Brigitte Bardot is being tried in France for nativist remarks she made in a letter to the newspaper. Will American defenders of socialism and hate crimes laws use this as another example of how wonderful and "progressive" Europe is today? Free speech as long as it is approved. Final exit on the road to serfdom?

Perhaps, we will see French writers who stand in opposition to the intellectual status quo adopting what Leo Strauss called, "a peculiar technique of writing, and therewith to a peculiar type of literature, in which the truth about all crucial things is presented exclusively between the lines."

At least on the 'Net, we will see more and more blogs emerge where dissidents can speak freely. Wait, are we talking about France, or China?

Frightening.

/KDR