The killing of Nahel Merzouk by a French police officer on June 27th sparked France’s worst riots since 2005: more than 1,000 buildings and more than 5,000 cars were set on fire – costing businesses more than €1 billion in damage. This is similar to the total cost of the George Floyd riots in the U.S. – although those riots lasted 13 days rather than eight, and the U.S. is a much bigger country.
Much has been written about the causes of the riots and how the Government should respond to them. But what do the French people think? Thanks to a major new poll commissioned by the centre-Right newspaper Le Figaro, we now have some idea. (The results are all in French, but I used Google to translate them.)
Respondents were asked what feelings did the riots “provoke in you”. 89% said “concern for the future of France”, 84% said “anger” and 66% said “fear”. By contrast, only 21% said “understanding” and just 14% said “support”. So the vast majority of French are not sympathetic to the rioters.
Results broken down by party are shown below. (I put ‘far Left’ and ‘far Right’ in speech marks because I realise these labels are contested. The ‘far Left’ is the La France Insoumise group, while the ‘far Right’ is the Rassemblement National.)
Interestingly, the only party where there is substantial support for the rioters is the ‘far Left’ – though even here, it amounts to less than half of voters. What’s also interesting is that Macron’s voters look very similar to Republican voters and those who vote ‘far Right’. All three groups show substantial anger, and none shows much understanding or support for the rioters.
Respondents were also asked what “explains the riots in the suburbs”. 62% said “the rise of crime” (which seems somewhat tautological) and 47% said “the disappearance of authority”. By contrast, only 17% said “the attitude of the police” and just 11% said “the feeling of exclusion” – though 25% did say “economic and social difficulties”. So only a small minority of French believe the riots were caused by police brutality and social exclusion.
When asked “are you satisfied or dissatisfied” with the action of the Government and the police, respondents were far more satisfied with the police. 64% said “rather or very satisfied” when asked about the police, but only 27% did so when asked about the Government.
What’s more, most respondents endorsed quite heavy-handed measures for dealing with rioters. 77% supported “financially sanctioning” the families of those who are minors, 75% supported “depriving French nationality” to those who are dual nationals and 69% supported “cutting off social media” in the event of future riots.
These findings will make painful reading for the Left-wing journalists and politicians who’ve been claiming the riots were all the fault of the police for being racist and violent towards minorities. The public aren’t buying it: they want more policing, not less.
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“Evidence is the only thing that will change the minds of the health promoters, policy makers and politicians and specifically those who imposed such dreadful measures as lockdowns, face masks, social distancing and compulsory vaccination on huge numbers of the population with such detrimental outcomes.”
My giddy aunt. Does the author really think that the groups he enumerates don’t already know the whole thing was bollocks? It’s the general public we need to convince, not the architects of the scam. Ffs!
tof, I couldn’t agree more. The whole C1984 was a scam from start to finish. Trying to defeat the Scamdemic narrative from a scientific perspective is tantamount to going along with it. As you say it was all complete bollocks.
Dr Watson needs to speak with Dr Mike Yeadon. I doubt Dr Yeadon appreciates being lumped with the “seriously deranged.”
“Then we have the virus deniers, who prefer to be called virus sceptics. These are people who don’t believe that viruses exist and are, in and of themselves, part of a great scientific conspiracy. There is a spectrum of virus sceptics from those who propose some serious and reasonable arguments as to why the viral hypothesis is not correct up to and including the seriously deranged, “
This is not a well considered appraisal by Roger Watson.
I have little idea whether viruses exist or not – I don’t think I am part of a “great scientific conspiracy” – just someone who tries to follow the evidence of my own experience, and evaluates opinions as best I can, bearing in mind that (breaking news) people don’t always tell the truth.
Was it Chickenpox or Measles where kids used to go and have a massive party to spread it about. If viruses don’t exist, how did they spread it around intentionally. I get the change of weather argument when people get colds, either from change or temperature or from catching from others, or both. At the same time I remember reading how during Spanish Flu they tried to infect people with the virus and failed on every attempt.
I don’t remember which it was/is. Maybe both. But I never participated in anything like that.
We now know that a huge proportion of the Spanish Flu dead were killed by bacterial pneumonia in the age before antibiotics had been discovered and produced for pharmaceutical use. The pneumonia problem was due to the use of dirty cloth face masks which acted as an ideal medium for the growth of the bacteria which were then breathed in via the mouth into the lungs.
