French riot police use tear gas on anti-tax protesters

[Bosonic]

Source: AFP

French riot police fired tear gas at hundreds of anti-tax demonstrators in northwest France on Saturday after protesters pelted them and tried to drive a tractor through a barricade, an AFP photographer said.

One demonstrator was arrested in Jugon-les-Lacs, a commune in the Cotes-d'Armor region where some 700 people had gathered earlier in the day.

A security camera was torched and some protesters pelted police, who responded with tear gas.

Demonstrators chanted slogans against France's Socialist government, which earlier this month suspended the application of the so-called ecotax.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20131109-french-riot-police-use-tear-gas-anti-tax-protesters

[Bob Jones]

1. I love it! Nice to see such scum get what they deserve.

Dare I hope to see every teabagger treated in the same manner?

[awoke_in_2003]

3. Welcome to DU...

But I support anyone's right to protest, no matter how inane

[Indyfan53]

4. When the cops fight fascists, I support them.

Greece threw their right-wing golden dawn party leaders in jail.

[Igel]

5. A fascist commune?

Small fascist family farms in Brittany?

Taxing people struggling to get food to market and not respecting their right to protest, but instead seeing a right for a government to repress dissent with violence--this is progressive?

Sounds like knee-jerk "I'm going to defend my own group" thinking. Those who are good--people like me--can never, ever be wrong, and if they are it's a minor accident oversight of no consequence that must be ignored.

Can samokritika be far behind?

[Indyfan53]

6. When the right wing is in power, they suppress our rights!

Just look at Madison Wisconsin. Union members non-violently protesting were beat up and arrested by cops under Walker's regime..

We can't give the right-wingers an inch.

[Brigid]

2. Here in this screwed-up country,

We elect these people to Congress.