[Leica] JE SUIS CHARLIE

[Wilbur Norman]

The photo of next week's New Yorker cover did not come thru with my LUG email. So, I will put the URL of the New Yorker site where it is posted:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/cover-story-2015-01-19

And:

"For better, because so many of us have the luxury of often feeling secure enough in our freedom to take it for granted. For worse, because in taking our freedom for granted, we are too often ready to trade it for a greater sense of security. We are not Charlie, in other words, because we risk so little for what we claim to value so much. We are not Charlie, too, because most of us are relatively inoffensive, whereas Charlie, like so many liberating pioneers of free expression—think not only of Lenny Bruce and Mad magazine but also of Gandhi and Martin Luther King—were always glad to give offense to what offended them. And we are not Charlie, today, because we are alive….

It [American Constitution] has proved surprisingly solid over time, but it requires constant defense—as we are reminded by the belated emergence of the memorial slogan “Je Suis Ahmed”—after Ahmed Merabet, the Muslim policeman who was killed protecting Charlie Hebdo’s right to caricature his religion."

– Philip Gourevitch, The Pen vs. The Gun, New Yorker, January 8, 2015.


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On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Wilbur Norman wrote:

> Next week's New Yorker Magazine great cover will look like this:
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> On Jan 8, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Jean-Michel Mertz wrote:
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>> Thank you, LUG, for your messages following the Paris attack on one of our basic, vital, unalienable rights. We mourn talented people, creative artists, fierce defenders of the freedom of the press, cartoonists with a unique vision. May they never be forgotten. JM
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