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Maybe I do need to apologize for the confusing blog I just posted. I admit even I was lost completely.


So here is my question, was it justified for the terrorist to kill a writer who is plainly excercising freedom of the press?


I vehemently say no.


What should have been done?


That is my important question.

Thank you all for your reads and comments.

This is a very sensitive write as we are all witness to another yet again act of terrorism, all in the name of religion..

it happened before and can happen again. Just different and no one takes it serious until its too late.

It took me about 2 years to learn to talk, and another 60 years to learn when to keep my big mouth shut.

"Are You A Communist"
and the comments, too, though somehow interesting, as about corrupt judges and free court hearings.
sometimes save it before it is gone.

"if people have rights, they don't need to be plain capitalists or communists.
the old times freedom of settling somewhere and moving again somewhere else for free is long over for most people on this crowded globe, because the numbers became too high in habitable environments. of course it is not as simple, but good enough.
but for these old lost freedoms there may be, can be and should be modern substitutes, because mankind has made progress in many fields, e.g health care and all sorts of science.
like in the old days everyone should have a right to access, e.g. having a right for a suitable job and if none a compensation instead.
this is what all systems say they want: bring benefits to the people.
but one works without personal freedom, the other without social security.
the third way tries to mix both, but needs funds.
this is no problem where the oil spills out of the ground. so much money there for everyone and everything.
but most countries and governments and people are much poorer, but still the feeling can be good and people be happy.
until someone comes and claims: Boko haram....
or turns finance upside down like GoldmanSachs...."

I know this is a very saturated and over exposed discussion about the Charlie Hebdo case but this is a very interesting point of view.

I read the front page of the Pioneer Newspaper published last Sunday and it was a remarkable analysis on how Joe Soucheray the columnist, who likened his story on his experience with one of the rock and roll magazine.

In the Christian world, I remember being taught that if someone slaps you in the face, you should turn the other cheek for more slapping? I kind of said: REALLY????? Now of course, I know sometime, we can't always do that..It is in our human instinct to fight back. To retaliate, to protect ourselves. But yes, if only we can all be like Jesus, then there would be no more war. You think?

Anyway the gist of the story is that sure, no one deserves to die, specially for the practice of free speech and it shouldn't be, after all this is one of our prime provision accorded to be free.

The thing to me is, there is nothing that can trigger any of this, knowing very well that these people kill with or without reason.

TERRORIST- are here to agonize us, torrorize us with or without reason. We already know that. Why wait for some cause or reason to justify declaring war against them? Why don't we commit ourselves on identifying who they are, where they are and expunge them?

AFTER ALL IT'S EITHER THEM OR US, RIGHT? I

NOTE:I feel the sensitivity of the Paris fiasco has gone so deep on our minds. But more so on our emotions. Touching very deeply our core of religious beliefs, and somehow even our cultural ways of life. It is played out both ways where there is not an easy answer nor there is any clear solution on the matter.


First of all it is complicated on the fact that from all sides it has been dispersed into associating it with old religious institutions. Second, it has become over toned on political implications due to the SO CALLED FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, and lastly, now here we are asking ourselves, who is our enemy?

Thanks all for your read and comments.

Now check this out. A criminal was sent to prison only to find out 20 years later that he didn't commit the crime per DNA reports.

The problem is, he is released with no compensation and on his own. No job, no house, thank to his sister, she took him and living in her house. Bless her heart.

Where is justice here? What if you have no one? Languishing for 20 years?

Thanks all for your reads and comments.

This was on the front page of the Pioneer Newspaper Sunday in Minnesota USA and the case was from here.

Thank you all for your reads and comments.

Church and politics. I avoid them both religiously. Unfortunately, I can no more separate myself from politics than humans can separate themselves from nature.
It's just not possible.

It's up to me to do what I can to find out what is really going on. The internet helps, but as you may have noticed, there is much untruth on the web.

I needed a simple device to help me orient myself in a confusing blizzard of contradictory information. Taking inspiration from modern physics, I sought clarity through higher dimensionality.

The traditional political spectrum is a one dimensional line, and apparently has had a "Left" and a "Right" since the French Revolution (Post-royalty, the conservative elements, clergy and surviving nobility, sat to the right of the President while the more reactionary citizens, you and me, sat to the left.

