"What happened to the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo was reprehensible, and we should unite in opposition to any attempt to suppress free speech. We should likewise support measures designed to limit such attacks in the future—but not at the expense of liberty, for as Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”The co-workers of those killed at Charlie Hebdo chose the proper course of action in response to the barbaric murder of their associates. Rather than cowering in fear or radically changing their behavior, as terrorists hope to accomplish, they decided to continue—and even increase—publication. They, unlike most Americans, refused to surrender their freedom in pursuit of safety."
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