Shooting In Paris

The Times:

Gunmen in Paris Kill 12 at Offices of Satirical Newspaper Charlie Hebdo

PARIS — Masked gunmen opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, with initial reports saying that as many as 12 people had been killed and 10 wounded.

Xavier Castaing, the head of communications for the Paris Police Headquarters, said that 11 people had died, The Associated Press reported. However, a senior French prosecutor said the toll was 12, including two police officers, in the early afternoon.

The news channel France Info quoted a witness as saying that he saw the episode from a nearby building in the heart of the French capital.

“About a half an hour ago, two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs,” the witness, Benoît Bringer, told the station.

“A few minutes later, we heard lots of shots,” he said, adding that the men were then seen fleeing the building.

Mr. Castaing, the police spokesman, said that the three armed men, wearing masks, had forced their way into the offices of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo and had fired indiscriminately at people in the lobby, hitting many. He said that they were carrying AK-47 weapons, and that the attack had lasted several minutes before the attackers fled by car.

The police said that an abandoned car used by the gunmen had been discovered by police in the 20th Arrondissement of Paris, a neighborhood with a large immigrant population.

President François Hollande was headed to the scene of the shooting, in the 11th Arrondissement. He said the shooting was “undoubtedly a terrorist attack” and ordered the nation’s terror alert status raised to the highest level. 

...

Charlie Hebdo has been attacked in the past for satirizing Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Its offices were firebombed in 2011 after publishing a cartoon of the prophet on its cover promising “100 lashes if you don’t die laughing!”

The cover of the newspaper on Wednesday featured a caricature of Michel Houellebecq, a controversial novelist whose sixth novel, “Submission,” predicts a future France run by Muslims, in which women forsake Western dress and polygamy is introduced. On the cover, Mr. Houellebecq is depicted as a wizard and smoking a cigarette. “In 2022, I will do Ramadan,” he is shown saying.

 HE'S A GOOD MAN: Errata from the Times:

The weekly was born in controversy in 1970 with the ban of a publication called Hara-Kiri after it mocked the death of former President Charles de Gaulle. That prompted its journalists to set up a new weekly, Charlie Hebdo, a reference to its reprint of Charlie Brown cartoons from the United States.

 Terrorists attacked Charlie Brown?!?

Comments

[Jeff Dobbs]

le première

[NKvirusedand back]

This comment is re-posted as it is now ON Topic:

7+ years ago a Dutch woman from town who was on the group trip to Japan, discussed with me the future of the Dutch and French et al. In my typical blunt style I said IMO there are only two possible outcomes, Western Europe is Muslim in our lifetime, or religious Muslims are deported, no matter if they were Dutch born.... in a NYC second she said deported. She's a tough lady, but she said it in a cold and determined way. TBD. JiB who has inlaws in Belgium, I believe thinks it will be Sharia for the Belgians and Dutch.

[Janet]

"The controversy began in 2006 when the publication printed a now-infamous Danish cartoon of Prophet Mohammed which lead to days of protests across the Muslim world and landed the in court charged under anti-racism laws.

Their offices were burned to the ground in 2011 when attackers used Molotov cocktails to start a blaze early in the morning of November 2."

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/01/prophet_has_been_avenged_in_attack_on_paris_magazine_that_kills_12.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook#ixzz3O93vBXzX
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As the usual suspects issue tweets & statements condemning the slaughter...maybe someone could ask them where they were back in 2006, 2011, 2012,...condemning the assault on free speech.

2 quotes from back in Sept. 2012-
French publisher Charb ~ "“Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he said in an interview at the weekly’s offices on the
northeast edge of Paris. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our
drawings. I live under French law; I don’t live under Quranic law.”

President Barack Obama UN speech Sept. 25, 2012 - "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"

[Iggy]

Europe, having largely lost the vitality to produce homegrown murderous zealots but pining for the wonderful drama of unending existential conflict, embarked on the path all wealthy countries and individuals take;
importing laborers to do the jobs they will no longer do themselves.

It's like inviting a cat burglar as your houseguest and then being surprised when you have to eat your three minute egg with a plastic fork and spoon after he checks out.

