Posted on 01/11/2015 6:40:06 AM PST by Kaslin
PARIS – Tens of thousands of people including more than 40 world leaders streamed into the heart of Paris on Sunday for a rally of national unity to honor the 17 victims of three days of terror.
The aftermath of the attacks remained raw, with video emerging of one of the gunmen killed during police raids pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group and detailing how the attacks were going to unfold. Also, a new shooting was linked to that gunman, Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed Friday along with the brothers behind a massacre at satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in nearly simultaneous raids by security forces.
"Today, Paris is the capital of the world," said French President Francois Hollande . "Our entire country will rise up toward something better."
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were among the leaders attending, as were top representatives of Russia and Ukraine.
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Maybe tens of thousands should arm themselves instead of doing this feel good stuff.
That’s about all it is.
Blubbering and snivelry signifying nothing.
It seems to be an effort to whitewash the whole matter. Downplaying the whole terrorist aspect of the incident. I’m watching this live on Franch 24 TV. Saying it’s France’s problem for not adequately accepting Muslims into their society. Muslims are peace loving, and that the exclusionary policies of France forced the Muslims to commit terrorist acts.
SHAMEFUL that the President of the United States is not marching against Islamist terrorists with the rest of the western leaders. How embarrassing to send a lame duck flunky, Eric Holder, who was on CNN being interviewed instead of being on the street wherever they put the third rate funkies in the parade.
Mooshelle should be ashamed this morning.
Who did we send?
A political appointee that nobody there even knows. Hell, we didn’t even send Secretary Of State.
Pathetic.
No riots, looting, burning buildings....
The government wants them to blow off a little steam so they won’t demand government action to end muslim autonomy in the Islamic NO-GO enclaves.
Obama showed which side he supports by sending his lame duck racist AG while he stays home to play golf.
You have this big emotional event and then everyone goes home and it's business as usual. Mark Styn is right.....they are NOT all Charlie. If they were, all the journalists would have been doing something. The murder victims stood out and were targeted BECAUSE they were the only ones doing something.
Does anyone have a link to that list showing the progression of islamic oppression based on percentage of population? I think that needs to be posted far and wide.
Looks like the Mooslime Brotherhood badly overplayed their filthy hand
Je suis NOT Charlie.
"Marching" in the way you are using the word is stupid and cowardly. No President of the US should lower himself in this way.
What is shameful is that there is not a 60 division combined US-India Expeditionary Force marching to conquer Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. THAT'S shameful.
Exactly. “Rise up to something better” is nothing but meaningless rhetoric.
I wonder if this will get the French to reexamine their “No Go Zones” policy in Paris and elsewhere and reassurt French Law and dominance over those neighborhoods.
As he focuses on petty "progressive" partisan political power plots, the world looks for Jeffersonian clarity and leadership on ideas essential to liberty.
In this moment, France, and the world, needs such clarity in order to understand the battle between the ideas of tyranny and those of liberty.
The Author of our Declaration of Independence and President of the U. S., Thomas Jefferson, who, in his 1801 Inaugural Address--laid out what might be considered to be "qualifications" for the American presidency:
(Excerpt, "Our Ageless Constitution," p. xiv, reformatted)Those who stand in Paris today may view a smaller version of their own Bartholdi's great and self-explanatory tribute to liberty, the Statue of Liberty.
"Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation;- entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them;
- enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man;
- acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter
—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people?
- Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
- This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you,
- it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations.
- Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political;
- peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none;
- the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies;
- the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad;
- a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided;
- absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism;
- a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them;
- the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
- economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened;
- the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
- encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid;
- the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
- freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions."(Underlining added for emphasis) --Thomas Jefferson to John Tyler, 1804. ME 11:33
"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.
You can be sure he would be there if it were a pro terrorist march
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