SURE, TAKE OUT YOUR FRUSTRATIONS AND ANXIETY ON FOX, THEY WON’T BEHEAD YOU: Paris mayor threatens to sue Fox for insulting Paris and injuring its honor (with ‘no-go zones’).

If you want to further “prejudice” the “image” of Paris — and France more generally — in the United States, it’s hard to imagine a better means than by suing it on these grounds. Instead of being seen as a city that was incorrectly accused of having “no-go zones,” Paris will be seen as a city that tries to use its country’s speech-restrictive laws (again, assuming French laws authorize such a claim) to go after foreign media. Big improvement!

And that’s especially so given the obvious implications of such a lawsuit: Imagine a world in which governments whose “honor” and “image” has supposedly been “prejudiced” by allegedly false statements start trying to impose legal consequences on the speakers — with the decisions about truth or falsity made by the legal system of the very country that was supposedly dishonored (or the capital of which was supposedly dishonored). Can’t say that this is a wise proposal on the Paris mayor’s part.

Funny, I could have sworn that there were a lot of people marching for free speech in Paris recently.