[Dave (in MA)]

From a CBS article:

Chilling video initially posted to a Facebook account shows two gunmen open fire on police in a small black car, and then shows them executing one officer as he lays on the sidewalk by shooting him at close range.

On the radio I heard that the police at the scene were unarmed.

[Extraneus]

If every French newspaper, magazine and website doesn't publish the offending cartoons today, they're done for as a country. In fact, I'd have to say the same if bands of Frenchmen don't invade the 20th Arrondissement tonight.

[Janet]

I don't want a government that "strongly condemns" the violence AFTER I'm dead....because they didn't do their JOB. Secure borders, serious checks on who is immigrating, crack down on criminal behavior (torching cars, gangs,...)

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attack and the people of France at this difficult time." (Statement from President Obama)

NO THANKS. I don't want my government's "thoughts & prayers" after I'm dead. I want them to DO THEIR JOB.

"difficult time" - what a pathetic understatement.

[Dave (in MA)]

He who said "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam" would seem to be at least as culpable as someone who would put a crosshair symbol on a map of political districts.

[Janet]

Statement from President Obama:

I strongly condemn the horrific shooting at the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that has reportedly killed 12 people. Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of this terrorist attack and the people of France at this difficult time. France is America’s oldest ally, and has stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in the fight against terrorists who threaten our shared security and the world. Time and again, the French people have stood up for the universal values that generations of our people have defended. France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example that will endure well beyond the hateful vision of these killers. We are in touch with French officials and I have directed my Administration to provide any assistance needed to help bring these terrorists to justice.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednews/reports-shooter-at-offices-of-french-satirical-magazine-char#.odQLkMv5z

[jimmyk]

reposted from the previous thread:

If there had been previous attacks thwarted, it's hard to understand why there wasn't security there. There was even this:

A reporter for Britain’s Telegraph newspaper in Paris told Sky News that the first officers to arrive fled after seeing two or three gunmen armed with automatic weapons and possibly a grenade launcher.

[jimmyk]

Also from the last thread:
the French surely must retaliate in a major way now

What did the Dutch really do, aside from some attempts to tighten up immigration law, after Theo van Gogh was assassinated?

And how long before the first politician publicly worries about retaliation against Muslims?

[daddy]

FTL must be pleased to see others share his fondness for killing their political opponents.

[Jeff Dobbs]

France, and the great city of Paris where this outrageous attack took place, offer the world a timeless example

Obama is right!

See Iggy at 9:25 for the timeless example France offers.

[Jack is Back!]

Muzzie terrorism is not new to the French. Lets not forget their long war with the Algerian separatists. This is a new wrinkle in that I will wager is domestic (muzzies born in France). Ex-Syrian fighters or ISIS types.

Well planned. Well orchestrated. Cold blood. Singular purpose.

DCRI probably knows who the perps are and what mosque their cell uses as HQ. I expect to see a gunfight at the Al-OK Mosque in he next 24 hours. Either that or actual arrest

Muzzies will continue to be part of the fabric of French life despite this act. Too damn well embedded to do more than cull the hate preaching Imans and cells and keep the Syrian fighters from coming back.

Belgium and The Netherlands are too far gone and could be next. Even Sweden is trying too little too late.

[PDinDetroit]

"I'm probably the only person here who thinks that at some point, probably soon, the French will clamp down hard on the koranimals and probably kick most of them out."

I was thinking this very thing when I heard about this attack. Not sure about the firearm laws in France, but likely they have been disarmed for their "own safety". One would hope that the people of France start clamoring for the ability to provide for their own self-defense.

2015 could likely see race and/or religious "war" as people will get tired of the carp and take matters into their own hands. I fear for any country where this happens as bystanders usually become "collateral damage" with no way to protect themselves.

[jimmyk]

sock puppet alert @9:50

[jimmyk]

Not sure about the firearm laws in France, but likely they have been disarmed for their "own safety".

Indeed, PDinD, see my 9:43. Even the police are inadequately armed.

