Entire towns and cities are now out on the streets in Ireland opposing their far-left government
The Irish have had enough!
“Ordinary Irish people — farmers, truckers, bus drivers — by the thousand have taken to the streets to protest high fuel taxes. They’ve blocked highways, a port, a refinery and even streets in the heart of Ireland’s capital.”
Here is more from Rebel News in Ireland:
🚨 What I saw at the Irish trucker convoy today
Thousands of farmers and truckers bring Dublin to a standstill over soaring fuel taxes, as tensions rise between grassroots protesters and a government now under pressure to respond.
It’s 12 noon here in Dublin, Ireland. My videographer @EFloresMonsanto and I (@EzraLevant) flew all night from Canada because we could sense something very special happening — very special and very dangerous.
Ordinary Irish people — farmers, truckers, bus drivers — by the thousand have taken to the streets to protest high fuel taxes. They’ve blocked highways, a port, a refinery and even streets in the heart of Ireland’s capital.
They’re ordinary people with few friends in powerful places. Everyone’s against them — the political class, the media, Ireland’s countless NGOs. Everyone’s against them, except the people.
That’s the special part.
The dangerous part is obvious: these truckers and farmers are embarrassing Ireland’s political class. And there’s nothing politicians hate more than being embarrassed. Remember, that’s what spurred Justin Trudeau to invoke martial law against Canada’s trucker convoy: they embarrassed him, especially on the world stage. So he jailed them and seized their bank accounts.
Will that happen to these lovely truckers and farmers?
Here on the streets of Dublin, it’s calm. There are police around, but they’re casual and friendly. No riot gear, no snipers on rooftops. Many of the police support the call for lower fuel taxes. (Even the customs policeman who processed us at the airport said he supported the protesters.) But Ireland’s most senior politicians have threatened to deploy the army against the truckers and farmers. That’s downright shocking, especially compared to how meekly Ireland’s politicians treat illegal migrants who are convicted of crimes. Why do they reserve their rage for their own countrymen who are peacefully pleading for lower fuel taxes so they can continue to farm and feed the nation?
That’s the dangerous part: angry politicians, backed into a corner.
I’m told that, early this afternoon, senior government officials have agreed to meet with some of the protest organizers. That sounds promising — you’ll recall that Trudeau absolutely refused to meet with the truckers. In fact, he denounced them as racist.
I spoke with James Geoghegan, one of the protest leaders.
We’ll find out soon if the politicians blink and lower their fuel taxes — or if they’re just toying with the farmers. I promise I’ll keep you posted.
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The anti-Irish Globalists have lost control.
EPIC BACKFIRE IN IRELAND
The Irish Government sent in the MILITARY to CRUSH fuel protesters…but the Crowds EXPLODED in size. Now, huge parts of the country are RUNNING OUT OF FUEL.
Their Globalist Regime has COMPLETELY LOST CONTROL
Irish hero and former UFC champion, Coner McGregor shared the following:
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Irish Fuel Protests Growing, Some Protest Leaders Denied Entry to Government Meeting
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If there was any way to handle this badly, the Irish government is determined to do so. You would almost think that they have no clue who they’re dealing with.
As I told you yesterday, three days of fuel protests had grown into gridlock on city streets as bus drivers walked off in sympathy, snarls on the roads and highways as convoys of trackers, trucks, and participants crept along blocking traffic, or stopping completely. In some areas, abandoned cars added to the pile of vehicles as frustrated workers or airline travelers left the highways on foot to get to a job or pray they could catch a flight if they could hike to the airport in time.
Rings of organized protestors blockaded fuel ports and depots, and lines of cars hoping to fill up at gas stations that still had fuel added to the general misery of the situation for many.
The government refused to meet with any of the leaders of the various organizations involved, as they weren’t ‘sanctioned’ by the government, and, by yesterday morning, officials had called out the military in addition to the Gardai and local law enforcement in order to start yanking vehicles out of blockades, adding a very snippy note not to come crying if your car gets scratched as they do so.
The one hopeful bit of news came late yesterday, when word broke that the government was bending enough to hold a ‘large meeting,’ with many of the protest leaders scheduled to attend for a communal phone call. Accordingly, some of the depot blockades were lifted in order to allow desperately needed diesel and fuel deliveries to area stations and farms. Gesture of good faith, quid pro quo.
The last major news was when a large contingent of motorcyclists announced they would be joining the protest in Dublin on Friday morning, before the meeting.
Everyone settled in to wait, and it was peaceful but tense overnight. The Gardai were heavy ladeling out threats of intimidation, fines, and arrest to folks they encountered.
It appears that my guess that the call-up of the army would fuel further growth in the numbers of protestors and events is proving prescient. The government’s own actions are feeding the already simmering resentment.
Yesterday, commentator Michael McCarthy posted a crowdfunder to buy a coffee for the fuel protesters. He set a target of €3,000. Within hours, it had reached €70,000.
Last night, RTÉ’s Prime Time said that the threat made by Government of putting the Army on the streets against its own people seemed to have boosted the numbers protesting. In Gorey, musicians showed their support for the neighbours and friends: tunes reverbing amidst the tractors and trucks and families gathered in support. Those scenes were replicated across the country as the demonstrations passed the night and entered their fourth day.
The quiet anger and sense of desperation amongst the ordinary men and women driving their lorries and tractors has struck a chord with the public precisely because the impact of carbon taxes on the spiralling cost of fuel impacts everyone, and the truth is that the government is being dishonest when it says it can do no more.
In fact, this week we saw government representatives swinging wildly between boasting that they are steering the best/richest/fastest-growing economy in Europe and then pleading poverty when it comes to scrapping carbon tax – a tax levied despite huge public opposition according to polling. It’s important to remember that this cobbled-together Government – the same people threatening the protesters with the Army – have no actual electorate mandate for their policy of more than doubling the price of fuel with taxes and levies.
They’ve got away with it thus far using their usual tactic: pleading the EU and ‘international obligations’, and then shouting that the world is on fire and the Irish must buckle and live in caves even as the Chinese, and the Germans, keep burning coal. And, as ever, they are now relying on the political tactics of attack and deflect to try to undermine the furl protesters. But this time, so far, it isn’t working.
TO TAKE US OFF THE STREET AS IF WE WERE PEASANTS
At the Whitegate Refinery in Cork this morning, the protestors were there in large numbers, with linked arms and tightly packed bodies.
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