If Prof. Aan Dershowitz calls this the "Pearl Harbor" of NK's attack on our freedom of speech, then I do too.
North Korea’s apparent victory over this film is but a coming attraction of things to come. If hacking and threats can shut down a poorly reviewed comedy, they can also shut down newspapers, magazines, television stations, and other media. This then was the Pearl Harbor of a war that is just beginning.
Like all wars, there were preludes. The prelude for this one came in an unlikely location: Yale University. Several years ago, the Yale University Press published a book on the controversy surrounding the cartoons of Mohammad that had appeared in several Scandinavian newspapers and provoked violent responses….."
SEE the rest of Dershowitz's column linked.
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Capitulating to Terrorists Will Only Make Things Worse -- by Alan Dershowitz
Sony Hack: Capitulating to Terrorists, Censorship Makes Things Worse
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