[Janet]

Charb

The 2 quotes from Sept. 2012 -

French publisher Charb ~ “Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he said in an interview at the weekly’s offices on the
northeast edge of Paris. “I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our
drawings. I live under French law; I don’t live under Quranic law.”

President Barack Obama UN speech Sept. 25, 2012 - "The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"

[Captain Hate]

"difficult time" - what a pathetic understatement.

404 has international blood on his hands as much as DeCommio does at home. The French should tell him to STFU before he does more damage. It's time to stop playing coddle the retard.

[daddy]

I don't know who 09:50 is but it ain't me.

[Captain Hate]

Time for TM to do some mod work.

[Janet]

bystanders usually become "collateral damage"

Oh well...the government will keep them in their "thoughts & prayers".

[jimmyk]

We know, daddy. (See my 10:03.)

[Jack is Back!]

jimmyk,

I have never in all my trips to France ever seen an unarmed Sûreté (now the Police Nationale) or Gendamarie. I guess there may be some but every time in Paris the Police are heavily armed - more so than you would see in New York, for example.

Firearms are allowed in France but by permit and that process is long and difficult. I believe there are limits on capaciities and rounds.

[Miss Marple]

And how long before the first politician publicly worries about retaliation against Muslims?

jimmyk, Sally Kohn has already been on Twitter telling us not to judge all Muslims by these, and that Christians and Jews also have slaughtered people.

[jimmyk]

Obama somehow was able to use the 't' word, but not the I, M, or J (for Jihad) words.

[daddy]

Just a reminder that 940 cars were set ablaze in France just 7 days ago---and they played that up as some sort of good thing since it was less than the previous year.

Worth noting that there is zero mention in the story of Who the perps are who set the cars ablaze. We are simply told that it is "a method of protest".

[jimmyk]

in Paris the Police are heavily armed - more so than you would see in New York

Thanks, JiB, glad to hear that, but the image of the first police to arrive running away from the attack is disturbing. Not to take anything away from the courage of the two police who were killed, one executed in cold blood while lying on the ground with his hands up.

[Captain Hate]

I need Sally Kohn like I need hemorrhoids.

[Janet]

a question at the press briefing -

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6wYe2wCQAEu8AB.png

from here - http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeednews/reports-shooter-at-offices-of-french-satirical-magazine-char#.xowAn2Xe8

a bit - "In other words we don't question the right of something like this to be published we just question the judgement behind the decision to publish it. And I think that that's our view about the video that was produced in this country and has caused so much offense in the Muslim world."

[jimmyk]

Sally Kohn has already been on Twitter,

Yeah, I should have said "politician or journalist."

[PDinDetroit]

Janet - yeah, Obama pisses me off also.

Something to note however: Police have no duty to provide personal protection for any person, even if that person has a personal protection/restraining order. Also, police do not have a duty to respond to 911 emergency calls.

References: Castle Rock v Gonzalez, Warren v DC.

Not what I was raised to believe but it is how I understand it to be today.

[NKvirusedand back]

Sally Kohn is a cancerous hemorrhoid. And a dude... a homely dude... with hands like a Polish sausage maker.

[Old Lurker]

History question:

Has there ever been a Western society that survived a mass migration of Muslims where that society did not have to resort eventually to a brutal extermination of the migrants who refused to assimilate into the society they were joining?

Said a different way: has any country ever assimilated Muslims as peacefully as say, Catholics, Protestants, Hindus, Pagans, or Wickens over the long term?

Just wondering.

[jimmyk]

940 cars were set ablaze in France just 7 days ago---and they played that up as some sort of good thing since it was less than the previous year.

Seems like someone in France needs to learn about 'broken windows' policing, as opposed to the Dinkins method of letting the steam out, which of course only makes matters worse.

[clarice]

See my post end of last thread quoting David Goldman..Le Pin will win the next election and a brutal crackdown will begin.

[daddy]

Since I'm doing catch-up, re: the Dershowitz/Clinton/Prince Andy underage sex scandal, worth remembering that the Fed's number 1 Witness against Senator Ted Stevens, sleaze ball and liar Bill Allen, got a pass from the Feds on that charge: Bill Allen escapes prosecution on sex charges

Nearly two years before he is to be released from a federal prison in California for attempting to rig Alaska's political process by buying off politicians, Bill Allen finally received some good news, if you can call it that.
The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to pursue child sexual abuse charges against him, according to The Associated Press.

