Of all Western people, the French lack the most basic understanding of the rule of law. Not surprising, since the society is muddled with Marxist garbage. And the ideology of Marx preaches only entitlements and force in obtaining those entitlements. That is French political culture in a nutshell. A society full of people who think the state owes them something, that they must be feed with the forced generosity of others. And whenever that is threatened, the French take to the streets demanding that no matter the costs entitlements remain de jour.

If the French want to sink themselves into poverty with an ever-expanding and burdensome welfare state, let them eat cake! Of course, shiftless, leftist zealots can march in the streets. Lacking a constitution that protects economic liberty, if that is the life most French people want then they can ask for that. Part of a free society is the right to assembly.

[The Spoiled Brats of France.]

But protesters do not have the right to infringe upon the rights of other no matter the merit of their activism. But this is the leftist activist in France and elsewhere often do.

Examples include an outbreak of kidnapping—or “bossnapping”—of company bosses, held by workers in their offices overnight. Student protests have closed some universities, with lectures cancelled, for weeks on end. Fishermen this week blockaded the ports of Boulogne, Calais and Dunkirk with boats and barricades of burning tyres.

These activists are a bunch of fascists. They have no right to kidnap people. It is not only workers who have rights, but bosses as well. And what right to protesting activists have to prevent their peers from continuing their studies? This is a common tactic tactic among French protesters. Their goal is to create social havoc until the government gives into their demands. They fancy themselves romantic revolutionaries, but are nothing more than a bunch of thugs who think a democracy would be just the principle of mob rule. And then the fishermen with their blockade!

What is even more grotesque is the French public which condones these acts.

But they all seem legitimate in voters’ eyes: 64% of respondents to one poll say that the perpetrators, including bossnappers, should not be punished.

And even more so a government that is intimidated by protesters to go after them. They can march and sing in the streets all they want, but the state has a duty to stop them from engaging in illegal activities. All those of trap bosses in their offices should be sentenced and jailed. Those of block schools and colleges should be given warning to leave the premises, if they refuse then the police should forcibly remove them and not too kindly either.

As for those fishermen. If they do not heed the warning to end the blockade, then the French navy should fire warning shots. If still no movement, then the ships should be sunk in a manner that does not unreasonably risk the lives of the men/women on board.

This is not harsh. It is the government’s responsibility to make sure that political activism does not descend into hooliganism. The French need a good lesson in that. They need to learn to respect the rule of law.