German people in unprecedented rebellion against government!

[truthseekerdan]

1000 injured in nuclear protests, police at breaking point

http://alethonews.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/forouhi20101106161253687.jpg

Like the Roman legions vanquished in the Teutoburger Wald in Lower Saxony in 9 AD, the 17,000 police officers that marched into the woods around the nuclear storage facility in Gorleben in northern Germany on Sunday morning looked invincible. Police personnel from France, Croatia and Poland had joined in the biggest security operation ever mounted against protestors against the a train carrying nuclear waste to a depot in an isolated part of Lower Saxony’s countryside. Helicopters, water canons and police vehicles, including an armoured surveillance truck, accompanied an endless column of anti-riot police mounted on horses and also marching down the railway tracks into the dense woods. Tens of thousands of anti riot police clattered along the tracks, their helmets and visors gleaming in the morning sun, and wearing body armour, leg guards and carrying batons.

Read more: https://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/german-people-in-unprecedented-rebellion-against-government/

[Solphilos]

Interesting. What's also interesting is the 333 created by their helmets in the photo, but that's another discussion, lol.

[truthseekerdan]

I have a feeling that we're getting closer to the "Tipping Point". IMO

[Steven]

It's the effect of Ethic, culminating in our world. As the ancient mayans pyramid of evolution of consciousness is demonstrating. We will see more of this sort of things. And it is all very positive in the overall. Thanks for the news!

Namaste, Steven

[Ahkenaten]

This is actually radical news and challenges all the stereotypes about what it is to be 'German' - a segment of the population actually felt strongly enough about something to say BASTA and take a stand. Kind of runs counter to the old idea that those Germans just go along with anything cowering to authority, doesn't it? Very radical and an exemplar for others.

[Operator]

This is actually radical news and challenges all the stereotypes about what it is to be 'German' - a segment of the population actually felt strongly enough about something to say BASTA and take a stand. Kind of runs counter to the old idea that those Germans just go along with anything cowering to authority, doesn't it? Very radical and an exemplar for others.

Maybe not so radical ... I read in a Belgium newspaper today that the German chancellor Schroeder calls Bush a liar because Bush wrote in his memoirs
that Germany promised in 2002 to support the war and then never fulfilled the promise. Schroeder said, and I think it's true, that the Germans never supported
the war at any moment. Germany and it's people are not so much 'followers' anymore for while now.

[onawah]

My heart goes out to those protesters. It's a shame that broken bones and pepper sprayed eyes and putting our lives at risk is what it will probably take to finally turn the tide, but the human race has to show what it's made of for that to finally happen, it seems. Bless all peaceful protesters!

[Ahkenaten]

I I just cringe when I think of that film footage of that Bush II actually stepping behind Andrea Merkel and squeezing her on the shoulders. The poor woman was horrified. Oh well what can you expect from a guy who as a teen drove his mother to the hospital (according to his bio) with her own aborted fetus sitting in a jar on her lap.

[Project_Buggy_Beach]

The clip of the article didn’t explain its nuclear waste the protestors are trying to stop being transported, very fitting when we see all of the sources of free energy that come through the Avalon forum. The Utube clips when you follow the link are very interesting you can get a scope of the number of people there from the overhead shots, the I Have A Dream poster was prophetic I think almost everyone who is in touch with their dreams has had the nuclear disaster dream, mine was in New York City and the bomb seemed really advanced maybe fusion and not nuclear.

[shiva777]

violent protests are EXACTLY what TPTB want,it feed them and their off-world controllers,peaceful demonstrations and non-compliance is what TPTB are terrified of...watch as peaceful demonstrations break out in the years to come

[Ahkenaten]

while it is true that violence plays into their hands bottom line the important thing is withdrawal of consent

[morguana]

Thanks Dan for posting this, I have been off line for a few days and am not up to date with global events.
It is saddening to see that a group of folk protesting are subjected to violence, :( yet again
I pray that one day man kind will grow up
M

[Teakai]

violent protests are EXACTLY what TPTB want,it feed them and their off-world controllers,peaceful demonstrations and non-compliance is what TPTB are terrified of...watch as peaceful demonstrations break out in the years to come

Hi Shiva,
I'm just wondering, what does a peaceful protest accomplish?