[jimmyk]

"In other words we don't question the right of something like this to be published we just question the judgement behind the decision to publish it."

Odd that only applies to anti-Muslim material, as opposed to, say, anti-North Korean. Obama a couple of weeks ago:

"We cannot have a society in which some dictator in some place can start imposing censorship in the United States," Obama said, referring to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

"I wish they'd spoken to me first," Obama said of Sony. "I would have told them: Do not get into the pattern in which you are intimidated."

[Janet]

That press briefing quote above is from 2012.

[clarice]

In other news, like me and Jeralyn, Prof Jacobson thinks the dershowitz charges are bunk and smears:http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/01/dershowitz-presumed-innocent-in-zero-sum-defamation-game/#comments

[jimmyk]

I knew it was from 2012. It still shows the double standard from this administration.

[clarice]

For every statement by Obama (on say free speech or anything else) there's an equal and opposite statement in refutation by him.

[Captain Hate]

The U.S. Department of Justice has decided not to pursue child sexual abuse charges against him, according to The Associated Press

More shoddy politicized crap from Stedman's cesspool. From the article you linked they aren't lacking convincing witnesses.

That's ok; I'm sure the new GOPe congress will get right on this.

[NKvirusedand back]

clarice @10:35- absolutely. The guy is shameless and not very smart. His 'all of the above energy options' and 'shovel ready infrastructure' and 'debt burden on the children' and on and on, are all refuted not just by other words, but by his actions.
He really is a punk ass b#@%*.

[henry]

CH, for a guy not running (yet), Walker just dinged Stay-Puft.

[Thomas Collins]

Mark Steyn and Ralph Peters hashed this out awhile ago (Steyn taking the Europe will become Eurabia view, with Peters countering that Europe will wake up and deal with Islamicization by violence against the invaders).

http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/12/01/peters-vs-steyn-what-will-waking-up-look-like/

[NKvirusedand back]

henry-- good stuff from Walker. Ding a RINO that is a lame duck even in NJ, but not antagonize Cowboys Nation (the dislike Jerry), while endearing himself to Packers Nation. A three-fer.

[Beasts of England]

Low of 10 degrees tonight. We won't see 32 degrees until Friday afternoon. No wonder I'm ornery. ;)

[NKvirusedand back]

BoE-- message from your ex... 'have some chocolate!'

[Beasts of England]

lol, NK!!

[jimmyk]

OL and TC, it's possible during the 15th-19th centuries there were countries with obedient Muslim minorities, but for the last 100 years it's been either partition, complete takeover, or a crackdown.

Though one possible exception is Spain, where I never hear about problems on the level of France and the Netherlands. Germany also seems to do a better job than those two countries. I'm not sure about eastern Europe, like the Balkans.

[Captain Hate]

Walker really knows how to stick in the shiv, even through layers of flab. Also it got the attention of dimwit Luke Russert, a good argument along with Chelsea Clinton against the concept of employment in the MFM being merit based.

[NKvirusedand back]

Creepy Joe really is an old perv: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/01/06/can-we-talk-about-how-vice-president-joe-biden-is-being-inappropriate/

[NKvirusedand back]

Spain? didn't Spain's Isabella and the Inquisitioners take care of its Muslim issue in 1492?

[Extraneus]

Gay advocates assail new TV show 'My Husband's Not Gay'; featured Mormon men say they're happy

SALT LAKE CITY – Two Utah men say they're appearing on a controversial TV show called "My Husband's Not Gay" because they're happy in their marriages to women even though they're attracted to men.

Preston "Pret" Dahlgren and Jeff Bennion, both members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, tell the Associated Press they have long been attracted to men but also wanted to marry women and have children.

The advocacy group GLAAD says it irresponsible and dangerous to suggest people should change who they love, saying that the show is a sad reminder of so-called gay conversion therapy that can be emotionally scarring.

