One Man's Terrorism Is Another's War On Terror... Aka Selected Grief.

[sevenOP]

'Erlanger vividly describes the scene of horror. He quotes one surviving journalist as saying that “Everything crashed. There was no way out. There was smoke everywhere. It was terrible. People were screaming. It was like a nightmare.” Another surviving journalist reported a “huge detonation, and everything went completely dark.”

The scene, Erlanger reported, “was an increasingly familiar one of smashed glass, broken walls, twisted timbers, scorched paint and emotional devastation.” At least 10 people were reported at once to have died in the explosion, with 20 missing, “presumably buried in the rubble.” '
http://stopwar.org.uk/news/noam-chomsky-on-charlie-hebdo-one-man-s-terrorism-is-another-man-s-war-on-terror

[Zacs-Master]

I'm afraid the Anarcho-syndica
list
ramblings of Noam Chomsky are either beyond my comprehension or pure ***.

[sevenOP]

What relevance has anarcho-syndicalism got to the content of the opening post Zacs-Master ?

[Gromit]

Yep,
It wasn't too long ago that the US were firing bombs into the Offices of Al Jazeera in Baghdad and there office in Kabul.

Then there is the infamous Al Jazeera bombing Memo of an exchange between Tony Blair and George W. Bush. Bush was planning on attacking Al Jazeera in the friendly state of Qatar. There was a news blackout on reporting the memo, and the leaker was prosecuted.

// David Keogh, a civil servant at the Cabinet Office, and Leo O'Connor, a research assistant to former Labour MP Tony Clarke, were charged under the Official Secrets Act 1989[2] for the unauthorised disclosure of the memo (Keogh under section three, O'Connor under section five). When O'Connor gave the memo to Clarke, Clarke returned it to Downing Street. All news organisations in the United Kingdom have been warned by Attorney General Lord Goldsmith against further publication of information from the leaked memo; Goldsmith has mentioned the possibility of prosecution under section five of the Official Secrets Act 1989 if published details from the memorandum are considered to damage interests of the United Kingdom abroad. On 29 November 2005, Keogh and O'Connor appeared in Bow Street magistrates' court in central London. Following a 15 minute hearing the case was adjourned until 10 January. (CNN) On the 10 May 2007, Keogh was found guilty on two counts of making a "damaging disclosure" by revealing the memo and was sentenced to 6 months in jail. He was also ordered to pay £5000 in costs to the prosecution. O'Connor was sentenced to 3 months in jail. (Reuters) //

So yes, attacks on journalists doing their jobs is not the solely perpetrated by muslim madmen. It is done by Christian ones sitting in the Whitehouse.

[Zacs-Master]

The relevance is that Mr C's Utopian views make me switch off when I see his name.

[sevenOP]

"How ironic, one thought, that this mass demonstration in favour of “the freedom of the press” should take place in a country whose “Ministry of Culture” has lately detailed the huge state subsidies given to France’s leading newspapers, to help keep its press more cowed and tightly controlled than any west of Russia. "

Maybe the 'Holy Cloak of Satire' is wearing thin for him ?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/11352488/What-free-speech-didnt-tell-usabout-Charlie-Hebdo-jokes.html