Yep every Tom, Dick and Harry has heard about the attack on the ‘peaceful’ collection of cartoonists in Garland Texas…..if you have not then you have been doing something constructive and did not pay attention…..which means that you have not drawn a conclusion yet……..kudos to you.
The sponsor of this festival was American Freedom Defense Initiative (God I love these people…they give some quasi patriot name to their hate)…..anyway the president of this group Pam Geller has been spouting her hate for a couple of years now…..but of course she will defend on 1st amendment right……
Pamela Geller, whose group staged the Texas event that drew two shooters with alleged links to ISIS, is defiantly dismissing critics who accuse her of provoking the attack. The event featured cartoons lampooning Muhammad, and Geller, president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, sees it as a matter of free speech. If Muslim jihadists were offended, well too bad, she writes in Time. “Putting up with being offended is essential in a pluralistic society in which people differ on basic truths. If a group will not stand for being offended without resorting to violence, that group will rule unopposed, while everyone else lives in fear.”
If society caves to the rules about what can and can’t be said as dictated by these extremists, it sets a dangerous precedent that encourages more violence, writes Geller. She thinks, for example, that if international media outlets had run similarly controversial Danish cartoons back in 2005, attacks such as the one on the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris would not be happening today. “This is a war,” she declares. “Are we going to surrender to these monsters?” Click for her full post. Or for an opposing view, check out a Salon piece that accuses Geller of being an “extremist” herself who is only making matters worse.
Personally you may hate as much as you, something at which we Americans excel, but when you turn that hate into an event then you 1st amendment rights should be called into question……
This woman, if I may call her that, and her group is an organization that I call “Hate For Profit”……..and I would imagine that now with her hateful prediction have finally come to truth she will make even more cash from like minded haters.
She is typical of a lot of the hate….”it’s not my fault”…….but that is inaccurate…..IT IS HER FAULT! Hiding behind the Constitution to justify hate makes her a COWARD! Period!
Well said. I haven’t had time to read too much into this, but my first impressions were quite literally that she should be charged with 2nd degree murder, or perhaps culpable manslaughter. I saw the “security” they had hired for the event; those Seal team Six dressed blokes in full military garb and assault rifles. After the duck call, these men were there waiting to kill whatever came.
The group was forced to spend cash on security because of the possibility of some sort of violence…..so yes they were itching for a problem they could solve with their 2nd amendment rights.