And what's stopping the peaceful protestors from being rounded up and locked away - like they were at the G20 in Canada?
or having those big repellant sound blasters used on them to disperse them?

I do agree with non compliance - but how do you not comply when your lifestyle is reliant upon the means supplied by the 'ptb'?

I'm thinking that if it's called for - I shall definitely use violence. Give me freedom or give me death - that sort of thing.

[TigaHawk]

the problem that i can see with non violent protests is - nothing comes of them.


Yes, people rock up, yes people make noise.... end of the day? nothing seems to have changed. The efforts in protesting, and making it well heard they are unhappy and want change/different to whats being presented - it all seems to go to waste.

The government doesnt care - in their eyes quiet protests are great, get all the people out there, let them run around scream and spend all their energy - then go home and forget about it over the coming weeks.


Now violent protests are the oposite. Property/Products get damaged. Buisness grinds to a halt, and the big boys dont get their money. That's when the government begings to care. Because the people who arnt getting paid start to tap them on the backs urging them to keep their sheeple under controll. So things are changed to acomodate it to get things back in order.


That is, just my own personal opinion that is.

[Ahkenaten]

Fact is sheer numbers scares the heck out of TPTB. Even if the media distorts the actual numbers, as they did during the Peace Marches in San Francisco, for example in the ramp-up to Iraq War II - there were helicopters hovering and many guys with cameras including telescopic lenses, on top of the buildings accurately records that info..............I am sure GW Bush claimed he wasn't about to make his decisions based on protests or study groups they knew very well that that war would not be popular, and not only in S.F. Granted everyone's electronic communications including this one, are scooped up and sliced and diced so TPTB has a handle on the public sentiments - even so NOTHING, NOTHING can replace the bodies present together in public as tangible proof that people in large numbers have had enough - just as conversely, if no one volunteered for the military or signed up to work for Blackwater-XE, and if soldiers deserted en mass, there would be no one to fight the wars.

[Teakai]

Fact is sheer numbers scares the heck out of TPTB. Even if the media distorts the actual numbers, as they did during the Peace Marches in San Francisco, for example in the ramp-up to Iraq War II - there were helicopters hovering and many guys with cameras including telescopic lenses, on top of the buildings accurately records that info..............I am sure GW Bush claimed he wasn't about to make his decisions based on protests or study groups they knew very well that that war would not be popular, and not only in S.F. Granted everyone's electronic communications including this one, are scooped up and sliced and diced so TPTB has a handle on the public sentiments - even so NOTHING, NOTHING can replace the bodies present together in public as tangible proof that people in large numbers have had enough - just as conversely, if no one volunteered for the military or signed up to work for Blackwater-XE, and if soldiers deserted en mass, there would be no one to fight the wars.

And wouldn't that be wonderful?
Of course it would have to be universal.

Unless some kind of huge spiritual awakening does take place do you think that will happen?

And if so what do you think the catalyst will be for such an awakening?

[shiva777]

research Gandhi and his movement and you will see that he demonstrated peaceful protests and non-compliance WORK...

[Billiam]

The situation in Germany regarding the Police can be rather grim... I witnessed a protest this week in Germany in which around 8 protestors were accompanied by around 40 police all in full riot gear... The message is clear that if you protest you have to prepare to put up with an even larger police pressence... The intimidating police pressence in my opinion does nothing more than initate trouble...Last year was also a situation where a friend of mine made a complaint after a man was dragged along the ground by his head for refusing to take off a mask, his protest against the policeman was quite simple that if he should take off his mask then the police officer should do the same, he was treated quite brutally and my friend was told he had to stay 3 km away from the city centre for 24 hours or face being arrested simply for protesting against the brutality... There are also some rather strange laws for example if you are a school teacher / Beamter you are not allowed to protest against the government... Also, during protests photographers take pictures of all the protesters... I agree with Shiva about violent protests benefitting TPTB but I do believe it is difficult to avoid in such cases when you can be beaten and dragged across the ground by your head simply for wearing a mask-it also suits TPTB if people are physically scared to speak out... Should we be prepared for martyrdom????

