Ramin, excellent report. From what you are saying I see the same arrogant government behavior as it’s happening in Greece. Also, as you noticed, MSM just keeps mum about these civil rights abuses conducted by the Western governments.
The only “willy ..” violence comes from the masked goons paid by the government to disrupt the protests.
Those small info stickers are a great idea. In videos I saw one saying “boycott Israel” just on a street bollard. Small but powerful way to get messages across. I also saw a placard saying “le grand debat blah blah blah” You don’t have to speak French to understand that,
It takes courage to go out and march when the police are so violent. I have the deepest respect for what the YVs are doing.
There is absolutely no need for this police behaviour at all. The YVs are peaceful, perfectly within their rights and mainly, are simply demanding, as the people whose country it is, to be listened to.
I wonder if you are reporting again on this, Ramin, if you might comment on the attitude of the Trade Union leadership in France on the subject. Hard to find any comment from them.
A strike in, for example, the tax collecting services of the regime would bring a speedy halt to things I imagine. And it would not hurt the normal people.
Funny how when people get tear-gassed for no real reason, it is then that people get mad and tend to smash or even burn something in response. Sounds like such a basic description of human nature that one has to wonder if people are being tear-gassed because not enough stuff is being smashed?
The corporate media won’t ever admit that the actions of their fellow foot soldiers in the police might have led to such acts, but will only talk about ‘violent protests’ and how awful the protestors are for not being loyal slaves willing and happy to work to the death for the benefit of their masters.
It is not a civil rights abuse when masters attack their slaves for daring to protest, because everyone knows that slaves don’t have civil rights. It says so right in the “Corporate Media Reporter’s Handbook, (Or what to do if you want to keep your job!)”. The corporate media exists to tell the slaves that they are free.
« Que fait la police ? Ça crêve les yeux » got a bad translation, at least inaccurate. «Ça crêve les yeux» actually means «it is obvious», meaning it is just before our eyes and people don’t get it. With here the double meaning of «explode the eyes» in reference to repressive actions.
Indeed, thank you. I also forgot to say that it was a reference to rubber bullets making people blind.
But I doubt any journalist anywhere even noted those stickers, much less explained why they were left behind. This is not bragging, but to show how bad the mainstream media is. Or maybe those who left the stickers were too subtle…? The firebombing certainly was not subtle.
I also called the day “Referendum” instead of “Ultimatum”.
Lots of mistakes and omissions, but some good stuff too. That’s live journalism for ya….
The most intelligent suggestion one could give to the YV is: stop rallying.
Public manifestations of dissent never accomplished anything. You only give the opportunity to the government and media to strumentalize your protests. You also could get hurt with no effective results.
Please, overcome your still immature methods. You need to step forward to a more effective organizational approach. Don’t go in the streets, it’s useless. Rather, do it the good old-fashioned Nazi-style: gather into a pub, or in private houses, build and organize defensive political troops and an underground intelligence apparatus. Do boycott in the dark, not in plain sight. Undertake only aimed actions to carefully selected targets, then blackmail the institutions. Learn the successful Mafia lesson: corrode the state from the inside.
Please, YV, just stop rallying.
So glad Joan of Arc never hid out in a pub! But as the guillotine attests, there are safer methods. The safest being the individual, on a most personal level, never mind what your neighbours are doing, no need for them to know what you are doing, Boycott! It all comes back to personal discretion and how one chooses to spend the ‘scheckle’.
And since the entire plot revolves arround Mammon……………….one can beat the Mammonites at their own game.
There’s an Ap for that…………………….right?
I admit I haven’t really been following the Yellow Vest protests closely. How does this movement compare to the Occupy movement. What exactly is the agenda of the protestors?
Scum like Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron, happily bankroll and incite violence and terror in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and across the world. Let them get a taste of their own medicine. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
Ramin, excellent report. From what you are saying I see the same arrogant government behavior as it’s happening in Greece. Also, as you noticed, MSM just keeps mum about these civil rights abuses conducted by the Western governments.
