Posted
2/11/2006 04:38:00 PM
by Douglas
I know the world is eagerly awaiting the blog to weigh in on the Danish cartoon fiasco, but I just don't have it in me, and way too much ink has been used on it already. Not surprisingly, I think I totally agree with
Radley on this one. Freedom of speech is a legal argument, not a moral one, and just because the paper
can print anything it wants to, doesn't mean it
should. From the beginning of this, the motivation of the cartoons were incitefull. Did the paper get the response it expected? Probably not, but it certainly wasn't shocking that these people reacted the way they did. But regardless of what
Coulter says, you can abhor the destruction that followed while at the same time question the editorial judgment of the paper without signing up for your local neighborhood al Qaeda chapter.