[Ahkenaten]

Billiam too bad about the violence in Germany it is not a pretty idea.....but Ghandi did set an example for us all that massive political change can be brought about by non-violent protest. Of course he paid for that with his life.

[onawah]

I think that there is a powerful energy generated by peaceful protests, both within the people directly involved and on the whole world, even those who are not aware of what is happening. I think it definitely has an effect on the police, and it makes it harder for them to continue doing what they do in good conscience, which helps them to wake up.

Being part of a peaceful protest is a very powerful experience--feeling that shared passion, concern, determination and solidarity is empowering and good for soul growth. Even if it means martyrdom, which is NOT the goal, just as unfortunate side effect. And maintaining a non violent stance, even a loving one, if possible, and if not, at least a neutral one, is a very important part of that. Using peaceful protest as part of a spiritual discipline such as Gandhi taught is a very smart thing to do, though a difficult one, and it still effects the dual purpose that Gandhi intended; spiritual growth and social change.

I don't know if any research has been done on this similar to the work done on the effects of mass, global meditations, but I would be very curious to find out.

The effectiveness of Gandhi's movement finally helped to win India's freedom from British rule, and he attributed that success to peaceful protest more than anything.

[Lost Soul]

It speaks volumes if the protesters are German. There is hope!

[Teakai]

research Gandhi and his movement and you will see that he demonstrated peaceful protests and non-compliance WORK...

I have.
Ghandi may not have been violent, but a great many were inspired by him to take a more 'active' stance.

I think it was those who were active that got the point across and the changes made.

[ascendingstarseed]

The paradigm is shifting, too bad Americans are shieldd from this news in the mass media...yesterday I heard Limbaugh talking about the riots in England yesterday, which are about raising the tuition fees for college by 300%. He actually had the nerve to tell his listeners they were nothing but a bunch of "Long haired, dope smoking, maggot infested hippies who don't want to pay their pay....just wanting a free ride!" Unfortunately many Americans are still feeding into the lying mass media machine and actually believe that kind of fascist propaganda. He said nothing about the cost of tuition and why they were protesting....just that they were rioting.

It's that kind of fascist nonsense that the people in Germany are fed up with. It sounds like they've just caught on to the scam quicker than Americans and have enough common sense to organize en masse....What I find amazing, as well as encouraging is that the police force is waking up to the fact they are being used as pawns by the PTB and they are beginning to protest against the PTB by refusing to carry out their bidding!

I agree with Steven, this is a positive sign that the paradigm is shifting and it's only a matter of time before movements like this spread...then you reach the tipping point with the 100th monkey syndrome and it catch's on like wildfire. There is much hope...

[onawah]

I have an ex Navy SEAl friend who told me once that many of the young cops in the 60s whose duty was crowd control at demonstrations and protests of those times were profoundly affected by the love, beauty, grace, fearlessness and peacefulness of the smiling, flower-bearing hippies who stuck flowers into their rifles and said "We love you, brother" and so forth. He said many of the cops broke down and wept during or after the events, and had deep spiritual awakenings as a result.
I think we underrate the importance of the anarchist spirit and spiritual awakening of the 60s!:hippie:
(Though admittedly, much about the 60s was unmemorable as well.)

[Rocky_Shorz]

they were just downwind...

[Zook]

Hi Teakai,


I have.
Ghandi may not have been violent, but a great many were inspired by him to take a more 'active' stance.
I think it was those who were active that got the point across and the changes made.

