I don't read any opposition to Free Speech in the quotes.
What I heard was a call for common sense. Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble. We, the U.S, are too busy fighting terrorists in the Middle East to come to Europe's rescue when they piss of their resident Muslims.
It's inappropriate coming from the State Department, or any other government agency.
Only asking for trouble??
How much more 'trouble' can we be in after 3000 people died by planes being flow into the towers, pentagon, and pennsylvania field?
Not to mention a few 'beheadings'. And don't forget the workers that were fried and hung from a bridge?
We're asking for trouble?
Try the other way around.
Of course, you did.
Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble"
You being alive writing that is offensive to militants and terrorits...
get it?
Trying to be sensitive to a maniac cult serves no purpose.
Barbarians don't understand or appreciate 'sensitivity', they only see it as weakness.
Several European newspapers have printed the cartoons...some more than once.
We are supposed to defend free speech. The State Department's version of political correctness will be interpreted instead as political cowardice.
They SHOULD have said the same thing as the Danish government:
We do not have the right, as government, to tell the newpapers what they can and cannot print.
I don't read any opposition to Free Speech in the quotes. What I heard was a call for common sense. Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble. We, the U.S, are too busy fighting terrorists in the Middle East to come to Europe's rescue when they piss of their resident Muslims.Thank you!
I've said the same thing in other threads.
Don't forget our troops. They have Muslim allies they are working with in the field. Don't stab our troops in the back to come to the aid of a bunch of euroweenie ingrates who will piss in our faces when it's all over anyway, whether we help them or not.
Common sense would be publishing more of these cartoons so as to draw the Mooseslime idjits into the open for everyone to see what 8th century murderers and nutballs they truly are.
So the criteria of allowed speech depends on the militancy of the offended party?
If I or you are offended by something the media does or says, no big deal because we are not, at least I am not, going to go on a rampage.
What if I announced that I will go on a rampage the next time the media offends me. Still no big deal, because some cop will blow my head off.
But if I can get millions to go on a rampage with me, then throw free speech out the window.
So you're only for selected free speech. You can only offend the weak and sane.
"What I heard was a call for common sense. Printing inflammatory cartoons that are offensive to a militant and terrorist religion is only asking for trouble."
Sorry to pile on, but the minute we decide to limit our speech based on what some refugees from the 7th century might think of it, we're @#$^ed.
On a personal level, I'm more than happy to see Europeans stand for their free speech and have this predictable response from the Islamists open many Europeans' eyes.
What a remarkably cowardly take you have on this issue.
Your post sure doesn't match the quote next to your name- "NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace". That "call for common sense" crap is kinda like ole Neville Chamberlain's rhetoric!!! I emailed the state dept. thru the link provided in one of yesterday's posts on this subject and told them to quit their crying on behalf of radical Islam (is there another kind?)
a). We didn't print them and b). in case you haven't noticed, we already have trouble we didn't ask for. Meekly submitting to intimidation by savages is not common-sense, in my book. If we go down that road we're done--let a bunch of ignoramuses dictate our press policies and what's left?