Thousands Take to Streets of Amsterdam to Protest Against Lockdowns and Vaccine Passports

Thousands of protesters packed Amsterdam’s streets on Sunday in opposition to the country’s draconian lockdown restrictions and vaccine passports. Inevitably, the protestors were attacked by riot police. Reuters has more (although it’s typically one-sided).

Riot police with batons and shields broke up a crowd of several thousand who had gathered in Amsterdam on Sunday to protest against COVID-19 lockdown measures and vaccinations.

Public gatherings of more than two people are prohibited under restrictions imposed by the Netherlands in an effort to prevent the Omicron variant of the coronavirus overwhelming an already strained healthcare system.

At least 30 people were detained after scuffles, during which four officers were injured, police said in a statement.

Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema had issued an emergency ordinance, empowering police to clear the central Museum Square, after the protesters defied a ban on public gatherings.

The protesters, who mostly did not wear masks or abide by social distancing rules, ignored an order not to hold a march and walked along a main thoroughfare, playing music and holding yellow umbrellas in a sign of opposition to Government measures.

The Netherlands went into a sudden lockdown on Dec. 19th, with the Government ordering the closure of all but essential stores, as well as restaurants, hairdressers, gyms, museums and other public places until at least Jan. 14th.

You can see a YouTube video of the protest here and get a sense of the size of the demonstration here.

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Smelly Melly
4 years ago

Lockdown (under house arrest) since 19th Dec and according to the Daily Mail cases in the Netherlands are increasing. You have to be a special kind of stupid if you think lockdowns work.

Lockdown Sceptic
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Italy: Thousands attend anti-Green Pass and anti-COVID-vax protest in Rome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFSbRfWIT5k
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Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Or a special kind of evil.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

More like it!

‘By their deeds shall ye know them’ – so Evil it is then!

janvanruth
janvanruth
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

indeed they are a special kind of evil.
but it seems like more people are waking up

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago
Reply to  janvanruth

Though there are a lot of commenters here who are still only too sure these ‘leaders’ are incompetent clowns.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Smelly Melly

Daily Mail type stupid.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago

We must never give up.

Salute to the people of the Netherlands.

TC
TC
4 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Absolutely

ElSabio
4 years ago

“Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema had issued an emergency ordinance, empowering police to clear the central Museum Square, after the protesters defied a ban on public gatherings.”

“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”

– Frédéric Bastiat

Annie
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

They don’t belong to the human race.

Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  ElSabio

Nice quotation! I will send this to my German friends in the small town of Schopfheim, where the peaceful Monday Spaziergang was broken up by riot police last week and the protests now banned. The town councillors are even encouraging people to hold a counter demonstration tomorrow, in support of democracy. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Anonymous

Nazis return to Germany dressed as ‘Public `Health Workers’ – who could have guessed?

Castorp
Castorp
4 years ago

Dear Dutch sisters and brothers, we applaud your resistance in solidarity. Our common fight continues and intensifies.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Castorp

Hear, hear.

Star
4 years ago

What happened to the two protestors against “Covid” restrictions who were shot and wounded with live bullets by the police in Rotterdam in November?

Have their names been published?

Has any newspaper editor in the world even tried to find out whether they are alive or dead? Or is reporting policy as globally centralised and as uniform as depopulation “health” policy?

Back in 1961, the Paris police murdered maybe 200 unarmed demonstrators against French colonial rule in Algeria – beating them to death in central Paris, including in the square at the police headquarters, and killing others by throwing them into the Seine where they drowned – and there wasn’t a peep about in the media. I seem to recall that the French government eventually “acknowledged” in the late 1990s that some deaths had occurred. For reference, measured by the number of people murdered this was a much bigger massacre than Bloody Sunday in Derry in Northern Ireland in 1972.

The wellbeing of those demonstrators in Rotterdam should be of concern to the entire resistance movement worldwide.

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Many people were shot dead and wounded by the Dutch police that night

The truth has been supressed by the dictatorships and their MSM henchmen

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

Reflections and Report on the November 19 Riots in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

This witness saw a person shot by the police whom the riot police then dragged away, and also saw the police subsequently fire many other shots into the crowd.