Dahlgren and Bennion say their marriages were individual choices influenced by their Mormon faith.

The show is set to air Sunday on TLC.

[Captain Hate]

Biden has skated too long on people feeling some odd sense of fondness for the dunce. He's a mean spirited prick and dumb as a plank; and always has been.

[Janet]

from the Buzzfeed link (it keeps getting updated)

"These details from AP:

The staff was in an editorial meeting and the gunmen headed straight for the paper’s editor, Stephane Charbonnier — widely known by his pen name Charb — killing him and his police bodyguard, said Christophe Crepin, a police union spokesman on the scene. Minutes later, two men strolled out to a black car waiting below, calmly firing on a police officer, with one gunman shooting him in the head as he writhed on the ground.

Ten journalists were killed and two police, Crepin said, one of them assigned as Charb’s bodyguard and another who had arrived on the scene on a mountain bike.

“Hey! We avenged the Prophet Muhammed! We killed Charlie Hebdo,” one of the men shouted, according to a video filmed from a nearby building and broadcast on French television. Other video images showed two gunmen in black at a crossroads who appeared to fire down one of the streets. A cry of “Allahu akbar!” — Arabic for “God is great”— could be heard among the gunshots."

Allahu akbar does NOT mean God is great...it means Allah is the greater.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/no-john-allah-akbar-does-not-mean-thank-god-and-it-matters/

[daddy]

Just thought I'd mention that the big story I watched over and over again on French24 TV the last 2-3 days in my Paris Hotel, was the story of the Boston Marathon Bombing Trial. That was the "go-to" story on that Network, and I could tell from the images that it was also the "go-to" story on French24 TV in their French language broadcasts and their Arab language broadcasts.

So I'm simply making the point that their equivalent of CNN was inundating their viewers for 2 days straight about a mass murder incident of Islamic fueled terrorism.

Now John Kerry who speaks French is commenting on the French attack. Euphemisms used so far by John Kerry: "extremism" murderers, vicious, violent, act of terror, "these people who do these things". He just said France gave birth to Democracy itself. What the hell? I thought the Greeks did that like 2,000 years prior, and we did something ourselves in 1776, a bit before the French Revolution.

Now Kerry is speaking French. I can tell from his words he is not mentioning Islam in that language either. He is mentioning liberty of the press and liberty of expression. He is repeating the line that he talked to a head Imam of Paris and that the Imam said the dead were martyr's to liberty.

OK. So no mention of Islam. It is verboten to be mentioned.

[James D.]

Ext, there are so many things that are horribly wrong with what you linked to @ 10:56, I don't even know where to begin.

[NKvirusedand back]

Another month, another yawner on Satellite temp readings; very consistent with the weak '14 el nino. PDO may go negative, if it does global temps could drop .2C. More yawns. http://www.drroyspencer.com/2015/01/uah-global-temperature-update-for-december-2014-0-32-deg-c/#comments

[Captain Hate]

The quisling MFM:

http://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=354201

[NKvirusedand back]

Daddy-- While Biden is a creepy perv, John effin' Kerry is just a horses ass.

[Captain Hate]

Allahu akbar does NOT mean God is great...it means Allah is the greater.

It was Buzzfeed; it's fortunate they didn't say it was the equivalent of the Apostles Creed.

[Beasts of England]

Martyrs to liberty? What a vulgar calculus.

[daddy]

Stuart Varney on FOX Business is wondering why our leaders refuse to call this Islamic Terrorism and he quotes this from Howard Dean, started on a different network this morning: "Don't call it Muslim Terrorism."

Varney's question, is "Why Not? Isn't that what it is?"

[clarice]

If you can't name it, you can't fight it, can you?

