07-01-2015, 06:36 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2015, 07:37 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Witnesses heard the gunman announce in French that they had avenged the cartoonists for defaming the prophet Mohammed [they did not self-identify with any grouping]. This is a mess....and threatening to turn many, if not most, countries into battle zones with attacks from inside. It is complex and don't want to go into the complexities here and now..but my first thought was that most of things like this would not have come to pass had Israel not expelled, imprisoned, and repressed the Palestinians; ditto the USA not having started several false-flag and resource wars in the Middle East (with their buddies), as well as supporting the most tyrannical and repressive middle-eastern nations. These two general 'Western' incursions and injustices deep in Muslim areas of the World have triggered blowback - with many intelligence assets throwing gasoline onto those 'fires'! This self-perpetuating cycle can only lead to police state measures and terrorism (real and false-flag), and more wars - unless the ORIGINAL grievances are addressed - with the past misdeeds exposed in detail. I don't excuse the violent reactions - I condemn them totally - but one must understand where they really come from. Also, many of the so-called terrorist groups were designed, trained, and armed by the 'West'....even if they sometimes now do things their former masters don't want them to do [but, I fear some also are doing exactly what they were secretly meant to do].....others are a reaction to the meddling I mention, above.
...journalists are definitely in the firing line more than most. Democracy and our freedoms are being attacked by all sides in this 'war'.
...journalists are definitely in the firing line more than most. Democracy and our freedoms are being attacked by all sides in this 'war'.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass

