Mar 8 - Paris forbids Yellow Vest camp
Why wasn't there a "French Tahrir Square"?
The Yellow Vests tried - cops weren't even close to allowing a single sleeping bag get laid on the ground. They would have needed many thousands to establish a camp and I recall only 1-2,000 people being there.
It was a cold night back then. Would have still had to have beat back typical French police brutality, too.
Mar 12 - 'Anti-Yellow Vest' law adopted
Officially known as the "anti-rioters" law. This provided the "legal" basis for the oppression which would stem the tide (not turn it) of the Yellow Vests". We got a couple good quotes from journalist/analyst George Kazolias explaining the law:
"But what really makes this law really dangerous, as one conservative member of Parliament put it last year, is that it's a Vichy law, referring to the government that ruled France under Nazi occupation in World War II. This law gives administrative personnel judicial powers - it takes the power away from the judiciary. " So what he (Macron) has done now is to make at a local level what he has done at the national level with (unpopular laws which normalized) the state of emergency. I'm surprised not more people have tried to relate the two?"
And, now that massive repression had a new "legal" basis, the upcoming Yellow Vest march would be incredibly repressive and mark the beginning of the end of their long peak. But the day before that"
Mar 15 - Macron's National Debate ends with universal dissatisfaction
The National Debate was 2.5 months of 10,000 local public debates. It was mainly a public relations effort by Macron to show that he is a president who does listen and who does incorporate public opinion into public policy" even though that is obviously false.
However, much of his time at these town hall meetings was Macron talking for hours and hours, like Fidel Castro. There are big differences between the two: Macron is pushing capitalism, imperialism and technocratism - Fidel pushed rejecting brutal capitalism, patriotism and morality in public policy.
At this point in his term Macron (begun May 2017) has never held a press conference. That is not a typo.
Perhaps this explains why it was "The Macron Show" for six hours a day on mainstream media. The sudden availability of Macron to the masses and journalists was a total 180 from the previous 22 months.
Rather amusingly (unless you are a minority Macronista) a key poll asked what people found positive to say about Macron regarding his method and style at the National Debate: the number one answer, at 48%, was "I didn't find anything positive about Macron". That was nearly double the second-most popular response.
So the National Debate had concluded, the laws were in place - the kid gloves came off. We knew it was coming - column here.
Mar 16 - Worst violence in months amid near-secret de-nationalization machinations
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