All around France, speed cameras are covered in paint or black tape that prevents them from taking photos of speeding cars’ license plates and sending the motorists a ticket.
Thousands of Yellow Vest protesters have destroyed 60 percent of the speed cameras in France in response to the government’s lowering of speed limits last July.
The protests, which began in November as a protest to an environmentally friendly fuel tax, have expanded to an anti-globalist movement reflecting the values of millions of ordinary citizens.
Usnews.com reports: According to CNN, speed limits were decreased from 56 mph to 50 mph on two-lane highways – a decision officials made in an effort to reduce vehicle accidents and deaths.
But the protesters feel the speed cameras are only a way for the country to take money from poor, the BBC reported.
All around France, speed cameras are covered in paint or black tape that prevents them from taking photos of speeding cars’ license plates and sending the motorists a ticket.
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Time for new govt in France that is direct government. Not neoliberal, centrist-banker globalist bullshit.
Or the worse Fascist- corporatist bootsucking, elitist and yes globalist enslavement as well as fascists like Trump, LePen Omran, Bolnasaro, Trump sell off countries , rape the resources and kill everything and everyone. The big frikin lies for the sake of the corporations, and the oligarch’stotalitarian, henchman
No ! Direct democracy!
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Direct democracy sounds good to me, Gloria.
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They can just cut the bullshit that speed cameras are for ‘our’ benefit. That is a bald faced lie! Speed cameras benefit the government since the government steals our money and does what it wants and this also benefits the corporations that make those cameras and operate them. It has fuck all to do with safety! They get enough money from us since we’ve got to license ourselves, our vehicles, we are taxed on our vehicles. We pay to have our vehicles inspected and in some cases, we also pay for emissions testing and for what I don’t know because that does not stop the carbon emissions from mucking up the planet.
I say, “Way ta go ‘yellow vests’! Keep it up!”
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Shelby, it seems to me if the government wanted to limit the speed of automobiles they would require manufacturers to set a maximum speed. I’m sure speed cameras are very useful in surveillance and spying on us.
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First they will come for the progressives and many people will not speak out—
Even progressives
Then they will come for the trade unionists, and people will not speak out—
Because they are not union members.
Then they will come for the Jews, blacks, women college professors, journalists because people will not speak out—
Because they are none of the above
Then they will come for the rest because there will be no one left to speak for for us
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