It will take more than "BFMTV, flip and Lexomil" to stop the movement of yellow vests!
This is a quote from the philosopher Frédéric Lordon, delivered at a Nuit Debout rally in Paris in 2016 "We do not hold a society forever, with BFM, Flicaille and Lexomil ... There is a moment when the heads are straighten up. This quote, remains relevant in 2019 in relation to the media treatment, the government's one-man security show, in view of Act XIX, and the response of yellow vests present in the street this Saturday, and always determined.
Monday, March 25 0
Speaking of the case to dodge the end of the Great Debate
The government continues to maintain the illusion that the "Great Debate" is not yet completely finished , through various subterfuges such as citizen conferences. But for the Yellow Vests and all the French, the Great Debate, launched in mid-January to conclude on March 16, is well and truly over. However, the media relayed the idea that there would no longer be a social crisis, that the Great Debate was only a space for discussion, without any need to respond concretely to the crisis, and explaining that the things would take time to settle whatever happens. In any case, this message is trying to convey the government today through its media relays.
In the debate organized by BFM TV on Wednesday, March 21, around the social crisis, the speech of the representative of the Republic In March, Stanislas Guerini, shows once again how this government practices smoking permanently. Stanislas Guerini dared, using a payroll, to explain that employees earn better lives, retirees also and companies hire more ... Circulate, there is nothing to see. He went so far as to explain that the "True" Yellow Vests, had been, since December, "satisfied" with the government's emergency measures. The Republic In March, therefore continues to invent stories that are told on television, while in parallel it begins to prepare the ground for reforms against the pension system.
In fact, the movement of yellow vests has been deeply rooted for four months now, and neither the repression, nor the Great Debates, nor the imaginary "10 minutes 10 billion" have made it stop. If the demonstrators are fewer than at the beginning of the mobilization in November, the mass of yellow vests, determined to go to the end, remains constant. The crisis will be hard to slow, especially with the rise in energy prices at the end of the month, the decline in the number of hires in 2018, despite billions in CICE and the elimination of the ISF, the policy of Macron runoff, does not work. Worse still, the price of gasoline rose almost to the price of October, under cover of the crisis in Algeria and Venezuela, to justify the rise in the price of a barrel. What has changed for yellow vests since four months? Nothing !
A survey for Atlantico, shows that 39% of French consider that a revolution is needed to change the system. It was also a slogan that had surprised in Act 18, when thousands of yellow vests sung in an avenue of the Champs Elysees "Revolution, Revolution". It is also 28% of French people who say they understand the violence of the yellow vests and even if the support for the movement loses 8 points after the instrumentalisation of the broken windows of Fouquet's, they are still 53% of French to support the movement after four months . More and more Yellow Vests claim to attack the symbols of power and the bourgeoisie, relativising broken storefront images next to broken lives and dead homeless people in the street in 2018 by the hundreds. Stéphane Sirot, a sociologist explained"Macron is not going to resign, he is not going to set up the RIC, or restore the ISF. We do not see how the movement will stop without a concrete response to the social crisis "
A terrible week for the government
While the war is open between the government and the Senate around the Benalla affair, the week has been tough for the government, which has had to face attacks right on its laxity, and left with the announcement of Benjamin Griveaux to use the army for the maintenance of order. Added to this is a controversy around the pension reform, launched by Agnès Buzin the Minister of Health. In terms of communication, we are in an unprecedented level of amateurism.
We have witnessed a backlash on the subject of recourse to the army, forcing President Macron to intervene on the subject from Brussels, who, however, had explained that he would never respond on social issues from abroad. It will have departed from the rule as the pressure is strong, around this authoritarian controversy in the country and even within the majority in the dissident wing of the LREM deputies who had boycotted more than fifty the vote of the law "Anti-breaker". Macron recalled that "there is no question of calling the army, that the operations remain the same monitoring sensitive sites for the fight against terrorism." A desire to show firmness, for the electorate right after the act 18 and at the same time the need to spare his left wing. Macronism continues to manage the social and political crisis open for 6 months now, making the big difference. Yet if there is something that does not pass in the public opinion, it is the call to the army to solve the social crisis. A Bad-Buzz which the government will have a hard time getting rid of.
