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The cartoon wars are heating up--and things are getting very interesting as people from around the Western World are starting to react in anger towards a Muslim world who believe, quite honestly, that Islam trumps Western values--and aren't afraid to say so, explicitly. Reminds me of a passage from the United States Declaration of Independence. No, not the famous line about how all men are created equal, but the lesser known passage: That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shown that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. We have now reached a tipping point where the evil designs of the Muslim world is no longer sufferable. When westerners were being killed in Islamic countries, we shrugged, said it was too bad, and called it the cost of doing business in "those countries", where people are primitive and backwards bruits. When westerners were killed en-mass on 9/11 in the World Trade Center, we retaliated in order to protect our security, and that effort is now losing steam simply because rightly or wrongly, we feel safer. But never before has our very way of life, a way of life founded on the principles of freedom of expression and classic egalitarnianism and a market place of ideas, has now been damaged by coordinated executions and threats of violence by governments such as Syria against governments such as Denmark. Quoting again: But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security.posted by William Woody at 9:15 PM  
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