Well stated! People don't like to hear it, but Gandhi was more myth than reality. You have to do the research to understand that Gandhi was merely a pawn in the game, but a free clue is the depth of his promotions in the MSM garden - a garden where falsehoods are the flowers and truths are the weeds. For the same reasons, Einstein, too, was more myth than reality. Tesla, by contrast, was reality; and because of that, Tesla was also a weed in the controlled MSM garden. But he is flowering in the free garden now! More proof that truth wins out in the end.

:typing:

[shiva777]

well we have different research on Gandhi then,there are endless debates around Gandhi and I'm not interested in joining in on one here ...there were many occasionjs where Gandhi and his followers prevented very important events from happening through peaceful protesting..i'm not saying he was responsible for India's independence alone

..the point is that VIOLENT protesting will just feed the Illuminati and their controllers///it's just another from of WAR

of course,violence is sometimes needed in order to defend oneself in extreme circumstances...those supporting these violent protests are deluded

[Teakai]

Hi Teakai,



Well stated! People don't like to hear it, but Gandhi was more myth than reality. You have to do the research to understand that Gandhi was merely a pawn in the game, but a free clue is the depth of his promotions in the MSM garden - a garden where falsehoods are the flowers and truths are the weeds. For the same reasons, Einstein, too, was more myth than reality. Tesla, by contrast, was reality; and because of that, Tesla was also a weed in the controlled MSM garden. But he is flowering in the free garden now! More proof that truth wins out in the end.

:typing:

Thanks, Zook.
I agree, sometimes truth is hard to hear - we should be very suspicious about the version of history we're fed and the characters that fill it.

After so many years of bloodshed and fighting - it stretches reason to think that Indian independence came with non-violence and in peace.
India gained it's independence after the second world war because it was too expensive for the English to keep hold of.

Controllers want us compliant and to not make a fuss - that's why they've tired to keep us happy living in a fake world with lots of distractions and supossedly peaceful heros - like Ghandi and Jesus to keep us quiet and reasonably contained while they go about their business.

I'm thinking that they don't feed off our energy - I think our energy scares them.
The good energy that is - not fear.

[onawah]

The good energy that is not fear--is LOVE!!

[Teakai]

well we have different research on Gandhi then,there are endless debates around Gandhi and I'm not interested in joining in on one here ...there were many occasionjs where Gandhi and his followers prevented very important events from happening through peaceful protesting..i'm not saying he was responsible for India's independence alone

..the point is that VIOLENT protesting will just feed the Illuminati and their controllers///it's just another from of WAR
of course,violence is sometimes needed in order to defend oneself in extreme circumstances...those supporting these violent protests are deluded

Hi Shiva - I don't really agree with violent protesting either. Usually we fight the wrong enemy - which is irrelevant to the real enemy.

Preferably the judicial system should deal with the crimes of the real enemy - but when that itself becomes corrupted by the enemy - what do you do?

Evil thrives when good men do nothing.

[Teakai]

The good energy that is not fear--is LOVE!!

Exactly.

And 'we' are love.
So, we be ourselves - and not who 'they' have led us to believe we are.
We follow our own truths and our own hearts - but first we must know what they are and who we are - and there are many of us who don't and are confused and are scared.
Living out of instilled and false fear rather than living the love we are.

You don't have to experience the emotions of hate and fear to stand up and be true to love.
You just have to love love more than you fear fear.

Step by step the 'btb' are taking away people's rights and freedoms and the people are allowing it because they are scared and unepowered. They have been led to a place where the core of who they thought they and the world was is crumbling - and they don't know what to do. They have been taught that any saviour lies outside themselves and so they do nothing.

Do we want evil to continue to inherit the earth?

[Carmody]

I have an ex Navy SEAl friend who told me once that many of the young cops in the 60s whose duty was crowd control at demonstrations and protests of those times were profoundly affected by the love, beauty, grace, fearlessness and peacefulness of the smiling, flower-bearing hippies who stuck flowers into their rifles and said "We love you, brother" and so forth. He said many of the cops broke down and wept during or after the events, and had deep spiritual awakenings as a result.
I think we underrate the importance of the anarchist spirit and spiritual awakening of the 60s!:hippie:
(Though admittedly, much about the 60s was unmemorable as well.)

this is the entire point of the film 'the American ruling Class'. How the PTB struck back in an extremely organized and determined fashion, starting in 1970 or thereabouts.

