Am I Charlie?

I can not accept the death of the terrorists.

I woke up this morning with this thought, I struggled to see, read, hear, people accepting the death of murderers. I don't mean to rejoice, just accept it.
Death is not republican justice. Death is not justice at all, but the Republic must be exemplary, it must have no indulgence for itself. Justice would have been a trial. A trial in which the murderers were confronted with the consequences of their actions, a trial in which they would not have won their status as martyrs in the eyes of their supporters, a trial in which we would publicly explain the risk of religious and politic fundamentalism, a trial in which we could have known more about their networks, their history, the construction of the fundamentalist myth, just a trial.

I like to believe that the soldiers in the special intervention group who shoot the terrorists will not rejoice either of these deaths. I know they did their job by preventing terrorists renewing their crimes. But at the cost of human deaths, of persons they saw in front of them before firing, persons which will haunt them one day or another.
Mesrine, Merah, Kouachi and other examples of exceptional justice. When the Republic no longer fights its enemies by regular and it take the same weapons as them. And they win. They died, certainly, but they pushed the white knight to kill to defend his interdiction to kill. Or terrorize, I don't know what we defended yesterday. Exceptional justice is not justice.
I saw a cartoon where an hooded man said "you're dead" and a bullets riddled Charb [one of the cartoonist, director of Charlie Hebdo] replied, "Yes, but I won". The argument was that killing a man make his ideas stronger. This morning I didn't seen the same cartoon with a bullets riddled jihadist, while his death reinforces his status as a martyr.

How many journalists evoke the "war" against fundamentalism today? The weapons of justice, of the Republic, of the freedom of thought, should not be the same as those of their offenders.
How many journalists evoke the "war" against the financialization today? Yet I can not help but make the connection between the world we let build, in our names, made on injustice inequality hatred, and the consequences we suffer by becoming (against our aim) the enemies of the enemies of the finance.
These are two forms of terror oppressing us, one we don't fight, why?


These men also had family, maybe just parents. Parents who certainly had not educated their children to take up arms one day *. Parents who do not have the right to be in mourning because their children died for having committed an inexcusable crime. But they were their children. I can't, I don't want to understand the pain of a parent who loose a child, whatever the conditions. Even if they would have disowned them, they were their children.


*: To arms citizens, Form your battalions, Walk walk, Let impure blood Water our furrows.
You recognized the song. You find the terrorists were in a dynamic of violence? What do you think about the dynamic in which you are? The French Republic is a beautiful promise, but it also promises the blood. The blood of the "impure", the blood of all those who don't share the same ideas as its representatives.


Last days I often said that "I'm not Charlie" for a bunch of reasons. Or, if I'm Charlie, I'm also Kouachi and I don't like it.
Being Charlie because they died, isn't it too late? Why not have financially supported the newspaper before, by subscribing, if their presence is so important for your freedom of expression? Why not financially support other newspapers, equaly in trouble, equaly holding the freedom of expression? Charlie Hebdo which was bankrupt, L'Humanité [communist newspaper] which is also in bankrupt and where part of the Charlie Hebdo's team was writing and drawing, Minute [neo-fascist newspaper] which is also in trouble, which is also an holder of the freedom of expression, even if I think this expression is nauseous, if you want to fight for the freedom of expression you have to fight also to fund this newspaper.
Millions have been Charlie this week, how many have subscribed to Charlie? And how many to Minute?
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