The Tricky Waters Of Defending Charlie Hebdo

Townhall.com ^ | January 9, 2015 | Mark Davis

[arthurus]

Moslems can’t be “told” anything useful. Moslems must be removed from the population of any country that wishes to survive in the 21st century. Islam is a cancer in a society and must be excised or killed if that society is to survive.

[yldstrk]

lol Antkinson, that is funny

[KevinB]

If there’s a rattlesnake living in my house I must (i) kill it, (ii) remove it, or (iii) leave it alone. If I don’t have the guts or wherewithal to do (i) or (ii) I’d better be prepared to do (iii).

[Tzfat]

Easy. Don’t defend the magazine with “Je suis Charlie” - instead, make your true convictions known with “Je suis Charlie... Martel!”

[arthurus]

We do vote them out of office but upon election the new guys instantly transform into clones of the people that got voted out of office. Our righteous T-Party candidates almost all became grafting mercantilist Ruling Class grandees instantly upon taking their seats. At this point if a change is to be made a Convention is required backed up with massive Civil Disobedience and perhaps armed resistance to the huge crackdown that will come if the 2/3 of States actually launch the Convention. That crackdown will occur no matter what branch of the Imperial Party supplies the President.

[arthurus]

Their satire is, indeed, pornographic and terribly sophomoric. One expects such art work of high school sophomores. The text is appropriate to college sophomores who are not paying their own way.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Davis has been dead to me since Clinton murdered all those people in Waco.

[Mercat]

In other words a lot like South Park only without the censorship.

[tanknetter]

I don’t get what’s tricky here.

I don’t agree with what you say. I will defend, absolutely, your right to say it.

Q ... E ... D

[JohnnyM]

Mark Davis is exactly right. You can defend free speech and see these attacks as appalling and evil and also not want to praise Charlie Hedbo. That publication is absolute garbage and trash, so I am NOT Charlie. Nor will I ever be Charlie. And I can absolutely condemn the attacks and still refuse to praise Charlie Hedbo as some paragon of virtue.

JM

[Trentamj]

Anti-Free Speech people will always go after the practicioners of free speech who are the most vulgar and juvenile; that's how they work to induce naive people into buying into their otherwise noxious arguments for censorship. Mr. Davis should know better that if he accepts the slaughter of CH today, then he will be defenseless when the troglodytes go after the WSJ, or NR tomorrow.

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Ah. So in essence what Mr. Davis is saying here is, “If she didn’t want to get raped, she shouldn’t have gone drinking with Bill Cosby.”

[Kommodor]

Mr. Davis should go back to doing NFL picks with monkeys. It was more interesting.