German people in unprecedented rebellion against government
1000 injured in nuclear protests, police at breaking point
1000人在核抗議活動中受傷，警方在爆發點
By Jane Burgermeister –
November 8, 2010
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.
But by Sunday night, those same police officers were begging the protestors for a respite.
Trapped in black, icy woods without supplies or reinforcements able to reach them because of blockades by a mobile fleet of farmer’s tractors, the exhausted and hungry police officers requested negotiations with the protestors. A water cannon truck was blocked by tractors, and yet the police still had to clear 5000 people lying on the railway track at Harlingen in pitch darkness. The largest ever police operation had descended into chaos and confusion in the autumn woods of Lower Saxony, defeated by the courage and determination of peaceful protestors who marched for miles through woods to find places to lie down on the tracks and to scoop out gravel to delay the progress of the “the train from hell.”
The police union head Reiner Wendt gave vent to the general frustration when he issued a press statement via the DPA news agency last night saying the police had reached exhaustion point and needed a break. Behind the scenes, a battle seemed to be raging between the police chiefs, tucked up in their warm headquarters urging more action, and the exhausted officers on the ground.
The police on the ground won out. The Castor train – called a “Chernobyl on wheels” because it has been carrying 133 tonnes of highly radioactive waste to an unsafe depot – was stopped in the middle of the countryside and Nato barbed wire was placed around it. Lit by floodlights and guarded by a handful of police, the most dangerous train on the planet was forced to a halt after a 63 hour journey across France and Germany.
The defeat of the legions at Teutoburg marked the end of the attempt by the Roman empire to conquer Germania magna. And the failure of the biggest ever police operation two thousand years later in the woods of Lower Saxony to tame women, elderly people and school children protesting the government’s nuclear policy, could well also go down as a turning point.
The Berlin government can no longer rely on the discredited mainstream media to control the way people see issues. Too many people recognise it to be a tool of propaganda. The government now needs to resort to brute force to bludgeon through decisions that enrich corporations and banks and impoverish everyone else. But the police forces at its disposal are simply not sufficient given the scale of the protests now gripping Germany. Only 1,500 police reinforcements could be mustered on Morning from the entire territory to deal with road blockades by thousands of protestors aiming to delay the transport of the nuclear waste on the final leg of its journey.
The police officers were exhausted after shifts of 24 hours or more, often without any food or just a cappucino and snack bar, and they had nothing to look forward to but more of the same drudgery after a night spent four to a room in a Youth Hostel.
http://newsticker.sueddeutsche.de/list/id/1065325
A leading figure in a German police police union Bernard Witthaut today even lashed out at the government for trying to drive through unpopular policies using the police.
“Whether in Stuttgart or in Wendland today my colleagues are simply not getting out of their anti riot gear because of the wrong decisions by the government,” he said.
Many police officers also expressed sympathy with the protestors’ aims.
The question now is: how long can the use of police to bludgeon protestors continue when the protests are reaching this scale? How long can Germany be governed by a semi authoritarian regime using brute force when the force at its disposal is so small? The German army cannot be deployed on this kind of mission without sparking even more outrage. A false flag terrorist operation will hardly wash when the people are so fed up with the government lies and the media lies. EU soldiers will find it hard to deal with the Germans. The German and EU secret police cannot infiltrate all of the protestor’s organizations when there are simply so many.
The German people as a whole are on the march.
“Citizens in rebellion,” shouted a TAZ headline.
“Civil war in Wendtand,” fumed Bild.
NGO chief Kersin Rudek spoke for many when she said:
“We have lost faith in the government until they prove that their politics is for the people and not for the corporations.”
She talked about the “anger” among people at the “arrogance of the political class.”
As in the Stuttgart 21 railway protests, it was people from all walks of life, a genuine grass roots movement, that arrived in Wendland to protest the decision by the CDU/CSU/FDP government to ignore a legally binding deadline to phase out nuclear power. Against the wishes of the majority, Bilderberg Chancellor Angela Merkel announced this autumn that 17 reactors would continue for another 12 years at gigantic cost to the tax payer in subsidies.
The tax payers of Lower Saxony even have to foot the bill of 50 million euro for the police operation to protect the nuclear waste – and not the electricity companies making a fortune from the extravagant energy source [which is associated with France's WMD program] while the government keeps investments in ground-breaking new renewable energy technologies such as the third generation solar cells at a negligible amount.
As in Stutggart, the police used savage force against peaceful demonstrators reinforcing the impression of a government out of control and refusing to respect the basic democratic right of people to hold protests without being beaten to a pulp. Videos of the Castor transport on Sunday show police beating people with their truncheons, punching them and throwing them to the ground. Police also used tear gas, pepper spray and water canon.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,727706,00.html
One clip shows a police officer using his fist to punch a man lying on the railway track in the head.
一段錄像顯示一名警察用拳頭猛擊一名躺在鐵軌男子的頭部。
*GERMAN PEOPLE AWAKE* Nuclear Waste Train Stopped as Police Cry for their Mommies
*德國人民覺醒*核廢料火車停下當警察為他們的媽媽哭了
西元2010年11月09日
About a 1000 people were injured, it is reported. 950 people are reported to have suffered eye injuries due to pepper spray and tear gas, according to a spokesperson of “Castor schottern”. Another sixteen protestors suffered broken bones. There were 29 severe head wounds. Two people had to be taken to hospital.
http://www.ftd.de/politik/deutschland/:live-ticker-zum-atomprotest-castor-gegner-beklagen-1000-verletzte/50192073.html
One person had to be taken by helicopter after suffering multiple bone fractures after being trampled by a police horse.
