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• Larry at his finest. No one can accuse him of not paying the price for his principles. And I agree that mainstream media in this country has allowed itself to be intimidated into enabling censorship from abroad. It would be bad enough if the craven response arose out of some desire to avoid putting down the religions of others (though that's still no excuse for folding in the face of such blatant coercion), but the cartoons themselves are entirely political and have nothing to do with religion. The same news outlets that have been so outspoken about the horrors of the attack itself clearly caved to the attackers.

  I don't live in a country where printing cartoons of political and religious figures is illegal and I don't see why we should denied the opportunity to view these images just because some murderous fanatics half a world away have threatened harm against anyone who publishes.

  It's hard for me to believe that the journalists of a generation ago who still had some respect for freedom of expression and weren't governed by lawyers and timid executives would have responded in such a gutless fashion. In doing so they disgrace themselves and dishonor the courage shown in the face for real danger by generations of real journalists who preceded them.

• He has paid a huge price for free speech - but they're coming after it from another angle and they figure he's too old to fight anymore. I believe they've been using the issue of child sex trafficking to go after free speech in the UK, Ireland and Canada where they don't fight over free speech to get Americans used to the idea and then they'll come after us. Diane Feinstein has already started. They won't prosecute a huge trafficking case here in CA that I've been hounding them about with evidence for two years now . When I pushed on the CA US Attorney about doing something about the ring in November - she wrote a letter to the White House demanding more money. When I let her know they don't need money just balls in December and to just use the RICO laws that already exist - her response was to announce she's running for the senate and now taking "campaign contributions". I know what that's about. We started the domestic sex trafficking movement in 1987 calling for decriminalization so that we could then have victims and witnesses prosecute the real traffickers who were involved with our government. Bush pumped all kinds of money into the religious right in order to create all kinds of propaganda that sex trafficking is about pimps and the sex industry itself - right out of the Iran Contra demonize the black man hand book all over again. They won't let us speak about it despite the fact Jeane Palfrey died in order to produce proof of our government's involvement in trafficking when she released her black book because we point the finger at them - and not some black man on a street corner. Yet we can't get Larry or Hef or anyone within the sex industry to help us fight back about this issue and air our free speech. Sometimes free speech works both ways - how about an article about us Larry and the war we started? When a reporter got tape of ACORN actually advising a trafficker how to use government money and forms to use tax payer money - they slapped him with a $100,000 fine and an injunction. So why can't we get Larry to publish an article on the subject? They've now criminalized all "methods of advertising" in three countries now using sex trafficking as a smoke screen - they are just waiting for Larry to get older or sicker to bring it over here to the USA. We need Larry to say something about this now - maybe before the March UN meeting coming up even on the issue.

  • please stop with the drugs

    • LOL