Wednesday, January 7, 2015

It is not senseless - they know what they are doing

The news from Paris is horrific: twelve people killed in an attack on the satirical journal Charlie Hebdo as the journalists had gathered for their editorial conference. I have already seen one British politician expressing his disgust with this "senseless" outrage. Outrage it is, senseless it is not. It is a violent and horrific attempt to silence the media, to stifle free speech. All of us must stand with Charlie Hebdo now and stop wittering about the attack being "senseless".

I have written about that fantastically courageous journal before here, when it was firebombed, and here, when it once again defied the self-appointed spokesmen of a certain religion as well as a few times during my EUReferendum period.

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 7, 2015 at 8:54 PM

    So true and so sad. The only correct response would be to publish all the "offending" Charlie Hebdo cartoons. And that would be the day a squadron of pigs take off from Biggin Hill.

    /Mikgen

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    1. HelenJanuary 8, 2015 at 2:07 PM

      Some of the German newspapers did, in particular B. Z. None of the British ones. They bottled out again. It pains me to say so but our media remains as cowardly as ever.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 9, 2015 at 3:19 PM

    My eyes might have been deceiving me but I thought for a brief couple of seconds the BBC actually put one CH cover on the screen on the 10 O'Clock News. It looked like the one where a Jew is pushing Muhammad in a wheelchair.

    The Huffington Post has:-

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-cartoons-paris-french-newspaper-shooting_n_6429552.html

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    1. HelenJanuary 9, 2015 at 3:43 PM

      Don't know about the BBC. Your eyes might have deceived you. HuffPo is different. It is also not British.

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