Dutch protesters warn Americans: 'Protect 2nd Amendment'

Dutch protesters pushing back against their government’s environmental regulations have a specific message for Americans as the widespread protests enter their third week. 

The regulations, that claim to serve the environment, are expected to destroy 30% of the country’s farms by placing caps on ammonia and nitrogen oxide, which are found in livestock urine and feces. Compliance with the government's "nitrogen crisis" would mean many farmers losing their livelihoods, including those who produce mostly organic meat.

“The honest message...is that not all farmers can continue their business,” said the government according to ABC, and those who do will need to rethink how. 

Roughly 40,000 farmers took to the streets to protest the government’s decision, setting bales of hay ablaze and spreading manure along highways. Many have also blocked distribution centers for supermarkets and circulating video footage shows scuffles between the farmers and undercover police at The Hague. 

But Dutch police met the protesters with violent – and even lethal – force, shooting at farmers and nearly killing a minor. 

“We’ve seen horrible police brutality already against the farmers that have been protesting...the police has already shot at a 16-year-old kid yesterday, he was missed by two centimeters,” Dutch political commentator and former politician Eva Vlaardingerbroek told NTD News last week. “So we almost had a child who was killed by the police just for peacefully protesting. He was actually driving away from the protest.” 

“It shows once again that, well, Dutch people, who are unarmed, as you should know, stand very little chance to the violence monopoly of our state,” Vlaardingerbroek added. 

She then issued a frank message to Americans: 

“From the Dutch perspective, I would say that Americans should be very happy they have a Second Amendment and that you should protect that with all your strength.” 

Vlaardingerbroek noted that the Dutch government’s “nitrogen crisis” is part of a global agenda spearheaded by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which considers climate change the biggest threat to mankind. As part of its environmental crusade, the WEF has urged people to eat insects instead of meat, hopes to phase out most meat-eating and wants people to be charged for their carbon emissions by 2030. 

“It’s a global agenda because they want us to eat bugs,” shared Vlaardingerbroek. “They want us to eat fake meat that they produce. So it’s very clear that this is something that not just the Dutch people will be subjected to, and that’s why we need your support from other countries.”