Posted on 12/08/2018 8:06:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At least 700 people were arrested in Paris as 5,000 demonstrators faced off against 8,000 police in another violent demonstration by "yellow vest" protesters.
Riots broke out all over France despite the supposed cause of the violence being eliminated earlier in the week by the government of President Emmanuel Macron. The government had been claiming that a fuel tax increase was to blame for the protests, but the government rescinded the increase on Wednesday.
Donald Trump believes it was Macron's climate change policies:
But the protesters themselves were giving the real reason for the violence -- if anyone in Macron's government was listening.
"We are not here to destroy Paris, we are here to tell Macron we are f--king fed up," said one protester before the clashes with the police began, adding that the people are protesting ever-increasing taxes on the working class.
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Many protesters slammed the French media for portraying the protests as led by violent agitators and for siding with Macron's government.
"We are not black bloc [black clad anarchists], we are ordinary people voicing our anger," said a protester who did not want to be identified.
Meanwhile, the contagion has spread to neighboring Belgium and the Netherlands.
Belgian police fired tear gas and water cannons at yellow-vested protesters calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Charles Michel after they tried to breach a riot barricade, as the movement that started in France made its mark Saturday in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Protesters in Brussels threw paving stones, road signs, fireworks, flares and other objects at police blocking their entry to an area where Michel's offices, other government buildings and the parliament are located.
Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van de Keere said that around 400 protesters were gathered in the area.
About 100 were detained, many for carrying dangerous objects like fireworks or clothing that could be used as protection in clashes with police.
The reasons for the protests are not entirely clear. Neither Belgium nor the Netherlands has proposed a hike in fuel tax — the catalyst for the massive and destructive demonstrations in France in recent weeks.
Instead, protesters appeared to hail at least in part from a populist movement that is angry at government policy in general and what it sees as the widening gulf between mainstream politicians and the voters who put them in power. Some in Belgium appeared intent only on confronting police.
In the Dutch city of Rotterdam, a few hundred protesters in the high-visibility vests that have become a symbol of the movement walked peacefully across the downtown Erasmus Bridge singing a song about the Netherlands and handing flowers to passers-by.
Sisters Beb and Ieneke Lambermont, aged 76 and 67 respectively, were among them.
"Our children are hard-working people but they have to pay taxes everywhere. You can't get housing anymore. It is not going well in Dutch society," Ieneke said. "The social welfare net we grew up with is gone," she said.
"The government is not there for the people. It is there to protect its own interests," she said.
Are you listening, EU leaders?
The nationalist movements in Europe are not the stirrings of proto-fascists, or due to hatred for refugees. Certainly there is some of that sentiment present and it is worrisome. But the ordinary people who are paying for the grandiose schemes of the social planners in Brussels have had enough. And they are finally rising up to demand an end to it.
This is a continent-wide class protest, something Europe has been experiencing for more than 100 years. In that, there is nothing new.
What is new is that the grand social democratic experiment that began after the end of World War II may finally be coming to an end. Governments can only spend other people's money for so long before there is a backlash. I would say that the backlash is well underway.
Hint: these riots aren’t *really* about welfare, they’re about the overrunning of these countries with hostile criminal “migrants” from Africa and the ME.
Merkel is blaming Trump for the Break down in her New World Order
do you have a link about that?
No, long ago the Euros agreed to trade monetary reward for leisure, relative security and an infantile existence.
It was the trade off and all their brothers and sisters had the same expectations of life.
What changed is now they are paying it for hostile invaders. And they are expected to work more, longer and harder for these invaders who are actually living better than they are and making them unsafe.
THAT is the real story and the MSM is going to any length they can to fool you into thinking it's about this tax or that tax.
Mandatory civic duty is stupid and I would hate it as much as they do.
Bannon has given a number of excellent speeches and interviews. have heard many of thhem. Think you might find some on the net.
The 8 demands
1. Ensure election integrity
2. 20% tax cut for middle class
3. Reject the UN Migration Pact
4. Return control to local governments
5. No tax $ to finance Bayer-Monsanto
6. Trade barriers, FRANCE FIRST, JOBS
7. End gov. subsidies to Press
8. STOP MASS IMMIGRATION pic.twitter.com/o76ZDK8HQF— End Cultural Marxism (@GenophiliaLoves) December 8, 2018
Pretty nice list, thank you. Sounds like they’ve been listening to Trump!
“Merkel is blaming Trump for the Break down in her New World Order”
I’m sure Trump will love that. He will gladly take credit and should be tweeting about it soon :-)
SOUTHERN EUROPE While Macron’s Paris is on fire, Salvini’s Rome shines as he puts Italians firstWhile Macron's Paris is on fire, Salvini's Rome shines as he puts Italians first https://t.co/tk4XTJQZEa— End Cultural Marxism (@GenophiliaLoves) December 9, 2018
They've been fairly effective at cultural marxism in this country. Rudolph, confederate statues, any thing Christian and public, the boy scouts, mangers, crosses - what have I left out?
The greatest irony is that the New World Order potus just passed. After that, it may in the end be France that saves the world from the globalists by starting their protests.
We could lose Trump any day. We MUST support those in other countries fighting this evil.
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IDK if it’s bannon, but there are a lotta people “awake” in france, belgium, GS, and canada.
a lotta Q signs showing up in the protest
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