High Ground Underground

Following close on the heels of the N. Korean terrorist attack on our freedom of expression, now we have a terrorist attack in Paris on the press.  A group assassination of 11 in an editorial board meeting of “Charlie Hebdo,” a satirical weekly magazine that pokes fun at everything, including Islam, with cartoons also depicting Mohammed.  The 3 masked perpetrators, who also killed a Muslim policeman, shouted the usual “Alahu Akbar!” and reportedly told a bystander to tell the press they were from Al Qaida of Yemen (some think they are desperate to regain the limelight from ISIS), and were avenging the honor of the prophet Mohammed.  1 terrorist turned himself in, and 2 others were on the run for 2 days, then took a hostage and went out in a blaze of gunfire.  An associate took several hostages in a Paris Jewish grocery store, to gain release of his fellows, and killed 4 before being killed.  Some are calling it the French 9/11.  They are in shock that ...