The only “willy ..” violence comes from the masked goons paid by the government to disrupt the protests.
Those small info stickers are a great idea. In videos I saw one saying “boycott Israel” just on a street bollard. Small but powerful way to get messages across. I also saw a placard saying “le grand debat blah blah blah” You don’t have to speak French to understand that,
It takes courage to go out and march when the police are so violent. I have the deepest respect for what the YVs are doing.
There is absolutely no need for this police behaviour at all. The YVs are peaceful, perfectly within their rights and mainly, are simply demanding, as the people whose country it is, to be listened to.
I wonder if you are reporting again on this, Ramin, if you might comment on the attitude of the Trade Union leadership in France on the subject. Hard to find any comment from them.
A strike in, for example, the tax collecting services of the regime would bring a speedy halt to things I imagine. And it would not hurt the normal people.
Best wishes.
Funny how when people get tear-gassed for no real reason, it is then that people get mad and tend to smash or even burn something in response. Sounds like such a basic description of human nature that one has to wonder if people are being tear-gassed because not enough stuff is being smashed?
The corporate media won’t ever admit that the actions of their fellow foot soldiers in the police might have led to such acts, but will only talk about ‘violent protests’ and how awful the protestors are for not being loyal slaves willing and happy to work to the death for the benefit of their masters.
It is not a civil rights abuse when masters attack their slaves for daring to protest, because everyone knows that slaves don’t have civil rights. It says so right in the “Corporate Media Reporter’s Handbook, (Or what to do if you want to keep your job!)”. The corporate media exists to tell the slaves that they are free.
Ramin is one of the few reporters i believe when he opens his outh or write an artilcle tbh.
« Que fait la police ? Ça crêve les yeux » got a bad translation, at least inaccurate. «Ça crêve les yeux» actually means «it is obvious», meaning it is just before our eyes and people don’t get it. With here the double meaning of «explode the eyes» in reference to repressive actions.
Indeed, thank you. I also forgot to say that it was a reference to rubber bullets making people blind.
But I doubt any journalist anywhere even noted those stickers, much less explained why they were left behind. This is not bragging, but to show how bad the mainstream media is. Or maybe those who left the stickers were too subtle…? The firebombing certainly was not subtle.
I also called the day “Referendum” instead of “Ultimatum”.
Lots of mistakes and omissions, but some good stuff too. That’s live journalism for ya….
And many thanks for your kind words Per.
The most intelligent suggestion one could give to the YV is: stop rallying.
Public manifestations of dissent never accomplished anything. You only give the opportunity to the government and media to strumentalize your protests. You also could get hurt with no effective results.
Please, overcome your still immature methods. You need to step forward to a more effective organizational approach. Don’t go in the streets, it’s useless. Rather, do it the good old-fashioned Nazi-style: gather into a pub, or in private houses, build and organize defensive political troops and an underground intelligence apparatus. Do boycott in the dark, not in plain sight. Undertake only aimed actions to carefully selected targets, then blackmail the institutions. Learn the successful Mafia lesson: corrode the state from the inside.
Please, YV, just stop rallying.
Storming the Bastille does seem to have brought some results . . .
Katherine
So glad Joan of Arc never hid out in a pub! But as the guillotine attests, there are safer methods. The safest being the individual, on a most personal level, never mind what your neighbours are doing, no need for them to know what you are doing, Boycott! It all comes back to personal discretion and how one chooses to spend the ‘scheckle’.
And since the entire plot revolves arround Mammon……………….one can beat the Mammonites at their own game.
There’s an Ap for that…………………….right?
I admit I haven’t really been following the Yellow Vest protests closely. How does this movement compare to the Occupy movement. What exactly is the agenda of the protestors?
Scum like Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron, happily bankroll and incite violence and terror in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine and across the world. Let them get a taste of their own medicine. Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
Hi Ramin,
thank you for that great piece of journalism!
Constantly you have become one of the greatest sources of information about the YV and what is really going on in my former homeland.
Courage and keep the great work going on.
Cheers from South America.