Paris, France...this says it all and I stand with them!

[babylonsister]

"It's terrible that these people were murdered. In future, no one will be able to speak his mind. We have to demonstrate in our thousands," said Beatrice Cano, a woman in her fifties carrying the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo in Paris.


'I Am Charlie': Mass rallies for French massacre victims
AFP Updated January 8, 2015, 9:27 am



Paris (AFP) - More than 100,000 people gathered across France to pay tribute to the victims of Wednesday's massacre by Islamist gunmen in Paris, as thousands also rallied in other European cities and the "I Am Charlie" hashtag swept the Internet.

With the gunmen still on the loose in Paris after killing 12 people, defiant crowds swarmed into the Place de la Republique, barely a kilometre (half a mile) from the scene of the bloodbath at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly.

At least 35,000 held vigils in Paris, and some 20,000 people turned out in the French cities of Lyon and Toulouse, police said. Thousands more took to the streets in cities including Bordeaux and Marseille.

There were also rallies in European cities such as Berlin, London and Lausanne.

more...

https://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/25926790/i-am-charlie-mass-rallies-for-french-massacre-victims/

[ellenrr]

1. beautiful. I saw this on Euronews. They light candles and say "we are all Charlie." nt

[busterbrown]

2. How did Fox respond today.

Eric Boiling Shit.. stated we nee more guns and more heavily armed police... Really!

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/gun-loving-fox-hosts-high-five-after-paris-attack-best-thing-americans-can-do-is-arm-themselves/

[ellenrr]

3. he high-fived?!

[busterbrown]

15. Yea, when another idiot agreed with him on the guns... They high fived it

Assholes

[americannightmare]

43. That's always the conservative response...

ratchet up the violence! That really helped the murdered NY cops, didn't it? Is there a brain wiring thing that prevents them from understanding the element of surprise?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

51. there's a brain wiring thing that lets them feel perfectly comfortable

with cognitive dissonance.

[mountain grammy]

49. from that story: whatever the hell does this shit mean?

"Bream pointed out that all of the gunmen in Paris attack were wearing masks so it was too early to make assumptions about what color they were.

“What if they didn’t look like typical bad guys?” she noted."

Way past time for Fox news to take a bow..

[leftynyc]

4. Wow - that brings tears to my eyes

I also stand with France on this dark day.

[freshwest]

11. Also!

[zipplewrath]

5. Why English?

I'm surprised it didn't say, "pas peur".

[irisblue]

8. maybe from 7 July 2005 London terror attacks?

I recall seeing that phrase then.

[babylonsister]

12. It's supposedly

the universal language? There's tons of demonstrations happening everywhere! There's a map at this link to show you what's happening...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/je-suis-charlie-demonstrations-paris-massacre

People Around the World Are Pouring Into the Streets to Support Charlie Hebdo After the Paris Massacre

[2naSalit]

28. Wow... Madagascar, Kiev...

Europe is out in the streets entirely.

Thanks for that.

[MattSh]

45. Not sure where you got Kiev from...

The map doesn't show it. Plus it doesn't sound like something that would occur here in Kiev.

[2naSalit]

46. I got it

from mistaking the Moscow French embassy marker's placement. I was guessing it was Kiev. Good call, thanks!

[Scootaloo]

26. Ironically, English is the lingua franca now.

[AtheistCrusader]

41. I was a little surprised by that as well.

[freshwest]

6. Good action for solidarity vs. those who speak against the freedom of the mind.

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This will be the battle of this century. If lost, free thinkers will be slaughtered. That's what it's all coming down to now.

[rhett o rick]

7. k & r. Thanks for posting. nm

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

9. Thank you, Paris

Free speech will not be silenced by right-wing wacko fairy-tale pushers.

[freshwest]

10. VIDEO of rally. Pics and many links to reactions from world leaders and people:

Manifestation à Lille après l'attentat de Charlie Hebdo

I've no idea what is being said in French there, but that is an excellent video. It shows many faces of a very large, solemn crowd.

I'm guessing at the conversations from the signs and papers held in the hands of the people who are mostly standing in silence.

