Cave Markings

I'm trying to sort this one out.  When the law of the land is inhumane, who's fault is it?  I believe the person that opened the valve on the poison gas at Auschwitz is a culpable as Adolph Hitler for the deaths of innocent people.  If a person igonres the humanity of another, it is that individuals fault, not their religion, or any other excuse they offer.  At least, that's what I think this morning.

++Alan

I’m a bit put out today.  I am exposed daily to information that offends me.  It may be news about my government breaking the law to violate my privacy.  It could be the obscene quarterly profits announcement of a Mega-Corp.  These things can annoy and sometimes even anger me. 

I’m not immune to being offended when someone criticizes my religion.  The Episcopal Church has received plenty of misleading, inaccurate and just plain bad press in the last two years.  Why does this matter?  I don’t attack someone’s embassy when they offend me.  I don’t assume that I have the one true perspective and anyone that disagrees with my way of seeing the world should die.

If you are Muslim and offended by these cartoons, I apologize.  I don’t generally seek to insult people.  If you are Muslim, and think I should die for posting them on my personal website, well then you can kiss my White Anglo-Saxon Protestant ass.

Cheers,

++Alan

[Update]  Follow these links for more info:

http://memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD108806

Rioting with well-planned spontaneity

We are all Danes now

My favorite so far, with high quality versions of the cartoons:
Mohammed Image Archive

http://www.sorrynorwaydenmark.com/

I did it.  I allowed myself to be assimilated, and I have no regrets.  Maybe it’s because I’m approaching forty.  Maybe my values have changed since college, or at least I hope they have.    Monday, January 9, 2006, after completing a six month stint as a contractor, I started as a full-time employee of a defense contractor.  We develop software specifically for the Department of Defense, and we do it very well. 

The company is DPRA Incorporated.  I work for the Defense Systems Group, or as a co-worker calls it “The Developer’s Paradise.”  DSG is run by a