What did that SPLC representative on KO say about some right winger's notion of grammar control?

[Fridays Child]

I was listening from an adjacent room and missed most of it.

[Kurovski]

1. He mentioned schizophrenia.

maybe someone hasit DVred.

[ananda]

2. It was Mark Potok...

... he says there is a fringe belief government uses grammar to control people.

[hlthe2b]

3. He mentioned the name of some conspiracy theorist pushing this...

No details were offered, but a name was given.

[justiceischeap]

4. David Icke I believe (eom)

[Duer 157099]

9. Icke was mentioned in relation to the dreaming, if I recall correctly n/t

[baldguy]

5. "Language: A Key Mechanism of Control"

Newt Gingrich's 1996 GOPAC memo

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4443.htm

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1276

[la la]

6. is this where frank luntz

got his start?

----or did he make up the 'list' for newt?

[SharonAnn]

7. I bleieve he made up the list for Newt and taught them how to use "Talking Points"

[PerpetuallyDazed]

8. Considering the kid's anti-authoritarian reading list, I'm not at all surprised a severe libertarian

type would make this argument. Referring to the "conscience dreaming" thing, the the SPLC guy mentioned David Icke.

[Duer 157099]

10. He was talking about David hyphen Wynn full colon Miller

http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2003/spring/full-colon-miller

"My name is David hyphen Wynn full colon Miller," the 53-year-old Milwaukean says, and the brows of his audience of 50 begin to furrow. This crowd of "Patriots" is used to conspiracy theories, but even at an event dominated by antigovernment ideology, Miller is tough going. "The reason I use a full colon and a hyphen in my name, the first full colon, which is full colon David, it means for the David hyphen Wynn. That's my given name, and it's also a noun, because it uses a prepositional phrase. ... Because I use prepositional phrases, through punctuation, which is classified as hieroglyphics, which makes me a life, l-i-f-e. Now, when you don't punctuate your name ... David is an adjective, Wynn is an adjective, Miller is a pronoun. Two adjectives are a condition of modification, opinion, presumption, which modifies the pronoun, pro means no on noun. So therefore, I'm not a fact. I'm a fiction."

More at the link above.

[Fridays Child]

12. Lordy! That guy makes absolutely no sense, whatsoever.

:crazy:

[Jamastiene]

11. I am not familiar with too many right wing crackpot conspiracy theories.

I tend to prefer left wing conspiracy theories because some of them actually make some sense.

Is this "grammar control" paranoia akin to their incessant (like a locked groove on an LP) gripes about "politically correct" terminology?