Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Inexplicable ‘Attack’ On Civil Liberties ‘Goes Well Beyond Anything’ Imagined

MEDIAite ^ | 4/28/2013 | Andrew Kirell

[Beave Meister]

In an interview with AlterNet this past week, America’s most well-known left-wing intellectual slammed President Obama for his inexplicable “attacks” on civil liberties in the forms of various laws expanding upon the executive powers set forth by President George W. Bush.

Speaking with the liberal blog’s Mike Stivers, Chomsky expressed dissatisfaction with the current president’s record on civil liberties: “I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors. The one thing that did surprise me is his attack on civil liberties. They go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don’t seem easy to explain.”

For an example of Obama’s civil liberties abuses, Chomsky cited Holder vs. Humanitarian Law Project, in which the administration petitioned the Supreme Court to put an end to legal groups giving any “material assistance” — including advice to turn nonviolent — to terrorist organizations.

[GlockThe Vote]

Spare me Noam!!!! Many of us knew Obama was a police state communist tyrant from Day 1.

However - welcome to the party - better late than never.

[Slyfox]

[Darksheare]

Whatever happened to that idiot waaaay back in the dark ages of the forum who used to use Chomsky as a source and quoted him all the time?
I can’t recall the handle anymore, it’s been that long ago.
*lol*

Must be getting old!

But at any rate, that idiot was the entire reason I made the following quote:
“Reading Noam Chomsky is like passing a bladder stone. A lot of angst, a lot of wiggling, some pulsing anguish, and in the end producing nothing useful to anyone.”