Covid mask maniacs refused to take note of any of that of course.
And the people most effected by the Spanish Flu were the people in their prime, has anyone explained that one beyond what age groups were inoculated.
I think ‘Dissolving Illusions’ explains that one. Crude vaccinations on young soldiers returning from the trenches was part of the problem. And aspirin as Groudhog has reminded me below.
I read a pretty convincing article on El Gato Malo which said a major factor in the 1918 mortality rate was the over exuberant use and over prescription of the newly released “Aspirin”
Dosage levels were uncertain. People were poisoned. Doctors, for want of anything better to do would shovel in a few more.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-greatest-lie-told-during-covid
Chickenpox, aye; Measles, nay. Get Cpox while you are young, as it’s much, much worse to contract when older – as I discovered when I was in my 30s
Mike Yeadon has fallen down the rabbit hole so far that he is now blind from the darkness as the “no viruses exist” clowns try to outdo each other with their wild claims.
They have become a laughingstock to those with a modicum of modern virology knowledge trying to fight the tyranny of the Covid plandemic and the dangers of so-called vaccines.
Spouting the nonsense that “viruses do not exist” harms their reputations and the sceptics fight against the global elite control over the masses.
They should be embarrassed and ashamed of themselves.
Yeadon seems agitated but so am I. He worked in an industry that has turned out to be a hub of evil. If we’re doling out shame then Yeadon should be close to the end of the queue.
I do appreciate where you are coming from though.
Yes the focus should be on the Globalists and we shouldn’t let this issue of ‘no viruses’ sidestep and distract the focus away from them.
“These are seriously dangerous people”
Compartmentalising opponents, being what the author is arguing against.
“I doubt Dr Yeadon appreciates being lumped with the “seriously deranged”
Indeed. And all of us that identified the Scam at Day 2.
Let us not forget also Prof John Ioannidis, an eminent party, who wrote an official report debunking the Narrative as early as April 2020. IFR no worse than a ‘Flu’.
Further, lest we also forget, the “Four-Ships” data Jan-Apr 2020 including inter alia the Diamond Princess that disproved everything the Guv and their Leaders were saying. They were the ideal ‘petri-dish’ test and were just binned.
Yes because the architects of the scam have all been given gongs and will do it again given half the chance. My bet is War being the next tool for a Police State. They may feel they’ve overplayed their hand with viruses. How is the Mpox going, or should I say Moneypox!
Moneybox.
They overplayed their hand but got away with it.
Then we have the virus deniers, who prefer to be called virus sceptics. These are people who don’t believe that viruses exist and are, in and of themselves, part of a great scientific conspiracy.
They don’t. Show me the purified isolated ‘bat virus’ in the bat. Then show me the same virus ‘mutated’ in a human. Then show me the transmission from human to human.
You can’t. Therefore you are anti-science.
Total illiterate nonsense.
You have no understanding of modern virology.
Dr Roger Watson is right to call out you numpties who harm the cause.
You again rude boy? While I agree with you on this point, I dislike your tone. And your virology qualifications are?
Hear, hear. I bought a copy and have just finished reading it. My main observation about the structure is that it is one of those sequences of articles that it could be more useful to read the last chapter (24) first, then delve into the detail later on. 24 is a good summary of most of the issues.
Incidentally, in that chapter they went into the alleged disappearance of ‘flu for a year or so. Part of this could well have been (as they say) the choice of what to put on the death certificate and how it was done. The late Harold Shipman would have loved it; he might have avoided prison that way.
For the avoidance of doubt, I agree with much of it, and have been sceptical (and wary of the methods used) of the whole affair, and never used the “vaccine” on offer.
The laws relating to Shipman (two Drs signing off death) were removed in 2020. Part of the many tools to enable a Plandemic!
“Take China, the presumed source of COVID-19, where remarkably few people died of the virus and where the emergency centres (equivalent to our ridiculous and never used Nightingale wards) were dismantled within about a month of their erection. Ours were still up over a year later”
It didn’t stop them confining people in high rise flats begging for food and some committing suicide. So why did they do it, experiment?
Possibly because the CCP are devoid of humanity and don’t care two hoots about whether people live or die.
Does our Guvt?
Announcing removal of 10m heating allowances right as the mercury drops.