Here I drew the spectrum using contemporary terminology. I leave you to decide where along the line that you are proud to be.



If you grasp the 2 ends of the line and bend the line into a circle, you now have a two dimensional representation.

Now where are you proud to be?



If you look at politics in the west in general and the US in particular, the extreme left does not really exist anymore. It has been effectively lopped off thanks to the Cold War.
No such pruning has been done on the right, a circumstance that is most evident in the American 2-party system. Much to the dismay of the Republican party, there is only one place for the right wing nutters to go and that is the Republican party.

Even though I don't pay much attention, I still feel that I'm being bombarded with badness. Loss of freedoms, falling standard of living, enemies on all sides and within. It's like a combination of Joseph McCarthy and Weapons of Mass Destruction.

This story has been recounted many times but it is so unusual that it is worth looking at it again. It relates to the unusual high number of coincidences that occurred when US Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy were assassinated.

Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, one hundred years before JFK who was elected in 1960. Lincoln was succeeded by Andrew Johnson and JFK was succeeded by Lyndon Johnson, both Southerners. What makes it even more remarkable is that the two Johnsons were born in 1808 and 1908; one hundred years apart. To add spice to it, the assassins were also born one hundred years apart. Booth was born in 1839 and Oswald in 1939. And both died before going to trial.

They were both shot. Lincoln stopped his bullet in a theater and Booth was trapped in a warehouse. The Kennedy bullet came from a warehouse and Oswald was cornered in a theater. Lincoln was shot in Ford’s theater and Kennedy met his end in a Ford Lincoln.

To top it off, Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy while Evelyn Lincoln was the secretary of JFK.

Is it too much for coincidence? Mathematicians say no. They claim that if you look hard enough, you will find such coincidences between any two events.

Well, now you also know why mathematicians are not that popular at parties; they can kill any mystery and generally make poor conversation.


Have a whale of a day and don't do anything that I won't do.

We all know movies are movies. Sometimes they make us feel good, sometimes bad and sometimes we can learn a lot from them, fiction or not. This particular movie, which is based from the life of Chris Kyle, a Texan who became a member of the Navy Seal after the bombing of the Twin Towers in September 11, 2001, not only did give me all the feelings of happiness, sadness but also made me understand our position why we are out there in foreign land with a mission that is both gripping and crucial to our survival.

He felt compelled to do something for his country. He dedicated all his strength and hope to make our country a safer place.

As a boy because he was small he was always picked on by the bullies but with his father's permission to fight back when it is needed, he became committed to help the underdogs which is the core of his principles.

This movie made me understand how justification of killing is based on who you are fighting for. Based on whom you believe to be right and stand by with that right. I felt that in believing that the attack on our land by the so called terrorist, he went on to fight them where they are knowing that our country is safer that way. It is evident when he said: "WOULD YOU WANT ALL THESE PEOPLE TO COME TO OUR COUNTRY AND KILL US?

Anyways, contrary to what most think that "one's freedom fighter can be someone else's hero", on this movie or on his life story, we know who the bad guys are. We know they are out to kill us, but instead of that to happen, we go out there and kill them. With a carefully planned strategy and orchestrated effort, they (US FORCE) carefully identify who they are and accomplish their mission.

What touched me most is that these people, (soldiers) are not just killing machine. They do have heart and conscience. They raise family and has love ones. They know the dreadful feeling of losing a fellowman. But yet, to them, their mission is to protect our country and to remain loyal to what we believe in.

This is a man who believed that with all his killings, he did a great service to his fellow citizens, knowing that he killed all the bad guys which earned him the name "LEGEND".

NOTE: My take is that: I believe there are bad guys. Their mission is to kill us. I will never hesitate to participate in that killing if it makes this world a better place. If I were young, I would enlist right now, get trained and be one of these people who sacrifice d all they've got.

Thank you all for your reads and comments.

Across Europe, especially in France,politicians have decided to wage war on freedom of expression.An eight year old was questioned by the French police, apparently for praising terrorists.Humorists have been questioned and fined because of the nature of their humor.

Projects are currently going on to limit freedom of expression even in the United States.So where are we heading to?

How far are you willing to give up your freedom? By the way, how will restriction on freedom solve political, religious and world problems?

Hypocrisy or security? OR Are we moving towards North Korea way of freedom of expression? Then why do we criticise the North?