response 375 of 432:

Feb 21 16:55 UTC 2006

Get this straight.  The ONLY organizations that have a _responsibility_
to republish the cartoons are press organizations whose role is to
inform their customers about the causes and nature of this issue.  To
republish them in the absence of such a responsibility, even simply as a
symbolic statement supporting the freedom of speech and of the press, is
irresponsible and offensive and reflective of a narrow and parochial
mindset. 

There are lots of ways to protest innapropriate limits on freedom of
speech (that includes the freedom to offend), but to offend on principle
and without reservation solely to make the point that being offensive i
that particular way is acceptable to you is ignorant in the extreme,
especially if you would admonish someone for similarly offending you and
your beliefs just to show that they can or have the right to.

I don't think it was at all apropriate of the Jyllens-Posten to solicit
and publish these cartoons originally, but I do think it entirely
appropriate once the response gathered steam that other news agencies
republished them to inform their constituencies about the conflict and
its causes.  Grex has no such role or responsibility, and for Grex to
republish these cartoons would be an act of unvarnished affrontery which
serves no justifiable real or symbolic purpose.