If the city can steal a carriage – do we have the right to remove the mayor’s car?
Our Plaan B team’s carriage, which was a peaceful symbol and an expression of citizen protest, disappeared from the cityscape as if by magic.
No warning.
No notice.
No contact with the owner.
Just gone. Like people during Stalin’s time.
It was officially placed. In public space. Legally.
But apparently, the message didn’t sit well with someone. And that meant it had to be removed. Or, in more delicate terms: relocated.
🤔 But now imagine if the roles were reversed…
We don’t like Mayor Urmas Klaas’s official car.
It symbolizes a power that remains silent when the people speak.
It symbolizes a system that doesn’t listen or respond.
And then we… relocate the car.
We take it away.
We leave no notice. We don’t call.
We simply say:
“We didn’t like it. Nothing personal.”
🤯 Sounds absurd, right? But this is exactly the precedent set by Tartu City Government.
When those in power decide that a symbol doesn’t fit their worldview, it doesn’t matter who owns it, what it represents, or whether they even have the right to remove it.
The city just takes it away.
And if you ask why?
There is no answer.
Silence. Silence. Silence.
And maybe some official, convoluted response whose real meaning is: “Because we can.”
🧻 The carriage symbolized opposition to Tartu’s current state – a silent power that cannot tolerate criticism.
They didn’t just steal a wagon.
They stole the possibility to see that things could be different.
That the city could be open, diverse, witty, and alive.
But the current leaders of Tartu want silence.
And when someone speaks – even in the form of a horse-drawn carriage – it is removed.
But abandoned wrecks, not to mention bigger problems in the city, are left untouched.
Because those aren’t politically inconvenient for city officials.
🟠 30 years of Reform Party rule in Tartu.
Has it created a city where people feel they belong and are heard?
Or a city where symbols are silently removed because they don’t fit the official aesthetic?
If 30 years in power means you can’t tolerate a single wooden carriage,
then it’s time to ask a much bigger question:
❗️Dear city government, we have questions for you:
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Under what law was the Plaan B carriage removed?
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Who gave the order to do so?
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Where is the carriage now, and in what condition?
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Do the laws only apply when they are convenient for those in power?
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Can we, by the same logic, remove the mayor’s car – because the people don’t like it?
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Has 30 years of party rule turned the Tartu city government into a private club?
✊ We don’t want your cars.
We don’t want to be silenced.
We aren’t asking for too much.
We are asking for answers.
And until we get them, Tartu’s question remains unanswered:
If the people’s carriage doesn’t belong in this city, do the PEOPLE themselves still belong here?
#WhereIsTheCarriage #PlaanB #Tartu2025 #RelocatedTruth #30YearsIsEnough #FreedomCannotBeStolen
/Andro Roos, Chairman of the Board, Tartu Savings and Loan Association/
