but the temperature is unusually, and pleasantly cool.
I'd say 25 degrees, if not slightly lower.
The baby's on the couch,
hopefully about to sleep.
And soon,
lunch will be ready.
So I don't have much time.
There was a shooting a few days ago in Paris,
of employees of a magazine that published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad S.A.W.
People from 'around the world' were shocked and mourned their deaths.
By the way, when it comes to the mainstream media,
it appears 'around the world' does not include those living in villages and towns that are being ravaged by Western and Western-backed forces.
Nope.
Those are the 'un-people', don't you know?
The shooting did make me sad.
And as much as I disliked those who (in my opinion)
created and spread libel about someone they either know very little about,
or just don't give a damn about,
they did not deserve that.
They deserved criticism,
or even to be ignored.
But murder?
No.
On an article about this on the Intercept,
I came across a comment from someone named 'Glenn' (not Glenn Greenwald),
which mirrored my own thoughts:
"Modern wars kill 90% civilians and 10% soldiers.
Normal war has become terrorism.
I am outraged every day at the number of civilians targeted for killing. I am usually a somewhat isolated exception to the indifference to these murders of civilians and wonder why most people are so indifferent to the state war crime of killing civilians.
I am not an exception in my outrage on this exceptional day. Today I have company.
However, I expect most people to go back once again to their normal state of indifference once these “exceptionally worthy” victims are superseded by the more usual “unworthy” victims.
You know, the normalcy of war."
Already a few cartoonists have decided to express solidarity with the magazine
by publishing cartoons that remind me of the anti-semitic propaganda pieces the Nazis loved to use.
Almost as if these tragic deaths are cause for celebration for them:
Something that enables them to openly declare their bigotry,
or express it more brazenly.
All while hiding behind the cloak of 'solidarity', 'freedom of expression', and 'justified' anger.
The murderers should be brought o justice.
But were the victims protectors of the much-vaunted 'Freedom of Expression'?
Of course not.
Here's a nice little tidbit about them: They'd actually refused to publish cartoons of Jesus.
Why is that?
Can you imagine the drop in revenue and the condemnation they'd receive?
Nothing admirable about satirizing a community
that's already facing a lot of discrimination in France.
Real courage means satirizing the powerful, the oppressors, not the oppressed.
I'd write more,
but once again Windows 7 has slowed down to a crawl
and reminded me why I'm switching to a Mac.
Well enough of that.
