Paris rioters run amok at yellow vest rallies

I find this article being very bias and only telling a small part of the story. Somehow they are depicting how awful these riots are, but is not telling the story from both sides.

People don’t just wake up and think “hey, I wanna riot”. To get tear gassed, blinded, arrested, beaten...citizens must have some real motivation.

These people are probably your typical Antifa-style halfwits riding on the tailcoats of the legitimate yellow vest protests to cause mindless destruction b ecause they aren’t bright enough to have a rational discussion. Throw them into a maximum-security kindergarten where they belong.

No worries. This is merely a small group of people that have very very serious problem.

Not all of it, thank goodness, although much of it goes on.

"..citizens must have some real motivation."

I would be motived as well. No jobs, no food, bad schools, no hope.

A proud anti establishment history

There certainly is a lot to protest about today - corruption at the highest level, awful brainwash schools, lack of good jobs, stupid wars to profit the greedy, dictators who DO NOT fulfill their duties, malignant narcissism, no food, no hope...

but there are also these black-clad anarchists who just love to stir up trouble and violence. They come with the female cheerleaders in black, then the men dressed as ninjas and all hell breaks loose.

It's been happening since the 'Battle of Seattle' in late 1999, and it's been going on around the planet - New York, Berlin, Warsaw, Toronto, Paris - esp. where G8 conferences have occurred. And not's forget Anonymous. I ran into a rally by them (no masks) as I left a theater after a John Mellencamp concert in late 2011. Seeing their 'anarchy' symbol ('A' in a circle), I didn't stick around for the doo-doo to hit the fan. Just keep walking.

The President (X Rothschild Bankers)is shafting the working and slowly disappearing middle class and dropping taxes on the rich. The french have always been a nation to riot and tell the government where to stick it. Thing you need to watch out for is agent provocateurs who push the riot in the wrong direction to suit (normally the states) own interest.

I would be motived as well. No jobs, no food, bad schools, no hope.

France has a slightly higher GDP per capita than Japan while working about half the time. Not so bad actually!

Vive la france!

@sf2k

A proud anti establishment history

The yellow vests, oui.

The destructive black-clad halfwits, non! They have nothing to offer, no good ideas to contrast the crooked Macron government.

re: kyronstavic

"These people are probably your typical Antifa-style halfwits..."

Most certainly. The Antifa fascists are the ones that must wear masks so that their mothers do not see them on TV and wonder how they escaped from their (mothers') basements. Half-wits indeed.

Wow, and Rome burns.......Now France.History keeps repeating itself. The Human race is a doomed species.

I guess the French people do not want to follow the Paris Accord with the CO2 tax :) You know history shows French people very peaceful but wow, they get real mad when you push too hard. I guess French leaders might have to EAT THE CAKE they pushed on public cause does not look like citizens like it.

This is what you get when you don't crack down hard at the first onset of violence by protestors.

This is what you get when you don't crack down hard at the first onset of violence by protestors.

This is not that simple.

Protestors are not a uniform group and a minority of hard violent guys infiltrate them to make a total mess that overshadows the original - somewhat peaceful - protests. These guys will take any mass manifestation opportunities commit bad action in a coward anonymous way.

It is not easy to keep a fair balance between free speech and avoiding terror behaviour from a few.

Judging by US actions in Venezuela, the US should declare the French national assembly speaker as interim president and demand president Macron leave France.

So then let the true believers of the yellow vests self police those who are committing violence, but you don't see that happening.

kyronstavicMar. 17 11:02 am JST@sf2k

A proud anti establishment history

The yellow vests, oui.

The destructive black-clad halfwits, non! They have nothing to offer, no good ideas to contrast the crooked Macron government

The 'destructive black-clad halfwits' are actual anarchists. All they want to do is stir up mayhem and violence. As for what they have to offer, well - they are anarchists. What more needs to be said?