If many protestors were shot dead – if even ONE protestor was shot dead, or died later from being shot, or after being shot was then “disappeared” by the state – then getting the truth out should be a major aim of the resistance everywhere.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

No operative free Media – just State Propaganda across Europe .

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

When you are running a campaign to depopulate the planet they won’t be allow free speech or a free media.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

What? In a Western Liberal Democrarcy whatever next?

Forced vaccinations Auschwitz style?

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

Coming our way soon. Bozo is a lifelong eugenicist.

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

Isn’t it funny how Bozo and the like are keen on depopulation but never volunteer to lead the way.

janvanruth
janvanruth
4 years ago
Reply to  Cecil B

niet jokken!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Must be ‘fake News’ – I have heard nothing on the BBC!

MrTea
MrTea
4 years ago

I wonder if the British people will wake up to reality?
Boris and his civil servants were meeting in large groups and getting drunk throughout covid19 because they knew there was no risk to them, they knew there was no risk of taking a disease home to their children.
Whilst they partied in secret they terrorised the population with fear porn, smashed our basic liberties and trashed the economy for the many whilst giving colossal sums of tax payer money to their chums.
We have been turned over in the most spectacular fashion but will the compliant covidians ever realise?

isobar
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Agree, the outrage about ‘crimes against sensibility’ is understandable but they should not obscure the heinous ‘crimes against humanity’ that Johnsons government, civil servants and advisors have perpetrated against the British people over the last two years.And I would include the MSM as partners in crime.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  isobar

All those involved in the Covid will have to face retribution. No better start, than with the piss takers of Downing Street.

Alkanet
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

No the compliant covididians still believe, because to admit otherwise they’d have to admit their own stupidity and culpability plus accept the common sense superiority of those who resisted. The best we can hope for is for a hypocritical twisting of history whereby the covidians deny ever having been taken in or complying.

Rowan
Rowan
4 years ago
Reply to  Alkanet

They will still be denying it all, as the undertakers arrive to take them away.

Star
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

You don’t offer an answer to your question, but if British people are to wake up it won’t be as a result of memories or reports of what government figures have done over the past two years. It will come as a result of current conflict affecting their everyday lives.

Stage 2 will be initiated with massive “shock and awe” – just as Stage 1 was.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

“To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if her Department or its agencies are aware of and are monitoring the activities of anti-vax group Alpha Men Assemble and Mr Danny Glass who reportedly recently held an exercise in Chasewater Park near Lichfield; and if she will make a statement.”

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2022-01-10.100425.h&p=10193

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Sadly many are now too stupid and brain addled to bother with – so far gone that even personal or family tragedy will not wake them up.

Star
4 years ago

News from Turkey

Turkey has removed the requirement for the unvaccinated to obtain a positive PCR test result before being allowed on public transport.

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Negative PCR, I hope?

Annie
4 years ago

Probably, but it wouldn’t make a ha’poth of difference either way, would it?

Marcus Aurelius knew
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Too true, too true!

Star
4 years ago

Oops, yes – a negative PCR.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

As PCR tests are a total fraud this is about time.

Mac57
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

Fauci says, 2 years down the track, PCR tests not worth the effort, not the right thing to base policy decisons on….
https://palexander.substack.com/p/listen-to-what-fauci-says-here-minute

janvanruth
janvanruth
4 years ago
Reply to  Star

a sign on the wall that a dictatorial country like turkey seems more reasonable than the freedom loving democracies….

Mogwai
4 years ago

The big Worldwide Freedom Rally one scheduled in Amsterdam for the 22nd Jan is changing location and becoming a combined effort with the Belgians in Brussels. So it should be quite a whopper of a turn out! It’s because they’re cancelling and breaking up all the protests here in the NL, whereas in Belgium the rules for outside gathering is not so strict. We “wappies” will have our day! 🙂

huxleypiggles
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Good news.

Best of luck.

Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Must obey the rules for gathering outside!

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Brussels – home of the European Union …UVDL wants forced vaxxes for all European citizens – just saying!

