Stand up...and be counted... Defend our FREEDOMS...

The World Remembers... The World is in a shock...at the barbarism of "few" against the printed word... against the printed picture...
No one, absolutely NO ONE, has the right to impose their views on others by force... or attempt to prevent the written word to reach the people...
No one needs barbarians as self proclaimed guardians of religion and truth...
If religion is what people want so be it... But if someone notices that organized religion is abusing its powers... that someone has all the right to say so... and to say so IN THE WAY THEY THINK IT IS RIGHT...
Freedom has no limits and all those who attempt to impeded our freedoms are just funny dictators...
And those who fight the word by their sword... will be defeated firstly by the PEN... and then by the sword too...
I had argument after argument with Big Brothers to protect my free thought and free speech...
Here is an anecdote...
We had a vice-principal in our school who loved wearing low-cut dresses exposing cleavage... also she was fashionable enough to dress and expose her shoulders... and minis were part of her wardrobe...                                                                   What she was wearing was quite inappropriate in a academic setting... 
One day I noticed a female student weeping in my class... and I was concerned... I inquired... and she did not answer... her friend volunteered and conveyed that the vice-principal had reprimanded her for the uniform that she was wearing... I checked the weeping girl... did not notice and inappropriate dress code... May the pants were a bit tight...May the top was a bit tighter... But nothing scandalous... They were just what all females students were wearing... and I blurted out aloud...
"Why doesn't she look into the mirror and check what she is wearing...?"
And of course as the world goes round... a student ratted on me... and the Vice-p was angry... and I got an email from the principal... He mentioned that I should bring the "union rep" with me... 
I was curious why...? But I am daring enough to protect myself... So I went to see him by myself... and he referred to my comments about the Vice-p's dress and added; "... you may be charged for sexual harassment...!"
"Go ahead and charge me...", I answered... and added, "...There are all kinds of photos floating around with the vp in them..."
He shut-up and dismissed me... After all, he was doing his routine and playing his role to defend himself... 
The Vice-p was indeed stupid and full of herself... and very proud of her looks and body parts...

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Free speech is important... Freedom of thought is crucial... and they must be defended... The Islamist-Jihadists should not intimidate you out of your rights... to think and to express...

The pens are in the middle... and we repeat...We'll defend our freedoms and will not be enslaved by any fascist ideology... be it for Church, or for Mosque, or for Synagogue or for any Temple...

We have the weapons of mass creation and we will defend our rights...

Bullets will not intimidate us...

But, we have to dare to defend... 

We have to say NO... every time we see infringements on our rights...

Big Brothers do not have any rights on our freedoms... Where ever they are... in Moscow, Beijing, Kiev, Berlin, London... or Wall Street...

Our freedoms are sacrosanct and we will defend them...

The Big Brothers of the religion and state have no right to impose their way of thinking on us...

And Read...about our complacent attitude...

The truth is that world-wide humanity is complacent and unmoved by the most extreme horrors humanity can imagine.  We remained silent in the face of the Jewish Holocaust, the Armenian Holocaust, the genocide in Rwanda, and we remained silent about the need to educate girls until Malala was short in the head. I consider that extreme. Is it not extreme pain to suffer from starvation, from dislocation and being one of the 52 million refugees looking for a safe place to live? Is it not extreme cold for the homeless right here in many North American cities?

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They argue that the Islamist-Jihadists are a minority... but read below about the Saudi kingdom...

This is what the Saudi's say...

"The Kingdom's political system is rooted in Islam's traditions, which call for peace, justice, equality, consultation, and respect for the rights of the individual."

...And this is what they do...

A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say.

Raif Badawi, who was sentenced to 1,000 lashes and 10 years in jail, was flogged 50 times. The flogging will be carried out weekly, campaigners say.

Mr Badawi, the co-founder of a now banned website called the Liberal Saudi Network, was arrested in 2012.

The flogging took place outside a mosque in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after Friday prayers, witnesses said.

AFP news agency, quoting people at the scene, said Mr Badawi arrived at the mosque in a police car and had the charges read out to him in front of a crowd.

He was then made to stand with his back to onlookers and whipped, though he remained silent, the witnesses said.

