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[Tyr66]

^^ so sad really.
We learn that the local police said he was known to the security services for three years and that he had arrived as a child in Australia with his family. His Australian passport was revoked in 2015 because he was suspected of wanting to travel to Syria to join al quaeda. In addition, his brother will be tried next year on charges of wanting to obtain a firearm to commit a terrorist act. So respectful family.
We learn here every time one of these zombies comets or try to commit attacks as well.
Infuriating but what must we do to stop this madness ?

[Tyr66]

Operation "yellow vests" (gilets jaunes) all over the country today. The whole population protests against the increase of taxes. The drop that has overtaken the vase is the increase in the price of gasoline.
The social movement is born through social networks, no political party has exclusivity. The government and Macron are very worried because they have no interlocutor.
Already a dead among the protesters. a woman killed by a car during a traffic jam.
Two days earlier, the president was interviewed aboard the "Charles De Gaulle" nuclear aircraft carrier, among the Rafales aircrafts carrying atomic bombs.
We have experienced better in terms of defusing social crisis.
it smells very bad for Macron.
We'll see ...

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
Are the taxes you are referring to, income taxes or some other tax?

[Tyr66]

^^^^^^
Are the taxes you are referring to, income taxes or some other tax?

Value-added taxes on manufactured goods (20%), taxes on different types of fuel (more than 60% !!!!) to officially promote the ecological transition to electric vehicles (soft dreams), reductions in speed limits authorized (80 km / h instead of 90 km / h since the first of July), increases in the price of mandatory technical inspections of vehicles, projects to see the access to the city centers of the big cities become paying, the highway toll is become exorbitant, parking tolls are clearly theft. added to all this the declining pay slips except those of the shareholders of large national groups or holding companies.
Minimum old-age benefits are also impacted. Some retired people are now seeing less money than a legal migrant. Disgusting.
Nearly 200,000 people in the streets right now and more than 2,000 blockages in the whole country especially in Paris where mobs are heading to the Elysée Palace but also face the police armed with batons and tear gas bombs.
things are getting hot on non-stop info tv channels ...

[Zzzptm]

So when do the farmers block the streets and start burning tires?

[Typhon]

Check out this guy's hilarious response to his state's Environmental Agency letter.

[Zzzptm]

It gets better...

The video messes up on a few facts, but the story really happened up in Michigan. DeVries didn't on the property, but he got served the papers. DeVries handed the papers over to the actual property owner, a man named Tvedten. He wrote the response.

So the state sends back a message saying that they *know* those were beaver dams, but that the beavers have long since left and that Tvedten was maintaining the dams himself.

Tvedten was then able to demonstrate that as the letters were going back and forth, a neighbor of his had killed the beavers, so that only recently were the dams abandoned.

It then emerged that the state had not, in fact, inspected the dams prior to sending the cease and desist order... the state dropped the case, which was good for Mr. Tvedten, as there was a $10K per day fine if he was determined to be at fault.

[Vyn]

No finer bureaucracy this side of Italy!

[Typhon]

Just proves that old saying - "Truth is stranger than fiction." 

[Zzzptm]

https://reason.com/tags/brickbats usually has some wild stories about bureaucracy going beyond the mark.

Like this one:

A couple's plans to convert an empty building in Chicago's Old Town neighborhood into a home for their family has met resistance from some neighbors. The couple wants to add a garage with wheelchair ramp and elevator for their daughter, who uses a wheelchair. But some neighbors will oppose the plans before the zoning appeals board, saying the garage is not in keeping with the historic nature of the neighborhood. "I understand that the people who purchased the house have a child that requires special needs," Steve Weiss, president of the Old Town Triangle Association, wrote in a letter to his alderman. "What I don't understand is why they chose to buy a house in a Landmark Zone when you have these needs. I don't mean to be heartless or uncaring but this is not the neighborhood for that. Here you conform to the rules, not the other way around."

[Typhon]

More serious stuff going on in France.  After Macron makes a speech giving some concessions to his people, now a gunman shoots up a place in Strasbourg.  Hope they catch the bastard. 

[Zzzptm]

Yes, there's a question if Russia is stirring up stuff in France, now.

That's a nation that sends unmarked soldiers into neighboring countries, they'll do anything to get an advantage.

[Charger]

Christmas time quite often brings the terrorist scum out of their shitholes.

I do hope they catch that little shit and make him suffer big time.

Terrorist threat level has now been raised here as well.

[AnnoMundi]

This brings the John Lennon song to mind, imagine no religion.

[Zzzptm]

This brings the John Lennon song to mind, imagine no religion.

Pfft. Evil men will hijack anything in order to aggrandize themselves. Don the priest's garb and let the money roll in. Atheists in charge? Lose the priest get-up and become a judge in a Revolutionary Tribunal, where you seize the property of the guilty. Revolution over and laissez-faire capitalism in vogue? Drop the judge's robe and grab the top hat, make a fortune exploiting the workers and resources. Communists come into power? Renounce capitalism and become a party apparatchnik. Communists swept out of power by the monarchists? Jettison the red crap and become a courtier.

And so on.

And if you need something other than religion to inform your terrorism, there's nationalism, anarchism, and racism. Puerto Rican separatists in the USA had quite the run of mail bombings a while back, and racially-motivated lynchings, murders, and bombings have been a scar across the USA for over 200 years.