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Old 01-08-2015, 08:56 AM  
Slappin Fish
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If someone in the 1930s had said screw "freedom of speech" and shut the would be dictator up there would have a lot less murders and torture in the 20th century.
France has some of the strictest anti racial-hatred laws in the world. They'll fine you for something as small as quoting statistical facts about prison population. This is not the 1930's.

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The 3 gunmen are without doubt murderers but so are the cartoonist and the publisher of the magazine.
You are out of order.

The very role of satirists is to challenge established powers, be they political parties or institutions like the Church. Nothing of what they wrote was hateful. Charlie Hebdo isn't a provocative anti-islam ultra nationalist publications. It's full of lefties. Their message was that nobody should be above criticism.
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