Je ne suis pas Charlie | National Catholic Reporter

Je ne suis pas Charlie | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: This tragedy provides an interesting case which MSW unwittingly raises.  The fact is that there was no where that the bombers and their sponsors could complain about the tenor and tone of the satire that offended them. They could not go to an Office of Offensive Comedy and Media an, as the local obscenity police did to the great Lenny Bruce after he skewered both the cops and the Church on a regular basis - although until the early sixties, the local Monsignor surely could (so don't put on airs for our magnanimity - we don't have any and there are those in society who would put Lenny on trial now had he not meted out the ultimate punishment to himself - so sad, he would have loved skewering Reagan until there were no consequences - and the Tea Party would have provided him no end of amusement - and he would have gone after MSW with a passion for having his orthodoxy and spitting on it too).  The cops became street thugs when they took on Lenny, but no one killed him in the name of their own dignity.



Not true for Charie -he was killed for assaulting someone else's dignity.  Would that the system in France has the ability to require those that hated Charie to come out of the woodwork and demanded their right to state their complaints.  It would have been interesting to watch and we might have learned something about how far we go and how it lands on the other end.  Due process of law IS where things things are supposed to occur - not in bombings or murders.  However, that is what occurs in both drug deals and religious satire where an outlet cannot be devised.  This is particularly sad for Wahabi nations like Saudi Arabi who give women no role and no route to complain without discipline.  Mark my words that it is the sisters and daughters and mothers of the terrorists in Paris who will seek ultimate solutions in voicing their displeasure.  Good or bad?  Not sure.  Necessary?  Very sure. (for those of you who don't know, that is what we in the Romany community call a first class curse. Their is only one way to lift it and it does not involve murdering me.  Give in to your women, King Abdullah, or your funeral may be next).