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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (181305)	2/7/2006 3:04:35 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 281500

"While were at it, why is it OK for them to burn our flag and the Union Jack, but not OK for a Danish paper to run some cartoons? There are Americans and Brits who find such actions offensive, after all." Calm down Lazarus.. I'm not immune from harboring the same feelings and thoughts that you have. I'm upset too.. And I've never said that violence was justified, just as a violent reaction to the burning of the US flag does not justify violence. It's not just burning flags or rioting about cartoons, Hawk. How about a truckbomb in the parking garage of the WTC? Or the USS Cole where 17 sailors were killed? Or an attack on the US Embassy in Lebanon resulting in the deaths of Marines? Or Munich and the Olympics? Or a cruise ship hijacked and a crippled Jew pushed overboard? Or attempting to smuggle in explosives across the Canadian border to blow up LAX? Or killing 3,000 at the WTC? Or Blackhawk Down? The London bombings last July? The bombings in Spain before that? When do WE get the right to get pissed? They got pissed about some cartoons? We have dead bodies. All I'm saying is that I don't feel any particular reason to defend those newspapers for what they published. Certainly the governments should not defend the cartoons, but merely the right of those newspapers to publish them if they so choose. The Danish gov't DID NOT defend the cartoons. It said they were published in a private;y-owned newspaper, Denmark has freedom of the press, and the gov't has no right to intervene and desired no method that would allow it to. cnsnews.com Did you catch this? "Jyllands-Posten reported receiving death threats and several of the cartoonists went into hiding. As far away as Pakistan, local media carried reports saying Islamists were offering rewards to anyone who killed the cartoonists. The reports prompted the Danish government to amend a travel warning, advising citizens planning visits to Pakistan." Now they are threatening the lives of the newspaper staff and the cartoonists. Is the rest of the West going to simply take this? Looks like New Zealand may next on the chopping block. news.ft.com Maybe they're trying to make allies out of neutrals for us. news.bbc.co.uk As is to be expected, the French have cut and ran. They do have one editor who hasn't been castrated yet, though. I just don't see what point they were trying to make by putting a bomb in Muhammad's turban. If they were trying to offend 1.4 Billion muslims, then they certainly succeeded.. How many Hindu suicide bombers can you name? And now the rest of us have to bare the burden, and sacrifice, for their apparently pointless cartoons. You may call it a burden. I consider a free press a wonderful thing. But believe me when I say it.. I do not condone the violent reaction and we should pressure those governments to find the perpetrators and protect the remaining embassies. Those gov'ts ALREADY have a duty under international law to mprotect those emnassies. They just seem to forget it when it's conveninet to do so. Remember our embassy in Iran in 1979? Find the perps? ROTFLMAO!!!!!!