"Euro newspapers, not countries, warrant support"

I am 60 years old, am I "Too late to the party" (March 10)? In stating that the decision by Paul Kurtz to publish the Muhammad cartoons is wrong, the Spectrum is missing the point. The cartoons are not being published under a guise of "freedom of speech. In my estimation they are "firing a shot" across the bow of the good ship Fanatic. Commentary or criticism of the actions of Fanatics who burn, injure, destroy or kill is never untimely, nor does it ever ring hollow. The "inflamation" that the Spectrum speaks of is in the heads of the cartoon protestors. It is also not a matter of adding anything new to the debate, it is a matter of keeping the lanes of information about the incidents open.

Certainly, any argument "holds more weight" when an incident initially happens. In a culture where the corporate media holds sway, and facts and circumstances are often lacking however, it is even more imperative that arguments get stage at all.

There is no "window" of positive impact in a culture where we are all fed a diet of pre-digested news. It is true that anyone can look up the cartoons on the Internet, but could one look up the cartoons in the mainstream media? I believe there is accompanying articles to go with the publishing of the cartoons, so that there is some attention paid to the written content of the subject What independent news service, including The Spectrum, could not use a little "publicity"?

Talking about European nations' laws that punish deniers of the Holocaust, certainly a horrific event, is really a case of "apples mixed with oranges". It hardly seems relevant as well to speak of the irrelevancy of the cartoon's in light of what the protestors are continuing to do...the violence and protest has not stopped as of this writing. It is precisely the expertise of secular humanism that derives a conclusion that fanaticism that leads to extreme violence is wrong. It is also curious to this writer how the Spectrum arrived at its "conclusions" since the articles have not yet been published, the magazine has not yet "hit the streets".