Violence Escalates as France Scrambles to Respond to ‘Yellow Vest’ Protesters
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#2False flag, perhaps?
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#3The French government has been raising taxes for years. People have been struggling to make ends meet.
Macron comes off as a privileged president that has no clue about what his citizens are going through.
Things are going to escalate further if nothing changes.
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#4European union human rights should be example to their own cops in France. it is pretty shocking how SOME french cops (no generalition of course) are so violet!!!
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#5> Added to that is the reality that many who say they are supportive have not yet come out to demonstrate. While it is possible that this reservoir of supporters will not become activists, if they did the government would be hard put to cope.
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> Multiple surveys of public opinion released in the past week suggest that 70 percent to 80 percent of French people sympathize with the Yellow Vests’ contention that President Emmanuel Macron and his government “talks about the end of the world while we are talking about the end of the month.”
> The slogan refers to Mr. Macron’s focus on reducing climate change by promoting fuel efficiency and raising gas taxes in contrast to French working people who struggle to make it to the end of their month on their earnings.
I'm reminded some of Trump rhetoric. Also the Occupy movement. It's a heady mix.
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#6At least now we have some idea of the fuel price needed to start a riot. $7/gal. That means there's plenty of headroom to raise the fuel tax in the USA!
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#7The French government has been raising taxes for years. People have been struggling to make ends meet. Macron comes off as a privileged president that has no clue about what his citizens are going through. Things are going to escalate further if nothing changes.
France has high taxes, but at the same time provides more services than other countries: free education including higher education, free healthcare, generous unemployment package, etc. Even more, this is done without closing the door to immigration.
Regarding the current movement which started with taxes on gas, the tax raise is insignificant vs. the actual oil price increase. Read this article (in French) for more information: https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/11/09/peti...
Also, the people who go into the protests to break cars and shops have nothing to do with the original movement. Some clearly came to loot shops (if you are anarchist, you want to burn luxury clothing items, not take them), some are anarchists who came to fight police forces, etc.
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#8False flag, perhaps?
It could be. But I wonder just who is organizing this in social media. Maybe they've left clues, inadvertently. If I knew French better, I'd look into it.
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#9False flag, perhaps?
The protests are real. The violence is the false flag. Saboteurs planted into the crowds to try and discredit the movement.