PUBLIC ADDRESS 06/02/06 - The Cartoons

Makes Waitangi look innocuous, doesn't it? | Feb 06, 2006 11:39
Russell Brown's Hard News

How did a bunch of mostly crappy cartoons published five months ago in an undistinguished newspaper with a smaller circulation that the New Zealand Herald come to this? Have we suddenly lurched into something bad? And what happens next?...
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Between Mohammed and Monsoon Poon | Feb 05, 2006 12:46
Living the invasion with Tze Ming Mok

Amid the fiery noble talk of a free press, one question seems to need a little more attention, and it does not really have anything to do with freedom of speech: Must you people be such c**ts?...
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Goddamnit | Feb 06, 2006 12:04
Keith Ng off the election trail

Freedom to say anything doesn't equate to an obligation to say everything. Tze Ming's right: except for the lineup one, the cartoons are lame. But the issue is not the quality of the cartoons, but the point behind them - that is, to challenge Muslim sensibilities by offending them...
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