1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

PARIS BURNS: Riot police fire tear gas as 30,000 protestors

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by HankD, Nov 24, 2018.

  1. 777

    777 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Nov 25, 2006
    Messages:
    3,085
    Likes Received:
    1,190
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Oh,no, you don't want the French to have a revolution that isn't well-thought out again, look what happened the last time they tried that. If you really want to compare revolutions, France's was way longer, more violent, and unstable.

    The motivation for the American colonies was freedom, an end to "taxation without representation", a desire for self-rule but France was "liberty, equality and fraternization" and the French wanted rights for the collective over the individual. And just look what happened, revolution followed by tyranny, back to the monarchy and several republics afterwards.

    Tear gas, mass arrests as new Yellow Vest protests hit Paris

    I really want them to stabilize the situation there - a bunch of cops have been deployed across France, and some of them are reportedly flipping.
     
    • Agree Agree x 1
    • Informative Informative x 1
  2. HankD

    HankD Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 14, 2001
    Messages:
    26,977
    Likes Received:
    2,536
    Faith:
    Baptist
    It was TYRANNY! :Cool
     
  3. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    It was against scripture. "Pray for Caesar". He was far more tyranical.

    We have had many tyranical kings such as Henry VIII and Mary I and Charles I. He was the one who caused the pilgrims to go to USA. Without him you would probably be speaking Spanish, or French.

    George III was the last king to sign a parlimentary law because it went against his Christian convictions.
    QE II signed the Gay marriage act although she seemed to be against it, saying it wasn't in her power to go against parliament.
    Henry the Great (VIII) took us out of Europe and under European laws, but our treacherous polititions in recent years took us back in. That is why we have the Brexit shambles at present.
     
  4. HankD

    HankD Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 14, 2001
    Messages:
    26,977
    Likes Received:
    2,536
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Really you Brits ought not to lecture us Yanks about government, you tyrannized us, we fought back we won. :)
     
    • Like Like x 2
    • Winner Winner x 2
  5. Wingman68

    Wingman68 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 22, 2017
    Messages:
    5,077
    Likes Received:
    2,243
    Faith:
    Baptist
  6. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    I am English, not British, not European.
     
  7. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Macron says He is raising the minimum wage and gioving tax consessions. A news report this evening said that if he had reduced the increase in the beginning iot would have all been setteled. But all sorts of peopel have joined in with their own demends, as well as tyhe rentamo joiniong in, both left and rght.

    Over here we have the same problem with diesel. London, whichj already has a congestion charge to limit vehicles entering the central zone,. They now are implementing a charge for pollution.

    The Metropolitan Tabernacle, the church began by Spurgeon, has about 10 or so minibusses and they will have to get rid of them because they are diesel.
     
    • Informative Informative x 1
  8. HankD

    HankD Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 14, 2001
    Messages:
    26,977
    Likes Received:
    2,536
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Yeah I guess I'm not a Yank either, I am an American.
     
    #68 HankD, Dec 10, 2018
    Last edited: Dec 10, 2018
    • Like Like x 1
  9. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
    I enjoy watching Europeans bankrupt themselves.
     
  10. 777

    777 Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Nov 25, 2006
    Messages:
    3,085
    Likes Received:
    1,190
    Faith:
    Baptist
    EU is not much bankrupting itself yet, but they sure are heavy-handed and stagnant, typical for statists. I don't see how this Macron can be promising a minimum wage hike and then say it's at no cost to the employer, he's not a dictator like that. I think the protests have morphed into a left/right united against the EU. like a pile on.

    Now Teresa has cancelled the Brexit vote that was scheduled for today, she knew it would be shot down. Wasn't a very good deal in the first place. but now May is greatly weakened (like Macron, but for different reasons) and I doubt she can hold on. In retrospect, maybe she was the wrong person at the wrong time to implement Brexit, since she was never really for it. Whether this leads to a PM Corbyn or a hard Brexit next year remains to be seen.
     
  11. RighteousnessTemperance&

    RighteousnessTemperance& Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 24, 2017
    Messages:
    7,359
    Likes Received:
    1,464
    Faith:
    Baptist
    How so? Is that what your passport says, or just how you feel? Not that I want to trounce your feelings.:Wink
    File:Ukpassport-cover.jpg - Wikipedia
     
  12. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Why?

    Is that a Christian attitude? I don't think so.
     
  13. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Yes I objected to that when I first got it, whoever when we leaver we will get the old blus passorts back.

    However my current passport still says as in the original:

    Her Britanic Majesty's
    Secretary of State
    Requests and requires in the
    Name of her Majesty
    all those whom it may cocern
    to allow the bearer to pass feely
    without let or hindrance
    and to afford the bearer
    such assistance and protection
    as may be necessary


    let or hindrance
    see 2 Thess 2
     
  14. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    I am surprised that no one has commented on the shooting is Strasbourg. 4 killed or is it 2.

    The European Christmas markets have been targetted before.

    My daughter and her husband and their youngest are in Brtussels till tomorrow visiting the Christmas markets.
     
  15. Martin Marprelate

    Martin Marprelate Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 18, 2010
    Messages:
    8,817
    Likes Received:
    2,106
    Faith:
    Baptist
    These things are worrying, aren't they? Yet statistically, the risk is tiny. But I'll be praying for your family right now.
     
  16. Martin Marprelate

    Martin Marprelate Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 18, 2010
    Messages:
    8,817
    Likes Received:
    2,106
    Faith:
    Baptist
    • Agree Agree x 1
  17. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
  18. church mouse guy

    church mouse guy Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 23, 2002
    Messages:
    22,050
    Likes Received:
    1,857
    Faith:
    Baptist
    You are happy spending yourselves silly and so I am happy that you are happy.
     
  19. David Kent

    David Kent Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Feb 5, 2017
    Messages:
    2,374
    Likes Received:
    312
    Faith:
    Baptist
    My family is back home this evening. They had an enyoyable time. The highlight of my 9 year old granddaughter's trip was "We had waffles."
     
  20. kyredneck

    kyredneck Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Jul 28, 2009
    Messages:
    19,495
    Likes Received:
    2,880
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Well, surprise! Surpise! :D
     
    • Like Like x 1
Loading...