You are right OR, however......
As evidenced by Bot's declaration of all things not being black/white, but gray, or another way to put it, there is no absolutes.......uh,except that one I guess  
These others topics are evidence at the ACLU and narrow-minded folk who call themselves liberal, even tho they are extreme, having academia, and press, as willing participants into the deceptions, or disingenuous dialogue, of their tightly held "beliefs."

Back to Ferguson....

If this lad had been raised WITHOUT the influences of those I just mentioned, he would still be alive today, or in the least, not had died in the manner he did, and the ensuing riots would never had happened.....  

Of course it is a vast over-simplification of a complex issue, one so deep in our society it will take a skilled surgeons hand to extract the cancer so embedded in the mind(set) of many....  

I think it will take thinking like I finally did when I came to realize I had a problem with booze.

I had spent most of my energy in defending or minimizing its effects on me, and my family.....
Not until I faced the facts could I begin to even glimpse the truth....
I was so wrapped up in my own emotions, using the actions of others to justify my continuation of my actions and "beliefs", that I had not a snowballs chance in heel at seeing truth.

Once I owned it, and more important, believed it, did my life change....
I was so dead in spirit, I don't know how/why I lived there so long...

Truth is freedom, not being sanctioned by a political system, people, money, or motorcycle  

And we all inherently know what the truth is, I think it was gifted in the womb, we just get co-opted and indoctrinated from our very first breath....

Try to wrap an understanding around this observation, "We lie the loudest, when we lie to our self"
 

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 01/11/15 at 22:51:10:


Lie to yourself moderately or you'll go deef.  

(I am certain this post will live only a few minutes and then be censored by the Mods... which proves my point exactly... that there is a fine line between "Freedom" and "Offensive")



IF MOHAMMED WERE TO RETURN
"I am the Prophet, stupid!"
"Shut up, infidel!"




THE CORAN IS SH*T




"Tomorrow I have Jihad"
"Lucky guy, I have Math!"




IT'S SO HARD TO BE LOVED BY IDIOTS! ...............JESUS CHRIST: "Next week I will do the Resurrection trick! ..................(Prophet Mohammed on all fours) A STAR IS BORN

SEE WHAT I MEAN ? WOULD YOU TOLERATE THIS ?

(I am certain this post will live only a few minutes and then be censored by the Mods... which proves my point exactly... that there is a fine line between "Freedom" and "Offensive")

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... I do not condone, but in a certain way, they asked for it...

You have got to be kidding.

So you are a Christen,  A Catholic,  And you see a very graphic,  even, ’pornographic’.
Cartoon, of the Pope.   Ya gonna Shoot Someone ?
I don’t think Anyone, even a band of, the Knights Templar, (which many say still exist)
Would, SHOOT someone !  

Lets say a similar cartoon was published about, Joseph Smith,
Not even a, "Avenging Angel”,  (Which even Many Mormons, say still exist)
Would go out and  SHOOT someone !

Now would  those people, make comments, about that.
Most very likely.

Even the Irish Catholics and the British Protestants,
have stopped KILLING people !

Don’t care how, distasteful, the CHARLIE HEBDO cartoons are.
(In some peoples minds)
I find them extremal timely and funny!

Lets see: A Priest and a Rabi, were sitting on a park bench.
a 12 your old boy walks by.
The Priest says:  “Wouldn’t you want to F*** that”
The Rabi says:  “Out of what ?”

So now, a Catholic, or Jew is going to SHOOT me now ?????
... Methinks... NOT. ...

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Their are many people that find the NUDE Statue of David, "Offensive".
Who should decide, WHERE that line is? Or even if their should be a line.

mpescatori........

Where did I say I ever read the guy?

I am afraid you did not understand the context of which I posted originally, before it expanded a wee bit.

And to post this mans cartoons so you can prove your point (in your own mind) might suggest you are willing to surrender your scruples in order to score a few intellectual points (again, in your mind) in some kind of debate mentality mode......

I had no idea of the man, or his publication, and I have never opened the "link" to view any of his work, as most of the news stories link it, but thanks to you, that has all been changed, uh, thanks, I feel so enlightened, not.

Charlie Hebdo were very sick twisted perverts.  As far as the West claiming free speech ... they gave a fellow a one year jail sentence for offending Muslims in Toronto just before the Paris attacks occured.

Dane Allen wrote on 01/14/15 at 12:01:48:

Say what?...    ...