Belgium: Farmers Pointlessly Attacking the Cops Again, Spraying Manure on Them

If there was a King or an “autocrat,” these people would be able to force him to change his policies.

Right now, who are they even protesting? “The government”? Who is “the government” in a democracy? No one has any idea.

That’s why democracy is the worst conceivable tyranny: no one is ever responsible for anything. The buck stops nowhere. There isn’t even a buck.

These farmers are effectively just protesting the cops, which is not very effective. It’s actually not effective at all.

It’s good to see people mad, of course. But there is no solution here. In a democracy, protesting means absolutely nothing, unless the protests are backed up by a threat of serious violence that threatens the existence of the state.

AP:

Farmers clashed with police in Belgium on Monday, spraying officers with liquid manure and throwing eggs and flares at them in a fresh show of force as the European Union’s agriculture ministers met in search of ways to address the protesters’ concerns.

The farmers are angry at red tape and competition from cheap imports from countries where the EU’s relatively high standards do not have to be met.

Brussels police said that 900 tractors had entered the city, many bearing down on the European Council building where the ministers were meeting. Smoke drifted through the air near where police in riot gear sheltered behind concrete barriers and barbed wire, firing tear gas and water cannons at the protesting farmers. Scores of tractors also lined up down main roads leading to the city’s European quarter, snarling traffic and blocking public transport.

A few tractors forced their way through barriers, sending officers scurrying. Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden urged police to identify “rioters” who hurt people or disobeyed instructions from officers.

“The right to protest is dear to us so it must be used with respect,” she said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

On Saturday, French President Emmanuel Macron was greeted with boos and whistles at the opening of the Paris Agricultural Fair by farmers who claim that he’s not doing enough to support them. Spain, the Netherlands and Bulgaria have been hit by protests in recent weeks.

The movement, which has gathered pace as political parties campaign for Europe-wide elections between June 6-9, has already produced results. Earlier this month, the EU’s executive branch shelved an anti-pesticide proposal in a concession to the farmers who make up an important voting constituency.

It’s a very small concession, which is why they’re still out fighting the cops. Nothing has changed about the plan to completely deindustrialize farming in Europe and import all food from the third world as a means to change the weather.

The plan will never change as long as the tyranny of democracy is in power.

If people in these countries that are protesting get mad enough at the titular head of state, he’ll be burned and replaced with someone else who will do all the same things. This is democracy. It is the ultimate tyranny, because no one has any ability to petition grievances, meaning that the government can simply force things on you.

Do you remember the Vietnam protests? I don’t remember them, but I’ve read about them. In Ohio, the filth shot and killed student protesters.

The government never changed its policy on the war. They ended the war because they lost.

Democracies love these protests. I don’t want to disparage the people engaged in them; I’m sure they have the best intentions. But the democracy system feeds on this, because it gives the illusion of freedom.

“Oh, there are people out in the streets fighting the cops – they don’t allow this in Russia or China.”

That’s because in Russia and China, it isn’t necessary. A mass protest against Putin or Xi would be directed directly at them, with the demand they resign. So, if people were going to protest on a large scale, Putin or Xi would simply negotiate with them and change policies in a way that the potential protesters were comfortable with.

A supreme leader has to be popular. He has to respond to the grievances of the masses, because a supreme leader can be directly targeted by masses of people. A democracy government is an amorphous blob, where no one is really in charge, so there is nothing to direct your protest at. The only thing you can do is fight the cops in the streets.

Do you see how this works?

Do you understand?

These protests mean less than nothing. A democracy can force things on you. They can force anything on you. The government will not change its policy, unless there is a direct threat of widespread violence that threatens to collapse the state completely (which is why you’ve been seeing the government of Ireland back down a little bit on immigrant issues).

Democracy has to be abolished. The people have to have freedom. They have to have some kind of say in the behavior of the government that rules over them. There has to be “consent of the governed.” Tyranny is not sustainable.

Unfortunately, the only way this is going to end is in blood and fire.