Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Green globalist President Macron has deployed non specialist police armed with semi-automatic weapons with large magazines to try to intimidate yellow vest carbon tax protestors.
French riot police are now using semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors as Macron’s law and order crisis spirals
- Officers were filmed brandishing weapons by Arc de Triomphe in Paris today
- Riot police were on crowd control duty today facing off a mob of Gilet Jaunes
- Rifles at demonstration by unarmed citizens show how Macron crisis intensifies
- Last week former conservative minster said live fire should be used on ‘thugs’
By SOPHIE LAW FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 04:12 AEDT, 14 January 2019 | UPDATED: 10:39 AEDT, 14 January 2019French riot police have deployed semi-automatic weapons with live ammunition against Yellow Vest protestors for the first time.
Officers were filmed brandishing Heckler & Koch G36 weapons by the Arc de Triomphe in Paris on Saturday afternoon.
The presence of semi-automatic rifles at a demonstration by unarmed French citizens shows how President Emmanuel Macron’s law and order crisis spirals.
It comes after former conservative minister Luc Ferry called for live fire to be used against the ‘thugs’ from the Yellow Vest movement who he says ‘beat up police’.
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Live ammunition 30 cartridge magazines could be seen as officers marched the streets, although none were used as 5000 police were deployed on the streets of the French capital.
Yellow Vest protestor Gilles Caron said: ‘The CRS with the guns were wearing riot control helmets and body armour – they were not a specialised firearms unit.
‘Their job was simply to threaten us with lethal weapons in a manner which is very troubling. We deserve some explanations.’
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Read more (includes pictures of armed French police): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6586991/French-riot-police-using-semi-automatic-weapons-against-Yellow-Vest-protestors.html
The Yellow Vest protests erupted in response to President Macron’s efforts to raise fuel taxes, to try to discourage fossil fuel use. The regressive carbon tax triggered a furious response from the French people, especially workers from poor rural communities who utterly depend on fossil fuel for their livelihoods. The protests are continuing because of President Macron’s clumsy failure to reassure the protestors that he wants to address their concerns.
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Yellow Vests Attacking Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-sg-FsoGw
Yellow vests destroying public property
Comparison of cost of living in France and U.S.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/France/United-States/Cost-of-living
The higher costs in France are not across the board. Though people in the U.S. make 18% more in disposable salary, it costs us: 12% more for internet, 34 % more for a loaf of bread, 7% more for rice, 5% more for monthly rent on a 1-bedroom apartment, 21% more for apples, 76% more for a bottle of wine, 15% higher interest on real estate.
A 3-bedroom apartment is only 10% more than in the U.S.
In France, according to Wikipedia, a medium income person is taxed at about 40%. The death tax is about like ours, around 30%, but it’s applied to medium and low-income wage earners – not just the wealthy. (Wiki)
Their public transport costs are about the same or less than ours (I got stuck in their stupid metro turnstiles a couple of times – where young healthy people have learned to vault over them).
A new car costs 13% more there than here in the U.S. And to actually PURCHASE a house or apartment in France costs about 4 times more than here. That is certainly a result of an entrenched upper class with ancient historical roots.
We might ask how much of their higher costs are due to inflation? how much to unions?
How many of the violent protesters being captured by youtube videos are union workers? How many are avowed socialists?
I understand that France’s petrol prices are twice that of the U.S. and their taxes on fuel are extremely high, 64% for unleaded, 59% on diesel. And to their credit, protesters were directly responsible for getting Macron to back off his additional fuel price increase on December 4.
But protesters are still out there in even greater force, escalating their violence against the police and property owners, burning cars, shutting down commerce and disrupting the lives of thousands of Parisians and other city dwellers. Why, exactly?
I noticed this:-
“more there than here in the U.S”.
So by your own admission no idea what you are on about, because not living in France.
I might as well start churning on about the USA, I would be so well qualified to drone on about that as I have been there all of TWICE! eh?
Then we get a whole load of BS & MM propaganda worthy of Mr Jupiter Macron himself cos you can trawl through google, but never BE HERE!
“Yellow Vests Attacking Police
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a-sg-FsoGw
Yellow vests destroying public property
Comparison of cost of living in France and U.S.
https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/France/United-States/Cost-of-living”
I showed clearly in the video the violence being used by French police for which they have no sanction whatsoever,- acting in impunity in total contradiction of their term of service.
The request from old minister Jacques Toubon was turned down, who has 30yrs public service and made an authoritative report on which all police use of force is supposed to be based.
ZERO reply from Macron and his government.
The “debate” according to Macron involves going out to “meet the people” except the towns he visits get turned into fortesses, shops close, techniques worthy of the STASI, impossible to raise a single voice in opposition to Macron, not a single voice decrying the global warming scam..
ZERO again from Macron relative to true debate, who of course are judge and jury as to what subjects they will accept or might even deign to change.
Then we get this amazing pearl of wisdom?
“But protesters are still out there in even greater force, escalating their violence against the police and property owners, burning cars, shutting down commerce and disrupting the lives of thousands”
Who says the minority of hooligans are anything to do with the gilets jaunes?
YOU from 1000s of miles away!
MACRON’S government is illegitimate.
It uses illegitimate force.
It uses illegitimate pseudo science to enforce its policies.
It produces true bastard “children”… (eg. affair Benalla)
Yes, it’s pretty clear that your timid, repressed voices can scarcely be heard. There’s some violin music playing somewhere… it’s just hard to hear above the shattering glass, burning cars and screamed demands.
How is hitting a policeman with a brick going to help your cause?
THEY AREN’T CARBON TAX PROTESTERS, that’s a complete lie as has been already pointed out many times.
They’re wanting a whole lot of things including more money for their social healthcare, higher minimum wage, to be taxed under 15% and other stuff.
“Lower taxes!” was conveniently Americanized across the shore as “Lower Carbon Tax!”, but thats our right wing media for you.
And most of the yellow jacket photos going round are Photoshopped. Including the famous guillotine which was really copped off an Artists union protest earlier that year.
I’m sure you won’t hear Sean Hannidy telling you one of their demands is to ‘halt and reverse all privatizations’ either, lol….