Nazi Germany was not exactly anti religion.


"God with us"


And yeah, if a granny is responsible for the death of someone under their care for holistic medicine then yeah, she needs to go to prison. What do you do when someone comes to you with a critical illness? Take them to the hospital.

I don't see how that's comparable to horoscopes though.

If she's caring for a cold, or was unaware the person she cared for was critically ill, that's one thing. If she claimed you don't need doctors to treat AIDS because maple syrup is the cure, she's criminally negligent. Stupidity should not be a defense.

Well then, not the same thing as faith healers. I didn't make that leap though, just responded to it.

While I will stipuiate in advance that not every "inciting" incident is clear-cut, the contrast between your chosen example-- a guy just deciding one day that he'll wear a Klan-lookalike robe into Compton-- is the act of someone looking for trouble, while the Charlie Hebdo situation is ineluctably free speech. Why? Because Charlie Hebdo is a legal business concern, whose function is to satirize and criticize any society or societal practice.

The real Klan is also a legal organization, and on those occasions that they're able to get permits to hold urban rallies to boost their membership, they can do so and even get police protection, as has happened a few times within the last ten years. I don't remember where the last one to make the news took place, but as I recall various anti-Klan groups counter-demonstrated but nothing much happened.

It's conceivable that someone *might* be able to get permission to don a Klan robe and do "performance art" in Compton. But if he didn't have such a permit, I would guess the local cops would take a dim view of his claim that he had a "right" to wear an inflammatory costume in that situation. What a lawyer would make it of it all (aside from lots of money) I know not.

Well, I'm only bringing up the Klan because Ironchimp brought up the idea of wearing a sheet in Compton. There's no doubt that many Klansmen have committed murder, but not all have, and presumably those recent groups who have been allowed to convene public rallies convinced the authorities that their group was on the right side of the law, whatever one might think of their ethical compass.

www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schwarz/survivor-of-charlie-hebdo_b_6543718.html

Interview with a Charlie Hebdo writer who criticizes Obama & UK's wars on their respective journalists, but then turns around and defends the French regime's arrest of Dieudonne.

This aricle is a couple years old but lays it out well --

www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/05/obama_s_justice_department_holder_s_leak_investigations_are_outrageous_and.html "Obama’s War on Journalists: His administration’s leak investigations are outrageous and unprecedented."

Fortunately they finally backed off James Risen after several years last week, although his source is still toast. Just because they often lose doesn't mean there's not a war.