Any explanation of how the President of the EU Parliament, David Sassoli die suddenly of ” “a serious complication with his immune system” (?) by the way?

Steve-Devon
4 years ago

I note that the justification for the Dutch lockdowns is that the healthcare system is in danger of being overwhelmed. In so many aspects of modern life, human activity which was started on sound humanitarian principles has been taken over by the state and ends up being turned into an instrument of oppression and turned on the very people it was intended to help and support. The Covid nonsense has shown up the absolute horror of dominating Big Government.

I used to think that some things were best done by the state but after 2 years of this diabolical covid drivel I am increasingly coming to the view that the state should stay away from most aspects of our lives, with the possible exception of the military. If you step back and look at it, the idea that we should suffer untold restrictions on our rights and freedoms to protect a healthcare system that was intended to help us is bizarre and ludicrous.

watersider
4 years ago
Reply to  Steve-Devon

Yet Steve, an item on http://www.theconservativetreehiuse.com today shows a poll or survey carried out among Democrat voters in America which shows the majority support the most Draconian measures for criminalising all sane people how oppose lock downs, so called vaccines etc.
It’s like the Aussies who vilify Mr Djokivic. We have a long way to go.

milesahead
milesahead
4 years ago
Reply to  watersider

Some Aussies vilify Djokovic – but certainly not all. There is a view that he’s been deported because he was actually going to receive a lot of crowd support – and the government didn’t want that!

janvanruth
janvanruth
4 years ago
Reply to  milesahead

that is actually the official reasoning presented to the court.

David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  watersider

Whose survey is this then? Hilary Clinton’s?

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com

Susan
4 years ago
Reply to  LonePatriot
David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago
Reply to  LonePatriot

MSM is beyond despicable and now an accessory after the fact in serious crime allegations.

Victory Gin
4 years ago
David Beaton
David Beaton
4 years ago

Go the Dutch! Wake Up!

Spirit of the wind
4 years ago
Reply to  David Beaton

PM Rutte, WEF stooge, that’s why.

Spirit of the wind
4 years ago

Only a matter of time before a crowd totally outnumbering the Police turn on them, it won’t be pretty.

tom171uk
4 years ago

No it won’t. I fact it will be very ugly because, regardless of numbers, the police have guns and all the resources of the state.

rayc
rayc
4 years ago

You mean like they tried in Kasachstan?

bringbacksanity
bringbacksanity
4 years ago

Good to see the push back, but it’s in vain. A jab at least every 9 months from
1 Feb is an EU wide requirement.

Why Digital COVID Certificates for booster vaccines are being issued in Ireland
The EU Digital COVID Certificate is an EU-wide initiative designed to support safe and free movement across the EU.
Digital COVID Certificates to include your latest vaccine dose will now be issued. This is to ensure that your Digital COVID Certificates fully reflect your vaccine status.

This service is available ahead of the new EU rules which will come into effect from 1 February 2022, with a new 9-month maximum validity period for EU Digital COVID Certificates based on a completed primary vaccination regime for travel

tom171uk
4 years ago

That’s funny – this wasn’t on the BBC news bulletin. The main thrust was the “get Boris” narrative. Because of “partygate” of course, not for destroying other people’s lives over the last two years.

Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
4 years ago

Strange that it wasn’t on MSM?

marebobowl
marebobowl
4 years ago

Washington DC January 23 massive protest with world renowned scientists and other anti narrative speakers.

Peter W
Peter W
4 years ago

Don’t know what you’re talking about, there’s only about two hundred protesting. Or, according to our BBC nothing happened!

janvanruth
janvanruth
4 years ago

reuters is on the wrong side of this and has been spreading fake news since the beginning.
the dutch healthcare is not strained in any way.
icus have plenty of free beds as covid occupancy has halved over the last month or so.
covid icu occupancy is not even a quarter of what it was at its highest point.

Banjones
Banjones
4 years ago

Cristian Terhes, Romanian MEP, is well worth listening to. This is one of his press conferences. He’s very willing to call out Frau Lederhosen (or Fond a-Lyin’ as he calls her).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlIpghy0oY4&t=41s

Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago

Did the fascist Dutch police murder anyone on this occasion?