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Monthly Archives: January, 2015
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget – Thomas Szasz
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget
These World Leaders Are a Worse Threat to Free Press Than Terrorism
On Sunday, 3.7 million people gathered all over France to mourn the lives of those killed in last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack. It was almost a moving collective stand for freedom of expression in the face of terror and fear—except that its most prominent supporters are much greater threats to a free press than terrorism.
As the non-profit Reporters Without Borders noted on Sunday, and as London School of Economics Middle East Society co-president Daniel Wickham elaborated in a widely disseminated series of tweets, the world leaders given prominent photo-op placement at the Paris rally are not only free-press hypocrites—they’re by any measure worse threats to the world-changing possibilities of a free press than a couple terrorists with guns.
