You noticed that too?
Did you really?
What a clever boy you are. Would you like a lollipop?
How about trying to come up with a big boy explanation now?
Do you think you could do that?
Aha! You found it. What a clever boy your are!
Je suis Charlie. Do I have to explain that any further to you?
You evidently didn’t notice, so I had to explain it to you like I would a two-year-old.
Stop with this bullshit. First, this one statement by a British reporter is the only report of such a thing happening, so I don’t think it even actually happened, second, the only unarmed police in France is as mentioned municipal police, which is very few in number and generally doesn’t exist at all, French police being national, not local, and whose only job is to enforce local ordinances, like issuing traffic tickets, hence has zero reason to b armed.
Finally, the use of weapons by the police in France is statistatically so rare that they could as well be unarmed, as I wrote a couple times in the past.
Huh?
Are you saying that in the 1980s getting caught in parts of West Belfast spray painting “Fuck the Pope” on a wall near certain pubs or in certain neighborhoods wouldn’t be extremely dangerous?
For that matter, I’m sure that spray painting “Fuck the Queen” on a wall in certain neighborhoods would be extremely dangerous at that time?
If not, I won’t pretend to be an expert on the Troubles or Northern Ireland, could you explain what I said about the Troubles that you disagreed with?
What a thoughtful, coherent post.
Didn’t realize I struck a nerve.
You may be Charlie, but you are also an incredibly large asshole. Do you work for the Daily Mail?
No, not in my opinion, objectively. As surely as the Earth goes round the sun, there are some religions that are worse than others, and Islam is one of the worst we’ve got.
“Three policemen had arrived on bikes but had to leave because the men were armed, obviously,” Benoit Bringer, who works on the same floor as Charlie Hebdo’s offices, told France Info radio, according to The Guardian. “Then the attackers took off in a car.”
For all the murdering that went on I really sincerely doubt anyone was ever murdered over graffiti or a cartoon, I am not willing to look through every entry in my copy of Lost Lives to verify it though. Maybe if someone was caught writing something disagreeable they might have got a beating (which it goes without saying is still fucked up and depending on context may have been administered by their nominal own side) but apart from anything else, divisive graffiti, murals etc. then and now tend to be daubed where you know you won’t get your head caved in or otherwise harmed. That is to say “FUCK THE POPE” would be written on a wall in a predominantly loyalist area or in neutral/anonymous places where there’d be little chance of you getting caught or for that matter anyone giving a fuck.
It’s the notion that an insult to the pope would be enough to send someone into a murderous rage is what I found ridiculous, although in retrospect my reaction was a bit harsh, for which I apologise. It displays a fundamental lack of understanding of the Irish conflict to portray people who joined the IRA as primarily motivated by defence of Catholicism or the Pope as opposed to their own communities and the furtherance of their Irish republican objectives.
Back to the news:
The 18-year old suspect has given himself up to the police. The two brothers are still at large. A countrywide manhunt is going on, and their names and photos have been made public.
The brother who spent time in prison actually was jailed twice.
I am rather impressed with the speed with which this information has been gathered. Let’s hope these two individuals are quickly found.
Apparently, the 18-year old has said he was not involved but in school.
Jesus. Man up. Admit you were wrong.
wonder how the people who call themselves moderate muslims living in secular countries convince themselves tht they wanna call themselves even a moderate follower of such a faith when they see such incidents happen all over the world on a daily basis…
Done. Anyone who wants the cartoon I used (a Charlie Hebdo cartoon with Muhammed naked [ass up…no prophet junk], with english translations of the speech bubbles), PM me with your email and I’ll send it to you.
Any murdering that went on for such graffiti would have been entirely political not religous. Such graffiti would be viewed as shorthand for political and national conflict. If you put a member of each side in a locked room and forced them to debate they would not primarily debate religion. The debate would almost exclusively centre on politics, nationalism and identity. Sure, religion is bound up in these respective identity but it was not the cause of the conflict.
More news – Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two suspects still at large, robbed a gas station at gunpoint this morning in the north of France, and were signaled to be driving away back towards Paris. They appeared to still be driving the vehicle they had car-jacked the day before.
Throughout the night the police arrested 7 people in connection with yesterday’s attack.
Why the main suspects would be driving back to Paris is unknown.
Also, early this morning a policewoman was shot and killed in the south of Paris by a heavily armed man who also wore a bulletproof vest. Another person was injured in the incident. It is not known whether this is related to yesterday’s attack.
Link to the BBC website: http://m.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30721677
If this was them, it seems that they have no escape plan, and will continue to careen around France until they are cornered and killed.
The French police and authorities seem to fear that this might be the case – that they might decide to go on and end up dying in a “blaze of glory” while going on another attack somewhere.
Additionally, it seems that a bomb exploded in a restaurant next to a mosque in the city of Villefranche-sur-Saone.
Everybody is in very high alert in France at the moment.
And now, in brighter news – Charlie Hebdo will appear as usual this coming wednesday.
Copy-paste from the BBC site:
[QUOTE=Charlie Hebdo columnist]
Charlie Hebdo will come out next week, one of its surviving staffers told AFP. It will publish next Wednesday to defiantly show that “stupidity will not win,” said columnist Patrick Pelloux.
[/QUOTE]
You loathsome, victim-blaming, cowardly, pus-dripping rectal-wart, you disgust me.
Exercising free speech rights is not “stooping low”. Murdering people who draw a picture is.