Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Compromizing Free Speech? Hell No!: The Killings at Charlie Hebdo (UPDATED)



You guys know free speech right?
It's a thing people use to say what they want and feel in the context they want or feel to express what they feel. But sometime, some people don't like free speech...as least when it comes to others using it against the things they like and others don't. And sadly, a clash in the name of free speech happened in Paris. At the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo.

At 11:30 am Paris local time, or as reported this morning in America, a shooting occurred at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. 12 people were killed and eleven others were injured, four of those are in critical condition. 3 police officers were wounded. Of the 12, eight were Hebdo journalists (among them, four of the magazine's founding cartoonists) and two were officers.
At one point during the exchange, one of the men shouts, "We have avenged the Prophet Muhammad"
The officers then escaped the officers in a waiting black vehicle and jetted off, later abandoning the vehicle for another. The killers are still on the loose.

This makes no fucking sense. Why must people be killed because they have an honest opinion that they really want to let out? Why must lives be taken because a certain group of people don't like what they're saying? We should free speech be compromised if the people committing the attack I don't get it!!
These people have a right to say what they feel! It's in their journalistic integrity to say what they want. No person can and should ever take their right to it. It's in our 1st Amendment, dammit! To terrorist should and shall ever take anyone's right to free speech. If Those assholes have a right to use it anyway they want to, WHY THE FUCK CAN'T THEY?!?! They have a job at Charlie Hebdo to inform the French public about their opinions on the news of the world just like the satirical newspapers of the United States does to inform the American public.
If we can't have free speech like we do now, then we are living in a truly insane and truly fucked-up world.

These fucking cowards shall not get away with this reprehensible crime, and should be arrested and tortured for the crime. This is something that shouldn't have happened The term "The Pen is Mightier Than The Sword" is a very powerful and legendary quote that that really fits with this sad story, but think a nice sequence of water-boarding fits just as well.

We as Americans have still stood strong after 9/11 and the other horrible tragedies of the past decade. I (along with the rest of America and those in full belief of free speech) know the people of Paris, the country of France and the people of Charlie Hebdo especially can stand strong after this.

You cowards may have taken away the lives of some people (which was a horrible thing in and of itself), but you haven't taken away the right to free speech. Free speech is still alive, well and kicking with everyone else in the world, even with you. Just because you believe you have the right to free speech, that doesn't mean everyone else can't, won't and shouldn't. If When you're caught, you will suffer for your crimes. And will avenge those at Charlie Hebdo who have lost their lives when they shouldn't have.
Charlie Hebdo, you have the sympathy and empathy of everyone in the world.

This is a quote from Philippe Val, the former director of Charlie Hebdo, during an interview with Radio France:
"Our way of rendering justice is to not to stand by quietly, it is to continue. One cannot do otherwise. I hope that this tragedy, which is irreparable, will change things, that we will not let the bastards win. It is necessary to have a forceful and realistic discussion on this rising danger, which is real and that has been denounced for years. We have not listened. Today you have to listen to us, do not leave us alone."

#JeSuisCharlie

UPDATE: Okay, there is a little good in this story now. Two days after the horrible attack tttat Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris, French police caught up to the suspects, , Cherif and Said Kouachi, and engaged in a shoot-off with the suspects, killing them.

Another attack also happened around the same time, when a gunman took people hostage at a kosher market in eastern Paris. The gunman was also killed in the attack, with reports that those kept hostage were also killed.

All I will say here is that I'm happy the attackers are killed. It's really painful for the employees of Charlie Hebdo lose their colleagues and friends at the magazine, and even worse for the families of the victims lose their loved ones. And I feel sorry for everyone. But I'm now happy there is closure and that the deaths will be avenged.

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