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In the picture, there was a quotation from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

"If thou art privy to thy country's fate,
Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid. O, speak!" -- Horatio

The terrorists are planning to kill the cartoonists. Anyone who knows about this vile plot, and when it will happen, should not hold their tongue.

It is drinking, not free speech, that Hamlet believed was a custom more honor'd in the breach than in the observance. I have no doubt that if Hamlet were free to say all he could, the play would have been longer and we would be more delighted, more aching to know that which Hamlet had no time to say.

"You that look pale and tremble at this chance,
That are but mutes or audience to this act,
Had I but time--as this fell sergeant, death,
Is strict in his arrest--O, I could tell you--
But let it be."

So let the Danes live, write, and speak freely!