Posted on 11/20/2021 8:46:26 PM PST by Nextrush
Anniversary events this weekend commemorating the shock wave that went through France in November of 2018 as hundreds of thousands even a million people at a time took to the streets and highways of France in a nationwide protest movement.
The Yellow Vest is an item required of all French motorists by law and it became a symbol of a protest aimed at rising gasoline prices as the government of President Emmanuel Macron imposed new taxes and planned more as a "Green" policy.
The Yellow Vests occupied toll booths on French highways that had been sold by the government...
Much has happened since then today the government trying to maintain energy prices at the lowest possible levels in the face of next April's presidential election.
And then there's the drama surrounding COVID-19. Those higher rates of positive tests impacting France but so far not as seriously as neighboring countries like Belgium and Germany as well as other European countries more distant.
This week Macron saying France will not follow the lead of other European countries with a lockdown of the unvaccinated.
The direction Macron appears to pointing towards based on his Friday comments during a visit to northern France is widespread use of the "third dose"....
Here is the scene as protesters gathered this morning in Paris...
In southern France a very traditional gathering of Yellow Vests at a traffic circle is depicted in this video. This anniversary protest hearkens back to the early days of the protest...
And now to the situation in Guadeloupe the French Caribbean territory...
The peaceful non-violent Health Freedom protests continued in France today as part of the Yellow Vests movement this demonstration in St. Nazaire in Brittany...
French media spoke with a Yellow Vests protester in Paris today. Marie Huguet has this to say...
(Excerpt) Read more at nextrushfree.blogspot.com ...
If France had a 2nd Amendment today the guillotine would be working long hours.
There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear
2018, a few demonstrations might have had a point. In 2021, there is no point except anarchy for anarchy’s sake
Like Portland - they’ve gotten so used to wrecking the town for over a year, if there was a lockdown, they’d go insane enmasse. Dumpster fires are now a lifestyle and measure of ‘normal’ to them. Four walls for four weeks alone with their thoughts and they’d crack up.
For what it’s worth...
158 weeks, think they need new leadership and tactics. Total failure on their part.
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