'Chaos Enveloping Cities Across The Netherlands': Fears Of Civil War As Breaking Point Reached

Netherlands Could Be Headed to Civil War Over Lockdowns

Kipp Jones 

The mayor of one of the largest cities in the Netherlands is predicting that a showdown between citizens forced into lockdowns and those behind the institution of those lockdowns could spark a “civil war.”

Many Dutch citizens are apparently not taking too well to being forced into halting their lives almost a year into the coronavirus pandemic. Protests against lockdowns, curfews and other mandates have descended into full-scale riots between citizens and police officers in recent days, according to numerous reports.

The Sun reported cars are being burned, stores looted and police officers attacked across the country. Fires are raging now nightly as the populace is rising up against the government, and neither side has backed down.

John Jorritsma, the mayor of Eindhoven, which is the country’s fifth-largest city, predicted a potentially dark outcome on Tuesday.

After using not-so-cooled language, such as branding the anti-lockdown activists as “the scum of the earth,” Jorritsma told reporters at a media briefing that the country could face a civil war.

“I am afraid that if we continue down this path, we’re on our way to civil war,” Jorritsma said. The mayor added during the briefing, “My city is crying, and so am I.”

The situation is tense, with chaos enveloping cities across the Netherlands nightly this week, just after sunset. Hundreds have been arrested, although no deaths have been reported thus far.

The New York Post reported 10 police officers have been injured as the riots have taken over 20 cities this week. The country has instituted a curfew for the first time since World War II, which actually preceded the violence.

That curfew allows only essential workers to leave their homes between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m. The curfew came as citizens were already burdened by the closures of businesses that were deemed nonessential.

The revolt against Dutch COVID restrictions appears to be the largest, most coordinated and most anger-fueled organized resistance to lockdowns seen in the Western world thus far. Of course, it’s difficult to condone those who are burning cars and injuring cops, but at a certain point, people will reach their breaking point. The Dutch have reached theirs. It’s apparently 1776 in Eindhoven.