A Tribute to Truth … (01/08/15)
“The Animal Rights Movement lost four great and talented activists today with the murder of cartoonists John (Cabu) Cabut , Stéphane (Carb) Charbonnier, Bernard (Tignous) Verlhac and Georges Wolinski. They were four of the 12 people (including two police officers) killed in the horrific terrorist assault on Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris … Just yesterday Charlie Hebdo had contributed one of their cartoons to the activist organization L214 which campaigns in France for animal rights … Charlie Hebdo is also the only French newspapers to clearly condemn bullfights, the enslavement of dolphins and big game hunting. The magazine also ran a weekly animal rights cartoon … Knowing the French, I doubt they will now let Charlue Hebdo die. If anything freedom of expression will be stronger. Freedom must never submit to the tyranny of fanatical religious intolerance … These were brave, talented and beloved people whose deaths will not be accepted meekly or quietly.” ~ Paul Watson
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Condemning ignorance entrenches the hatred that spawns it, while ignoring ignorance allows its vitriol to live on unchecked … neither are effective solutions to the evil that is violent intolerance …
No, my Friends, we must have the courage to fight their fire with water & their heat with coolness. Though they would have us become too scared to act, we must now more than ever actively oppose all forms of bigotry & all forms of aggression, and we must do so while exuding Compassion for the ignorance of those that propagate the same … Amen.
P.S Feel free to post similar cartoons in honor of the fallen.
“A religion that comes of thought, and study, and deliberate conviction, sticks best. The revitalized convert who is scared in the direction of heaven because he sees hell yawn suddenly behind him, not only regains confidence when his scare is over, but is ashamed of himself for being scared, and often becomes more hopelessly and malignantly wicked than he was before.” ~ Mark Twain
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