Our regular cartoonist Paul Zanetti has been kind enough to share his thoughts on the situation that has unravelled in Paris over the last few days. FREEDOM has come under attack again in another part of the world. Make no mistake, the killers of the Charlie Hebdo magazine cartoonists and journalists in Paris intended to silence freedom of speech, freedom of thought and free expression. Cartoonists and journalists should not be silenced by threats, intimidation or criminal actions, no matter what the cause or justification, but should continue to fight for all our freedoms - that’s our duty to our readers and to our children. Freedoms are too easily lost and too hard won. The world is facing a wave of fundamentalism as abhorrent as any repressive and intolerant ideology we’ve ever witnessed; Nazism, Fascism or Communism. The world has stood up before and it must stand up again now. No more political correctness, no more pretending that appeasement is the answer. Aggressors view appeasement as weakness to be exploited which only emboldens them and their cause - Paul Zanetti See the rest of his piece below...
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 05:04:30 +0000
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