We wrote Borders and Comedy Central to challenge them to exercise that wonderful American freedom -- the freedom to change one's mind. That's what we did.
At first our local, family-owned daily newspaper came out strongly in favor of the freedom to print the Danish Mohammed cartoons -- but believed it unnecessary to publish them. Later on, Borders and then Comedy Central overlooked newspapers' stong editorial stand to see, instead, that newspapers like ours did not, themselves, print the cartoons. To correct any misunderstanding, we changed our mind and printed a new editorial with the Danish cartoons and others. See: Courage to stand up to thugs.
Democracy is powerful precisely because it allows continuous peaceful change -- so people can change their minds when they find a better way. Let's see Borders and Comedy Central change their minds and their unfortunate earlier decisions. Individual courageous decisions help freedom stand taller.
