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Belgian police use water, tear gas on
COVID-19 protesters

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/5/2021 12:15:05 PM

BRUSSELS -- Belgian police used water cannon and tear gas Sunday to disperse some rowdy protesters in Brussels after most demonstrators marched peacefully to protest tightened COVID-19 restrictions that aim to counter a surge of coronavirus infections. Thousands came to reject the new measures announced Friday, the third week in a row that the government has tightened its rules as an avalanche of new cases strains the country’s health services, depriving people with other life-threatening diseases of treatment. Shouting “Freedom! Freedom!” and carrying banners that said, “United for our freedom, rights and our children,” protesters marched to the European Union

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Reply 1 - Posted by: reefdiver 12/5/2021 12:25:14 PM (No. 997817)
This is for "Healthcare'? There is something besides community health in play, in Belgium and around the world.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jimkata 12/5/2021 12:48:24 PM (No. 997858)
Smacks of world wide dictatorship. All these countries doing the same thing.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Catfur27 12/5/2021 12:50:21 PM (No. 997864)
...funny how the media and libs hate and condemn any "Freedom protests" that are held by decent white folks...??
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Reply 4 - Posted by: JrSample 12/5/2021 12:57:18 PM (No. 997881)
This is known as the ''Belgian Dip'', it is traditional for the season. In the spring they will all make meat helmets.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 12/5/2021 1:35:10 PM (No. 997914)
Of course they do. Totalitarians "helping you".....into your grave.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: chumley 12/5/2021 1:57:14 PM (No. 997928)
I hope we all remember this next time Europe needs rescued from some brutal dictator. We gave them back their freedom so they could throw it away at their leisure. Never again.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 12/5/2021 2:29:36 PM (No. 997947)
Too little too late, folks in Brussels. You conditioned yourselves to fear your government and fear authority long ago and all you can do now is throw rocks at your police. But at least you can do some token protests. A little something, anyway.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 12/5/2021 2:39:57 PM (No. 997955)
Belgium people always seems to get screwed. Both World Wars went through Belgium and turned it into rubble and killed millions. They seem to losing this war as well but its not the German's this time, its their own government that wants to take away their lives and freedom.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: downnout 12/5/2021 2:44:22 PM (No. 997958)
The King’s fawning toadie yells “Sire, sire! The peasants are revolting!” King: “Yes, they are.” H/T Mel Brooks
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Wetenschapper 12/5/2021 4:18:59 PM (No. 998032)
I live in a Flemish village just a few km North of Brussels. The Belgian government is largely a benign, do-nothing body, and the Belgians themselves don't usually pay it or its policies much attention. The populace tends to be apolitical, nothing like the rampant partisanship one sees in the US, and so that people would turn out en masse here to protest a government policy is remarkable in itself. Just as remarkable is the favorable coverage the movement seems to be getting in the local press. As in the US, the media leans strongly left, so one would expect them to minimize their coverage of the protest and characterize it as misguided. Perhaps even the journalists are growing weary of the largely ineffectual "vax, duck, and cover" policies.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: mc squared 12/5/2021 5:12:03 PM (No. 998066)
Europe is finished as it would have been in 1914 and 1940, but for US intervention. Can't count on us anymore - We're in the same predicament. Thanks for the info #10.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: stablemoney 12/5/2021 6:47:53 PM (No. 998146)
I hope the protests continue and the number of protestors doubles every weekend.
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