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Beheadings, amputations...flogging are part of the state religion of Saudi Arabia and Islamists Sharia laws...

They have NO RIGHT to impose their Mediaval thinking and laws on us...

They will fail...Because dictators always fail...

Public floggings, limb amputations, and beheadings remind most Westerners of ISIS or the Taliban. But in Saudi Arabia -- the one country in the world that enjoys more unconditional U.S. support than any other -- they are the law, sanctioned not only by the government, but by the state religion. In the same month that the world was reeling with shock at the brutal beheading of James Foley at the hands of ISIS, Saudi Arabia publicly beheaded 19 people,for crimes ranging from smuggling cannabis to sorcery.

The sun sets over Namirah mosque on the plains of Arafat during the annual haj pilgrimage, outside the holy city of Mecca October 3, 2014. Raif Badawi, a Saudi blogger who was sentenced under the country’s harsh anti-blasphemy laws to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes along with a fine of over $260,000, was publicly flogged 50 times on Friday.

Religious zealotry has attempted to infringe on our rights... They crucified Jesus for his ideas of love and harmony... he said “turn the other cheek...” and refused “an eye for an eye...” Later the ORGANIZED Church usurped the message and imposed their will... Ignorant priests and abusive cardinals became the norm... eventually people liberated themselves and proclaimed “equality, fraternity and liberty...”

Now the Islamists-Jihadists are attempting the same... The Christian Organized Church failed... and the Islamist-Kihadists will fail too...

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Defend the Word... defend free speech...

The beauty of SPACE where the WORD is kept... for ALL...Check the beautiful libraries in France...

The beauty of space promotes the beauty of the WORD... and the WORD gives us knowledge and knowledge makes us come closer and closer to the TRUTH... which eventually sets us FREE...

Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève, Paris

Bibliothèque de l’Hôtel de Ville, Paris

Bibliothèque du Sénat, Paris

Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire de la Sorbonne, Paris

Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris

Also in Rome and in Boston...

Biblioteca Angelica, Rome

Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome

Boston Public Library, Boston

Beautiful libraries will promote beautiful thoughts...

The libraries are sanctuaries for FREEDOM... use and defend our public spaces for freedom of thought...

The Church will not do it...

The Mosque will not do it...

The Synagogues will not do it...

The Temples will not do it...

But the PEOPLE can defend their rights against all types of abuse...

So be inspired... and get involved... and make a difference...  

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And Few Final notes...

The lights are out on the Tower of Light...

The Tower of Light is in Mourning... but soon it will celebrate again... and the Phoenix will rise from the ashes... and all of us will be FREE... and live in harmony... and equality... and fraternity and sisterhood... and LIBERTY...

Paris, the city of enlightenment... is DEFIANT  

Paris will be a beacon that no one can destroy...

Check the origin of the phrase....

The English words "The pen is mightier than the sword" were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, in his historical play Cardinal Richelieu.

According to the Cambridge Dictionaries website the saying emphasises that "thinking and writing have more influence on people and events than the use of force or violence".

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Anonymous is wrong...                                 We cannot defend free speech and freedom of thought and our liberties... by attacking their rights...to write and think and express themselves freely... Let them write freely... and let us write freely... let them be... so as we will be...

You cannot by tyrannical with others and defend freedoms at the same time...

What Anonymous is advocating is the easy way out... the times for "an eye for an eye" have long gone into history... Now is the time for PEACE and HARMONY... 

The video is described as a message for "al Qaeda, the Islamic State and other terrorists," and promises to avenge the killing of 12 people in Wednesday's attack.

"We, Anonymous around the world, have decided to declare war on you the terrorists. We intend to take revenge in their name, we are going to survey your activities on the net, we are going to shut down your accounts on all social networks,"

The Only "Revenge" is to read and read ... and read more... Start today...

Check below... the Australian auther...

Geoffrey Robertson puts the case against Turkey for 1915 Armenian genocide  

Reviewed by: Louis Nowra

ON April 24, 1915, the day before the Anzacs landed at Gallipoli, the Turkish government in Constantinople rounded up hundreds of Armenian artists, intellectuals, academics, priests and community leaders and killed most of them.

