ER Editor: What occurs to us as we read this story is how a pretty fractured country, fractured through immigration at the very least, can find a common cause that touches people and unites them at the grassroots level. While we don’t believe in the EU’s Mercosur nonsense, using this as a threat is a way to rally people in a psychologically powerful way. And to remind everyone that France should be a major agricultural producer and exporter.
There is a lot of reaction against the militarized police, the Gendarmes, who are sent to block the routes of the farmers in their protests, such as here.
Recently, these gendarmes were sent in to enforce the euthanization of healthy animals, destroying the livelihoods of these farmers. At least, that is what we are told. We remain sceptical of a lot.
Here’s a powerful tweet —
Translation: Colonel Jean-Charles Maurat, 100% with the farmers. Colonel at 40 years old, which means a future general but he preferred to leave the Gendarmerie rather than serve a power that, even at the time, was already deviating. It seems according to@PoliceRealitesthat law enforcement forces are expressing deep unease in the face of the mobilizations of livestock farmers in Ariège. Between orders to follow and the feeling of betraying “their own,” gendarmes and police officers fear a new social crisis. Apart from 7 brave ones who lowered their shields, we didn’t really feel their unease. Like dehumanized robots, they gassed. They even used, in an unprecedented way, the helicopter to do so. According to@PoliceRealitesagain, a captain of the mobile gendarmerie gathered the confidences of his men after their intervention. Their assessment is unequivocal: a profound discouragement is sweeping through the ranks. The situation seems absurd to them: defending the farmers yesterday against radical ecologist militants, and today using tear gas against these same operators. This unease is not limited to an isolated squadron. The entire mobilized personnel shares this moral suffering. Law enforcement has the impression of turning against a part of the rural population with which they traditionally maintain bonds of social and cultural belonging. The impression of turning against a part of the population? Let’s be clear, this is not an impression but a reality and it’s not just a part of the population but the entire population that you harass all day long. Police officers, gendarmes, remember your exploits against the yellow vests, the nurses, and even the firefighters. Police officers, gendarmes, remember how you controlled and fined during the fake Covid pandemic. It is still time, and soon it will be too late, to pull yourselves together and stand by the people martyred by a nutcase holed up in his golden palace. Link to Colonel Jean-Charles Maurat’s message. youtube.com/shorts/uQQhHbR via
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