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Originally Posted by Dagger
Those are merely your own assumptions. At the end of the day, 2 people were murdered because they exercised their right of free speech. They did not break any laws, and they did not promote violence or harm. Agree or disagree with them, they are protected by law in our society. There is a growing group of Islamists in this world who take such behaviour as blasphemous and punishable by death. You saw it yesterday, and you saw it at Charlie Hebdo in the last year. Nobody should be bullied out of exercising a fundamental right, and it's a growing problem in Western civilizations today.
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Before my head explodes can you explain this post?
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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
On the face of it I suppose you could say "it's not about racism, it's about freedom of speech", but all those grayhairs were obviously congregating in that hick Texas town to poke fun at the brown people and titter at their "god".
They are welcome to do it, of course, and no religious nut can be excused for showing up with a gun, but this wasn't some noble cause, no matter what they say. They were trolling in real life, and it worked. Don't feed the trolls! Especially when they've hired a bunch of steroid-case "policemen" in military fatigues and tribal tattoos with automatic weapons to defend their rights.
I guarantee that "contest" had a white power element to it somewhere, with some Tea Party nonsense, Birther conspiracy theories, and anti-immigration xenophobia mixed in for good measure.
I would be interested in seeing if their absolute dedication to free speech extends to things like reproductive rights, marriage equality, and gun control.
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In this case the terrorists had the automatic weapons and the guy who stopped them before likely a lot of "cartoonists" died was an off duty traffic cop with nothing more than a pistol.
Meanwhile.
ISIS takes responsibility and warns of more attacks.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/05/us/gar...ing/index.html