[clarice]

Meanwhile, in Egypt Sisi is naming it and fighting it:http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2015/01/06/blockbuster-story-spiked/?singlepage=true

[narciso]

tragic, yet not surprising, particularly with this particular publication, which apparently is being sanctioned under Koranic law,

there is a manhunt, but among points not raised, is whether they are foreign or domestic Islamists, they will likely go to ground in the banlieus, I was just reading
a novel by a ProPublica editor, who was the LA Times paris chief, and he posited a similar instance on the Champs Elysee, conducted by a mix of braquers, ex con militants, and foreign nationals, directed by an Iranian,

[Beasts of England]

#FrenchLivesMatter

[jimmyk]

Spain? didn't Spain's Isabella and the Inquisitioners take care of its Muslim issue in 1492?

NK, you think the million Muslims in Spain still live in fear of the Inquisition?

[NKvirusedand back]

'If you can't name it, you can't fight it, can you?' Again absolutely true Clarice. This willful dissembling about Islam's incompatibility with Western Secularism is a dangerous sick joke. It's tragic life immitating the Harry Potter series and LOTR art.

[jimmyk]

Meanwhile, in Egypt Sisi is naming it and fighting it

The last Muslim leader to do that was Sadat, and we know how that turned out.

[FTL]

Well, it turns out that the 12 killed in France were white race hustlers, so it's all good.

[narciso]

layers of editors, were involved:

http://patterico.com/2015/01/07/wouldnt-it-take-less-space-to-tell-us-what-you-got-right/#comment-1726540

[Extraneus]

Good post by Rep. Mick Mulvaney regarding the speaker vote theatrics yesterday.

The hard truth is that we had an election for Speaker in November – just among Republicans. THAT was the time to fight. But not a single person ran against Boehner. Not one. If they had, we could’ve had a secret ballot to find out what the true level of opposition to John Boehner was. In fact, we could’ve done that as late as Monday night, on a vote of “no confidence” in the Speaker. But that didn’t happen…and at least one of the supposed challengers to Boehner today didn’t even go to the meeting last night. That told me a lot.

Lots more at the link.

https://www.facebook.com/MulvaneySC5/posts/1065570260135645

[narciso]

the Voltaire of this age, had some thoughts on the matter, years ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1740342/posts

[jimmyk]

Police have no duty to provide personal protection for any person

Thinking about this... Charb had a bodyguard (also killed in the attack). Seems to me that when there are groups attempting politically-motivated attacks that go beyond the ability of anyone to protect themselves, that ought to be a job for the police. It's not just a matter of protecting an individual, it's protecting freedom.

[daddy]

Joe Trippi says we can't call this Islamic Terrorism because we don't know yet who did this and why they did this.

Horseshit.

Great point by Jonah Goldberg in response. If the assumption is that we don't know this is Islamic, then why is John Kerry mentioning an Imam in his comments to the French? Why that non-sequiter if this isn't about Islam?

[FTL]

Troll sock @1123

[Dave (in MA)]

Good Grief.

[clarice]

The police who showed up were apparently unarmed,. Europe!

[narciso]

Joe Trippi who really was lobbying for JV picks from Gitmo, returning to Kuwait

[RickB]

Clarice,

Thanks for the Ledeen link. I doubt Sisi would have thrown down the gauntlet without tacit KSA approval. Attaturk provided the model for dealing with pig ignorant mullahs and Sisi controls a security apparat capable of pursuing an Attaturk style model to a successful conclusion.

Perhaps Sisi should offer to provide a reasonable solution to the French JV problem? Sending the French JV for a once in a lifetime tour of the pyramids doesn't sound too bad.

[narciso]

what I was referring to:

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/298983-howard-deans-former-campaign-manager-working-for-release-of-gitmo-detainees

[henry]

The Daily Beast has the cartoons.

[narciso]

in the 80s, I'm given to understand the first wave of subway attacks in France,
were directed by Iran, it was in the 90s,
that the GIA directed the next wave, against the sponsors of the Algerian junta,

[jimmyk on iPhone]

And come to think of it, what have we really done since 9-11, or the Brits since 7-7? It's always tempting to think that these events will trigger some massive response. Bush tried, but in he end we elected a guy with middle name Hussein who undid whatever Bush was able to accomplish.

[Beasts of England]

Le Coran c'est de la merde! Indeed.

[daddy]

Via CNN: Transcript of Kerry's remarks:

Secretary of State John Kerry addressed the French people directly -- in both English and French -- expressing American solidarity in the face of the attacks.

