Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Rue Copernic redux?

It was 30 years ago that a wave of brutal terrorism hit France. The first major bloodshed came from Paris, and just the names of the streets - rue des Rosiers, rue Copernic - are enough to remind everyone of what went on to be over 60 attacks during the course of the next 10 years. Interestingly enough, since the attacks were unsigned, and since the victims were Jewish, the assumption was made that the perpetrators were members of a fringe Neo-nazi group. Much of the police work that followed was based on that assumption, and it was not until 2011 that French justice conclusively identified Fatah (under Abu Nidal) as the perpetrator of these attacks.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusillade_de_la_rue_des_Rosiers

I read about the horror of the murders in Toulouse, and I wonder what will happen next?
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/72055f4c-7278-11e1-9c23-00144feab49a.html#axzz1pka6xs1t

Saturday, March 3, 2012

The oh so liberal Dutch

I wonder what Stephen Hawking thinks about this.
Approximately 21 percent of the infant euthanasia deaths occurred without request or consent of parents.