sceptic, on Apr 14 2006, 12:49 PM, said:
you have every right to expect freedom of speech, but I know from experience that the more you do it the more likely you are to suffer retribution....
wayne, i disagree with some of your thoughts here, but i think it's more a matter of environment than anything else... for example, this part (while maybe true) doesn't make the retribution right... it's a sad world when one can be physically attacked for exercising freedom of speech (and i'm not talking about children here, i'm talking about those who supposedly are more mature)
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It is a shame someone did not stop the Danes printing the cartoons, I would not call it censorship, I just think if you are going to say or do something, you should be the one that is prepared to take the consequences, not your fellow countrymen
why should they be stopped? besides, who in their right mind would kill and loot and burn, on a nearly global scale, because of cartoons? as helene said, it would be censorship if the danish gov't did it, otherwise not (it could have been considered such, or just a business decision)
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I did not see the danes that printed the cartoon list their names and phone numbers underneath the cartoon publication. (for any possible feedback, from the people they knew they were insulting)
it sounds as if you think it would have been *right* to physically assault the cartoonists... imo it would have been at least as criminal as what actually happened
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They just sat back while the consequences (and I defy anyone with a level of intellegence to realise that the extremists would not kick off about this in their country and the chances of loss of life were IMHO quite high.
when violence is implemented in the way it was, it needs to be met head on with an equal or greater force, imo
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