I'd add: How about all those 'leaders' marching yesterday?
Any reason for not naming the author?
“Charlie Hebdo was an enemy of Western civilization.”
I alluded to this on another thread the other day & got flamed. While I mourn the deaths of those who were murdered & I do not support Islamic freaks, I also find very little about CH to be supportive of.
Excellent essay.
What they create is still 100% protected by free speech. That is why I would say je suis Charlie. What Stalin did is not equivalent in any way to creating edgy cartoons. Stalin murdered millions. They put pen to paper.
If they cannot do that by free will. We can’t make our political views known as a free man either. Someone else will be equally as offended by a statement here about limited government as one might be offended by a cartoon ripping Islam or Christianity.
At least one of the CH cartoonists is on record declaring his hate & distain for the “Je suis Charlie” crowd. Easy for ‘em all to declare warm fuzzies after the fact.
In a week or two, this will all be forgotten and the left will be on the march against Western civilization once again. We've seen this behavior many times, over and over.
Treasonous scoundrels remain treasonous scoundrels and especially after they have satisfied their desire for preening or hiding their real aims by supporting their real enemy (us) when public opinion sways to our side. Then they start their termite process once again to eat out our foundations.
Yes, CH was all that. But they're no more an enemy of Western Civilization than Mad Magazine is.
Many cartoons are inflammatory and antagonistic to one group or another, and unfairly so, at that.
So, regardless of how leftist CH or its employees might have been, they were by no means enemies of Western Civilization. Capitalism, free enterprise, and Christianity, maybe, but not "Western Civilization"...
Humor is humor, no matter how vile or infantile. And no humor that I can think of can be legitimately characterized as an enemy to Western Civilization...