Faced with an outcry sparked by a text that announced the possibility of imposing a de facto vaccination obligation, the French Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, postponed the project sine die.

Presented at the Council of Ministers on Monday by the French Prime Minister Jean Castex, the text established “a lasting health emergency management regime” which was tabled a few hours later, in an accelerated procedure in the National Assembly.

The purpose of the text, according to the spokesman of the government, Gabriel Attal, was to “prepare for the end of the health emergency on April 1, 2021” and “establish a sustainable legal framework deal concerning health crises”.

But faced with a huge outcry – on the right and on the left – the government has decided to withdraw the controversial bill. Véran announced the withdrawal on Tuesday evening on national broadcaster TF1: “Vaccination will not be compulsory. It is a bad controversy coming from the National Rally […]. The government will propose to postpone the text for several months,” said the minister.

According to the controversial bill, “the Prime Minister may […] make the movement of people, their access to means of transport or to certain places, as well as the exercise of certain activities subject to the presentation of the results of a screening test establishing that the person is not affected or contaminated, following a preventive treatment, including the administration of a vaccine, or a curative treatment”.

The number two of the Republicans party, Guillaume Peltier, reacted strongly on Twitter: “What is Emmanuel Macron hiding? I naively believed that in our homeland, respect for freedoms was the rule and its restrictions the exception. In this case, the executive would have all the power to suspend our freedoms without parliamentary control? Inconceivable. ”

For the Senate Law Committee, it is not acceptable that such decisions are taken by decree, without ever being debated in Parliament. The latter is only “informed” according to the bill . “Keeping infected people in isolation, or quarantining contact cases, represents a deprivation of liberty as it must be examined by Parliament!” said François-Noël Buffet.

“That the government considers that the Prime Minister alone has fundamental freedoms is very worrying ,” said Bruno Retailleau. “No good intention justifies such a decision. In the event of a health crisis, the implementation of custodial measures must remain the exclusive competence of Parliament,” the president of the LR group in the Senate said .

Sébastien Chenu told France 2: “All that is very dangerous” and “that would mean that vaccination must be compulsory.” Chenu, the spokesperson for the RN, denounced the imposed “health dictatorship”.

Marine Le Pen noted that there should be no “second-class citizenship for unvaccinated individuals – it is deeply deleterious and liberticidal”. The RN leader branded the vaccine measure as “essentially totalitarian”.

Above all, this bill appeared to contradict the commitment made by the executive. “I do not believe in compulsory vaccination for this vaccine,” Emmanuel Macron had declared during his interview with Brut.

In an attempt to put out the fire and allay the fears of the French, several ministers and officials close to Macron commented. “No, vaccination against Covid will not be compulsory,” said the president of the LREM deputies, Christophe Castaner. The text “is not there at all to create exceptional powers for the government” or “to perpetuate the state of emergency, it is there to strengthen our crisis management”, argued the Minister of Public Service, Amélie de Montchalin.

On Tuesday evening, Olivier Véran provisionally ended the controversy by withdrawing the text.

https://freewestmedia.com/2020/12/23/french-government-gives-up-on-imposing-compulsory-vaccination/

So far unknown perpetrators caused considerable damage to the Hausenborn pilgrimage chapel in the period from Sunday, December 20, 2020, 2:45 p.m., to Monday, December 21, 2020, 1:00 p.m.. The perpetrators removed a Jesus corpus weighing approx. 50 kg from the annex of the chapel and threw it down a cliff. In addition, various memorial plaques were torn off the walls and a fire was set in the inner courtyard. In the process, the perpetrators burnt Christian furnishings, among other things. A rubbish bin was filled with a statue of Jesus and Christian objects. In the course of the police search for evidence, police officers seized evidence. According to the current state of investigation, the suspects are likely to be several, or at least two, perpetrators. The damage to property is estimated at 25,000 EUR. Information from the public is requested. Witnesses are asked to report any possible information to the Straßenhaus police by calling 02634/9520 or sending an email to pistrassenhaus@polizei.rlp.de.

https://www.presseportal.de/blaulicht/pm/117709/4797254

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office has brought charges against Muharrem D., who was arrested in May and is accused of, among other things, a serious arson attack on a Turkish grocery shop in Waldkraiburg in Upper Bavaria.

This was announced by the prosecuting authority in Karlsruhe on Monday. The 25-year-old is accused of aggravated arson, multiple attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.

D. has Turkish parents. He was arrested on May the 8th and is alleged to have planned much more serious bomb attacks on the Ditib central mosque in the Cologne district of Ehrenfeld and on the Turkish Consulate General in Munich.

