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2020-09-13 Europe

Yellow Jacket protesters storm Paris in violent demonstration

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Posted by Frank G 2020-09-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Antifa/BLM

#1 Something just doesn't ring true with this story. Yellow Jackets are black clad? They are burning cars? They are calling the police Nazis? That sounds more like Antifa infiltrators than it does Yellow Jacket protestors.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-13 10:44|| 2020-09-13 10:44|| Front Page Top

#2 The politicians in Paris hate the Yellow Jackets. They are probably eagerly blaming riots caused by other people on them, instead of the usual Marxist suspects.

Posted by Vernal Hatrick 2020-09-13 13:57|| 2020-09-13 13:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Yellow Jackets are black clad?

Usually the Gilets Jaunes are referred to in English as Yellow Vests, named for the yellow reflective safety vests every car owner is required to have in his trunk for roadside emergencies. They started out spontaneously protesting every weekend against President Macron’s financial cost-cutting in an attempt to get closer to balancing the French national government budget, including raising the age for full pension payments and reducing government payroll and benefits. Eventually the small business owners who were the core of the original protesters faded away, replaced by the usual Black Bloc types who in America now call themselves Antifa.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-13 17:26|| 2020-09-13 17:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Good recapitulation, TW. If I may add another tidbit, Macron wanted to raise fuel taxes, but that would have mainly affected people who had to drive (i.e., practical access to public trans) and also farmers versus the city dwellers who had the various public transportation systems available. It was a truly grass-roots movement but not without attempts at being co-opted (Marine Le Pen, for one).

The French do have a penchant for protests. Perhaps Zhou Enlai's statement "too early too tell" was correct after all.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 18:38|| 2020-09-13 18:38|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ ...no practical access to public trans....

Posted by Clem 2020-09-13 18:39|| 2020-09-13 18:39|| Front Page Top

#6 If I may add another tidbit, Macron wanted to raise fuel taxes,

You’re right, Clem— that was the original trigger. I’d forgotten, so I’m glad you were here to remember for me. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-13 19:50|| 2020-09-13 19:50|| Front Page Top

#7 That's how I understand it.

Perhaps JFM could elaborate.

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-13 22:57|| 2020-09-13 22:57|| Front Page Top

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