Officially prescribing Midazolam as ‘palliative care’
Driving our food producers out of business or to suicide.
“Take China, the presumed source of COVID-19, where remarkably few people died of the virus”
Sorry but I can’t take this seriously. We believe China’s statistics do we? Why on earth would we do that? And what does “dying of the virus” mean exactly? And what is “remarkably few”? Few compared to what? To the statistics published in the UK? Based on the alleged presence of something detected by sticking a piece of plastic up your nose, or some “test” administered by unqualified individuals and processed in a “lab” knocked up and getting paid for volume, in someone who happened to die in the same timeframe, who may have had a myriad of health issues? What a load of utter crap.
The authors deal with that issue quite well, albeit without the same words (!). What they did not actually say is that there was a lot of opportunism in some branches of the trade, right down to the junk on offer in many shops for use as “masks” that never worked. Quite a lot of useless items bought by the Gov, as well, quite likely.
The junk was useful in reinforcing the lie that there was a deadly pandemic
And the inside contracts!
You can say that viruses exist or don’t exist because their being is predicated on a biochemical understanding of reality. There is a lot of work being done to show that much of what goes on in the body occurs on a different level. You could even say that a new organ, and perhaps the most important one in terms of understanding od disease has been discovered in the intersitium. It is essentially a watery body within your body that was believed to be largely inert. It was discovered by cancer researchers trying to understand the rapid dynamics of cancer spread. Faster than could be explained by current understanding. It answers a lot: how putting something into your body can affect cells everywhere almost immediately. There are many examples of this kind. We should see human consciousness as in a state of rapid flux. The materialistic reductionist paradigm was something we had to go through in order to ascend to something higher.
Science is solved. Nothing left to discover.
I need a bibliography of books and similar publications by authoritative experts exposing the scamdemic and all who sailed in it.
Any recommendations from DS readers welcome please.
This article appears to suggest one.
The following appears to be another:
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health (Children’s Health Defense).
Further suggestions most welcome.
Pseudo Pandemic. New Normal Technocracy. By Iain Davis.
Thanks.
Iain Davis
Jacob Nordengard has researched and exposed the influence and agenda of the Rockerfeller foundation which is a significant part of the background to what’s going on, including corruption of medical institutions. I’ve not got his book “Rockerfeller: Controlling the Game” preferring to hear Ivor Cummins’ summaries and presentations on the subject.
IMO as important is the long-standing scams regarding infectious diseases and vaccines. There are many good exposes, including Disolving Illusions, Turtles all the way down, etc. I’ve read enough to question whether there are contagious pathogens or that injecting substances into our muscles can somehow enhance our immune systems, especially with regard to respiratory problems. I’ve learned enough biology from JJ Couey on Gigaohmbiological to know that virology doesn’t make sense and vaccines likely do harm. Not well researched (for obvious vested interest reasons) but there’s evidence in the US that children who are not jabbed have better long term mortality outcomes.
Thanks.
As many suggestions as I can get would be great please.
“Turtles all the way down” I am told is good.
‘Dissolving Illusions’ might also help.
“Rockerfeller: Controlling the Game” also
I hope these authors are acknowledged experts.
I hear Prof John Ioannidis, might be authoritative?
Anu books by him?
Any feedback please?
“There is also the little-known fact — certainly new to me — that the COVID-19 virus was declared to be of low lethality and risk to the general population prior to the day that the first lockdown was imposed. Lockdown, therefore, was imposed with the full knowledge that this was not a dangerous situation. ”
Well I ….. a lowly, semi-retired former Civil Servant, who pays close attention to what is going on and who follows several blogs (one, Raedwald, sadly no longer with us) ….. knew that within a few days of the first lockdown.
So why didn’t you …. a doctor who, we might like to think, asks questions before just accepting the narrative from highly compromised people?
The medical professions cannot be trusted with anything. They practice a small subset of medicine – allopathy – which is dominated by drug industry money – and they exist to match a drug to a diagnosis without regard to many other safe and effective modes of healthcare and disease prevention.
They are well-paid slaves of a corrupt international healthcare industry.
And of course drug therapies are notoriously ineffective in the vast majority of patients as is testified to by the ‘number needed to treat’ which is how many people are given drug which is useless to them and causes unwanted harmful effects [‘side-effects’] for just one patient allegedly to benefit [subject also to ‘side-effects’.]