FIGHT THE POWER: French Protesters Have Deliberately Trashed More Than Half of Their Traffic Cameras. “Traffic cameras, it turns out, are an easy symbolic target for the Gilets Jaunes. Their movement started in November 2018 over fuel prices, as we’ve previously described. But the list of grievances they have dramatically brought to French president Emmanuel Macron also included one criticizing the proliferation of cameras on French roads and the reduced speed limits (recently cut to 50 mph from 55 mph on many roads). Many motorists in France doggedly believe the government orchestrated these measures strictly to fill its coffers. Attacking speed cameras, the protesters rationalize, will hit the government where it hurts without negatively affecting motorists or private businesses.”

That doesn’t seem like rationalization. It seems like sound reasoning.