But as in Stuttgart, the people did not give up in spite of the risk of savage beatings at the hands of the police. They insisted on their civic right enshrined in the constitution to hold peaceful political protests.
More than 50,000 people from all parts of the country and all walks of life attended a rally on a field close to Dannenberg. Thousands then marched through the autumn woods, splitting into small groups to descend into the valley, break through police lines to chain themselves to the rails or remove gravel from the tracks to delay the train.
According to Spiegel, 7000 people alone took part in the road and railway blockades.
An armoured police car was set on fire by masked men but it is not clear if this was an agent pravocateur acting to discredit the protestors. A video shows a man able to walk up to the armoured car and set it alight unhindered.
The overwhelming number of protestors were peaceful.
In spite of the sub zero temperatures and ground frost, up to 5000 protestors lay down on the railway tracks at Harlingen late in the evening and refused to move. Supplies of hot tea, food and blankets were brought to them by mobile kitchens. Fires were lit to help stay warm.
The police worked from midnight until 7 am to clear protestors blocking the track, dragging many to an open air “prison concentration camp” where people were forced to sleep in fields surrounded by police trucks.
This morning, the protestors have regrouped today and thousands are reported to be preparing to block the transport by road of the nculear waste from Dannenberg to Gorleben.
http://www.bild.de/BILD/politik/2010/11/08/castor-transport-nach-gorleben/behaelter-werden-umgeladen-jetzt-droht-strassen-terror.html
The organisers of the protest kept journalists and the public informed using live tickers, press releases and at Infopoints so that the whole country could follow the events outside the mainstream media. Radio Wendland is also broadcasting updates on the incredibly heroic resistance of so many people. At great personal risk, tens of thousands of people gave an example of courageous and peaceful non-violent resistance that will surely go down in history.
If this is the resistance for Castor and Stuttgart 21, just imagine what will happen when Germans finally grasp the scale of the banking scam being carried out by their “elite.”
The CDU/CSU/FDP government has already hit record lows in the polls and after Sunday’s savage police operation against peaceful protestors, support for them is sure to plummet further.
The feudal lords without a feudal army to push through their agenda of robbery are facing the end of the road now that their media propaganda apparatus based on the Springer and Bertelsmann empire is falling apart and their strategy of divide and rule through a false left/right political paradigm is no longer working.
A new freedom and power was born in the woods of Wendland. And it belonged to the people who have had enough of the arrogant authoritarian political class.
Anti-Nuclear Activists Clash with Police: Toxic Waste NOT Welcome in Germany [RT]
反核活躍人士與警方衝突：有毒廢物不受德國歡迎 [RT]
西元2010年11月07日
http://alethonews.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/german-people-in-unprecedented-rebellion-against-government/
拒收核廢料 德警民激烈對峙
(路透)2010年11月8日 星期一 10:51
（路透德國 丹能貝格7路透電）德國警察今天以警棍和催淚瓦斯驅逐佔據鐵軌的反核人士，他們試圖阻止核廢料送往儲藏掩埋場，與警方爆發衝突。
警方表示，今天數千名抗議人士與1萬7000名警察對峙一整天，導致154噸核廢料的運送耽誤逾10小時之久。
約3000名活躍人士今天晚上坐在丹能貝格鎮（Dannenberg）外的鐵軌，進一步延誤核廢料的運送。核廢料預計明天才會運抵終點站─戈萊本鎮（Gorleben）的掩埋場。
警方發言人雷蒙丹（Aachim von Remmenden）告訴「德國第二電視台」（ZDF television）：「我們預計還會發生更多暴力事件。」他說：「這十分不幸，因為多數抗議人士都十分和平。」
德國原計劃於2021年終結核能發電，但總理梅克爾（Angela Merkel）的執政團隊不顧多數民眾反對，決定把境內17座核能發電廠的壽命延長約12年。德國有23%的電力來自核能發電。中央社（翻譯）
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/101108/21/l4xl.html
德反核份子阻運核廢料爆衝突12傷
(星島)2010年11月8日 星期一 10:02
德國北部城市丹嫩貝格，繼續有反核份子示威，並阻止運載核廢料的火車，將核廢料運回當地儲存，與防暴警察爆發衝突，12名示威者受傷。
事發在北部城鎮丹嫩貝格附近，大約4000名示威者，企圖闖入火車經過的一個森林，其中200多名反核人士突破防線，手拉手坐在火車軌上，令列車一度要停駛，期間與在場的防暴警察爆發激列衝突，有示威者向警方的車輛潑易燃液體縱火，警方發射水炮和胡椒噴霧驅散人群，示威者最終被警員帶走。
發起阻截行動的組織表示，有12名示威者受傷。示威者最後被驅散，而載有123噸核廢料的火車，最後順利去到丹嫩貝格，之後會用貨車送去儲存。
核廢料其實都是來自德國的核電廠，每年都會運往法國處理，然後再運返德國儲存。但近年，當地每年都有反核人士阻截運載核廢料火車，藉此反對政府的核電政策。
自從1986年前蘇聯切爾諾貝爾核電廠爆炸後，在德國停止使用核能發電的呼聲便愈來愈大，政府亦曾經承諾於2021年前關閉境內所有核電廠。但總理默克爾最近又決定延長境內17座核電廠多運作12年，引發反核人士不滿。
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/article/101108/3/l4wa.html
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