Je Suis Charlie: Europe's Selective Outrage

Holding up signs that announce "Je Suis Charlie" ("I am Charlie") and holding candlelit vigils for "Charlie" are very much in fashion in Europe right now.

Supposedly, it's the epitome of courageous commitment to free speech in the face of terrorist threats to declare one's solidarity with "Charlie".

As noted at the 1:40 mark in the embedded video, it's also the epitome of hypocrisy.

Where were the candlelit vigils for the SIX Russian journalists who were deliberately murdered by the Ukrainian Army because they threatened to expose the atrocities that are being committed---with US and EU backing---in former eastern Ukraine?

Why are there no pictures of stoic-faced "heroes" holding signs that read "Je Suis Anton", "Je Suis Anatoliy" etc.?

I guess outpourings of sympathy are due only to those whose murders serve the interests of the West's propaganda machine. Those who threaten to expose US- and EU-backed atrocities get no sympathy.

People always care more about things that happen close to home. I'm sure lots of Russians paid respect to those Russian journalists.

Here we go again. *Sigh*

where were the outrage when Putin had his top 3 critics executed? I tell you, these french.

I wonder if Russia will invade Paris to protect russian speaking ppl just like in Ukraine. seems legit. think there's oil there for pipeline too.

Probably same reason why Europe is silent every time there's a shooting in the US. It's not that people don't care, but it's not "their backyard". Does Russia care every time a shooting happens in the US?

Russia's probably behind it. THey make the US look like good ppl.

derp.

of course sympathy is only being generated for the blah blah for the propaganda blah.

what fucking world have you been in the last however long you have existed?

i'm evil you're evil everyone is fucking evil.

(also, hypocrisy... see above.)

get over it and **** over whoever you need to **** over for whatever dumbass reason you have to **** them over to feel better.

goddamn, do i have to hold your hands for every little fucking thing?

Same place as the vigils and outrage when Russian soldiers put on ski masks and started murdering civilians when they invaded a foreign country.

@Stesilaus: I agree with you.

Thank you. Clearly, not many others do. :-(

passivity does not contradict any specific action,even if it does your comparison still fails in another level since you're comparing governments with their people.

Well said.....

Yeah, right. It was a "well said" statement that is based on a crude myth.

There was never a "Russian invasion" of Crimea.

While Russia did send troops into the territory, those troop dispatches were consistent with the limitations and obligations imposed by formal treaties between Russia and Crimea and, most importantly, they were not opposed by the parliament of Crimea.

Crimea seceded from Ukraine and joined Russia voluntarily. The "Russian invasion" is a lie told by NATO to justify economic aggression against Russia.

As for the territories that the deceitful Western press refers to as "eastern Ukraine": They too seceded from Ukraine in accordance with the democratically expressed wills of their populaces. Donetsk and Luhansk are no longer Ukrainian provinces. Russia could openly march entire army divisions into them without "invading Ukraine".

lol, this is too funny

It was Ukraine. It has been a part of Ukraine since 1954. I've walked that land. I've talked to the people. It's Ukraine. Russia invaded a foreign country and no one cared because the US was too busy with two other wars.

But hey, believe what you want to let yourself sleep at night.

It probably had something to do with it being a terrorist attack on home soil rather than a foreign wartime atrocity in a part of the world most of those people have probably never visited?

Don't bother. He will never agree with you and it is to the point I think he maybe just trolling.

He's very likely part of the Russian paid propaganda machine. It's one thing to be anti-US based on some of their recent actions, but to be at the same time pro-Russian policies is laughable.

TC is legit crazy pants

Anti-US is laughable, it's fine to not like the US government as the American people don't like them either, just try to not take it out on the US people. That's the problem i have with anti anything, sometimes innocent people get the heat when they don't like it anymore then anybody else.

On live TV they asked Bush Jr. "what did Iraq and Afghanistan have to do with 911?" and he answered plain as day "nothing". So we've illegally invaded multiple nations, subverted and assassinated countless heads of nations via propaganda and blatant lies, murdered millions of innocent people via the typical Zionist agenda masking western elitism and genocidal racism/again... then one lame French pornographic 'journalist' gets snuffed out and all the world is supposed to care? So, a gaggle of French people pay the price for their elitism and shilldom, so what? Why don't these wimp/war mongering propagandist take a trip to Iraq and talk to all the women giving birth to children suffering hideous hell on Earth birth defects due to the illegal crimes against humanity use of uranium munitions? they are liars and cowards that can't even accept and face the truth of who and what they really are. Zionist puppets without a clue to what morons they have been their entire lives. And if they do accept it and subvert the truth, then they are worthless just the same.

The suicide rate for the military is at an all time high, yet they never mention is ever in the US press let alone mainstream propagandized 'news'. Soldiers with conscience kill themselves because they can't live with the things they've seen and done in these illegal wars, the only ones that can are the mad dogs that actually enjoy raping and murdering little children and shooting old ladies in the face etc.

You mean George W. Bush?

Link or it didn't happened.

i'm outraged at the lack of outrage!

Nice job blaming the victims. One wrong doesnt justify another wrong.

I can't believe you people are still trying to convince people of this nonsense. At least the U.S. eventually leaves the countries it invades. Bring on the 2nd cold war....it worked so well for you the first time.