All these rallies with people saying, "I am Charlie" are so fucking stupid. And all the news outlets are calling this an example of "standing up" to the terror and "extremists".
I'm reminded of the protests in Iran where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets said they weren't going to take it anymore. Then suddenly, it fizzled because they were unwilling to do anything beyond that. All "Kiss Kiss", but no "Bang Bang". Another culture clearly the victim of western peacenik assholes who claim that violence is unnecessary to facilitate improvement. OF COURSE France--one of the countries from which that mindset originates--is going follow the same cycle as Iran.
I have no doubt that the French National Front will build more steam, but people are going to eventually lose their sense of urgency here all the same.
What makes it worse is that Hamas and Hezbollah apparently has the more liberal commentators fooled--no difficult task there--after speaking out against the attack. Every time I hear the phrase, "Once you've lost [BLANK], you've definitely lost the [BLANK]," my eyes roll of their own volition. I'm sure there's a name for that kind of argument, I just don't know what it is.
Recycling the "actions of the few" and "no true Muslim" tunes is a textbook KGB disinformation tactic designed to divide your enemies.
Protests don't accomplish shit.
