Je suis Charlie, indeed. Unless vous êtes Republican.

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Congressional Republicans leapt at the opportunity to criticize Obama for ending the nation's torture policy and for trying to shut down Guantanamo:

Some Republican lawmakers seized on the violence to question the Obama administration’s efforts to end interrogation tactics dubbed by the president as torture and to close the prison facility at Cuba's Guantánamo Bay.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) argued poor policy choices and budget cuts had left national security at risk. [...]

Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) and others used the Paris attack to question Obama’s pledge to close Gitmo prison.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/228824-paris-attack-draws-questions-about-obama-policies
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/08/1356341/-As-the-world-mourns-Republicans-play-politics-with-terrorist-nbsp-attack

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1. Lindsey Graham is a moron

True fact!

[merrily]

2. Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell refused to say, "I am Charlie."

Charlie's staff knowingly continued to risk their lives for principle after having been attacked repeatedly. Contradistinctively, our media, including MSNBC, refuse to show the cartoons that cost the staff members of Charlie their lives. Lawrence O"Donnell declined last night to say "I am Charlie," believing he did not have the right to say it. I agree with him.

It's not even his life he is seek to preserve by not speaking out, but his job. That is not insignifcant, by any means. However, again, Charlie's staff very knowingly and very purposefully risked their lives. Those who said, in the film, "I am Spartacus" knowingly risked their lives, too.

Saying "I am Charlie" is easy. Living it, though, takes a lot of principle, a lot of risk and a lot of courage.