!” were prominent slogans on pickets posted on the front of the tractors.

They all protested against German government plans to pass the “climate protection package” before the end of the year, which will particularly target agriculture for substantial so-called “emissions,” whose reductions would be enforced by punitive taxes on nitrogen oxide. Protests also oppose new EU regulations against insecticides and pesticides. Farmers interviewed on television said the measures are unworkable, and rather than improving the climate they will destroy farming. “These are not policies, this is sheer ideology,” one farmer told Brandenburg television last night.