Posted on 10/15/2021 9:03:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A small but significant victory was achieved Wednesday when the French Senate voted against a socialist senator’s proposal to make the COVID experimental vaccine mandatory for all citizens living in France. Non-compliance would trigger a fine of 135 euro (about $150 USD), and 1,500 euro for re-offenders.
The rejection of the draft law presented by Senator Patrick Kanner together with several dozen other socialist members of France’s upper chamber did not come as a complete surprise. One week earlier, the Senate’s social affairs commission had refused to adopt the proposition.
But Wednesday’s public vote, with 80 percent against making the injection compulsory for as many age groups as France’s Higher Health Authority would deem convenient, was a slap in the face to those who are already coercing people into getting the jab in order to enjoy the ordinary freedoms of life or to keep their jobs.
Only 64 senators voted for the bill and 262 voted against.
Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you
What a novel idea...put a proposed LAW to a vote in the Senate instead of having a GD tyrant dictate orders to 330 million people.
France still has a government instead of the dictatorship we live under.
meanwhile, in Italy:
15 Oct: Youtube: 21s: The Italian Viking Clap
This day is not just a big day in Italy, the entire world has its eyes on the boot shaped country located at the Mediterranean Sea.
Today, October 15th, 2021, the mandatory vaccine passports came into effect and as you can see, the people do not even consider to comply!
The people in Bolzano are performing the Viking Clap to show they are firmly against it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcRibOiJ7Ng
BBC continues to push the idea it is only the far-right who are protesting:
15 Oct: BBC: Covid: Wave of Italian protests against mandatory work pass
Dockers at three big ports have staged protests at the requirement for all Italian workers to show a Covid pass.
The Green Pass shows whether you have had the Covid vaccine, ***recovered from it or had a negative test.
It became mandatory for all workplaces on Friday...
About three million Italian workers are estimated to be still unvaccinated and protests were reported in many of the big cities...
However, opponents rioted in Rome on 9 October. The far-right Forza Nuova party led violent protesters who vandalised the CGIL trade union building in Rome, during clashes with police.
PIC: On 9 October far-right opponents of the Green Pass clashed with Rome police.
Overall more than 85% of Italians aged over 12 have had at least one jab, and officials said a further 1.2 million vaccinations had been carried out in the past week.
“It is time to stop the economy, which is perhaps the only way we can show this government that many people are struggling,” port workers’ spokesman Stefano Puzzer told Rai TV.
“We will carry on until the Green Pass goes.”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58913865
WaPo straight out lies, as union members make up a large proportion of the Italian protesters:
WaPo: Neo-fascists exploit ‘no-vax’ rage, posing dilemma for Italy
3 days ago — Demonstrators and police clash during a protest, in Rome, ... Unions have backed the Green Pass as a way to make Italy’s workplaces safer.
BBC guy I heard also claiming the last protest in France was back in June, and that they’d now come over to accepting getting jabbed:
still protesting mid-Sept...and beyond:
VIDEO: 13secs: 18 Sept: UK Independent: Vaccine passports: Thousands protest against COVID-19 measures in Montpellier, France
The footage captures protestors taking over the streets of Montpellier to denounce government measures established to combat the spread of COVID-19.
Activists have planned several demonstrations across the country on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 of September.
The purpose of the action is to oppose compulsory vaccination for health care workers and Health Pass, which attests to an individual’s vaccination status, to access public indoor spaces.
The most disruptive gatherings could take place in Paris, where rallies will take over two locations: Place du Marechal Juin and Place du Trocadero, both central parts of the capital.
Participation could reach the tens of thousands.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/vaccine-passport-covid-protest-france-vb5ca21d6
AFP still trying to frame it as left vs. right:
21 Aug: AFP: Anti-vaccine demos in France for sixth weekend
The Ministry of the Interior put the number of people turning out at around 175,000 at 220 demonstrations nationwide, including 14,700 in Paris, as of 1900 GMT...
The protest movement has brought together conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, former members of the “Yellow Vest” anti-government movement, as well as people concerned that the system unfairly creates a two-tier society.
Around 200,000 people have marched in previous weekends, according to interior ministry figures.
***Organisers claim the real number on previous weekends was double the figures estimated by police...
Anti-Semitism worry...
Left-wing newspaper Le Monde condemned the rise in anti-Semitic behaviour in an editorial this week, calling it a “poison for society, a danger for all of us”.
“Although anti-Semitism on the far-right is old, it seems to be encouraged at the moment by the rise in conspiracy thinking,” it added...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/anti-vaccine-demos-in-france-for-sixth-weekend/ar-AANzTDI
lengthy piece admitting to the left’s involvement, and clearly begging them to desist:
4 Oct: Open Democracy: How battling France’s COVID pass led the Left to embolden the far Right
Instead of focusing on changes that would ease pandemic suffering, left-wing groups have joined hysterical protests that boost conspiracy theorists
by Philippe Marlière (Professor in French and European Politics at University College London (UK). He is a regular contributor to Le Monde, Le Monde diplomatique and The Guardian and tweets)
Fance’s introduction of a COVID health pass to enter certain public spaces has been met with widespread opposition – but the Left is doing itself no favours by joining in the protests...
By taking to the streets to protest against the rule, the Left has made cardinal errors, both ethically and politically, and thus contributed to a political muddle-headedness that provides coverage for conspiracy theorists and the far Right...
In spring last year, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing La France Insoumise (or LFI, which translates as Unbowed France) group in the National Assembly, rashly lent his support to Professor Didier Raoult in advocating the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a cure for COVID-19, and even claimed that he would take this drug if he contracted the disease. The usage of hydroxychloroquine was quickly discredited by the international medical community.
Figureheads of the French Left, such as Jean-Luc Mélenchon and several officials of Unbowed France, have expressed fierce opposition to mandatory vaccination for those working in the healthcare sector. They are all too keen to sympathise with those who have decided not to be vaccinated.
However, this (theoretically understandable) caution neglects a key point, namely that getting vaccinated is the quickest and most effective way to put the pandemic behind us. Moreover, such foot-dragging can be seen as endorsing the amorphous grouping of those opposed to the health pass, who are often anti-vaxxers...
By getting caught up in this muddle-headed thinking alongside the far Right, the radical Left protesters have lost sight of what really matters...
Rather than supporting an adulterated, right-wing concept of freedom, the Left should push for measures that will help bring the pandemic suffering to an end – for most people to get vaccinated, to uphold hygiene measures that combat the spread of the virus, to lift patents on vaccines, and roll out improvements in public health. It should also reconnect with its values, because vaccination is not a question of personal freedom, but one of national and international solidarity...
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/how-battling-frances-covid-pass-led-the-left-to-embolden-the-far-right/
"We've heard enough from you's you English Kinickits"
Sacre Bleu!
Je ne peux pas le croire.
(I can’t believe it)
The French have the world’s highest condom use per capita. Obviously a bunch that knows a thing about a disease or two.....
Ping.
We need something like a Viking Clap but instead a gesture of defiance and solidarity.
/Sarcasm Off
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