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merrily

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2. Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell refused to say, "I am Charlie."
Thu Jan 8, 2015, 12:14 PM
Jan 2015

Charlie's staff knowingly continued to risk their lives for principle after having been attacked repeatedly. Contradistinctively, our media, including MSNBC, refuse to show the cartoons that cost the staff members of Charlie their lives. Lawrence O"Donnell declined last night to say "I am Charlie," believing he did not have the right to say it. I agree with him.

It's not even his life he is seek to preserve by not speaking out, but his job. That is not insignifcant, by any means. However, again, Charlie's staff very knowingly and very purposefully risked their lives. Those who said, in the film, "I am Spartacus" knowingly risked their lives, too.

Saying "I am Charlie" is easy. Living it, though, takes a lot of principle, a lot of risk and a lot of courage.

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