Your Danish Cartoons Hangover Update

* this seems a fine summary article on the main political takeaway for many from one-time plotter against Jyllands-Posten David Coleman Headley's testimony to Indian officials about the nature of his advance work for the 2008 Mumbai shootings: basically, that the Pakistani spy apparatus was deeply involved in the planning of the attack.

* I totally missed this, but I guess Zachary Chesser pleaded guilty to charges of making threats related to April's South Park episode featuring Muhammed, along with other charges of communicating with international terrorist organizations. Ironically, I would imagine there are free speech advocates that might feel uncomfortable about criminal charges that could be argued relate to language and expression. Any way you want to look at the result, it's no secret that Chesser has danced like a drunk uncle at a wedding right on that line between outright making threats and being an unctuous, inflammatory douchebag for quite some time now. That a plea was made suggests a certain orientation towards those actions that by itself a conviction might have side-stepped.

* the ultimate fallout from the atmosphere of fear generated by people like Chesser in the case of that South Park episode was the fade from public view of Seattle cartoonist Molly Norris. Matt Welch kidney-punches journalistic organizations for not being more invested in the story.
 
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