It’s time for the U.S. to stand up and protect the rights enshrined in the Constitution. If the U.S. government doesn’t understand that Islam is at war with the West and America, We the American citizens must start exercising our 1st and 2nd Amendment rights. Speak, Write, Draw, OPENLY Protest and even protect ourselves in those rights with our right to bear arms.
OR France’s Charlie Hebdo will become a common occurrence in the United States of America.
JRH 1/18/15
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Free Speech and Muslim Rage
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 1/16/2015 6:44 PM
In the wake of the deadly terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the satirical Paris newspaper, and the kosher grocery in Porte de Vincennes (France) between January 7th and January 9th, in which seventeen innocent Parisians were murdered, approximately three million French people, four by some counts, and forty world leaders, without U.S. President Obama anywhere in sight, marched through the streets of Paris to show unity against Islamic terrorism and their support for freedom of expression. For this one day, they did not allow their liberty to be constrained, but the messages emanating from this "Cry for freedom" unity rally are mixed at best.
Shortly after the first attack, an estimated 35,000 people appeared in east Paris at Place de La Republique. Some chanted "Charlie, Charlie" or held signs reading "I am Charlie" - the message posted on the newspaper's website.
On Friday, January 9th, the iconic Arc de Triomphe on Champs-Elysees lighted with a banner reading "Paris is Charlie" in reference to Charlie Hebdo.
When Charlie Hebdo first published as L'Hebdo Hari Kari, its only mission was to be as "dumb and nasty" as possible (their words). And they succeeded, as millions from all faiths and all walks of life, including myself, found them to be beyond offensive.
Most notably, Charlie's reprint of Jyllands-Posten's (Dutch newspaper) cartoon that depicted the Prophet Mohammed negatively saw them prosecuted in 2005, for violating France's "hate-speech" laws, representing a terrible assault on free speech. Ultimately they were acquitted through France's freedom of expression laws. Even so, they never should have been charged, and their crime of "blasphemy" certainly did not warrant their death sentences.
Muslims, on a large scale, have raged against the U.S. and the West in their demands for justice. In their minds, justice entails the destruction of Israel and a blanket prohibition of any criticism of Islam (e.g. the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights and UN Resolution 16/18); and, despite Mahmoud Abbas' recent statements that "human life is sacred" and the Grand Mosque of Paris' condemnation of the Islamic terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, they reserve the right in their Sharia law to mock other religions, to repress and murder non-Muslims and to destroy objects of other faiths.
Historically, totalitarian movements, such as the Islamic ideology, have advanced by restricting free speech, and unbelievably, most of the European Union now enforce laws in line with UN Resolution 16/18, which criminalizes any criticism of Islam. The Obama administration has advocated its adoption in the U.S. since 2009.
In April 2013, Paul Weston, the leader of the LibertyGB party was wrongfully arrested under Britain's "hate-speech" law, Section 4 of the Public Order Act. His "crime" was that he read a forthright description of the true nature of Islam, from 'The River War' (1899) by Winston Churchill, as he stood on the steps of the Winchester Guildhall.
Similarly, one of fifty-four people arrested for "condoning terrorism", the comedian Dieudonne, an "anti-Zionist", was arrested 48 hours after the Paris rally for free expression on the weight of one sentence: "Tonight, as far as I'm concerned, I feel like Charlie Coulibaly", a play of words on Charlie Hebdo and the terrorist Amedy Coulibaly.
Amedy Coulibaly, loyal to the Islamic State, was the terrorist who murdered four French Jews at the grocery in Portes de Vincennes, just hours before the Jewish Sabbath began. He died in the ensuing gun-battle with French security forces.
Dieudonne's expression was certainly reprehensible and disgusting, but if anything, it should have simply targeted him for further scrutiny and investigation by the authorities. This same statement would not have warranted an arrest in the U.S., because it did not represent a "clear and present danger" to the public (Schenck v. U.S - 1919), above making people feel afraid.
U.S. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. suggested that the basis of our First Amendment is not "free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought we hate."
However, this does not mean that a Muslim living in the U.S. can say anything without consequences, or that we must continue down this one-way road of tolerance. The U.S. must prosecute and deport anyone supporting Islamic terrorism and the implementation of Sharia law in the U.S., since advocating sedition and the destruction of our Constitutional Republic is an anathema to free speech.
Fear was precisely the entity these Muslims hoped to instill in people worldwide, by murdering Charlie Hebdo editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier, Jean Cabut (Cabu), cartoonist Bernard Verlhac (known as Tignous), Georges Wolinski and thirteen more unfortunate souls. These Islamic terrorists, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, who were born in France, wanted everyone to understand that criticizing Islam could result in a critic's murder.
Fears of more attacks remain. Early Sunday, January 11th, Hamburger Morgenpost, a German newspaper that reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons ridiculing the Prophet Mohammed, was a victim of arson, without any injuries. The Brussels offices of the Belgian newspaper Le Spir were also evacuated after receiving a threat. And at this writing, anti-terrorism raids are occurring all across Europe.
Cowering in fear behind their political correctness and multiculturalist nonsense, the New York Times was the only major newspaper that did not run the Charlie Hebdo images, which are central to the story. By refusing to publish them, they admitted their fear and allowed freedom of the press to be held hostage by murderers, an unequivocal win for the Islamic terrorists.
Acting in the manner of responsible news outlets and in defense of freedom of the press, the remaining top U.S. newspaper editors published images from Charlie Hebdo on their covers, soon after the Paris attacks. The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times, the New York Post and the New York Daily News published them, taking a stand for liberty everywhere.
Liberty and our sacrosanct rights to freedom of speech and the press - all we hold dear - are under assault by Islamic terrorists, proponents for Sharia law, and this is a dangerous juncture for all free societies, in a real cultural battle between the Western civilization and Islam, with all its inherent evil. Americans must demand respect for our basic values and the right to criticize and even mock others, with or without Europe, and we must continue to speak the truth about the dark world of Islam, with its hate, intolerance, human rights violations and indiscriminate murder. And however we must defend it, through speech or force of arms, America must not allow Liberty to be held hostage by Islamic terrorists.
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." __ Thomas Jefferson
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited by john R. Houk
© Justin O. Smith
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