The state of emergency in France has become
repressive.
People have been arbitrarily placed in house arrest, blocked from
working, for no apparent reason. This includes the leader of a
charitable organization that helps Muslim prisoners.
But repression is not limited to Muslims. Many people suspected of
planning climate protests have been
raided
and arrested too.
These repressive actions have nothing to do with the officially stated
goal of preventing more terrorist attacks. The French thugs know full
well that these climate defenders are not terrorists. Their goal is
to crush anyone who would dare to disobey — because, to
a tyranny, disobedience is worse than terrorism. Terrorism offers
tyranny an excuse, but disobedience can make tyranny weaker.
The harm done to France by this attack on liberty will dwarf that of
the terrorist attacks — only to be dwarfed in turn by the global
heating disaster that this repression is helping to increase.