Foxy It looks like a false flag event in which Charlie Hebdo were just merely pawns.

It seems to me that free speach something everyone agrees with until they are personally offended. Should we defend Bill Cosby's right to make jokes about rape? Surely its no more vile than Delaneys comments on Bindy Irwin. Every one favours free speach until their own buttons are pressed.

runner,

We're saying that murdering people for exercising their right to free speech - in a country that upholds that right - is heinous.

We're saying that intimidating and terrorising people into inhibiting their freedom of speech is monstrous.

So much for the uncontested freedom of speech, I wish you all were as keen about other freedoms!

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Dear Poirot,

<<We're saying that murdering people for exercising their right to free speech - in a country that upholds that right - is heinous.>>

So in your view, free speech is not a natural freedom but a right bestowed by particular countries? if one is murdered in a different country which doesn't uphold free speech than it's OK, not heinous?

<<We're saying that intimidating and terrorising people into inhibiting their freedom of speech is monstrous.>>

Are you claiming that my parents were monstrous for admonishing me when as a child I pointed and called at negroes and the very fat man who lived in the corner of my street?

Would you justify the boys in http://germanstories.vcu.edu/struwwel/bubeng.html ?

@ all the lefties who are suddenly becoming champions of free speech

<<We're saying that intimidating and terrorising people into inhibiting their freedom of speech is monstrous.>>

Hahaha and this is from the side of politics who are always spruiking anti-viliification laws --what a joke.

Yuyutsu,

"So in your view, free speech is not a natural freedom but a right bestowed by particular countries? if one is murdered in a different country which doesn't uphold free speech than it's OK, not heinous?"

Oh nice one...."how to take someone's post and misrepresent their intended meaning - 101"

I added that bit because we are specifically referring to France and Charlie Hebdo in this thread.

"Are you claiming that my parents were monstrous for admonishing me when as a child I pointed and called at negroes and the very fat man who lived in the corner of my street?"

Only if they chased you around the house with an AK47.