There is no "romance" in "demonstrations" that result in the death of innocent people.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 5:03 PM Bob W-PDML <[email protected]> wrote: > France is not Europe. > > The Express is a nasty little rag which inhabits the same slimosphere as > the Mail. The French police always overreact to this sort of thin, but the > French people love a good, imaginative protest, and at one time it was > their constitutional duty to protest! The spirit lives on! > > The gilets jaunes protests are a large-scale movement of people who live > in the 'new' satellite towns which were built essentially as dormitories > without any kind of infrastructure or local economy, so people are > absolutely dependent on cars for everything, from going to work to going to > the doctor. Without work they can't run their cars, without their cars they > can't get work, so when the price of fuel goes up they're double-fucked. > Parts of France outside the major cities are called 'the desert'. Some of > them are a real mess - i've seen when I've cycled through. The economy, the > car, television and now the internet have gutted them, so if people can't > afford to run their car, they're stuffed. > > Hopefully next year I'll cycle the so-called diagonale vide - the empty > diagonal - from Strasbourg to Hendaye, and see even more of it. > > The protesters come from a class which feels that it is despised and > looked down on by the metropolitan elites. Macron seemed - or allowed > people to believe - that he was not like the others, even though he went to > the same elite training schools. He is not living up to expectations, so > people who harboured those expectations are turning on him. > > There is also the dilemma of the environment versus the automobile, and > the impact that attempts to square this will have on social life and > societies built around the internal combustion engine. Definitely something > for the US to think about. > > B > > > > > On 24 Nov 2018, at 21:20, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > Ha Europe caught the disease of fanaticism and violence from the US? > > > > > https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1049731/France-protests-paris-riots-police-emmanuel-macron-latest-france-news > > > > Dan Matyola > > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > -- > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
