“No barbarous act will ever extinguish freedom of the press,” said Hollande. But it was an empty bluff. The free press is today busy extinguishing itself.
“Charlie Hebdo attack: 12 dead in Paris, manhunt on,” by Greg Botelho, CNN, January 7, 2015:
…• The gunmen said “Allahu akbar” and that they were avenging the Prophet Mohammed, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters.
• Molins said at least two gunmen exited a vehicle and carried out the attack. Earlier, France’s interior minister said three people were involved.
• In addition to the dead, 11 people were wounded, including four in “serious condition,” the prosecutor said.
• Video shows a gunman approaching his getaway car raise his finger in the air in what appears to be a signal, possibly to another vehicle or other people who might have played a role in the attack, a Western intelligence source briefed on the French investigation told CNN.
• Charlie Hebdo editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, known as “Charb,” is among the dead in the attack, a police spokesman in the district where the office is located told CNN. At least three other well-known cartoonists — known by the pen names Cabu, Wolinski and Tignous — were also killed….
A video taken by a journalist for the Premieres Lignes agency shows the gunmen shouting “God is great!” as they began the attack, Le Monde reported. They also cried, “We have avenged the Prophet!”…
The latest attack spurred Hollande, the French President, to vow that “no barbarous act will ever extinguish freedom of the press.”
Angemon says
Not “God is great”, “allah is greater”. Big difference.
apollospeaks says
THE FUTURE BELONG TO THOSE WHO SLANDER BARACK OBAMA!
http://www.apollospeaks.com
Salah says
Police will ALWAYS show up “a little” too late.
Honest citizens MUST be allowed to carry concealed guns.
Gun controls advocates are in bed with the enemy, they have innocent blood all over their hands.
MOLON LABE.
Myxlplik says
Yeah, one Frenchman with a hunting rifle instead of a cellphone camera from that position of concealment, and time for aiming, would have been devastating to the Muslim Jihadists enforcing Islamic Sharia on Western civilization.
I don’t think that was the attack on the journalists though. In another picture taken from the backs of the Muslim Jihadists enforcing Islamic Sharia you can see the event was actually of them firing at a police are who had arrived on scene. Obviously out gunned and either killed or chased off.
Myxlplik says
*police car*
Champ says
“We have avenged the Prophet!”
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NO, you haven’t “avenged” anyone, liars. The TRUTH is that you are a slave to your evil death cult and you followed muhammad’s heinous example and committed mass murder in cold blood. Hope they find you asap and justice is served.
CogitoErgoSum says
Time for people to wake up and start yelling back, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this any more!”
SpiritOf1683 says
Here’s Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez, and his words became even more relevant today:
All European Life Died In Auschwitz by Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez
I walked down the street in Barcelona, and suddenly discovered a terrible truth — Europe died in Auschwitz.
We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. We destroyed the chosen people, truly chosen, because they produced great and wonderful people who changed the world.
The contribution of this people is felt in all areas of life: science, art, international trade, and above all, as the conscience of the world.
And under the pretence of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we were cured of the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims, who brought us ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Holed up in the apartments they receive free from the government, they plan the murder and destruction of their naive hosts.
And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition. We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death, for people consumed by the desire for death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
These are the people we burned.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
Undaunted says
Time for those who ain’t done so yet to …
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2011/06/get-your-shit-in-one-bag.html
Sam says
I still don’t own a gun. If I am victim of a terrorist attack and I can not defend myself and my family, with Islam at war against us, it is totally my damn fault. I will own a gun soon. I recommend we all do that SOON.
Undaunted says
What you said. Good decision.
Some help with your choice…
http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2008/11/bombay-attacks.html
Islofob IS-1 says
“We have avenged the Prophet!”
Right now, a old, dusty, skull filled with mud is trying to smile.
Jerry says
There was never a true prophet to avenge.
Mohammad was a self invented and appointed fake prophet.
His real occupation was a marauding caravan robber, murderer, rapist, slave hunter and trader and a paedophile.
Islam was invented and the Koran evolved as a recruiting manual for gullible desert dwellers who were promised a share in the booty on Mohammad’s robbery raids.
Islam and the concept of of Infidels were invented in order to criminalize those who did not support Mohammad or did not believe in his lies, to be used as a pretext to robbing non-Muslims, raping, and enslaving innocents as beast of burden or sex slaves and murdering the rest.
Undaunted says
My recommendation for anyone wanting to buy a handgun is, in addition to my link above, stick to 9mm semi-auto. You will have to spend a little more for the following pistols but the reason I’d consider these over the less costly ones cited above is that the ones below have high-capacity magazines available for purchase. By high-capacity I mean 30 rounds to a mag. If anyone can think of a pistol that has hi-caps available and I don’t mention it below, feel free to add.
Browning Hi-Power, Beretta 92, Springfield Armory, Glocks… others?
vlparker says
I’m kind of surprised the journalists at Charlie Hebdo didn’t take more precautions to protect themselves. It’s not exactly as if this attack is a surprise. Robert, I hope you have better security than these freedom fighters did and I hope you carry.
Undaunted says
No, you don’t need a .45 or .40 and here’s why: you want to have available to you as many bullets as you can and it’s simple math that you can carry more smaller bullets than you can larger bullets. Lots and lots of 9mm pistols have 15 round mags available at initial purchase. Too, there is little felt recoil with a quality 9mm, which means that the muzzle doesn’t rise after each shot as much as it does with larger calibers. Less muzzle flip means less time getting your next shot off because the muzzle/sight of your pistol is pretty much where it was for the prior shot(s). If you’re shooting larger calibers, the gun rises more than a 9mm and you have to spend more time making sure your muzzle/front sight is back on target so you can fire again. I’m tellin’ ya… 9mm. Get some quality Hornady Critical Defense or Critical Duty rounds and you’re set. Get good, realistic training too.
dumbledoresarmy says
Four rabbis praying in a synagogue in Jerusalem, four satirical cartoonists conferring in a newspaper head office in Paris…and into *both* places come the antihuman gatecrashers, the wild-eyed mohammedan mobsters, shrieking allahu akbar, and carrying out ritual mass murder in order to feed their demon allah, the arab ‘god’ of blood and war, with offerings of fresh human blood.
Attacking both wisdom and laughter; seeking to erase and destroy everything that makes us human; attacking the rabbi and the Jester.
Where is the cartoonist who will draw those images side by side? Who will show us a diptych: the mohammedan murder of four Jewish rabbis and a druze policeman in Israel, and the ritual mohammedan murder of four French satirical cartoonists?
Caption- something like this “the murderers shouted allahu akbar…but fools keep on saying it has nothing to do with Islam”.