Sunday - January 11, 2015

‘We vomit on all these people who suddenly say they are our friends’ says hebdo toonist

Bernard Holtrop admitted the publications new found fame was ‘laughable’
· Dutch-born artist said it had ‘new friends’ after massacre on Wednesday
· He wasn’t at the office on the day because he said he ‘didn’t like meetings’
One of the surviving Charlie Hebdo cartoonists has scoffed at the surge in support for the satirical magazine after the attack, which killed eight of his colleagues and four other victims.
Bernard Holtrop, who was not in the office during the massacre on Wednesday, admitted the publication’s new found fame was ‘laughable’ and comes from people who have ‘never seen it’.
The Dutch-born artist reportedly said the provocative weekly had unexpected ‘new friends’ including the Pope, Queen Elizabeth and Vladimir Putin. ‘It really makes me laugh,’ he added. ‘A few years ago, thousands of people took to the streets in Pakistan to demonstrate against Charlie Hebdo. They didn’t know what it was. Now it’s the opposite.’

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He is one of the original group of cartoonists.  Bmews readers may wonder if this fellow is typical of the group.  Who knows?  But I do know this, and no disrespect to the dead.  These were callous murders pure and simple and I wish the media would stop calling murder, execution. 

That said, generally speaking they had a somewhat skewed idea of humor.

Charlie Hebdo was born in the 70s as a spin-off of a monthly publication called Charlie that focused mostly on comics. At that time, another satirical journal called Hara Kiri was shutdown by French government after making jokes about the death of the General de Gaulle.  Both teams got together and decided to start a weekly magazine mixing satire, comics and cartoons called Charlie Hebdo (hebdo means weekly in French).

Charlie Hebdo’s publishing run has been quoted as 40,000 in some places and 60,000 elsewhere. So perhaps the true number is in between somewhere.

So then, Hara Kiri was shut down by the police and I suppose you can make the argument that free speech and expression were violated by the authorities of that distant day. At the same time however, don’t you have to ask yourself, just what sort of people can find humor in the death of a leading war personality and a very patriotic head of state after that war?  No matter what one thinks of de Gaulle, was that really the right thing to d or the right time?  Couldn’t they have waited a short time?

Please be aware too, that things of that sort are standard fare for the left.

Crowds of Brits happily mocked the death of Margaret Thatcher not long ago, and currently BBC radio is airing a book written by leftist scum, slag Hillary Mantel, “The Assignation of Margaret Thatcher”.  It really is a hate thing with Mantel, but were a celebration made of the death of some grungy lefty, the sky would fall, and people calling themselves Anti Fascists thus justifying illegal behavior like setting fires and trashing property, would be demonstrating in the streets.

While I do not for a single second approve of or feel good about the slaughter of those writers and cartoonists, I don’t think this move toward sainthood is justified either.

Posted by peiper     on 01/11/2015 at 08:37 AM   
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