{"id":55695,"date":"2020-11-20T07:22:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55695"},"modified":"2020-11-20T07:22:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:22:02","slug":"anti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europeincreasingly-draconian-lockdown-measures-economic-destitution-and-sweeping-police-powers-are-evaporating-public-trust-and-eroding-public-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55695","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Lockdown Protests All Across EuropeIncreasingly draconian lockdown measures, economic destitution, and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding public patience."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"before-post\">\n<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/2020\/11\/19\/anti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe\/\"><span class=\"the-title\">Anti-Lockdown Protests All Across Europe<\/span><span class=\"subtitle\">Increasingly draconian lockdown measures, economic destitution, and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding public patience.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post_page-content post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/covid-protests-berlin-2020.jpg?x91011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-offg-header-image wp-image-70622\" src=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/covid-protests-berlin-2020-1558x900.jpg?x91011\" alt=\"\" width=\"1558\" height=\"900\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">As the alleged \u201csecond wave\u201d of the Coronavirus \u201cpandemic\u201d is reported to be sweeping across Europe in recent weeks, many governments have enthusiastically embraced their totalitarian side and granted themselves sweeping new \u201cemergency powers\u201d alongside new lockdown measures.<\/p>\n<p>The public has been markedly less co-operative this time around. Rebelling against the seemingly arbitrary limitations which are not supported by either science or common sense. Protests have taken place all across the continent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GERMANY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people gathered in Berlin over the last few days, protesting the Merkel government passing a new lockdown law. Police turned water cannons on the crowds, and nearly 200 people were arrested.<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329098021213261828&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Foff-guardian.org%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fanti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe%2F&amp;siteScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1605874435789393496=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">According to reliable sources, elements of Antifa rushed to the scene of the Anti-New Normal Totalitarianism protest in Berlin today, hoping to hold the &#8220;Corona Deniers&#8221; down, so that the cops could hose them real good, but they were just a little too late.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RdQ67qYjnN\">pic.twitter.com\/RdQ67qYjnN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Consent Factory (@consent_factory)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/consent_factory\/status\/1329098021213261828?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The mainstream reported \u201chundreds\u201d of protesters, but as pictures plainly show it was more like tens of thousands:<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329291575940288514&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Foff-guardian.org%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fanti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe%2F&amp;siteScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1605874435789393496=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cThanks for the picture Majd Abboud, not hundreds, not thousand, but ten\u2019s of thousands protested in Berlin today and it\u2019s only the beginning of something big\u2026\u201d Sonja Van Ende<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid_19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid_19<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hLxNaTEqYv\">pic.twitter.com\/hLxNaTEqYv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 vanessa beeley (@VanessaBeeley)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VanessaBeeley\/status\/1329291575940288514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?creatorScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329036769636003841&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Foff-guardian.org%2F2020%2F11%2F19%2Fanti-lockdown-protests-all-across-europe%2F&amp;siteScreenName=kit_knightly&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1605874435789393496=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"de\">Berlin, Berlin, das wird Folgen haben\u2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SbDca1k5FA\">pic.twitter.com\/SbDca1k5FA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bajazz3.0 (@BatschkappMZ)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BatschkappMZ\/status\/1329036769636003841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>SPAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After the Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez declared a sixth-month state of emergency in late October, there were days of protests across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Barcelona, already a hot-bed of anti-government feeling due to the brutal repression of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2017_Catalan_independence_referendum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catalan Independence referendum<\/a>, saw violent confrontations between riot police and protestors<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/barcelona-covid-protests-nov-20.jpg?x91011\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"unfiltered aligncenter size-offg-medium-large-square wp-image-70619\" src=\"https:\/\/off-guardian.org\/wp-content\/medialibrary\/barcelona-covid-protests-nov-20-800x640.jpg?x91011\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Lockdown Protests All Across EuropeIncreasingly draconian lockdown measures, economic destitution, and sweeping police powers are evaporating public trust and eroding public patience. As the alleged \u201csecond wave\u201d of the Coronavirus \u201cpandemic\u201d is reported to be sweeping across Europe in recent weeks, many governments have enthusiastically embraced their totalitarian side and granted themselves sweeping new \u201cemergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6760,2132,14578,28817,29341,15342,281,333,1464,29428,24368,607,20291,657,743,7555,18737],"class_list":["post-55695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-berlin","tag-civil-unrest","tag-cj-hopkins","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-italy","tag-lockdowns","tag-off-guardian-2","tag-pandemic","tag-pedro-sanchez","tag-protests","tag-spain","tag-the-new-normal","tag-vanessa-beeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55696,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55695\/revisions\/55696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}