Well, L, ya pays your money and ya takes yer choice as far as beliefs about the world are concerned.

I believe there are fundamentals that are more global than others. The common good of the species is far more global a concern than the rightness or wrongness of individual or partisan metaphysics.

I think anyone who presumes to say that God is on any side in a human division of force is a fool or a liar or both.

I believe in tolerance of speech and action and the sovereignty of the individual in choosing to believe as he deems fit.

I believe that when those freedoms encroach on and violate the survival of others that adjustments must be made in human affairs, including the adjustments of negotiation, education, PR, and where necessary, control to prevent the wider harm.

Any group that escalates their grievances to violent destruction of innocent individuals -- meaning innocent of individual actions, not thinking the wrong thoughts -- as has occurred in this instance must be brought back within the framework of decent human limits either by communication, by control, or by force.

It is by their actions and products that people weigh in to the arena of human exchange, in the final analysis. In this case the actions were murderous, massively so. That's what the secret knights of the Quesadilla have placed on the table. Let justifications, explanations, antecedents, rationalizations evaporate and a spade be named a spade. Murder is on the table.

Where do we go from here?