Guest essay by Eric Worrall
French Doctors have sounded the alarm over apparent rough treatment by security forces of yellow vest protestors marching against President Macron’s carbon tax.
Doctors Say Number of Serious Injuries Inflicted on Yellow Vests Unprecedented
Chris Tomlinson
23 Jan 2019Doctors, activists and others are sounding the alarm over the number of serious injuries suffered by Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vest) movement activists at the hands of police during the past several weeks.
The French Interior Ministry has claimed that in the first nine weeks of the Yellow Vest protests around 1,800 protesters and 1,000 police officers have been injured but have not separated out those with serious injuries, L’Express reports.
Doctors in France’s emergency rooms say that some of the injuries have been extremely serious, blaming the police use of “flash-ball” shots which have led to some of the most serious injuries, including at least four protestors, two of them women, who have lost an eye and suffered some form of disfigurement.
French Police Deploy Rifles with Live Ammunition to Yellow Vest Protests https://t.co/pcj3Bz5vDK
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 15, 2019
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Flash-ball weapons fire large plastic or rubber bullets with the force of a .38, but since the balls are larger than a .38 they are far less likely to penetrate flesh. Nevertheless they are capable of inflicting severe injuries, especially if they hit someone’s head.
I personally think French politicians are out of their minds for fixating on advancing climate action at the expense of social stability.
History suggests that rough treatment of people with a legitimate and painful grievance rarely quells the unrest; a more likely possibility is that French people subject to such brutality will tool up and retaliate against security forces with their own weapons, leading to escalation and possible civil war.
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See? Climate change causes social unrest. Told ya.
/sarc
The state wants people to buy a nonexistent product. And wants to tax people into submission. The hope is that the market will somehow straighten out the impossible. And the people with this hope do not believe in the market.
What could go wrong?
If only the French Government was as tough on the invaders as they are on their own people.
At this rate we will need to send care packages to France and medical missions to help the oppressed.
Better bring in the French farmers with their tractors in the protests. Then we could get a direct comparison to past protests.
France currently produces $ 8500 goods per ton of carbon dioxide released in the atmosphere.
The european countries are producing $ 3500 on average, while China $ 1400 only.
This country is the least carbon dioxide emitting country among the developed ones, only 0,8 per cent of the planet’s emissions, mainly due to its electric power 90 % made by nuclear plants.
It is utterly incomprehensible that the french govt cannot be satisfied by this remarkable achievement and is still striving to improve it in charging unbearable taxes and strains on the people, when there are so many much more urgent problems to fix in this country: Unemployment, mass immigration, skyrocketing poverty, crime, sovereign debt, etc…
But you can’t understand.
When you are Mr Jupiter, you have the right to intervene in every country not only of the EU – punish the British for leaving, tell everyone how wonderful Europe is, and give school teacher courses to the USA.
You don’t get it.
Jupiter is here to save the world!
The British have some nursery rhyme for kids like this, something to do with Humpty Dumpty and fall.