Macron having postponed his speech in mid-April, warned before summarizing the Great Debate that "there will be many disappointed." What, then, to stop this movement of yellow vests, which pushed the government during Act 18, into a major political crisis of the five-year period? Pushing the government to sacrifice blow to blow Alain Gibelin, the head of the public order of the police headquarters of Paris, as well as Michel Delpuech prefect of police of Paris. Two important elements of the Ministry of the Interior, which however had passed the test during the summer hearings on the Benalla case, and insurrectional scenes of December 1 in Paris. In off, a close to the Elysee Palace, explains that the next mismanagement of the order, Castaner would be the next fuse Macron. All against the backdrop of a political battle on the right to fight for security hegemony. Never have the Republicans been so present after a demonstration of yellow vests, that after this Act 18. An offensive in order to recover the points lost against Macron, who used the Great Debate as a real way to campaign against the right for the Europeans. The Republicans, having a more authoritarian doctrine than Macron, participated in the rise of the authoritarian turn of the government, following Act 18. Let us remember that it is not surprising that people like Luc Ferry as early as December was already calling for An offensive in order to recover the points lost against Macron, who used the Great Debate as a real way to campaign against the right for the European. The Republicans, having a more authoritarian doctrine than Macron, participated in the rise of the authoritarian turn of the government, following Act 18. Let us remember that it is not surprising that people like Luc Ferry as early as December was already calling for An offensive in order to recover the points lost against Macron, who used the Great Debate as a real way to campaign against the right for the European. The Republicans, having a more authoritarian doctrine than Macron, participated in the rise of the authoritarian turn of the government, following Act 18. Let us remember that it is not surprising that people like Luc Ferry as early as December was already calling for"Shoot live ammunition" at the protesters.
The One Man Safe Show
It is in this atmosphere of supremacy of authority, that the government has deployed all the repressive arsenal, embodied this time by Edward Philippe, the one who today provides electoral stability right for Macron, to counter the offensive Republicans. This Saturday, finished the TV sets composed of sociologists, historians, specialists of social movements, editorialists. The media were under military "control", with colonels, police unions, officers of the gendarmerie, images in loop of the new Prefect Didier Lallement, going down proudly, an avenue des Champs-Elysées completely deserted and bunkerized, discussing with police commanders: "Order is necessary, do not forget our doctrine, force remains to the law".
So that's the media angle that was taken at 9 am, "authority, authority, authority," almost like a cover day at the July 14 military parade. Yet this one man show, highlighting the new Prefect of Police, in the role of the Sherif of Paris, was only the powder of snake to take a phrase dear to the President.
The deployment of extraordinary forces, the establishment of a new brigade, such as the BRAV, "brigade of repression of violent attacks", the use of drones, or these images of the Liberation journalist showing the impressive device on the Avenue des Champs Elysees , shows the ridiculous situation. If the government instrumentalizes the calm of the demonstrators this Saturday, explaining that it is thanks to its device of maintenance of the order, the reality is quite different. Because as we knew, this day of March 23 was going to be calm, the criminologist Alain Bauer on the set of "C In the air", even explains"Anyway everyone knew there was nothing this Saturday, just read the Facebook pages, the" yellow block "(note: given to the yellow vests using the means of struggle of the Black Bloc) said that the next hot events will be for mid-April " . Yellow vests remain masters of clocks, contrary to what the government would like to believe.
Despite the safe turn, the yellow vests do not let go
The criminalization of protesters in the media, wanting to make them at all costs complicit with the case, is a total failure, with an Act 19 up from last week. This shows if it still needed, that the yellow vests are determined more than ever to fight, braving the "forbidden" and ignoring the summons to return home. What seemed to be a victory for the government is indeed another defeat, because you must not be blind, to see that everything was done to paralyze and scare the yellow vests, in order to numerically empty the movement. The best demonstration of this is surely the pitiful intervention of RMC's ex-big mouth and LREM MP Claire O'Petit, explaining that the military after three summons will go on the attack.
It will however be necessary not to neglect the safe turn in the continuation of the events, with the increase of the stops and the tickets for presence in an undeclared manifestation. This week will no doubt have served the government to relegate police violence after two weeks of denunciation of the management of law and order. The instrumentalization of the images of March 16, for example, allowed Christophe Castaner, to avoid the fact that two yellow vests were éborgnés in indifference media , while it was explained everywhere that the case was the fact that the LBD had not been used that day, which was totally wrong. It will take more than BFM, flip and Lexomil, to stop the yellow vests.
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