And since then, your dollar has never been worth less and you have never worked harder for it. At the same time all personal freedoms have been reduced, and observation and monitoring have gone through the roof. Fascism was heinously accelerated in speed of evolution and agenda in America from that point forward. The whole idea has always been a creep toward it so the people don't see it but.....things really took off in 1970 as the PTB nearly lost their grip in ~1968.

[onawah]

Our job now has been to wed LOVE with Knowledge, thus arriving at Wisdom. The more awake and aware we can be, the easier it will be for the Sheeple to awaken and understand what they are facing. The tired old cliche of the hundredth monkey principal inevitably comes to mind...

[Zook]

Good morning Shiva777, the Earth says hello!


well we have different research on Gandhi then,there are endless debates around Gandhi and I'm not interested in joining in on one here ...there were many occasionjs where Gandhi and his followers prevented very important events from happening through peaceful protesting..i'm not saying he was responsible for India's independence alone
..the point is that VIOLENT protesting will just feed the Illuminati and their controllers///it's just another from of WAR


This goes beyond Gandhi and whatever significance his role in Indian independence may have been. We saw the orange revolution in Ukraine not long ago; on the surface it looked like the people won. But who really did win? Here's an URL that gives you a few hints (look for the name George Soros in the following excerpt):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Revolution#Role_of_Ukrainian_intelligence_and_security_agencies

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Each of these social movements included extensive work by student activists. The most famous of these was Otpor, the youth movement that helped bring in Vojislav Koštunica. In Georgia the movement was called Kmara. In Ukraine the movement has worked under the succinct slogan Pora ("It's Time"). Chair of Georgian Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security Givi Targamadze, former member of the Georgian Liberty Institute, as well as some members of Kmara, were consulted by Ukrainian opposition leaders on techniques of nonviolent struggle. Georgian rock bands Zumba, Soft Eject and Green Room, which earlier had supported the Rose Revolution, organized a solidarity concert in central Kiev to support Yushchenko’s cause in November 2004.[20]

Activists in each of these movements were funded and trained in tactics of political organization and nonviolent resistance by a coalition of Western pollsters and professional consultants funded by a range of Western government and non-government agencies. According to The Guardian, these include the U.S. State Department and USAID along with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, the International Republican Institute, the Bilderberg Group, the NGO Freedom House and George Soros's Open Society Institute. The National Endowment for Democracy, a foundation supported by the U.S. government, has supported non-governmental democracy-building efforts in Ukraine since 1988.[21] Writings on nonviolent struggle by Gene Sharp formed the strategic basis of the student campaigns.
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To wit, there's a pattern to be observed in these peaceful, photogenic, parapolitical revolutions. I don't know if they used color back then, but the Indian independence movement would have looked good under the banner of saffron. Oops ... just came back from google ... the current Myanmar people's movement has the saffron banner. Of course, if you look deeper into it, you'll find TPTB playing both sides of the game, e.g. (1) providing money and arms to the oppressors of the Karenni people (2) providing saffron stickers, banners, and a Nobel pedigree to one of the defenders of the Karenni people (Aung San Suu Kyi). But what do the Karenni people themselves get besides fear and the reality of survival? (reality, not the reality show)

You see, friend: what appears abundantly on the surface of a polluted pond ... is scum. Gandhi may have been a green frog stranded on a lily pad floating on the polluted pond of British India (made toxic by British imperialism; with the toxicity primarily at the top). Alas, if Gandhi had stayed in the cleaner waters below the scum, we would have never heard of him. Located properly back on the lily pad, then, to get from pad to pad, Gandhi would have had but two options: (1) to jump over the scum or (2) to swim under and/or through it. We would like to think he always chose the jump; but there were times when he swam and not always under the scum. Ultimately, MSM portrayal of Gandhi reflects the interests of TPTB at any given moment, either during the Indian quasi-independence era or even today. The real Gandhi (e.g. the one that may or may not reflect the interests of the people) can only be accessed via diligent and probing research, and discussion. But you've already indicated a lack of interest, at least here on Avalon, in that pursuit. Too bad, really. I would have loved to see the evidence behind your blanket support of Gandhi. And I would have loved for you to see the research that funds my less-than-flattering opinion of Gandhi.
Be that as it may.