The story also has details of the suspects. Many other news websites are linked to the article so don't stop there:

France In Shock After Brutal Attack On Satirical Newspaper Charlie Hebdo

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/07/charlie-hebdo-attack_n_6429058.html

[AtomicKitten]

13. recommended

in solidarity

[MohRokTah]

14. Every man has two countries, his own and France.

--Thomas Jefferson

[johnnyreb]

16. Truly, the land of the Free, and the home of the BRAVE.

[flamingdem]

18. k n french rrr

[Hutzpa]

19. K&R

[Spitfire of ATJ]

20. Now let's see if FOX "News" decides to draw the blinds on the curvy couch....

Oh wait,...that's right.

Unlike "Good Morning America" the windows behind "Fox and Friends" are fake.

[840high]

22. This is about France - not Fox news.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. This is about an attack on the media.

[project_bluebook]

21. 13 years of war on terrorism and what to we have?

more terrorism then ever.

[seveneyes]

25. Another day older and deeper in debt

And what do we get?

[Hekate]

29. That's because terrorism is a technique & not a nation, something BushCheney went out of their way--

... to blur the distinctions on. The War on Terror, therefore, is a war on the result of a technique that can be employed by anyone, anywhere, for any reason and no reason. BushCheney: PropagandaMeisters bending reality to their will.

So yes, 13 years into a fake war on a technique, we have untold thousands dead, real dead people in real countries, and it still goes on.

That's what we get for treating terrorists like soldiers instead of like criminals.

[WillyT]

23. K & R !!!

[seveneyes]

24. Zero time plus the next phase has begun

We are seeing history in both its making and its repeat. Despair and arousal are both in play.

The end is nearer to the beginning than we are to either.

[Scootaloo]

27. Could you say that in a way that sounds less like a fortune cookie?

No offense, i just... don't understand what you're getting at

[seveneyes]

31. Yes, and I did not intend to confuse

My response was just a thought shared with folks here.

re: We are seeing history in both its making and its repeat. Despair and arousal are both in play.

This has happened before, and yet we take a failed course. Some fear, others prepare for battle, they will come to head.

re: The end is nearer to the beginning than we are to either.

Life is an infinite circle as far as we know. Where we are is relative to where we find ourselves.

[Codeine]

32. 'Twas brillig, and the slithey toves did gyre

and gimble in the wabe.

[Scootaloo]

33. Too lazy to google. Lewis Carrol or James Joyce?

[AtheistCrusader]

42. Carrol. The Hunting of the Snark, IIRC

[shaayecanaan]

44. I thought it was the Jabberwocky or some shit

they made us learn it verbatim at school.

[AtheistCrusader]

50. It's the Snark or the Jabberwocky, for sure.

The two poems refer to each other.

All right, all right, I'll bingle it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky

Yep, it's the jabberwocky.
And oh look at that, I was wrong, The Hunting of the Snark doesn't refer to the Jabberwocky, it refers to another of Carrols mythical bad guys; the Bandersnatch.

[BrightKnight]

34. Someone should hang a banner or sign near her.

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[babylonsister]

35. THAT is fabulous!

Thank you, France, we stand in solidarity!

Great meme!

[Pantagruelsmember]

36. Don't get mad, get even!

"Every world news outlet should run one cartoon a day for a year from the martyred French artists.
The royalties would go to their families and the killers would have their motivation blown back in their faces."

[Lifelong Protester]

37. I would like to see and join

a rally here in the us. Any news of US rallies?

[Kennah]

38. Je Suis Charlie

[NewDeal_Dem]

39. I have to say that 35,000 is small for a paris political demo. when mitterand tried to

mess with the university system, there were a million in the streets of paris.

https://books.google.com/books?id=d7KbqX09UZUC&pg=PA17&dq=%22at+one+point+there+were+a+million%22++%22brought+another+million%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-yauVOi3EYr1oAS8vYG4CA&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22at%20one%20point%20there%20were%20a%20million%22%20%20%22brought%20another%20million%22&f=false

[Warren DeMontague]

40. K&R

[marmar]

47. K/R

[Thespian2]

48. The French

people stand in solidarity with the universal truth that evil, from any front, must not triumph. Everyone should be able to say Je Suis Charlie.

[Peacetrain]

52. I stand with the citizens of France