Saturday 9 February 2019

Yellow Vests' will not Give Up. Why?


Paris is in its 13th week of protests, and according to many on the ground, there is no end in sight.

Today a yellow vest had his hand blown off from a type of grenade, while many protesters have come forward with various wounds, including rubber bullets blinding some, and hospitalizing many, over the last three months. Tear gas fills the air on a daily basis, while Macron's police are becoming more aggressive, and unrelenting in their violence.

Main stream media has refused to report the Yellow Vest protests except for today's major violence. Rather most corporate media, have been promoting Venezuela, a country under a “socialist dictator”, and the people, “starving”. This is absolute propaganda, as the majority voted Maduro into office., and their economic woes are mostly due to the US and other countries drastic sanctions, adding to a downturn in oil price's., the country is hurting. But Venezuela's streets are not filled with violent protesters, nor is the government moving in their violent police force to combat the “unrest”. Venezuela is doing fine despite US propaganda to the contrary; France, however, is in strife, because the people are tired of taxes on the poor, while giving the wealthy all the breaks. This is a global phenomena. People are doing without the basics while the 1% get richer. The French people are saying enough is enough. And, really, I believe, should the rest of the world.

The corporate MSM will not cover these important demonstration in France, because they are part of the 1%; choosing to keep us in the dark, and feed us distracted rubbish.

It's quite incredible, really, that when ever the Left bring up social issues, health care. etc., the response from the Right is always, “How are we going to pay for that?” Another important issue from the Left is the minimum wage or “Living Wage”. The response is the economy would suffer and unemployment will rise. This is also untrue. Many developed countries around the world have a living wage for all workers, and their respective economies are doing just fine, thank you. The elite are telling the people lies, couched is anachronistic propaganda, (socialism is evil) to maintain their own money and power. When it comes to war, though, never is there a question of how are we going to pay for this. Wave the flag, call everyone against war, a traitor, and off we go. It is totally insane.

The French people have the right idea, have recognized the problem, and are doing what the common people do: protest injustice against tyranny.

In this case, similar to 250 years ago, the elite are amassing wealth on the backs of the worker. And the French responded with a violent revolution. There are better methods than violence to bring about a more fair and equal society.

Then again, what will it really take.?

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