As per your perspective on VIOLENT protests ... are you suggesting that the German demonstrators were being violent? If so, where is your evidence?




of course,violence is sometimes needed in order to defend oneself in extreme circumstances...those supporting these violent protests are deluded

Again, you allege violent protests by the German people ... I see no evidence. What evidence there is ... exposes not the people's propensity for violence, rather, the massive potential for violence by the police state (e.g. 17,000 human units dolled up in robot pads).

:typing:

[shiva777]

you're need to be "right" clouds your ability to see the point I am making....violence breeds violence that's all I'm saying....I could care less about debating Gandhi with you or wether many of the german protestors were looking for a fight

[Zook]

you're need to be "right" clouds your ability to see the point I am making....violence breeds violence that's all I'm saying....I could care less about debating Gandhi with you or wether many of the german protestors were looking for a fight

You probably don't see it, friend ... but you have a gift for the ad hominem. If you can't or won't debate the points at hand, fine. Leave it be. I wasn't demanding anything from you. You posted something. I gave Avalonians my own perspective on that "something". I certainly didn't come to Avalon for vanity, as you - in your standard of politeness - suggest. I came for truths and intelligent discussion.

For a person who chats up the inner spirit, ascension energy, positive karma chameleon ... you sure do deposit a lot of turbulence in the passage of your sail. Perhaps if you cared enough to debate some of the points you put forward, as opposed to merely putting the points forward and sailing away ... perhaps you might be rewarded with something greater than your own mouth talking to your ears.

As for the thread title topic, you maligned the German protesters. I don't think I was wrong in asking you for a fact check (e.g. to determine whether you were justified in your condemnation). By publicly maligning the German protesters, you joined your inner world with the outer world. When this happens, the outer world has a right to make its rebuttal. No?

:typing:

ps: Respect is a two-way street, friend. I'm a gentle soul and I bear no grudges, even now. But if you truly understand that violence begets violence, why is it that you are initiating verbal violence here in this thread? Surely you understand that what you have written ('your need to be right' and 'I could care less about debating [...] with you') ... can hardly be described as anything other than acts of verbal violence.

[fifi]

German Protest May Have Captured Public Imagination

Source: http://stevebeckow.com/2010/11/16/german-protest-may-have-captured-public-imagination/

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November 2010 is proving to a watershed. First, the Tea Party Movement in the USA won significant victories in midterm elections; their newly-elected Senator Rand Paul has already started to call for an end to big spending on foreign wars and a soaring national debt and so challenge the Globalist agenda http://www.infowars.com/rand-paul-gop-must-consider-military-spending-cuts/

And in Germany a protest against the authoritarian Berlin government unequalled in scale and drawing support from all sections of society, has ended with an unparelleled victory. It is true that the nuclear waste which was the immediate focus of the protest finally reached its destination in Gorleben this morning. But what happened in the preceding 48 hours has changed the political landscape.

The Berlin academic Klaus Hurrelmann said the protests were a “spark from which a new political movement can grow.“

How long until a new political movement is born that gives a voice to the people and restores their freedom and rights?

„There is a feeling that those on top just do whatever they want and consider the people to be stupid. We won’t put up with that. We’re going to get involved,“ sociologist Dieter Rucht said, summing up the feeling of the people of Germany.

