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Friday, 9 January 2015

CHARLIE HEBDO & IRISH BLOG CENSORED IN FRANCE & IRELAND









Charlue Hebdo, the political French satire magazine, based in Paris, in the tradition of Free Speech of the French Revolution, was censored by a terrorist counter gang two days ago. Three days ago, Irish Blog started a petition, to take the matter of the Irish Holocaust, to the International Criminal Court, calling on all Irish militant groups in Ireland, to ceasefire. You will see from those who signed the petition below, that no Irish person has signed it yet, this is because of censorship, because there is considerbale support among ordinary Irish people on this matter, which I researched.  As a result of censorship on Ireland, the Petition got 57 signatures on the first day and one on each day subsequently, thus smothering an alternative, to political violence, to achieve justice and freedom for Ireland.

Approximately eight years ago, the editor of Irish Blog was threatened with death, if he returned to Ireland, because Irish Blog was highlighting the case of  the Disappeared in Ireland, particularly the case of Jean McConville, along with child abuse in the Provisional IRA, when none of the mainstream media in Ireland, would cover the subject. At the same time exactly, I was also censored by the Pensive Quill, who portrays itself as an alternative to Sinn Fein, when I was calling for Gerry Adams, to either resign or take responsibility in this matter. Irish Blog was  also censored by cult followers of both political personalities, along with fascist groups, aligned to the 1916 societies, 32CSM  and many other politcal counter gangs, mentored by the British, in the same way, that certain Provisional leadership elements were. Irish Blog, also from that time, became the subject of British intranets, which are meant to slow it's distribution.

In that timeframe Irish Blog, was also highlighing a Boycott campaign, against Israeli produce, because of Gaza massacres. As a result Zionists visited my wife's restaurant, took our new born child and held him in the air, while threatening to drop him to the concrete floor, if I did not cease calling for an Israeli Boycott on Irish Blog. As a result, my wife had to take our child into hiding, in another country far away, because I refuse to be censored by such activity. Since that time, Irish Blog is mostly censored in Ireland, in many subtle ways. Sinn Fein leaders today, call on their followers to become informers for the British, something Irish Blog cannot support, despite disagreeing with offensive, political violence, at this time in Ireland.

Irish Blog up to this point in writing, has also been censored, from sharing in any group by Facebook, because of complaints from cult followers of the parties mentioned above, who track and join all groups I belong to and then complaining to Facebook to censor. Facebook is based in Ireland for tax reasons and is vulnerable to West British, political complaints. These complaints are fostered, not just by cult followers of the above but also all of the leading politcal parties in Ireland. Despite Republicanism being taken from the French Revolution to Ireland by Protestants, with the first principle of Free Speech, it has been hijacked, long ago, using Roman Catholic fascist doctrine and patriarchy, to enforce rigid censorship, since the foundation of the two scum states, founded, after the Irish rebellion.

Irish Blog has mentioned several times, the probability of assasination, if it's editor returns to Ireland and indeed the distinct possibility, even abroad. This was illustrated previously, when agents were sent from Belfast to Amsterdam, where I was then living, to target this writer, under an operation of tying up all loose ends, to enforce the Bad Friday Agreement with the British. Several Irish journalist have been murdered already by British counter gangs in Ireland. Veronica Guerin, Martin O'Hagan, are the best known victims of assasination, under the guise of sectarianism, in the same way, that politcal activists, like Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and Eddie Fulleron were shot by pseudo counter gangs in Ireland. The excuse and cover often used, is that the victims were British informers, locally known as Touts. Irish Blog, wishes to re-iterate at this point, that it's editor, never has or never will, to the point of death, engage in this activity, with regard to any genuine Irish freedom fighter.

