Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no

How many times you need the football pulled away from you Charlie Brown? When are you going to learn that no matter how many times you pull the Europeans out of the sling they always go back to their swill.

So you’re going to commit how many troops and how much national debt to fight against the islamist threat. And like a moron you’ll go to war again. And then again they will pull the rug out from you in the middle of it. They will shake their heads sorry and go on another grand rebuilding program. They only fight until they feel better and then they stop and let the problem fester again.

But don’t worry you will sit back in your arm chair and shake your head too because the politicians lied to you again. And the widows and parents of the soldiers who have to fight hamstringed by feckless RoE assembled by lawyers defensive of Islamic lawsuits from CAIR will pay the price with life and limb.

No... I don’t feel sorry for the french at all. They are so smug with their tolerance and smart and peace loving. They allowed the muslim no-go zones, they allowed the nightly rioting and car burnings. Let them Drink the Full Measure of their foolish and cowardly tolerant policies. Even now the French are submitting to the sharia ban, Most of the French media refuses to print the stupid cartoon. Because they cower in the face of the threat.

So let the French go out and fight for their own rights. Let the French bicker with the united nations. Let the French try to assemble a coalition and take the blame from the leftist peace protesters. These are the same people who want to bring our troops and cia officers before the hague to prosecute them for war crimes because they poured water on a terrorists head. So let them talk to the terrorists and try to reach a negotiated peace. Maybe they can negotiate a little peace in exchange for their liberty.

I do feel that it’s a terrible shame that people need to learn this lesson again. But learn it they must because unless they do, this will be another ‘warm’ war partially fought and abandoned. So yes you wont find me supporting another war this day. Not fighting alongside that bunch of weasels.

That’s a good point; this magazine of lefties was opposed to some free speech, just not their own. They did have guts and conviction, though; for that reason, I’m not expecting any attacks on American media offices.

What is happening in Europe is that the far left and far right are coming together in the realization that Islam has no role in either side’s vision of “Eutopia”; in Holland in particular (especially after the Theo van Gogh murder) both sides realize their way of life is under assault by Islam.

Are we really all Charlie? No, no and shamefully no. No Australian newspaper dared published those pictures, too, bar one which did so in error.

The author here is full of crap. You can't have it both ways. You can't hold up "freedom of speech" as it if were some kind of sacred institution, then criticize someone for refusing to publish something for any reason whatsoever.

Did it occur to the author that maybe a lot of these media outlets found the content of Charlie Hebdo's publication offensive?

We are not like Charlie for the best of all reasons. The people of Charlie were a-holes. While they were murdered while executing an important right, they were no more virtuous than was Larry Flynt of Hustler magazine, when he was shot.

So, loathsome people murdered by terrorists. And I like to think it was not heroism for them to publish those cartoons, but arrogant hatred, and sneering disdain. For which we should think of them in the same light as the drunk at the zoo, who scales a fence because he wants to fistfight a polar bear.

We are not like Charlie because we know that only strength will beat such fanatics, not goading them with offensive comics. If France wants to rid itself of such murderers, it should no longer accept them as immigrants. And if they are there already, they should be stripped of citizenship and returned to the foul hellholes from which they came.

If they're just killers, then why did they go after Charlie Hebdo instead of a more prominent frog, such as François Hollande? ...Obviously, Charlie Hebdo crossed a line they wish to draw.

What line did the over 3,000 plus people killed in America on 9/11 cross?

If we must understand what motivates these brutal killers, then you will find consonance with Hillary Clinton's new method of pursuing peace in the 21st century, which you doubtless will be hearing more and more about.

We must have our freedom. And they must live with it or die!

I don't believe this is merely "the right to publish." This sounds more like the "rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

You certainly can if you know the reasons.

Did it occur to the author that maybe a lot of these media outlets found the content of Charlie Hebdo's publication offensive?

The author in this case is one of Australia's most prominent journalists writing for (and in) it's largest circulation newspaper. He also writes for the country's largest circulation newspaper. He knows the editors personally and has probably close to daily interactions with him. He knows the owners personally (including the ultimate owner of the papers, Rupert Murdoch). He has personally been pursued through the courts by left wing groups who succeeded in having two of his articles banned because they argued they 'racially vilified' people, and he's been threatened with similar cases on other occasions, and watched as his editors, and other employers, refused to do everything legally possible to defend him out of fear that they would be put at risk, thus endangering the very idea of freedom of the press in this country.

So I don't think he's full of crap. He knows damned well why newspapers in this country didn't print the cartoons. If he was allowed to and nobody else would do it, I'm sure he'd be putting them in his own columns just to make the point. But there's no way his paper's editors would let him and he knows why.

Obama, our taqiyya Muslim president, has never condemned the “Islamic terrorists” as such. He is a de facto enabler of the Islamic terrorism; otherwise he would never set free the worst of the worst Islamic terrorists that were imprisoned in Gitmo. Obama absence from the show of support for the people of France in the Paris’ demonstration of solidarity against terrorism, a united rally where most of the important leaders of the world were present, makes it clear here his heart is.

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