Richard Landes will be giving talk tomorrow at the IDC in Herzliya on Muhammad al Durah. When France 2 got the announcement for the conference, they had their lawyers send the conference organizers one of "those letters." Landes posts all the info, and his response, here: France2 begins to sweat, tries to bully.
It's not good enough that Charles Enderlin and France 2 have had a monopoly on their rather significant portion of the bully pulpit of French media, they want to have a say in what other people talk about as well.
"Syme: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. You wouldn't have seen the [Newspeak] Dictionary 10th edition, would you Smith? It's that thick. [illustrates thickness with fingers] The 11th Edition will be that [narrows fingers] thick. Winston Smith: So, The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect? Syme: The secret is to move from translation, to direct thought, to automatic response. No need for self-discipline. Language coming from here [the larynx], not from here
[the brain]" -1984 (film)
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