Just in from the UK:
Religion of Peace
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Just in from the UK:
Religion of Peace
That looks like the Boston Tea Party to me, Tedob... The third picture says "Your 9/11 is on it's way!!" - only Americans misspell it like that :D
And if I ever start a demolition company, I hope that the slogan "You will pay - demolition is on its way!" hasn't been trademarked by "them" yet!
Sh** if they done that in france they would win a free ticket to whatever middle eastren or North africian country they wanted. One way of course :D
The police are being pushed now to charge/arrest those with placards bearing slogans encouraging murder or suicide i.e. the 'behead those who insult the prophet' cards.
Don't think they'll do anything, that would be 'racist'.
I'm not so sure about that one. If they're holding a sign, then they're directly liable. The sign is what you're looking at, not the skin of the holder. It's just a matter of how far free expression extends. However, I think they could probably arrest them under the condition of inciting a mob? I think that's actually a legitimate charge; hopefully so.Quote:
Originally posted here by Aspman
The police are being pushed now to charge/arrest those with placards bearing slogans encouraging murder or suicide i.e. the 'behead those who insult the prophet' cards.
Don't think they'll do anything, that would be 'racist'.
One of them was dressed as a suicide bomber with a bomb belt.
It's ok though he apologied the next day, he didn't mean to cause offence.
You know dressing as a suicide bomber marching through London with placards glorifying the London bombing, who is going to be offended by that....?>
Turns out he was on parole for selling class A drugs, wonder if the police will bother to pick him up?
<edit> Back to Jail he goes: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4687996.stm
Truly does make one wonder if these twits are really that dense??? like it's okay for them to use the premise of free expression to incite violence but when we do it for chuckles were the bad guys???
Obviously no Monty Python fans mixed in with that lot eh!......and the guy that was dressed like a suicide bomber, geez louise didn't the local cops just recently shoot some guy for running away from them?, if anyone needed to be shot and ask questions later it's this idiot.... :mad:
I am terribly disappointed with the Western Media for not showing solidarity with the press who printed the cartoons, at least our local comic can and will test the waters...
:p
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Interesting that the cartoons are causing such a violent response, but it seems perfectly logical to some that the rioters are creating and showing the signs they are making and inciting violence as a response. One of the signs, "Freedom go to hell" is particularly interesting - they do not realize they need freedom in order to parade that sign around.
Ok - I think everyone - including those protesting and calling for people's heads to be lopped off - needs a time-out.
If you feel too grown-up for that, take a couple of deep breaths and go play some stress-relief paintball - it helped me:
http://www.miniclip.com/paintball.htm
I had to do that after reading this:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapc...sts/index.html
Protest are fine - the violence - ah no (in the article and lifted from AP):
Also from the article:Quote:
"Islam says it's all right to demonstrate but not to resort to violence. This must stop," senior cleric Mohammed Usman told AP. "We condemn the cartoons but this does not justify violence. These rioters are defaming the name of Islam."
So I read the cleric's and the Belgian Foreign Minister's quotes, played some paintball and now I can happily go back to my cud chewing and my cog turning. Ahhhhhh... or am I supposed to be doing something else? Ahh... someone else will do it.Quote:
Belgian Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht, chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also urged an end to the violent protests and called for a balance between free expression and respect for religious and cultural differences.
"The press should decide in a responsible way what it publishes," he said. "Although states might not subscribe to the content of media publications, it is not up to governments to influence the content of the press.
"The nature of the content of these cartoons, however, cannot and does not legitimize violence."
Aspman: if yuo whent around arresting these dopes how would it be any better then banning the cartoons. supression of speach is still suppreshion of speach even if yuo dont agree wit hteh message.