For the attack on the Cologne mosque, he wanted to use a bomb with high explosive power. He had not yet started making the bomb, the investigators said.According to the indictment, D. underwent a process of religious radicalisation since 2017 and became a follower of an Islamist-jihadist worldview as well as the jihadist militia Islamic State (IS). Because of Turkey’s stance in the Syrian conflict and its dealings with certain preachers in Turkey, he had become “a lasting hater of the Turkish state and people of Turkish origin”.Therefore, he had decided to carry out attacks on people of Turkish origin. For this purpose, he had obtained a semi-automatic pistol and the equipment for pipe bombs and explosives. With this, he made more than 45 kilogrammes of explosives, as well as 23 pipe bombs, which, however, lacked detonators.

Attempts to join the IS were unsuccessful. An attempted attack on the Sultan Ahmet Mosque in Waldkraiburg failed due to the locked door, and D. refrained from the other initially planned attacks on Ditib mosques.

Instead, he carried out attacks with a foul-smelling liquid based on butyric acid, first on a hairdressing salon and a pizzeria, and later on a Turkish restaurant.In the early hours of April the 27th 2020, D. gained access to a fruit and vegetable shop in Waldkraiburg and detonated an incendiary device made of gas cartridges, causing the salesroom to go up in flames.The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is of the opinion that he deliberately attempted to kill the 26 occupants of the house. Only because they noticed the fire in time, there were no people killed. However, four residents suffered smoke inhalation.In the course of his arrest on May the 8th 2020 and a subsequent house search, 23 pipe bombs, 23 kilograms of flash bang kit and several kilograms of explosive material were seized. The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office brought its charges before the State Protection Senate of the Munich Higher Regional Court.

https://www.express.de/koeln/-nachhaltigen-hass–muharrem-d–plante-anschlag-in-koeln—weitere-details-bekannt-37847884

By Eric Utter

“One person, one vote” is no longer enough for progressives, apparently. Professor Brandon Hasbrouck, who teaches criminal law, race relations law and critical theory at Washington and Lee University, believes the votes of Black Americans should be counted twice in all U.S. elections as a form of “voter reparations.” Hasbrouck wrote a piece published in The Nation in which he stated that the core problem is the Electoral College. He posited that it is somehow unfair that the mostly white state of Wyoming gets three electors while Atlanta, which is 58% Black, gets none, and “can only occasionally overcome the mostly white and conservative votes from elsewhere in the state.”

Umm, professor, Electoral College votes are divvied up by state, and Atlanta is acity. And the large black population of Atlanta goes a long way towards determining who wins the state of Georgia, and therefore its Electoral College votes, whether small, rural, white towns and hamlets like it or not. The eminent purveyor of “race relations law” wrote: “Vote reparations would create possibilities to build what W.E.B. Du Bois called ‘abolition democracy,’ or the practice of achieving a racially just society. Abolition democracy invites us to engage with abolition not as a finite goal but as a radical process of challenging injustices wherever and in whatever form they might appear. Vote reparations would empower us to replace oppressive institutions with life-affirming structures of economic, social, and political equality. And if our elected representatives did not prioritize this transformational work, we could vote them out.” Twice.

He added, “Vote reparations would be a giant step toward remedying our nation’s long history of denying and devaluing Black votes. To address systemic racism, we must transform how we choose our government.” By denying and devaluingwhite votes, in a systematically racist manner! And we already have transformed how we choose our government. We now know leftists steal elections if they aren’t sure if they can win them fairly.

This reveals Professor Hasbrouck’s idea as not only absurdly racist, but entirely superfluous at this point.

But the nutty professor doesn’t stop there. He also thinks the votes of Native Americans should count twice. As should those of anyone who has “suffered similar disenfranchisement.” Really? Who is the judge of that? Professor Hasbrouck alone? Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? Antifa? A panel of “experts?” The Biden administration?

In the interest of wokeness, perhaps we should henceforth tabulate all votes based solely on the intersectional identity of those who cast them. Allow me to illustrate. Let’s say that straight, white females are the baseline, and their ballots count as one vote. Those of straight, white, Christian males could be worth 3/5 of a vote. Those of white, lesbian, atheists could count as one and a half. Are you a garden-variety cis-Black agnostic? Your vote counts twice. Bisexual, Buddhist, Pacific-Islander? Your vote will be counted three times. Transgender, pangender, Jamaican mulatto transvestite Rastafarian? Congratulations, your vote will be counted no less than five times!

In all seriousness, this idea not only makes a mockery of a democratic republic, if implemented it would bring it down. For, as Lincoln said, “A house dividedagainst itself cannot stand.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/12/professor_asserts_black_votes_should_count_twice.html