‘The Rebellion Against The Elites’ continues? Macron/Sarkozy will share the same Political Fait? The Financial Times as the Advocate/Apologist for a Political/Moral Colonialism, within the State that practiced these Crimes, against Self Determination of the refugees that held aloft France as the junior partner of The British Empire… This Writer has not the canvas to properly draw a complete illustration of ‘Western Mendacity’ , in the face of this ‘Rebellion From Within’ …
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Thank you! You have 9 recommendations at 11: 43 AM PDT. The utter political fragility of Macron, post his ‘Pension Reform’ debacle, or call it a betrayal of Democracy… Like Sarkozy, he is not just ‘tone deaf’ , but blissfully unaware of the ‘Have Not’s’ : gilets jaunes , gilets noir, Algerians and others. No surprise that ‘you’ fail to grasp a possible explanation, for what might be a deep discontent of the ‘Lower Order’ of French Citizenry? Look to the life experience of Macron and yourself for a possible explanatory frame?
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Macron’s Swift Justice: After Protests, France Holds Hasty Trials for Hundreds
The streets are calmer, after days of unrest over the police shooting of a teenager, but the courts are going into overdrive. Lawyers for those arrested often have just 30 minutes to prepare.
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Some 3,400 people were arrested as a massive police presence set out to restore order. The justice system is running almost around the clock to process them. Many are being funneled through hasty trials, known as comparutions immédiates, where prosecutors and court-appointed lawyers traditionally churn through simple crimes like traffic violations, theft or assault, often when the accused is caught in the act. After flooding the streets with 45,000 officers night after night, the French state is looking to send a second harsh message. Justice Minister Éric Dupond-Moretti advised prosecutors to systematically seek prison sentences for people charged with physical assault or serious vandalism. “Very clearly, I want a firm hand,” Mr. Dupond-Moretti told France Inter radio on Monday. …
Its called Fascisms for a reason: half an hour to prepare a plea !
Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer.
'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.'
https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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