Outnumbered but not outgunned, the European Union’s regimes supported by the mainstream media and State Police face increasing citizen unrest over repression of human rights.

A mass protest by around 5,000 Portuguese people in the capital, Lisbon, on Saturday, saw calls for greater individual and social freedom. Those attending were campaigning against the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. Many of them voiced the belief that the majority of those infected by the virus will recover anyway.

Their protest began in Parque Edward VIII and moved on down Avenida da Liberdade, stopping in Rossio, where the assembled crowds sang patriotic songs and gave speeches, with the press reporting that the majority were not wearing masks or keeping a safe social distance.

Banners made for the rebellious event were emblazoned with slogans like ‘Covid-1984’,  ‘Give our Freedom back’, ‘Leave the kids alone’, ‘the media is the virus’, and ‘experimental vaccines: we will not be guinea pigs’.

These were not a small band of foreign residents; they were predominantly Portuguese people, singing the traditional songs of protest like Zeca Afonso’s ‘Grandola Vila Morena’.

The event had been organised over social media, and attracted people from many corners of the country, the Algarve included and was timed to coincide with similar events that went ahead in other capital cities throughout the world, with one of the participants saying, ‘The vibe was fantastic, thousands of people smiling and feeling free’.

Interestingly, PSP police accompanied the event but there were very few incidents reported, and according to people taking part in the demo, the police presence was not in the least bit oppressive.

This was not the case in Angela Merkel’s globalist Germany. Multiple scuffles broke out on the streets of Kassel, Germany as Covid-19 lockdown sceptics dubbed conspiracy theorists by government-sponsored mainstream media gathered. Germany’s notoriously vicious left-wing police gangs deployed mace and batons to contain the citizen demonstration.

Protests against Covid-19 restrictions in multiple major cities across the country were planned for Saturday. The biggest occurred in the central German city of Kassel. According to local media reports, citing police, at least 10,000 people showed up for a rally there, many of them refusing to wear masks. 

Note that a rule of the thumb guide is that mainstream media in collaboration with the state police infamously massage the numbers of protesters down by two-thirds. In this case, and judging from the independent video coverage, 30,000 citizens turned up to protest repression in Kassel.

Such figures far exceed the numbers who protested the Communist occupation of East Germany during the period of the Soviet Bloc. Interestingly, the marching protesters chanted ‘Wir sind das Volk’ (We are the people) at one point, a slogan commonly used in the past during anti-communism demonstrations in East Germany. Protesters also carried signs reading ‘Corona Rebels’ and ‘End the Lockdown.’

Pro-Merkel Anti-Fascist and leftist counter-protesters also took to the streets and footage from the event shows scuffles breaking out between the two groups, as well as pushing matches between demonstrators and police officers wearing riot gear. Police admitted to using pepper spray, batons, and even a water cannon to keep the protest contained as people tried breaking through barriers in place and began throwing objects like water bottles. 

Protests in Berlin and Munich were said by mainstream media to be smaller despite a police presence of nearly 2,000 waiting for them.

Meanwhile, in Bristol, England, great and seething angry protestors rallied against the Police, Crime Sentencing, and Courts Bill passed in the parliament. If the bill is adopted, it will give police more powers, such as the right to impose a start and finish time on demonstrations, including solo protests.

Watch a live broadcast from Bristol, UK, where activists have gathered on 21 March to protest against the proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing, and Courts Bill.

The bill passed its second reading in Parliament earlier this week and if adopted will increase police powers, including putting time limits on protests. Human rights groups, the UK arm of Amnesty International, and the Rights of Women campaign group have slammed the proposed legislation. 

In recent weeks, Britain has seen several rallies across the country following the murder of Sarah Everard. A Metropolitan Police officer was charged with kidnapping and murdering the 33-year-old. A vigil in her memory in London turned violent after some participants clashed with police as they were trying to disperse the crowd amid coronavirus restrictions, with people banned from gathering.  Source 1, Source 2.