Michael
Congratulations! in the old days a writer was honored if he stopped the presses so that his breaking news could be printed for the earliest possible edition. You have the eternal honor of stopping the delivery trucks because you described something too accurately. Also, I just have to express my amusement with the comment by dakelv above. It may seem, on the face of it, that his remark and its ultimate implication are so trivial and typify such pernicious, axe-grinding and its writer so uneducable that it would be a waste of time and energy to respond at all. However, I’d like to indulge it for a moment because there something to learned from it. It is, actually, a rather perfect, haiku-like portrait of what Richard Landes and I call demopathy. Demopathy. Of course this is just the sort of (the either cynical or unwitting use of the openness, laws, ideals and language of democratic societies to attempt to compromise, malign, damage or even overthrow that democratic society. An analogy: to imply that the U.S. is, in any way, more similar to the template of a fascist state than is China is a misunderstanding of the taxonomy so complete as to resemble looking at a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a triceratops and a modern man and say that the tyrannosaur and the man are the most alike because they are both bipedal.
Best,
YBM
