"A World Without Order Eventually Liberates All Restraints"

Back in February, at the peak of the Great Cartoon Riots of 2006, Glenn Reynolds wrote:

Once again, the message is that if you blow things up, or even look as if you might, we’ll be nice to you. And once again, I note that this is a very unwise message to send.

In an article by Cathy Seipp celebrating the tenth anniversary of a show that’s a riot of a cartoon, South Park’s producers echo Glenn’s instapoint:

Their philosophical position about the Mohammed cartoon is that a free society shouldn