"We stand with you in solidarity and in commitment both to the cause of confronting extremism and in the cause which the extremists fear so much and which has always united our two countries: freedom," Kerry said in a press conference. "No country knows better than France, that freedom has a price because France gave birth to democracy itself."

I suppose if one believes that Islam was responsible for the NASA Space Program one can believe that France gave birth to Democracy.

[narciso]

and the Merah attack yielded to Hollandaise,
in part because Sarkozy's DCRI dropped the ball,

that former NSA fellow, John Schindler, noticed something about one of the shooters, who apparently has a facebook page, on which they spoke what appears to be Russian,

[Comanche Voter]

Kerry is a silly twit who gives the remainder of the world's idiots a bad name.

Now France did give birth to the guillotine, and now is a good time to revive its use. Time to let a few Muslims get beheaded--you know, just to even up the score.

And Obozo will of course condemn all this in the strongest terms. He'll get all wee wee'd up for about 30 seconds, the calm himself before heading to the first tee.

[Iggy]

I hope France girds its loins and deploys armies of truncheon wielding troops, that its citizens rise up en masse to defeat the ubiquitous, implacable enemy they face and that threatens to destroy the very fabric of their society from within....that's right, the dreaded backlash against muslims.

How many more of these incessant murderous pogroms against our peaceful muslim mole people can the world endure? You can't swing a dead pig without hitting an anti muslim riot somewhere.

[Porchlight]

Seems like someone in France needs to learn about 'broken windows' policing, as opposed to the Dinkins method of letting the steam out, which of course only makes matters worse.

Too late. Already too many no-go zones which will only get larger if things continue in the current direction.

They just don't have the courage.

I have long believed that WWI and WWII killed or expelled most of Europe's alpha males. Many brave veterans survived, but proportionally were not numerous enough in the long term to save the continent from the remaining lefties, pacifists, and other layabouts who were able to live long enough to reproduce and gain positions of power.

We now see where that leads. Cultural capitulation.

Britain held out the longest thanks to its indomitable character which rendered it able to repel a full-scale invasion, but even it has now succumbed.

The most advanced civilization in human history, built over many centuries, squandered in less than a lifetime.

[Danube on iPad]

Jacobson:

"I can say that Dershowitz should be presumed to be innocent until the accuser and her lawyers stop hiding behind the privilege that attaches to court pleadings, and put themselves at legal risk should the accusations be false."

When he wrote those words was he aware that Cassell et al. have now sued Dershowitz for libel, thus exposing themselves (and everybody else) to cross-examination under oath?

[narciso]

what I was pointing to

http://20committee.com/2015/01/07/parisian-terror-will-europe-finally-wake-up/#comments

[Rob Crawford]

Shut off the power, water, and food shipments to the Muslim enclaves. Level a mosque for every victim. Repeat until the message sinks in.

[daddy]

Here's an interesting OT story on 2 Boston men who actually did give Birth to Democracy: A message from 'His Excellency' Sam Adams and 'The Most Worshipful' Paul Revere to the 21st Century: Time capsule buried by the real 'Sons of Liberty' opened after 220 years

---Capsule was buried by war figures Paul Revere, Samuel Adams and William Scollay in 1795

[narciso]

surprisingly, the ever so sophisticated Carlos Slim chimps got the wrong arrondisement, shocker:

http://www.thelocal.fr/20150107/breaking-armed-men-open-fire-at-offices-of-french-mag

[narciso]

no, Mssr, Secretary, France gave birth terror to the Jacobins, it was a base for the anarquists, as the predecessors of the Marxists, and inspiration for the Islamists,

[Captain Hate]

Joe Trippi says we can't call this Islamic Terrorism because we don't know yet who did this and why they did this.

Since Trippi's such a frequent guest of Rove News Sunday along with Karl, maybe they can replace that Power Player of the Week segment with Dhimmi Apologist. Plus Fat RINO Bastard can explain why he's a better Cowboy than Troy Aikman since the former QB sometimes criticizes them.

Get me Ailes email STAT.