…..y’all realize they’re protesting exorbitant taxes to pay for Macron’s environmentalist agenda. The French protestors more so resemble trump voters than democrats.
Nah, they’re protesting neoliberal bullshit disguised as “environmentalism”. Raising the taxes on petrol is very regressive, disproportionally affecting the working rural poor, who rely on transportation by car to their jobs, with gas money being for many a large percentage of their income. For a rich person this tax has zero influence. Earlier in the year Macron lowered taxes on the rich. This is what people are angry about.
There are many different political positions involved in the Gilets Jaunes, There are a lot of right-wing and apolitical people in the movement, that’s true, but the left also has a large presence, and after a slow start seem to be working hard to stop attempts of fascists to hijack the outpouring of working class anger.
“In today’s unanimous decision, the Tennessee Supreme Court explained that, under state law, a life sentence is a determinate sentence of 60 years,” the court wrote. “However, the sixty-year sentence can be reduced by up to 15 percent, or 9 years, by earning various sentence credits (good behavior. & getting involved in prison based education programs while incarcerated) Therefore, the Supreme Court concluded that a defendant serving a life sentence for a first-degree murder committed on or after July 1, 1995, may be eligible for release after serving at least 51 years of the sentence.“
For those of you who haven’t yet caught up to this story:
Cyntoia Brown was a 16 yr old girl, who at the time of the incident was living in a room at a Nashville InTown Suites with Allen (the man who propositioned her for sex) because her pimp and boyfriend Garion McGlothen, nick-named “Kut Throat,” insisted that she needed to earn money.
After Allen took her to his house, he showed Cyntoia multiple guns, including shotguns and rifles. Later in bed, as she described in court, he grabbed her violently by the genitals, his demeanor became threatening and, fearing for her life, she took a gun out of her purse and shot him.
Call Governor Bill Haslam (615)-741-2001. she has a Clemency hearing May 23rd. DEMAND JUSTICE!!
#StayWoke
The parole board split on whether Cyntoia should be granted clemency. /BillHaslam can still grant her clemency before he leaves in January. You can reach him at: phone #: (615) 741-2001; e-mail: bill.haslam@tn.gov
