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Dutch police use water cannon, detain 2,400 climate activists
(www.aljazeera.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Most Dutch people don't like what these activists are doing.
It's a beautiful day in September and they are blocking access to one of our biggest cities and one of the most beloved beaches.and creating huge traffic jams due to that.
It's quite likely that our Parliament will pass a law similar to the UK to criminalize the blocking of infrastructure.
Source?
Yeah because the only way to get to Scheveningen is to take that small piece of highway? How about any of the other ways leading into or around The Hague? They aren't blocking access to The Hague or Scheveningen, there isn't one singular road in or out.
Source?
Don't pretend to speak for the rest of our country because you obviously don't and don't dramatize the blockage of a small section of 'highway' in the middle of a city as being a blockage of access to the entire city.
Source: Dutch news.
80% of people disagree with this action.
https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/panel/artikel/5406350/70-procent-wil-af-van-fossiele-subsidies-maar-nauwelijks-steun-voor
Don't be so confidently incorrect, it only proves how out of touch you are.
I would have to imagine there is some selection bias for RTL nieuws. These numbers would probably look different if the NOS or EenVandaag did the survey.
Most of the time, they use the same Ipsos panels. But yes, I agree that RTL is less reliable than NOS. It's also about spin.
NOS reported that Parliament is considering jail time for disrupting infrastructure and that the UK already has it. Amnesty was against, but a political majority is quite likely.