At the time there were 15 million Turkish Muslims and about two million Christian Armenians in Turkey (or Anatolia as it was then). The Armenians were better educated and wealthier than most Turks and because of that were envied and hated, so much so that the government instituted a program of ethnic cleansing. The Turks had had practice runs before. Between 1894 and 1896, 200,000 Armenians were massacred by soldiers and armed mobs.
From May to September 1915, up to two million Armenians were killed or expelled from the Ottoman Empire. The adult men were massacred or sent to death camps, while their families were sent on death marches through the desert. They were murdered, raped, drowned, burned alive and left to die of hunger and thirst. Churches, monasteries and schools were destroyed. All material goods were confiscated. Girls were made sex slaves and forced to convert. Up to 1.5 million died.
Since then Turkish apologists have protested that only 600,000 died and that the deportations and massacres were merely unfortunate incidents in a civil war. In An Inconvenient Genocide, Australian lawyer Geoffrey Robertson sifts the evidence and details the reasons he considers the Turkish elimination of the Armenians a crime against humanity, a genocide.
He doesn't spend much time on the history but presents witness accounts by diplomats, missionaries, journalists, doctors and soldiers. Some of the compelling accounts are by Australian prisoners of war. Even Turkey's German allies, especially diplomats, were horrified by what was happening and sent voluminous reports back to Berlin.
Turkish law sanctions citizens who ''insult Turkishness'' by referring to the treatment of Armenians as genocide. Nobel prize-winning writer Orhan Pamuk was charged but his international fame kept him out of jail. This nationalistic hypersensitivity cannot be over-estimated.
In 2010, the BBC recorded a play I wrote based on the memoirs of a US vice-consul, Leslie Davis, who witnessed deportations, death marches and atrocities. Because Turkish actors were afraid news of their participation would travel back home, they dropped out or acted under assumed names.
Robertson makes it clear that genocide is a matter for judges, not historians. He takes as his guide the International Court of Justice decree that genocide means acts committed with an intent to destroy, in whole or part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. In practice this means disrupting social cohesion (murdering leaders and intellectuals), destroying cultural institutions and prohibiting cultural activities, shifting wealth from the persecuted group to privileged nationals, depopulating areas inhabited by a group, interfering with the activities of churches catering to the persecuted group and reducing its numbers by starvation or murder.
This book is a prosecutor's brief: brilliant, forensic and irrefutable, and on all counts Robertson finds the 1915 Turkish government guilty of genocide. The subtitle, Who Remembers theArmenians?, is a paraphrase of Hitler's remarks to his generals in 1939, ordering them to show no mercy to the Poles: "Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?''
Robertson is part of a growing global movement to have the Armenian genocide classed as a crime against humanity. Governments in Canada, France, Russia, Sweden and Poland have recognised the genocide, as have 43 of the 50 US states. The British and US governments have refused to do so; Turkey's pro-Western stance makes it an important ally.
Led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a cynical populist, Turkey is doing all within its power not to confront its own past and also to stop the truth from being heard. This is of course not unusual (witness Japan's refusal to acknowledge its horrific crimes in World War II and Australia's deliberate amnesia about its treatment of Aborigines) but the evidence of the genocide is so overwhelming that the Turkish denial of what happened is breathtaking in its immaturity and lack of pity.
In Australia's case, the NSW parliament recognised the genocide in 2013, but the federal government has not done so. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has gone so far as to deny it happened. Why is this? Well, the answer is quite simple: blackmail. She is afraid the Turkish government will stop Australians from visiting Gallipoli. She has good reasons for this, given the Turks have banned any member of the NSW parliament from attending this year's centenary memorial service at Anzac Cove.
An Inconvenient Genocide should be compulsory reading for anyone who knows nothing about the Armenian genocide. It's also a vivid reminder that we must never forget such crimes against humanity. Very few books are necessary, but this is one.
An Inconvenient Genocide: Who Remembers the Armenians? By Geoffrey Robertson
 Vintage, 304pp, $34.99
 Louis Nowra is a novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

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The best revenge for the Paris attacks is to visit the libraries and to read and to express yourselves freely...

Big Brothers should not intimidate you...

Be inspired...

Get involved...

Defend our freedoms...

and

Make a difference...