{"id":860,"date":"2015-01-10T18:50:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T18:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=860"},"modified":"2015-02-05T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T18:00:15","slug":"face-to-face-with-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?p=860","title":{"rendered":"FACE TO FACE WITH HORROR"},"content":{"rendered":"

A single word: RESIST!<\/strong>\u00a0As simple and difficult a solution as that.<\/p>\n

Terrorists of all stripes seek to frighten, to impose their ideas by fear, terror. Beheadings on the Internet, planes into the World Trade Center, and now massacre in the editorial boardroom of Charlie Hebdo. Not to mention kidnappings, torture, rapes, and remote bombings through rockets or drones.<\/p>\n

First of all, we must\u00a0help the victims and arrest the\u00a0suspects to be\u00a0judged in a court of law, quite obviously. And then, we\u00a0must minimize the risk of further attacks because the necessary support of\u00a0citizens will not\u00a0be possible\u00a0unless they feel reassured.<\/p>\n

But beyond this minimum of justice and security, how to deal with this increasingly multifaceted and borderless\u00a0terrorist threat?<\/strong>\u00a0If this horrible attack against satirical journalists and cartoonists is clearly an attack against freedom of expression and democracy, can we afford to call it a “declaration of war”, as some have not hesitated to do? Because how do\u00a0we spontaneously respond\u00a0to any declaration of war? All too often, alas, by the Pavlovian response of “going to war”! And it is precisely, in my opinion, the last thing to do!<\/p>\n

And why not declare war on\u00a0these “barbarians”, these “enemies of humanity”?<\/strong><\/p>\n