Posted on 12/08/2018 12:28:29 AM PST by caww
Paris was in lockdown early on Saturday with 'thousands' of French security forces braced to meet renewed rioting by "yellow vest" protesters in the capital and other cities in a fourth weekend of confrontation.....
The Eiffel Tower and other tourist landmarks were shut, shops were boarded up to avoid looting and street furniture removed to avoid metal bars from being used as projectiles.
About 89,000 police were deployed across the country.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Can the French foreign legion be deployed in times of crisis on French soil? Does any freeper know?
Perhaps they did....but people are fickle , we see that right here too....students going to protests just because it’s something to do on a Sat.....the unemployed and welfare people will always march for more....since it’s a weekend they’ll all be coming out of the wood work.
What i do know is a lot of people want macron out....he’s already sacrificed his prime minister to save his own skin...so we’ll see.
These are the same people that voted for the guy Macron.
What did they expect? He is doing what he said he’d do.
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Socialism is voted in by those ignorant enough to think it’ll work and or those greedy enough to think they are deserving of more than their neighbor. Then the bill arrives.
The French election ‘gimmick’ is a bit different and some ought to review it, and what happened in 2017.
Under the French system, a multi-party atmosphere exists. Eleven parties had active participation in the run-up election (March 2017). But if you go back to the six months prior....there were probably over sixty folks competing within eleven parties.
Various people who were figured in the fall of 2016 to come out on top....were tossed into scandal episodes, and fell to the side. In one case, a guy had his wife hired in previous years for some outrageous amount of salary. That single detail knocked him out.
So when the smoke cleared after the primary, you had two ‘players’ (Le Pen and Macron). Six months prior....neither of the two would have been predicted as the final two. At this point, they move onto the final election (23 April 2017). The idea is that you would have voters from the lesser candidates have to make a decision, and support some candidate....with the thought that you are ‘for’ the individual. It’s a fake feeling, but the French political establishment believes this will really settle matters.
So Macron ends up with 66-percent of the vote. In truth...more than two-thirds of these votes are from non-Macron voters. They are basically saying...if you only have a choice of Macron or Le Pen....well, it’s not much of a choice.
All the weaknesses in Macron’s background, his lack of being elected to any office prior, or the humorous marriage to ‘mother’? All noted, but with the way this is built...it didn’t matter. I expect the riots to continue, with the police at some point accidentally killing someone and creating a ‘hero’ situation. This past week....one of the tear gas canisters ended up around some old pensioner lady, and she ended up coughing herself to death.
Excellent!
Makes you think.
.....So far only stun grenades have been used to push back the GiletsJaunes protestors. It remains to be seen if there will be a return to the violent scenes of last weekend.
.....Protesters break out in the Marseillaise, swiftly followed by the chant “Macron resign” at Arc de Triomphe
This has gone way past gas tax....they want Macron out.
Interesting is how Many nations are tuned into this....they see it as a possible “regime change”....
Macron has warned that “yellow vest” protests in Paris will be hijacked by “radicalised and rebellious” crowds.
Paris police are confiscating protective eyewear this morning, which is unfortunate given the amount of tear gas they tend to pour out at the slightest provocation. They’ve arrested 317 people already today under suspicion of carrying offensive weapons
I’m suspicious of the failure of Prop 6 for a couple of reasons. One is that as originally worded, it was deceptive. Instead of informing that this was a repeal of the gas tax, it informed that it removed funds from roadways etc. A correction was mailed out, but I doubt most people read it. The second is vote harvesting. How many people allowed themselves to be influenced by those who “harvested” their ballots?
Don’t know....
10:30 in France..crowd estimate at 1,500...still early but over 350 have already been arrested.
According to the spokesman for the Yellow Jackets a couple of hours ago, here’s the top complaint on the list of over 20 items. Their wages are too low to support their taxes. They pay about half of their incomes in taxes—taxes that include much for social programs. Many of them are paid about 4,000 euros with only about 2,000 euros for net pay after taxes. It’s a result of previous so-called austerity programs, mostly added taxes.
There’s FRexit (getting out of the EU), but that’s further down the list with only a smaller portion of Jellow Jackets voicing support for it.
Socialism stinks. Here, in the U.S., with some 40 million people receiving incomes from government, the only way to avoid more and harder socialism is to keep a large part of the population employed and sufficiently paid in the private sector with incentives to vote for candidates like Donald Trump. That means more manufacturing.
And no, manufacturing jobs are not “dead end jobs.” But the “service economy” is, and that experiment has failed as shown by the mounting piles of debt (loyalty-free trade, balance of payments deficits, trade deficits, lack of big, sustainable revenues for the outrageous load of government, etc.).
Macron’s government is confiscating Chrstmas decorations out of fear that they’ll be thrown at police (radio news from Europe).
Of course, the French voted in all these policies.
I’m no fan of the EU or Macron, but holding ridiculous politics and then ultimately storming the government you voted in isn’t really a great approach to things.
“These are the same people that voted for the guy Macron.
What did they expect? He is doing what he said he’d do.”
Well, yes. But, they didn’t think he’d do it to them!
Two observations. The crowd is demanding, among other things, more socialism. This is what led to taxes being so high in the first place. High taxes is what they are mad about. And, two, there is no leader. Not only does that make it impossible to make a deal to stop the rioting, it also is a first class indicator that the French government has failed so massively that nothing the government does is going to fix this.
The pièce de résistance is; Macron decided to raise taxes, not to improve socialism, but to further a nutty global warming agenda (religion) that few believe in. I think he could have gotten away with higher taxes if he could demonstrate that they were going towards higher living standards and earlier retirement. That was part of the sales pitch, but the word leaked out it was an effort to drive everyone to buy an electric only car by 2030.
Incidentally, there is a way to drive up salaries and living standards. It’s called capitalism.
Agreed. We have some 40 million people in the U.S. employed by multiple levels of government in various ways including contractors. Then there are the NGOs and other entities subsidized. They are taking us towards socialism more than any other group, and many of them are certainly not essential to us. Many of them are even deleterious.
There are about as many people using social programs, but they, as a group, are far less political than the employees who receive leftist indoctrination in universities, employee association (government union) newsletters, etc.
Too much big government spending on high salaries and benefits, and all of us will need to get politically involved (including funding, at least small bits from each of us) to reverse it! We need more manufacturing instead! That’s the only way we’ll reduce the piles of debt and balance budgets.
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