The police operation against the protestors in Wendland went on for more than two days and night without a break. It took two days and nights for the police to beat clear a path for the transport of nuclear waste to a depot in Gorleben, northern Germany.
The police had to fight for every inch of the railway track, for every inch of the road, for every crossing and for every track through the woods. No one took a step back. And if the police finally cleared the last 4,000 protestors this morning from the road to allow the convoy of trucks laden with Castor containers to trundle into Gorleben depot, it was only because there were a staggering 20,000 police officers, hundreds of police cars, helicopters, mounted police deployed.

But not even the sheer numbers would have been enough in the face of such determined, organised and creative resistance. The police literally had to beat the protestors out of the way and they did so with incredible brutality.

Medical personnel treating injured activists were themselves beaten by the police, reported Gabriele Pelce. Police even stopped medics bringing a woman in Leitstade whose leg had been broken to hospital, forcing her to lie in agony in the freezing cold. Protestors who had climbed a tree where brought down with tear gas and beaten with batons when they fell to the ground. At least 1000 people suffered injuries. The brutality of the police seemed to know no bounds Fingers were smashed with blows. Faces bled from punches to the head.

The police chiefs clearly reckoned that no civilians could or would withstand the assaults with batons, pepper spray and the tear gas, or stand up to such punishment. They thought that the people – school children, students, the elderly protesting on behalf of their children at work– would crack under the relentless harrassment, the threats of arrest and imprisonment, the freezing cold, the tear gas, batons, horses, helicopters, water cannon, dogs as well as the relentless glare of the floodlights that made the wood as bright as day at midnight.

But everyone stood their ground and now the whole country talks about the protestors with deep respsect – a respect that no single politician has been talked about for years.

At stake was not just the nuclear policy of the government, rejected by the overwhelming majority of the people and profiting just a handful of corporations. At stake was the whole issue of whether Germany is still a democracy in which the government follows the will of the people or an authoritarian police state run by corporations and banks for their profit.

As in Stuttgart it was the ordinary people who came out in force to defend democracy. In Stuttgart, it was the students, schoolchildren, the elderly, teachers, doctors, the farmers, lawyers, artists who stood up against particular corporate interests and corrupt politicians.

The protests in Wendland mark another high water mark. Again, ordinary people turned out in force to defend democracy and the principles of freedom with unflinching determination and courage.

The police lashed out wildly at protestors. Yet it was the police who became exhausted and who broke down sooner, their morale in shreds, their nerves worn out. It was the police who ended up discredited for fighting for the coporations like hired mercenaries.

Even Konrad Freiberg from the police union GdP today attacked the decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel to push through the extension of nuclear energy in spite of a legally binding agreement to phase it out as ”a highpoint of fatal political paths of error.”

“It was a huge political error to unilaterally cancel the consensus on nuclear energy that had been formed with so much difficulty,” he said.

Freiberg accused the government of pushing the police into the role of “those who help accomplish the retention of power by politicians.”

He said that the “intransparent, contradictory politics of the government that appears one-sided and favourable [to corporations]” is driving citizens “rightly” onto the streets.

There was something really awe inspiring and amazing in the willingness of so many people from all walks of life to stand together and work together for the common good. Five Greenpeace activists held up the transport by road for hours yesterday by chaining themselves to a steel pipe in the road inside a lorry. Four farmers chained themselves to a pyramid. Every part of wendland, every village, every farm, every inn, every shop became a unit in the line of defence, and bore the brunt of the attack by the corporate-controlled government on the fundamental principles of a democratic state and yet their hearts and nerves did not fail them. 600 tractors skillfully repulsed the advancing columns of water cannon trucks and police cars bringing reinforcements. Other farmers drove sheep and goats onto the road to block the police. The local post office set up a branch close to the main base of the resistance and helped people to send postcards. These were the kind of people that stood in the line of the main attack.

None of the people will be the same again. Germany will surely never be the same again. Their intelligent, creative and effective resistance will never be forgotten.

The protestors showed an astonishing good humour, courage and powers of endurance, singing songs, playing music, sharing food and blankets, buoyed by bonds of solidarity and support from the general public. Thanks to intelligent organisation and logistics, they created in the bleak and muddy woods, turning gold in autumn, an efficient and homely camp with a field kitchen, a pizza oven, and hot soup. There they planned their blockades, pouring over maps, communicating with the world via sms, ready to fight for freedom with an unshakeable committement, incredible resourcefulness and a a readiness for sacrifice that was amazing.

