Dutch police shooting at farmers rebelling against climate kook policies

 Legal Insurrection:

Police in the Netherlands opened fire at farmers protesting against the government’s radical new “climate change” policies. The shots were fired when a tractor convoy tried to push past a police barricade, the local news reports say.

“The incident occurred late Tuesday evening on a freeway access near Heerenveen” in northern Holland, the Swiss newspaper Schweizer Bauer reported. “Farmers had blocked the road with tractors. As they approached police and their vehicles, the officers resorted to their firearms and hit at least one of the tractors,” the daily added, citing police sources.

No one was hurt in the incident, news reports confirm.
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Nationwide demonstrations erupted last week in response to the government’s new regulations — passed by the Parliament on June 28 — forcing the farmers to reduce emissions drastically.
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Armed with new regulations, the Dutch government is threatening to put farmers out of business. The government ministers “warn that farmers will have to adapt or face the prospect of shuttering their businesses,” the newspaper Irish Independent reported on June 29.

The protests intensified this week, with farmers picketing government buildings, blocking highways, and blockading supermarkets. “Two days of blockades of distribution centres by farmers’ protest groups will cost supermarkets tens of millions, food retailers’ group CBL has warned,” the media outlet Dutch News reported Wednesday.

New regulations demand that Dutch farmers drastically reduce their livestock. The Dutch authorities “estimates a 30 per cent reduction in the number of livestock is needed,” the French TV channel Euro News reported Tuesday.

The Dutch parliament passed emission regulations for farmers to comply with European Union diktats. “European conservation laws limit the amount of nitrogen pollution allowed around listed conservation areas known as Natura 2000 zones,” Euro News explained.

With war raging in Ukraine, the world’s second largest grain exporter, the Dutch climate regulations could severely impact the global food supply. The Netherlands is the world’s second-largest agricultural exporter after the United States.
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The climate kooks are a bigger threat to civilization than pollution.  Their attempts to control the climate are a fool's errand.  Putting farmers out of business is an absurd response to climate issues.  Those who want the farmers out of business should instead go on a permanent food-free diet.

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