The yellow of the vests in France came from nowhere and quickly became the media’s and the intellektuellas darlings. What a lovely holy wrath that bubbled up out of the French folkdjupet and took over the streets of Paris, it was not 1968, even Bastiljstormningens 1789 again?
a masked protester in silhouette against a backdrop of fire and tear gas. Oh là là!
so, When the counter-movement arose was an interest in not quite as intensely. And the wonder of it. The French so-called red halsdukarna (”foulards rouges”), this weekend went out in their thousands, seems just so… reasonable. And sensible.
Sure demonstrated 68 tanks in Paris, but it also made the – in something less hallaballoo – hundreds of thousands of counter-demonstrators.
”The yellow västarnas criticism is legitimate, but this must be resolved peacefully”, says 55-year-old Christine Gaillard, nurse. Try to fire up the revolutionary anger by putting it on a placard.
Alex Brown told RFI: ”People are tired of the barricades. They are bad for business and the kids will not come to school on time.” Not quite as klatschigt as ”Death to capitalism” but better if you want to maintain a civilization.
One of the red halsdukarnas the slogan reads ”We are the people”. It is an important point to make every time someone goes out and is aggressive in the name of the people, and as a reward get a number of microphones in front of the nose. Certain demonstrated 68 tanks in Paris, but it also made the – in something less hallaballoo – hundreds of thousands of counter-demonstrators who wanted to defend democracy and the elected government.
stretch over the. I’m not going to have it for the face – who wants to lajva 17-year-old hooligan? – but around the neck as protection against januarikylan. Then I go out and mark, quietly but firmly, against society’s downsides. But also against the barricades, the violence and all attempts to sidsteppa parliamentary democracy.
