Afghan bombing bigger crime than US terror attacks: Noam Chomsky

Yahoo (Singapore) ^ | November 11, 2001

[Diogenesis]

MIT at its lowest.

Chomsky should have learned about NUMBERS at MIT --- but did not.

[WesternPacific]

I have written a few papers on language and literacy development and have cringed when I have had to cite Noam in my references.

[jackbill]

Is this A$$hole still out of the country? Is there any way we can keep him from coming back in?

[zip]

sinkspur did NOT make a death threat. He just wanted to give him a present. You know, everyone needs some rope around the house sometimes.

It just sticks in your craw that you can't make the leftist statements that you want to make.

[ken21]

i hope that he's a better linguist than he is politician.

[wooly_mammoth]

No, that's a specific death threat and that's a felony. And I can post whatever I like, for example, the full transcript of the speech in question on this thread .

[Congressman Billybob]

David Horowitz rightly attacks Noam Chomsky as being a menace to American society, and to any and all students he comes in contact with at Harvard, The first error is in the use of the word "noted" to describe Chomsky. The proper word is "notorious."

Consider, for example, theologians. Billy Graham is "noted." Mullah Omar is "notorious." Get the point? It is a simple point, though someone like Chomsky whose life is driven by an abiding political prejudice, can never see such a simple point.

Congressman Billybob

[dpwiener]

Unfortunately Noam Chomsky is not an isolated voice at M.I.T. There are all too many like him, including those in the school's administration. That's a major reason why I consistently ignore M.I.T.'s frequent pitches for alumni donations.

[NC Conservative]

"Chomsky should move to France. Why does such a dirtbag remain in this contry?? He hates America so much."

He is an elitist douche bag. He knows there is no where else better to live than America. But as with all liberals, do as I say not as I do.

[dighton]

Devil take his latest lecture. I'm waiting for the end of his last one.

[cgbg]

I have a word for the linguist Chomsky:

Treason

His passport should be revoked so he can live the rest of his days dodging US bombs in third world countries.

[Senator Pardek]

I so shocked that Freepers get into such a tizzy over Chomsky's rants.

He not not a "has been", but a "never been". He has no experience in foreign policy whatsover. His opinions should be given the same regard as any physics or chem prof at MIT.

[Diogenez]

This is, of course, a lie.

It is obvious that Chomsky lies when you consider that most of the bombing has taken place over the last appx. 2 weeks and this has been directed overwhelmingly on the front of the Northern Alliance where the population, Uzbeks, Kazaks, Shias are of he same ethnic makeup as the NA troops and leaders. Nevertheless,the Northern Alliance leaders have pleaded with American contacts to increase the bombing in these areas which are populated their very own people! NA leaders, in fact ridiculed as puny and ineffective the American bombing being done as of 2 weeks ago.

In addition, fair-minded military experts will admit that the Taliban, for all their sanctimony about collateral injury, killed 10 to 20 times as many non-combatants with their own artillery and air attacks.

In the first week after D-Day, 18,000 French Civillians were killed and yet the Free French leaders urged the Allied Forces on.

It should be kept in mind that Chomsky is the marxist who denied that the Cambodian holocaust at the hands of the Khmer Rouge had even taken place and said that if it had happened, it amounted to nothing consequental.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

When Clinton picked his cabinet, how did he miss Chomsky ??

[rwt60]

I saw a great bumper sticker yesterday:

"If not for Pearl Harbor,
Hiroshima would have been unnecessary."

[sinkspur]

Making specific death threats against Jewish Institute Professors at MIT is bad for your health. Not to mention it being a felony.

So, get the honorable "Jewish professor" (I'm sure most Jews would renounce this cretin) to file charges.

I'll take my chances in a Texas courtroom.

[xm177e2]

You can't say, "let's hang him for treason," you have to say "let's put him on trial for treason and then, if convicted, let's give him the death penalty"

[Dan Day]

Here's an excellent debunking of Chomsky's alleged brilliance, by the eternally sensible David Horowitz: The Sick Mind of Noam Chomsky: Part II Method and Madness

[gfactor]

Aid and comfort?

Critique.

[alloysteel]

What, exactly, constitutes a "war crime"? Is this like a "hate crime", in that only certain people may be charged with it, and others are exempt automatically because of their status as an "oppressed minority"? The response of the US and the rest of the world is measured, judiciously applied, and at the moment limited, to the enormous hate crime that was perpetuated at the WTC and Pentagon on September 11.

Certainly, there is collateral damage. But the events of September 11 had no collateral damage. Every bit of the assault on America was planned, and all the recipients were guilty - nobody was supposed to be allowed to escape. Perhaps that is our "war crime", not staying in place and passively allowing ourselves to be destroyed. Somehow that option does not appeal to me, on any level.

Let's roll.