What my daughter's French teacher gave the students

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 9 years, 3 months ago to Pics
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These were given out by my daughter's French teacher at the high school today. I think this was so cool! Free speech is alive and well in my town. Astonishing considering I live in CT!


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  • Posted by Timelord 9 years, 3 months ago
    Hey, I'm in Connecticut, too! When the zombie apocalypse hits we should pool our resources. I have a big garden, a very big greenhouse, plenty of timber and a defensible property with a dug well with 16 feet of water. Between us I'll bet we have a firearm or two...
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    • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
      Or two... ;-)
      Those are some great things to have on your property. I have a well, stream, garden... Shore, western, litchfield hills, eastern? W are in the Litchfield hills. :-)
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      • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
        So jealous - just jump on 44 down to 9W and in about an hour could be at Sat football games. Lucky.
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        • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
          And West Point is fantastic to see a game at! This side of the Hudson, across from West Point, there is this phenomenal Shakespeare troupe. Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, if I'm remembering it correctly. All summer they have performances. And it is an outdoor venue. Gorgeous!
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          • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
            Yes, that is fun.

            Darlene Love is playing at Ike this coming Saturday. One of the great, but unknown, singers (due to Phil Specter, scumbag).
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  • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
    I have no problem with Je suis Charlie, in fact I applaud much of what they've published. I do have a problem with both the French, US and other 'Western Democracies" pretending to protect free speech when in fact they only protect what they approve of, rather than all speech.
    Now obviously such acts as shouting fire in a crowded theater must be forbidden, but lest we forget the same government that sponsored the "Free Speech" march last Sunday closed down 'Charlie' during the Mitterrand reign of demagoguery for criticizing Charles de Gaul shortly after his death.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
      I think they were vile, despicable, hate mongers. That said, I have no problem with them being such and publishing their vile, hateful rag. Just as I had no problem with the juvenile who pissed in a bottle and placed a crucifix upside down in it and called it "art." These are individuals who cannot convey their ideas in a manner that can survive even the softest scrutiny, so they resort to inflammatory expression.
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      • Posted by sfdi1947 9 years, 3 months ago
        Your point has merit, that said, I will defend their right to say or publish whatever they want, regardless of the levels of taste evoked. I'm not sure if there is any person, religion or irony that they have not poked.
        I simply cannot condone any attack on anyone's right of free speech or their right to voice their own opinions or to read what ever they wish to read.
        And while I might be prone to restrict it on a grade school reading list, in Middle or High School it is fodder for an excellent Social Studies discussion.
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 3 months ago
    I'm surprised it's allowed to be published in France, though. Laws that create a "right not to be offended" are the root of the problem. You can't very well have them and yet allow CH.
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    • Posted by Robbie53024 9 years, 3 months ago
      The problem is, only you can decide to be offended, or what is offensive. Thus, we have standards of "offensiveness" that are as numerable as there are people.
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