On a personal note, I would like to state, that I have always been committed, in my lifetime,  to the  basic tenets of the French Revolution, which are Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. I have experienced in my own life the reality of the old adage, "The Truth will set us Free," and as result committed myself to this philosophy, that the Pen is mightier than the Sword. I wish to convey my deepest empathy, to all of the extended family of the Free Press victims in Paris and I promise you, that only death will silence this, Spirit of Freedom so aptly demonstrated, by my comrade Bobby Samds in Ireland. They may kill the revolutionary but never the Revolution. Our Day will Come, beir bua ! If you agree with this, I really would appreaciate, you sharing this to your friends, if not, no problem, I respect that, but please do not censor it, because it will be already mostly censored by the mainstream corporates. I would also ask you to check out the Petition below, sign and share if you agree, it is a matter close to my heart. 

Censored article of yesterday

As a crude journal, Irish Blog can only conclude, that the attack on the Free Press in Paris yesterday, is further cofirmation once again, of the defeat of the Balaclava, by Kitsonian counter gangs. We need to look no further, than those who benefit the most, from this military attack on the Free Press, for it's origin. The first achievement of the French Republic in it's Revolution, was the Liberty of Free Speech from Censorship. If we are to defeat the censorious Fascists and Zealots, we must engage them, in the dialectic of free speech, which must be accorded them also, in order to engage them, despite the hatred in their content and language.

We must demonstrate to their would be recruits, that any idea, that relies on censorship or violence to sustain it, cannot itself be a good idea, that can live in the domain of either personal or communal freedom. This will require both patience and tolerance.We must ourselves come out, from behind our various masks and demonstrate, that the Truth will Set Us All Free.We must campaign and petition our injustice, before the International Criminal Court, to adjudicate and compensate, to enable the justice, that will facilitate forgivemess and reconciliation.

The PLO have just made and application to join the ICC, while others who portray themselves as warriors of  International Freedom, such as the UK & US are notable in their absenece. I am calling on the ICC, to bring Britain before the court, in the same way that Germany, was brought before the International Military Tribunal, for war crimes committed in the Jewish Holocaust. I hold the British Government, reponsible for even greater crimes, with even more victims, in the Irish Holocaust. I am also calling on militant resistance groups in Ireland, to do the same and help campaign, with all other commiited political parties, to do the same, without delay.

I want you, dear reader, whatever your current nationality, to take personal responsibility for this petition and campaign. I want you my fellow Irish to pit your heart and soul into this effort, to reclaim your birthright and full restitution for the harm done. If the Jewish people got 100 billion, then Ireland is entitled to 200 billion, with greater numbers and inflation. We can then sit down as equals, with the British Government, and intelligenttly work out a proper settlement, of issues affecting our islands, in a Spirit of Forgiveness and Co-operation.






PETITION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION

PETITION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION

  • author: Brian Clarke
  • target: International Criminal Court
  • signatures: 59
59
1,000
we've got 59 signatures, help us get to 1,000
Irish Blog requests the International Criminal Court, to immediately initiate an investigation into the Irish Holocaust and the British genocide of six milliom people in Ireland. We believe the the ICC Prosecutor has a reasonable basis to believe, that a crime against humanity, within Irelamd and the Court's juristiction exists and that both war crimes and a genocide has been committed against Irish people. We believe that an investigation, would be consistent, with the principles of International justice. We furnish the following preliminary evidence, as a basis for an immediate investigation.

Irish Blog seeks the support, of all Irish people and political parties, to empower the prosecution of this investigation. We urge all Irish people and political parties, to examine carefully the following preliminary investigation in the link below and mentor the request, that both Irish and British Governments make available, all relevant material, within their juristictions, to help the International Criminal Court arrive at a fair, just, settlement with appropriate restitution to any victim or their next of kin, primarily to prevent a re-occurrence of these crimes against humanity and that all parties recognize, the gravity and consequence of genocide and holocaust. Irish Blog also requests, a ceasefire, by all military and paramilitary forces in Ireland, until this matter, is thoroughly investigated and adjudicated,

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WE SIGNED: PETITION FOR INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION

Jen Valentino, RI
Jan 08, 08:45
# 59
Hugh Smith, United Kingdom
Jan 08, 05:03
# 58
Raynbow Rotar, BC
Jan 07, 14:50
# 57
Yvonne Wey, Switzerland
Jan 07, 05:33
# 56
Bill C, Germany
Jan 07, 03:06
# 55
Pam Barciszewski, MO
Jan 07, 01:33
# 54
Name not displayed, CA
Jan 06, 18:19
# 53
Dennis Kaplan, OH
Jan 06, 18:07
# 52
dagmar karin dag, Argentina
Jan 06, 17:43
# 51
P. Amith, WA
Jan 06, 17:37
# 50
Mary Lochhead, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 16:51
# 49
Tina Christiansen, Denmark
Jan 06, 15:30
# 48
Gillian Edwards, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 15:06
# 47
Jo Sullivan, NY
Jan 06, 13:57
# 46
Heidi Wood, CO
Jan 06, 13:16
# 45
I am Irish (mom and dad)
Michal Mydlarski, Poland
Jan 06, 11:31
# 44
Serdar Murat, Austria
Jan 06, 10:24
# 43
Sue Harrington, CA
Jan 06, 10:03
# 42
Name not displayed, AL
Jan 06, 09:24
# 41
OCCUPY THE EMPIRE OF THE CITY!!!
Brion O'Dunlaing, MO
Jan 06, 08:52
# 40
Name not displayed, CA
Jan 06, 07:55
# 39
David Dice, PA
Jan 06, 08:02
# 38
Nicole Maschke, OH
Jan 06, 07:49
# 37
For my mother's parents. For my brothers and sister in Ireland. For all those brave and courageous men, women and children, who stood their ground. Defended their homes and said proudly who they were, and that their lives mattered. While I cannot be there to stand by your side on this. Know that my soul is there with you. The waters are no barrier between us. For I am there. I am proud and honored to stand by your side. May the wind be always at your back. Godspeed.
e ralston, IL
Jan 06, 06:46
# 36
Donna Tanner, MA
Jan 06, 06:54
# 35
Susie Caps, CA
Jan 06, 06:43
# 34
Llew Taylor, PA
Jan 06, 06:44
# 33
Mike Recor, MA
Jan 06, 07:04
# 32
pedro simoes, Portugal
Jan 06, 06:14
# 31
Sharon Leduc, MA
Jan 06, 06:24
# 30
H. McGarry, NY
Jan 06, 06:12
# 29
John Brewer, OH
Jan 06, 05:58
# 28
Winn Adams, WA
Jan 06, 06:14
# 27
Charles Woodliff, GA
Jan 06, 06:07
# 26
Azaima Anderson, NM
Jan 06, 05:49
# 25
Terry King, CA
Jan 06, 05:48
# 24
steve finger, NC
Jan 06, 05:31
# 23
K Halboth, WI
Jan 06, 05:27
# 22
ankie brunschot, Netherlands
Jan 06, 05:05
# 21
Victoria McFarlane, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 04:56
# 20
Arild Warud, Portugal
Jan 06, 04:44
# 19
AniMae Chi, SA
Jan 06, 05:14
# 18
michaelann bewsee, MA
Jan 06, 05:08
# 17
Kristin Love, WA
Jan 06, 04:52
# 16
Christine U, Romania
Jan 06, 03:50
# 15
Glennis Whitney, QL
Jan 06, 03:32
# 14
Srecko Arnus, Slovenia
Jan 06, 03:17
# 13
Not only Irish people also in whole so called British empire in past, This empire together with France and Antanta forces when was first world war gave our people and land to Italians. Same happened when end second world war. For me is this genocide. So called big country even now each day doing this around the world and dont forget on crimes who maked in more than 2000 years Vatikan and catholic church.
Andreas Giovani, Cyprus
Jan 06, 03:02
# 12
Dimitris Dallis, Greece
Jan 06, 02:45
# 11
Richard Rosenheim, NY
Jan 06, 02:39
# 10
K Halboth, WI
Jan 06, 02:20
# 9
It's ABOUT Time! The TERRIBLE and Fully Preventable GENOCIDE against the IRISH people by the British should be fully accounted for and the perpetrators brought to justice! The Irish Holocaust is still deeply entrenched in the minds and hearts of those of Irish ancestry; especially those that reside in the United States where many of our Irish ancestors arrived in Slave boats starving and impoverished. We Will Never Forget!
Name not displayed, CA
Jan 06, 01:34
# 8
Luke Scott, VI
Jan 06, 01:19
# 7
Alan Smith, United Kingdom
Jan 06, 01:18
# 6
Maria Teresa Schollhorn, Argentina
Jan 06, 01:18
# 5
Beate Meier, Germany
Jan 06, 01:07
# 4
Rajeeva Ranjan, India
Jan 06, 01:00
# 3
Ivett Ward, CA
Jan 06, 00:53
# 2
Brian Clarke, Thailand
Jan 06, 00:34
# 1
CALL FOR ICC IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION

Thursday, 8 January 2015

FAREWELL BALACLAVA FREEDOM WALKS A NEW WAY




As a crude journal, Irish Blog can only conclude, that the attack on the Free Press in Paris yesterday, is further cofirmation once again, of the defeat of the Balaclava, by Kitsonian counter gangs. We need to look no further, than those who benefit the most, from this military attack on the Free Press, for it's origin. The first achievement of the French Republic in it's Revolution, was the Liberty of Free Speech from Censorship. If we are to defeat the censorious Fascists and Zealots, we must engage them, in the dialectic of free speech, which must be accorded them also, in order to engage them, despite the hatred in their content and language.

We must demonstrate to their would be recruits, that any idea, that relies on censorship or violence to sustain it, cannot itself be a good idea, that can live in the domain of either personal or communal freedom. This will require both patience and tolerance.We must ourselves come out, from behind our various masks and demonstrate, that the Truth will Set Us All Free.We must campaign and petition our injustice, before the International Criminal Court, to adjudicate and compensate, to enable the justice, that will facilitate forgivemess and reconciliation.

The PLO have just made and application to join the ICC, while others who portray themselves as warriors of  International Freedom, such as the UK & US are notable in their absenece. I am calling on the ICC, to bring Britain before the court, in the same way that Germany, was brought before the International Military Tribunal, for war crimes committed in the Jewish Holocaust. I hold the British Government, reponsible for even greater crimes, with even more victims, in the Irish Holocaust. I am also calling on militant resistance groups in Ireland, to do the same and help campaign, with all other commiited political parties, to do the same, without delay.

I want you, dear reader, whatever your current nationality, to take personal responsibility for this petition and campaign. I want you my fellow Irish to pit your heart and soul into this effort, to reclaim your birthright and full restitution for the harm done. If the Jewish people got 100 billion, then Ireland is entitled to 200 billion, with greater numbers and inflation. We can then sit down as equals, with the British Government, and intelligenttly work out a proper settlement, of issues affecting our islands, in a Spirit of Forgiveness and Co-operation.

Link to sign:     PETITION FOR ICC IRISH HOLOCAUST INVESTIGATION


Blowback In Paris
Armed Terrorists Kill 12 People

By Tony Cartalucci 

January 07, 2015 "
ICH" - "Land Destroyer"-   France, as part of a NATO-led coalition, has been arming, funding, aiding, and otherwise perpetuating Al Qaeda terrorists for years, beginning, on record in Libya with the overthrow of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and continuing until today with NATO's arming, harboring, and backing of Al Qaeda terrorists including the so-called "Islamic State" (ISIS) within and along Syria's borders.


With the recent attack in Paris likely the work of the very terrorists France has been arming and backing across North Africa and the Middle East, the French government itself stands responsible, guilty of the continued material support of a terrorist organization that has now killed French citizens, including two police officers, not only on French soil, but within the French capital itself.

In the New York Times article, "Terror Attack on Charlie Hebdo Newspaper in Paris Kills 12," it was reported that:
 

Masked gunmen with automatic weapons opened fire in the offices of a French satirical newspaper on Wednesday in Paris, the police said, killing 12 people and then escaping in a car. 
President François Hollande said the attack on the weekly, Charlie Hebdo, was “without a doubt” an act of terrorism and raised the nationwide terror alert to its highest status. He said that several terrorist attacks had been thwarted in recent weeks.
However, despite Hollande's feigned concern and outrage over the attack, it was the French government who had advocated and presided over the arming of terrorist groups across the Arab World in the West's bid to overthrow nation after nation and reorder the entire region according to their own geopolitical and economic interests starting with the "Arab Spring" in 2011.

The Washington Post would report in 2011 in an article titled, "France sent arms to Libyan rebels," that:
 

Image: British-French leaders tour decimated Libya in wake of  2011 NATO
intervention on behalf of "rebels" composed primarily of Al Qaeda terrorists. 
French officials announced Wednesday that they had armed rebels in Libya, marking the first time a NATO country has said it was providing direct military aid to opponents of the government in a conflict that has lasted longer than many policymakers expected.
While Hollande's predecessor, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy would be the one to set foot in decimated Libya in the wake of NATO's intervention there - which included in addition to French arms sent to terrorists, French planes providing these terrorists air cover as they carried out atrocities and genocide - Hollande would continue policies enacted under Sarkozy, both in Libya, and currently in Syria.

Attack Was Carried Out By Professional "Gladio-Style" Operators 

Video that has emerged from the recent attack in Paris shows heavily armed militants expertly handling their military-grade weapons with precision and discipline - clearly the recipients of military training. Whichever flavor of "Al Qaeda" they hail from, they are a product of the global network of terrorism the West has purposefully created and perpetuates to this day in order to carry out a war of terror upon their own citizenry, as well as proxy wars against their enemies overseas.

French complicity in arming militants in Syria especially, has long been a point of contention and fear among critics who have for years warned about "blowback." However, it is unlikely that France, or its partners amongst this vast network of state sponsored global terror, did not anticipate such "blowback," and were somehow unable to prevent such attacks if desired. In other words, what the attacks in Paris appears to be, is another of NATO's "Operation Gladio" style attacks on the European people in an insidious bid to manipulate public perception as well as the regional political landscape.

Funded by the US, trained in Britain and maintained as paramilitary extremist groups throughout Europe during the Cold War, NATO's so-called "stay behind networks" were supposedly created to activate in the wake of a full-scale Soviet invasion of Western Europe. Instead, they were used to stage false-flag attacks, killing and maiming hundreds of Europeans with their atrocities blamed on the Soviet Union and their European sympathizers. The attacks and assassinations were used by NATO to manipulate public perception and reverse gains by political groups operating beyond NATO's control.
Image: French President Hollande in Saudi Arabia - among the most prolific
state-sponsors of global terrorism on Earth and an irreplaceable partner in
NATO's bid to reorder the Arab World.  
Likewise, Al Qaeda and its various franchises including its most recent and notorious, ISIS, is being used simultaneously as a domestic menace and a foreign expeditionary mercenary force.

Indeed, out of one side of President Hollande's mouth he would condemn the attacks in Paris, and out of the other, continue calling for the arming and backing of the very networks this attack originated from in order to continue the campaign of violence and terror in Syria.

Regardless of whatever investigation yields whatever conclusion, the fact that NATO has engineered such attacks in the past against the very people it claims to exist to protect, makes NATO and the various political leaders at the head of its respective member states prime suspects - both incapable of conducting an impartial investigation of the recent attack, and incapable of preventing another attack, likely engineered not from enemies beyond Europe's borders, but exceptionally dangerous enemies within them. 
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Charlie Hebdo - The Chickens Come Home To Roost

By Moon Of Alabama
January 07, 2015 "ICH" - "Moon Of Alabama"- Twelve people, including two police, were killed in France when unknown gunmen attacked the office of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo today.
Some forty people were killed in Saana, Yemen, today in a bomb attack on people who were hoping to enlist with the police. These forty people and the many more wounded in the attack will get much less headlines than those killed in France.
Videos (12) from the attack in Paris show the attackers in black clothing and behaving as if they had at least some military training. They were armed with automatic weapons and, according to the police, with a rocket launcher. At least two attackers are still on the run. We do not yet know the motive of the attackers, but I consider the following more likely than a false flag attack.
In 2011 the magazine Charlie Hebdo was one of those that printed the Mohammed caricatures, a crude and insulting attempt to smear the prophet and all Muslim as terrorists. In 2012 the magazine continued the campaign depicting the prophet Mohammed as naked, attention seeking gnome.
Unlike U.S. "liberals" most of the world does not consider free speech as an absolute right. Indeed like screaming "fire" in a filled theater, insulting the believe of other people is likely to get you hurt in most parts of the world. To claim such insults should not matter is itself an insult in that it declares one culture, that of absolute free speech rights, to be superior to other values. It is indecent.
That the Charlie Hebdo satire was indecent and insulting does not justify the murderous attack, but explains the probable motivation of the attackers. It is deeply wrong to kill people for their speech. But it is also wrong to insult others for no good reasons, be it profit or "free speech" worship.
The attackers in Paris are believed to be militants who pretend to be true Muslims fighting for their believes. The state of France under its presidents Sarkozy and Hollande has empowered and supported such pretenders in their attacks on the people and governments of Libya and Syria. In Syria Jihadi fighters of the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra are using U.S. supplied anti-tank missiles. A German air defense regiment is defending their areas of retreat in Turkey against Syrian government attacks. While it supports Jihadis in Syria France is now deploying an air craft carrier to the Persian Gulf to attack the Islamic State in Iraq. The last  point could also be the actual motive of today's attack.
The fundamentalists were cheered on by "western" politicians when they attacked civilians in Tripoli and Aleppo. When they attack in countries which cater to "western interests" or within "western" countries these attacks are seen as hostile and used to justify another lurch to the extreme right, to war and towards more totalitarian states.
Unless they push for saner, less aggressive policies the average people in the middle, no matter their believes, are the ones losing in this war.
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Guest· 8 hours ago
If your belief is not strong enough to withstand a little ridicule, then it is not worth much. The size of the reaction is the measurement of one's uncertainty. As in the phrase from Shakespeare..."And why so great a no?" Making fun of one's imaginary playmate should not warrant much more than a frown. These bitter savages deserve no more respect than afforded your usual rabid dogs. Learning the truth about primitive brains can have sad consequences. Remember what Hannah Arendt said about the 'banality of evil.' Most evil springs from ignorance and stupidity. Tragic or not. All honor to the staff of Charlie. Je suis Charlie aussi. Telebob
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wiggins· 8 hours ago
Mon Dieu... Dieudonné M'bala M'bala's had better start making his peace with whoever his god is.
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fbjle· 7 hours ago
Love those hasbara trolls here at ich, trying to deflect and blame something else.Where not all that brainwahed.It's a conspiracy, yes people are conspiring to do evil it's just not who they want you to believe it is.
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Jigsaw· 7 hours ago
In France you cannot criticise zionism and the Jewish lobby (they class that as 'racism') but you can go ahead and throw whatever abuse on Islam you want, (they call that 'free speech'). 
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RubyRenae· 7 hours ago
Yes, it is a false flag--but the reasoning behind it is not exactly as these articles would have it, IMO. True, France has been supplying, funding, arming, and blowing up Syria and Iraq for to "weaken" the very entities they are guilty of perpetuating. However, it isn't "blowback", for that very reason. What's happening is that the Pentagon and the State Department is moving decisively to break up Syria and Iraq, to deprive Russia and Iran of key allies. Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon is speculated to have massive gas reserves, and the desperate French have completely thrown their lot in with McCain and his merry band of psychotics (who coincidentally along with high-ranking French politicians, violated Syria's territory in the same manner as the ol' demented sociopath did in Libya and Ukraine). Thus Hollande can openly support the partition of Syria, with French energy firms benefitting from the gas reserves owned by the Pentagon.
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To paraphrase the philosopher Isiah Berlin, "One has the right to move ones fist in the direction of my nose. But that freedom ends at the point at which the fist in question makes contact with it."

In other words, freedom of unconditional expression is negated by the limits democracy places upon it.

Did Charlie Hebdo cross the line? Yes, I think they did.

I agree with Craig Murray's take on this issue:

"Let us assume the official narrative is true and the killings were by Muslims outraged at the magazine’s depictions of the Prophet Mohammed.

It is essential to free speech that it includes the freedom to offend. That must include the freedom to offend religious belief. Without such freedoms, the values of societies would freeze. Much social progress has caused real anguish and offence to some people. To have stopped Charlie Hebdo by law would have been wrong. To stop them by bullets is beyond any mitigation.

But that doesn’t make the unfortunate deceased heroes, and President Hollande was wrong to characterise them as such. Being murdered does not make you a hero. And being offensive is not necessarily noble. People who are persistently and vociferously offensive are often neither noble nor well-motivated.

Much of Charlie Hebdo‘s taunting of Muslims was really unpleasant. That they also had Christian and other targets did not make this any better. It is not Private Eye – it is a magazine with a much nastier edge. I defend the right of Charlie Hebdo to publish whatever it wants. But once the shock dies off, I do hope a more realistic assessment of whether Charlie Hebdo was entirely admirable or not may be possible. This in no way excuses the dreadful murders."
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2015/01/t...
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BRF· 6 hours ago
I dared use Victoria Nuland's epithet on E.U interference in the Empire's plans and so my comment was deleted. Hollande just a couple of days ago publicly spoke saying the sanctions against Russia should be ended if a peace plan could be implemented in the Ukraine. Those that suggest such policy changes of immense proportions against the Empire's implicit wishes always suffer almost immediate consequences for speaking out and this is what has happened in France. Hollande knows it as does Brennan and others of his ilk. This was also the probale cause of the two birds one stone MH17 mass murders. Blame for Russia and a clear demonstration of power as a clear warning to grumblings within the ranks of some European politicians.
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Hammurabi· 5 hours ago
The timing needs to be considered and what is going on in France.
The French have been trying to work things out with Putin- A very unAmerican Move. With this incident, the French populations will be dieing to stay under American protection. Their president will not dare to challenge that.
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guest01· 5 hours ago
According to earlier reports, French authorities identified the attackers as "Yemen-based terrorist group".

This is the recent report with pictures:
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/08/392113/O...

One of 3 Paris gunman surrenders after attack on Charlie Hebdo
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tael· 1 hour ago
True, violence is oh so wrong. The Dutch Theo van Gogh was killed in the same construction. He called muslims 'goat f#ckers' on a daily basis. Your 'gut' has understanding for the effect this may have on someone who- in the same society where this is tolerated- feels treated as second hand only good for a cleaning job.
It's always infiltrated patsies who commit such actions and in the French case it plays in the hands of Sarlusconi in his comeback.
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davinciclaude· 9 minutes ago
France will do everything that the Gulf states want/demand
All they are interested in is selling products from their war industry.
Her involvement in Libya and her fanning the flames of war against Assad and Iran are explicitly with this one purpose in mind, they act as mercenaries for the Gulf states as barter for selling them weapons.
The murders at Charlie Hebdo are for the weapons industry collateral damage, the other-side of the coin is its good for business,
It makes the French people think that they are the good guys against the 'barbarians
while in reality they are the guilty ones that have facilitated the extremist groups together with their customers the Wahhabi Gulf states.'
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