Anyone has had to sleep outside for even one night in subzero temperatures in the rain will understand what spending 48 hours outdoors in the muddy woods of northern Germany means. And then, on top of that, to have to face the massed ranks of the police, see the horses and hear the thuds of the truncheons, the shouts, and with hardly any sleep.

Their protest capturing the imagination and sympathy of the general public has left the government even more isolated and the corproate clique who run the country, whose leading figures belong to bizarre little freemason lodges with eccentric beliefs in some super race that they do not belong to if there were ever such a thing, and who rely on the brute force of the police, and on brainwashing by the the controlled media to push through their agenda in a very precarious position.

The defense of democracy and freedom has come not from the political parties, not from organisation such as Amnesty Internation. This defense againt the globalist totalitarian agenda has come from the ordinary people, who mobilised, who came out onto the streets, and who would not be beaten and intimidated.

The ordinary people were ready to brave the cold and rain, to walk for kilometres through woods, to be beaten by police, and to raise their banners over and over again after they were ripped from their hands, to be assualted with pepper spray, freeze in the night time, sit in blockades, to endure spartan conditions for freedom. Conscious of the risks, knowing the dangers they would face, they had come well prepared, wearing thick clothes, bringing sleeping backs, practising blockades for the time when the police would “lift them”.

The courage and friendly concern of the protestors as they faced the clatter of boots, the thuds of the truncheons, the sound of helicopters high up in the night car, the sirens of police cars has proven so effective that they have brought the police state to its knees. Together these people repulsed the concerted attempt by the corporations to leverage the police forces to ram through their take over of the political structures and economy and establish a Germany where the people are to work and pay taxes, to fight in the armies and kill and be killed for the profits of the corporations and have absolutely no say.

The police know better than anyone how stubbornly the people resisted. The people had to be dragged away into camps, refusing to walk inspite of the fact that they could have walked away and gone home. Thy preferred to spend the night in subzero temperatures out in the open in an improvised prison surrounded by police vehicles than to get to their feet on the orders of the police. They preferred to sleep in the mud and frost in blankets and with no waste or food and suffer hypothermia than to march on the orders of the police. These were people who were ready to endure yet another night in the freezing cold rather than give up to the authoritarian police state.

It is a moot question where so much courage, community spirit and strength was forged. A glance at Tacitus’s book Germania gives a clue. He describes the tribes inhabiting northern Germany in a way that would seem to fit the protestors.

„A region so vast, the Chaucians do not only possess but fill; a people of all the Germans the most noble, such as would rather maintain their grandeur by justice than violence. They live in repose, retired from broils abroad, void of avidity to possess more, free from a spirit of domineering over others. They provoke no wars, they ravage no countries, they pursue no plunder. Of their bravery and power, the chief evidence arises from hence, that, without wronging or oppressing others, they are come to be superior to all. Yet they are all ready to arm, and if an exigency require, armies are presently raised, powerful and abounding as they are in men and horses; and even when they are quiet and their weapons laid aside, their credit and name continue equally high,” Tacitus wrote 2000 years ago.

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[kcw_one]

Violent or not, these "protesters" are out there doing something. Though I have doubts about opposing anything, really. It's sort of like a tug o' war -- intense energy expended on both opposing sides resulting in very little movement. Maybe if more of this energy were devoted to being FOR something rather than AGAINST all of these things, some more progress could be made. Spend lots of energy tearing down a wall, or just a little climbing over it.

[xbusymom]

Interesting. What's also interesting is the 333 created by their helmets in the photo, but that's another discussion, lol.

you guys crack me up - LOL, ... if that is squad #3 then every cop has a 3 on his hat and I can just imagine widening the picture lens a bit ... it would be the number 3333333333333... so what would that mean?:rolleyes: