11 dead in French satirical magazine shooting

[Admiral Yi]

Meh, Siege, I think the West is strong with its "weakness". That's how we win. It may not be spectacular but it works. Just look what happened to Russia.

What happened to Russia was about economics.  It had nothing to do with freedom of speech.

[Martinus]

Meh, Siege, I think the West is strong with its "weakness". That's how we win. It may not be spectacular but it works. Just look what happened to Russia.

What happened to Russia was about economics.  It had nothing to do with freedom of speech.

Aha.

[Siege]

What happened to the woman they forced to open the building for them?
What a fucking coward.

[The Brain]

This thread is a hoot. Only thing missing is Grumbler.

Too busy popping and eating popcorn.  The thread is a hoot - it even forced The Brain to make a serious post!

Goddammit!

[Siege]

Compañero is more like partner, mate or companion than comrade which exists in Spanish as camarada as well.

Your Sefaradi-Judeo-Castillian connection is getting weaker and weaker, compañero. 

Whoa, whoa, slow down. My command of the Iberian languages is unmatched even in the Academia Real.
Companero and camarado are synonyms.
And so is companera and camarada, in the female gender.

[Jacob]

What happened to the woman they forced to open the building for them?
What a fucking coward.

Apparently she had her young child with her when they threatened her.

[11B4V]

This thread is a hoot. Only thing missing is Grumbler.

Too busy popping and eating popcorn.  The thread is a hoot - it even forced The Brain to make a serious post!

Goddammit!

I think everyone is tuckered out for now.

[Liep]

I think everyone is tuckered out for now.

The news isn't. They just had a live debate between all 8 political party leaders about freedom of speech, which I avoided. But Martin Krasnik is tearing into the liberal yahoo that is the chief editor of Politiken right now. Good stuff.

[11B4V]

I think everyone is tuckered out for now.

The news isn't. They just had a live debate between all 8 political party leaders about freedom of speech, which I avoided. But Martin Krasnik is tearing into the liberal yahoo that is the chief editor of Politiken right now. Good stuff.

It's the sensationalism they live for.

[Habbaku]

Compañero is more like partner, mate or companion than comrade which exists in Spanish as camarada as well.

Your Sefaradi-Judeo-Castillian connection is getting weaker and weaker, compañero. 

My command of the Iberian languages is unmatched even in the Academia Real.

[Sheilbh]

Poverty alone, no.

Poverty plus a sense of exclusion from mainstream society - closer.

Poverty plus a sense of exclusion from mainstream society plus some sort of ideological rallying cry - closer still.

Point being that, when one has a population that does not consider itself part of the mainstream, you have the breeding ground that makes it more likely that violence will happen - one far more ready to be receptive to the message of ideological nutcases.

Yep. As I mentioned I started reading The French Intifada over the weekend and it's seriously grim.

There is this difference though: overall, fundie nutters *want* there to be more conflict, while the rest of us want *less* conflict. That's the reason behind the unreason of terrorism. A terrorist laughs every time someone in the West is encouraged by his acts to become a Grallon.

It's the whole heighten the contradictions view. The best book on terrorism is still The Secret Agent. And there's very little that seems new from anarchism.

[mongers]

This thread is a hoot. Only thing missing is Grumbler.

Too busy popping and eating popcorn.  The thread is a hoot - it even forced The Brain to make a serious post!

Chin-chin!  Do carry on with your mud pies.

*pops more popcorn*

No surprise that Grumbler should find enjoyment in the suffering of others*.   






* And trust me I've suffered a fair bit, having read all 20+ pages of the thread, 'contributing' some of it myself. 

[The Brain]

Christians from the Middle East live in large numbers in Sweden. And yet people who make satirical Jesus-drawings and similar don't routinely face violence and death. So I hardly think poverty and ghetto living make terrorist acts happen.

[11B4V]

This thread is a hoot. Only thing missing is Grumbler.

Too busy popping and eating popcorn.  The thread is a hoot - it even forced The Brain to make a serious post!

Chin-chin!  Do carry on with your mud pies.

*pops more popcorn*

No surprise that Grumbler should find enjoyment in the suffering of others*.   






* And trust me I've suffered a fair bit, having read all 20+ pages of the thread, 'contributing' some of it myself.  

I'd rather lite Raz on fire than do that.

[Malthus]

Christians from the Middle East live in large numbers in Sweden. And yet people who make satirical Jesus-drawings and similar don't routinely face violence and death. So I hardly think poverty and ghetto living make terrorist acts happen.

That's two serious posts in one thread.

Another, and concerned folks will send the ambulance.