"Shar lee Ebdoe"

"Je suis Charlie". That phrase has made the rounds since the two terrorists burst into the Publishing Company Charlie Hebdo (shar lee ebdoe) in Paris and murdered 11 journalists and 1 security guard.

It means of course “I am Charlie” or I am in solidarity with the freedom of the press, and with those who have been killed for their freedom to publish.
I did not get a “Je suis Charlie” button to wear, because I am not Charlie. Do not misunderstand me. I am beyond angry about what happened. I am more disgusted with gun violence than I have ever been and after Sandy Hook I didn’t think I could be.

I just think that something bigger needs to happen than wearing a button for a week or two. Something has to happen, we have to reach the tipping point where the people of the world say, “no more, we will have no more”. It has to become socially unacceptable to use violence to express your unhappiness or religious views.

I would like the press to refrain from stating perpetrators names in print or over the air. They can be called perpetrators of violence. They don’t get their name even mentioned. Think of the younger Tsarnaev about to go on trial for the Boston Bombing. He and his dead brother have had their names etched in history, made famous and the younger brother will by the end of the trial have had his photo splashed over every news media imaginable. he has a large twitter following for God sake.Two losers in Boston become instant celebrities. Don’t let these miscreants have the 6 months of fame. Let them continue to be what they were before their rampages, anonymous and worthless.

Of course that won’t happen because we have freedom of the press. That is the bitter rub, two losers kill journalists they don’t want to have the freedom of the press. Then because we have freedom of the press they are made internationally famous. How stupid is this?

I don’t want to hear one more story about the Kouachi brothers being disaffected, and poor, with no future prospects. They chose to come to France, and when you think of the many people in the world that have harder lives than they did, I can’t get weepy over their solution to go out in a blaze of gunfire killing as many unarmed people as they could. Poor us ( in both meanings) is a lame excuse, and saying you are defending Muhammad is ridiculous.

Every other God (Christian, Mormon, Jewish, Buddha, Vishnu and more have been lampooned with no rampages. No bloody Christian rampages for Jesus, no gunning down the cast of the Book of Mormon, no killing people for selling souvenir Buddha statues in the gift shop. Even the Pope is satirized and his bishops haven’t raided the set on SNL to blow up the cast. It maybe their justification but to most everyone else their justification is bull shit.

Je suis pour change. Je suis pour an international effort to put Jihad terrorists out of business. No more, no more, no more and keep the presses rolling. “L’esprit de l’escalier,” (Long live the press, print)