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[Peach]

Terrorism works. We've seen that. The EU has capitulated. They couldn't stand up to a cartoon.

[cgk]

Christopher Hitchens wants to go stand for the Danes at the D.C. Embassy you went to. He's looking for people to join him. If you're headed there again, perhaps you could contact him with the time/date.

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And there remains the question of Denmark: a small democracy, which resisted Hitler bravely and protected its Jews as well as itself. Denmark is a fellow member of NATO and a country that sends its soldiers to help in the defense and reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan. And what is its reward from Washington? Not a word of solidarity, but instead some creepy words of apology to those who have attacked its freedom, its trade, its citizens, and its embassies. For shame. Surely here is a case that can be taken up by those who worry that America is too casual and arrogant with its allies. I feel terrible that I have taken so long to get around to this, but I wonder if anyone might feel like joining me in gathering outside the Danish Embassy in Washington, in a quiet and composed manner, to affirm some elementary friendship. Those who like the idea might contact me at christopher.hitchens@yahoo.com, and those who live in other cities with Danish consulates might wish to initiate a stand for decency on their own account.

[js1138]

I'm showing solidarity by increasing my consumption of babyback ribs.

[N. Theknow]

Send the UN Ambassador General - Koffi and
Danish.

[Rummyfan]

BFLR.

[saveliberty]

Yes, Christopher Hitchens is in the doghouse for joining the ACLU suit against the NSA program, but this is a good editorial and it's worth a read.

[jan in Colorado]

For your information ping!

[mugs99]

"Anti-Muslim images are as unacceptable as anti-Semitic images, as anti-Christian images, or any other religious belief."

This is how we defend our ally?
I'm tired of this PC Liberal crap. I thought we elected a Conservative to run the country. Obviously, I was wrong.
I support Denmark and the free speech rights of that Danish newspaper...even though our Liberal government does not.
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[jocon307]

Best article yet I have read, he really lays it on the line. I like Karen Hughes and regret his gratuitous insults to her (which only serve to weaken the article), but in every other particular, including his quite valid critism of the Administrations action (if not it's personnel), he is 100% correct.

And he really cuts through all the freedom of the press, freedom from insult, freedom of religion hairsplitting that so many on our side (I mean the West, or this side of the Atlantic maybe, not the Right) have been ingaged in.

I actually feel guilty that I have not done more. All I've done is fume and post here and buy a bottle of vodka. (Dansk, pronounced excellent by Hubby who is the epicure of our family).

I suppose I can at least call the Danish embassy to the UN or something. If anyone knows of anything going on in NY I'll do my best to get there.

Thanks for posting this, as an Irish Catholic a good dose of guilt is always welcome.

[Allan]

Readers of this thread
might be interested in my tag-line.
Tilt your head 90 degrees counter-clockwise
to see it.

Mohammad with a lit bomb in his turban.

(Courtesy of The Religious Policeman )

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

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