In the city of Nijmegen in the Netherlands we have a city council that consists of parties who have shown themselves to be rather ‘woke’. Parties like GroenLinks, Stadspartij Nijmegen en D66. There are a lot of plans in the making to roll out all kinds of ‘sustainable’ transformations in the near future.

There is a lot to be said about this, but since I prefer short articles in this project I only want to pay attention to the tricky way certain words are used. In the excerpt below a Councillor of Groen Links, a green party (1) explains why she thinks it is a good thing to forbid certain commercial vehicles from entering certain zones.

She says: “Should I convert my fossil vehicle to an electric or a hydrogen car?“

How do you like the sound of that? How does it make you feel? So, now you are driving a ‘fossil vehicle’ if you use fossil fuel? It gives me the feeling as if I am some kind of fossil too to be driving a fossil car. Fossil can be defined as “One that is outdated or antiquated“.

By using this terminology she implicitly seems to imply that such a car is outdated and should be targeted. I think we should be on high alert when people start using these kinds of words to forward their own 2030-agenda.

The story of Low Emission Zones reminds me of the Blade Runners in London who disabled about 100 cameras who were taking pictures of cars that ‘weren’t good enough or too fossil’ to enter certain zones (2).

FOOTNOTES
(1) Webinar zero-emissiezones 23 februari 2024
(2) https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/12/londons-ultra-low-emission-zone-is-widely-hated/

A phenomenon emerged in which disgruntled citizens started taking out their frustration on the ‘spying cameras’ – about a thousand cameras have been damaged or stolen over the last year alone.

That should give the authorities pause and make them rethink the strategy – but have they? NO.

It arises now that London Mayor Khan has hired a ‘goon squad of thugs – aggressive men dressed in black, with face tattoos and wearing skeleton balaclavas – to oppress the citizens in order to allegedly protect his hated ULEZ cameras while filming everything with body cameras.

The Transit for London agency (TfL) claims that the guards are held to ‘high standards of professionalism’ and that they were necessary to protect ULEZ cameras from the so-called ‘Blade Runners’.

Self-proclaimed ‘freedom fighters’, the ‘Blade Runners’ have channeled the widespread hatred for the expanded ULEZ, and have been successfully targeting the cameras, gaining something of a folk hero status by a sympathetic population.