the similarity between the current farmers' revolt in the Netherlands, and the Peasants War of 1798 in Belgium
and how this was connected with the declaration of the United States of Belgium ... with an American constitution
The current ongoing farmers revolt in the Netherlands has had a prequel 224 year ago. It was then called “ De Boerenkrijg” (the “Farmers War”), and an estimated 10.000 of the mostly Flemish farmers were killed during the course of it.
In this deposition will be argued that both events are linked with one another, but in a surprisingly different way then what most might think. The clues are hidden as always in the chronology of events.
Let’s put down the facts first:
1789 Start of the French revolution
1789 Victory of the Flemish on the Austrian Empire
1790 Austria reconquers Belgium
1793 Execution of Louis XVI
1794 France conquers a part of Belgium from Austria
1798 Start of the Peasants War against France
This chain of closely related events started as a matter of fact with the French Revolution, in 1789. Actually it started already with the American Revolution before that but we leave it out for the sake of clarity. About 4 years later this revolution ended with the execution of the last king, Louis XVI. This French revolution however almost immediately sparked a revolt in the now called Flanders (part of Belgium) headed by Jan Andries Van Der Mersch (born in West-Flanders). This war was an uprising of the local peoples of the Flanders region against the Austrian emperor Joseph II. This region was in fact part of the Austrian Empire.
So it was a revolt from the ethnic peoples against the rule of nobility and peoples that were hundreds of miles away from there. The people of Flanders wanted local democracy, and a bottom-up administration, not a top-down one, and keep their tax incomes to themselves and not for Vienna in Austria. Surprisingly that waged war against the omnipotent Austrian empire … was won by the Flanders peoples. They instantly declared independency and gave the new state the name of … the United States of Belgium ( in Dutch… it’s called ‘De Vereenigde Nederlandsche Staeten, but so we are talking about the part that is situated to the SOUTH of todays ‘The Netherlands’ ). And more interestingly, the unilateral treaty that became their de-facto constitution, was almost a copy of the first American Constitution. So this was a clear message to their Southern neighbor, the French Republique, that they wanted a different constitution and not the same like theirs…
Unfortunately their taste of freedom lasted for only 1 year. One year later in 1790 the Austrian Empire took back the lost region with just a few short battles. And then if that wasn’t enough yet, 7 years later in 1797 the then already French “Republique” took their chance and conquered the Flemish region … from the Austrian Empire. So again a change of power for the Flemish, but still nothing to do with a democracy bottom-up. Again they were ruled by leaders and peoples from hundreds of miles away. Now it was even worse. For instance France abolished the circulation of any currency in Flanders and replaced it by ‘assignations’ (couldn’t get my hands on an image of those). They couldn’t be traded so were worthless on the secondary market. Where have we heard that before … todays money of the people in the EU to be replaced by “digital euro’s” (has nothing to do with your digital saldo on your bank-account ! ) that will turn out to have … limited tradability, one will soon find out.
And so it happened, the tormented Flemish peoples took to the arms and started a new war now for the 2nd time, before it was against the Austrians, now against the French troops. Again trying create independence, local democracy, bottom-up administration. For the same reason like what’s happening now in the Netherlands. Peasants being terrorized and threatened in their survival on their own lands. By rulers and peoples from hundreds of miles away, with a culture that isn’t theirs. Like this also the farmers in the Netherlands are rising up against the dictates that come from an obscure group of very powerful individuals high up in the Alps of Switzerland, under the lead of Klaus Schwab and his WEF-vehicle. And their own leader in Den Hague only following up orders from his masters, with no connection anymore whatsoever to the soul of his country. The annihilation of all farmers and their culture is their end-goal. They are aware that they are “nothing but trouble-makers” that have almost caused a complete change in the course of European history by dreaming of the forbidden self-governance. But so 2 months later it was all over again, the French troops with professional arms were too strong for the farmers armed with forks and sickles. The emergence of an independent country within Europe with self-governance was unacceptable and had to be destroyed at all cost. The year is 1798. The Flemish peoples came now under the reign of Napoleon, and any dream of independence was far, far away. We make a jump, to the year 1830. What took place in this year, called the “Belgian Revolution”, wasn’t a revolution at-all. It was an orchestrated roll-out of a plan that had been in the making already for years. Every (educated) Belgian knows that this so-called revolution was a farce. It is common knowledge. It was nothing compared to the real revolution of Belgium in 1789, when so many farmers lost their lives. This has been the real fight for freedom, not the one of 1830. From 1830 onwards an (alien) king would be installed to rule over Belgium, a king that came from the same families that had been ruling over them forever. They had been deprived of their dream. An enlightened people that always wanted to have a constitution that was modelled on the American Constitution, which guaranteed an incomparable more far-reaching freedom then the treacherous monarchy constitution that was now imposed onto them. And today those farmers in the Netherlands are standing up again, with the same aspirations and the same combativeness, just like then in 1789, once again.