“Greg Palkot of Foxnews said that it was a mixture of lower middle class protesters and leftwingers. I believe that.”
I think you are right.
What is interesting, that I haven’t read anywhere, it the UN (uh French) government didn’t react as near as strongly against the Muslim (uh immigrant) protesters in earlier riots.
Somebody posted on another article, on another site that in their view the government wasn’t as concerned about global warming as it was about obtaining the additional tax revenue generated by the diesel tax. That struck me as ringing true as well. I had never thought of it that way, I thought global warming was was mainly about control. The governments have pledged and spent too much money and are short on revenue. Global warming is just the boogieman to justify high taxes to the masses to save the world. It used to be witch doctors and now we have moved to multivariate analysis.
” Global warming is just the boogieman to justify high taxes to the masses to save the world.”
My Grandfather went through the Russian Revolution. They were poor peasant farmers and when the Bolsheviks came through their town they took all their food and livestock. The Bols kept yelling “For the people. For the children.”
Manipulate then steal then control.
Another angle that has been posted before, but bears repeated circulation: