To be a Dane...

[harmlessinc]

And this is what freedom of expression and freedom of the press looks like.

Danes offer to publish Holocaust cartoons
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1139397069033&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
"The Danish editor behind publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited deadly riots in the Muslim world said Wednesday he's willing to publish cartoons on the Holocaust from Iran.
"My newspaper is trying to establish a contact with the Iranian newspaper, and we would run the cartoons the same day as they publish them," Flemming Rose of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten said Wednesday in an interview on CNN's American Morning."

Hell yeah.

Comments

[shimmerngspirit.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I feel about any of this.

[harmlessinc.livejournal.com]

That's understandable.
This is a very odd issue to say the least and the fact that it's being hijacked by political groups around the world for their own ends doesn't help.

But...
"I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

[shimmerngspirit.livejournal.com]

Oh I am a firm believer in free speech and always have been. If everyone agrees with what we say, we aren't speaking freely.

Sadly, I see that right being taken away from us, little by little, and most people don't seem to notice or care. The worst part about that is that I have no idea what to do about it.

[harmlessinc.livejournal.com]

Some things to do:

1) Write your congresscritter!
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cdirectory/index.html
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
http://www.senate.com/state/il.html

2) Join/support a larger organization that supports the things you support. In the free speech realm we have:
http://www.eff.org/
http://www.aclu.org/
I'm sure there are others, those are just the first two I can think of.

3) Lastly - use you freedom. Speak out about the topic, make your voice heard. Not just online in a LJ or Myspace journal, but talk to your family, your friends, your coworkers and neighbors. Change only comes from an educated population.

[harmlessinc.livejournal.com]

Feel free to translate "Change only comes from an educated population."
To:
Change only comes from an informed population.

[shimmerngspirit.livejournal.com]

That deserves to be it's own post.

[racaille.livejournal.com]

That's so fucking stupid. Moses getting buttfucked by a donkey? Sure. King David and Solomon trampled by pigs? Why not.

But the Shoah? Last time I checked it wasn't a religious character.

[harmlessinc.livejournal.com]

But it is something that is central to the jewish people.