They call themselves the “Yellow Jackets” (or “Yellow Vests”) for the fluorescent road safety vests all French motorists are required to have in their cars and which the demonstrators wear to protest the government of Emmanuel Macron. Signs in the crowds reading “FREXIT” and others complaining of high taxes and fuel prices are evidence that all is not well in the “City of Lights.”
A small right-wing minority, the populist Yellow Jackets are fighting an uphill battle against a government and nation that is as far left and socialist as any in Europe. While opening their arms, borders, and social welfare services to unlimited numbers of Muslim migrants from Africa and the Middle East, France, like most of Europe, is struggling to take care of all them all.
Marine Le Pen, the right-wing candidate who opposed Macron in the last presidential election, but lost, is a populist in the Trump mold who advocates FREXIT, France’s departure from the European Union, and suspending immigration, as well as protecting the French people from the threat of “savage globalisation.”
By all appearances, the majority of bleeding-heart liberal French voters are perfectly willing to see their culture, their security, and their nation disappear for the sake of political correctness, lest anyone should call them racists for not accommodating the migrant hordes.
In the following videos, you will see neighborhoods filled with the acrid smoke of burning and overturned cars, with thousands of protesters in yellow jackets demanding that Emmanuel Macron step down as President of France.
The people of Paris have had enough of government oppression. Unable to survive on their wages, overburdened by taxes to pay for social welfare, and now with fuel prices leaving them unable to pay their bills, they are doing the only thing left they can do, protesting against their government.
While the Yellow Jackets insist that their protest is peaceful, their actions belie that. Peaceful protesters do not overturn cars and start fires in the street, nor do they destroy private and public property. It is, however, unlikely that they would get the government’s and media’s attention any other way.
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Time to give those peaceful protesters some means to defend themself against the regime
— Cristi (@Cristi15458088) December 2, 2018
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That's the treatment french people get. Invaders get greeting cards.
— gferna (@anrefg) December 1, 2018
In the middle of Paris during a riot?? This is an experience?? pic.twitter.com/ivzx3jz5d2
— Stacey Evangelista (@Helloimstacey) December 1, 2018
'Yellow Vests' help residents escape a burning building in Paris#YellowVests pic.twitter.com/mTDADn5v6i
— RT (@RT_com) December 2, 2018
The "Yellow Jackets" protests represent something new and powerful in France, analysts said: "the first time we’re seeing a mobilization that’s coming from the social networks, and not led by the political parties or the unions" https://t.co/KWLeW5p1x5
— New York Times World (@nytimesworld) November 24, 2018
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