Reflections on a world 'sans' Charlie Hebdo

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This may be hard to believe, but it has been less than 100 hours since this all happened:

1.) Wednesday, 07.01.2015: Islamic terrorists, 2 brothers, wipe out the personnel at the Hebdo building in Paris. The perps execute a cop during their getaway. That cop is a muslim. Death total: 13

2.) Thursday, 08.01.2015: another set of islamic terrorists, a husband/wife team, are casing a Jewish elementary school in Montrouge, are challenged by the police, a shootout occurs and one of the two police officers, a woman, is killed. The other is seriously wounded. Death total now at: 14

13.) Friday, 09.01.2015: double seiges outside of Paris. The first set of terrorists hole up in a small factory with a hostage. The second set storms a kosher deli, taking hostages and killing some of them. By 5:15 PM local time, it is over: the French SWAT teams storm both sites, killing 3 of 4 terrorists. The wife from the second set of terrorists escapes somehow. 4 Jews who were in the deli are dead, one of them who had grabbed one of the terrorist's guns and wanted to shoot him, but the gun was jammed. A worker in a deli, a young muslim, rushes a number of customers, including a man with a baby, into one of the refrigerator units in the basement and therefore saves a lot of lives. Total dead: 18, plus 3 terrorists: 21

Within 48 hours, the French police find and enact a siege of the first team of terrorists, they, in a perfectly timed-storming, prevent any more loss of life, including disabling bombs set in the deli. The terrorist there had planned to blow the place up. The police averted what could have been a huge explosion.

48 hours later again, millions across the world are demonstrating for freedom from terrorism. Even the leaders of Israel and the PA walk together during the demo parade.

I just want to reflect that all of these things have happened within the last 100 hours or so.

What have I noticed from this:

-the French police are damned good.
-islamic terror is still alive and well.
-anti-semitism is still alive and well.
-and yet, two of the heros of this whole saga are (were) Muslims. Blessings upon both of them.
-modern social media makes it possible to mobilize millions, maybe one day, billions for a cause.

We saw the good side of humanity today.

Wednesday-Friday were shitty, suspenseful and harrowing days.
Today is a triumphant day. A good day for the good guys.

More days of mouning are to come. The dead will be buried and there is still a manhunt, or better put, womanhunt, underway to catch the last terrorist and make sure that she receives her just punishment.

Vive le Homo Sapiens!
 
What else I notice is that the body count is under 100, but global politicians and media elites will still somehow use these events to either;

A) Call for increased security and reduced freedoms

and

B) Call for increasing the "war" on terror.

Both would seem ill advised. Not letting these events change how we live our lives would seem to me the best course of action.

Pretending like these murders are just that, common everyday psychopaths is probably the best course of action, and to chalk them up as terrible tragedies. Letting these events change global politics is EXACTLY what these folks wanted, so why should we let it?

If we COULD find out WHO incited them to violence? Well, then you might have a case to go arrest those specific individuals, other than that, not a whole lot to do about this. . . .
 
From what I have read, they plan to continue with CH, so "sans" is the wrong word. perhaps "apres" is the better choice.
 
Think of the unpleasantness in Paris as just a logical extension of political correctness and it'll be less upsetting.

If this would have happened in the US there wouldn't even have been a counter demonstration. The Obama Administration would have labeled it work place violence and the bedwetters in the MSM would have backed him.
 
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What else I notice is that the body count is under 100, but global politicians and media elites will still somehow use these events to either;

A) Call for increased security and reduced freedoms

and

B) Call for increasing the "war" on terror.

Both would seem ill advised. Not letting these events change how we live our lives would seem to me the best course of action.

Pretending like these murders are just that, common everyday psychopaths is probably the best course of action, and to chalk them up as terrible tragedies. Letting these events change global politics is EXACTLY what these folks wanted, so why should we let it?

If we COULD find out WHO incited them to violence? Well, then you might have a case to go arrest those specific individuals, other than that, not a whole lot to do about this. . . .


Hmmmm, that's interesting.
 
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Think of the unpleasantness in Paris as just a logical extension of political correctness and it'll be less upsetting.

If this would have happened in the US there wouldn't even have been a counter demonstration. The Obama Administration would have labeled it work place violence and the bedwetters in the MSM would have backed him.



Hmmmmmm... that's not true.
 
Think of the unpleasantness in Paris as just a logical extension of political correctness and it'll be less upsetting.

If this would have happened in the US there wouldn't even have been a counter demonstration. The Obama Administration would have labeled it work place violence and the bedwetters in the MSM would have backed him.



Hmmmmmm... that's not true.
Agreed.

The STATE would have used it as an excuse to practice it's extra-constitutional martial law exercises and turned an entire metropolitan area into a police state looking for a couple of criminals. The Parisians handled this much better than they did in Boston after the marathon IMO.
 

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