If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president
would have been hanged.
https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
Noam Chomsky - The Crimes of U.S. Presidents
http://youtu.be/NdD9uSrNFT4
Ever hear of VICTOR'S JUSTICE?
As for Chomsky, before long he'll be fleeing the
country before his own neck gets stretched...
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The Monomania of an Anti-American Prophet
by Jonathan Kay
MAY 12, 2011
The world is full of anti-American prophets. Yet none is quite so
influential, and maddeningly odd, as Noam Chomsky. On one hand, no other
living scholar is cited as often or widely. On the other hand, his
commentaries on public issues are so twisted and offensive that they appear
in publications such as Guernica, the self-described “magazine of art &
politics” that no one had never heard of before Chomsky used it as a forum
for his now-infamous May 6 essay, “My reaction to Osama bin Laden’s death.”
The most jaw-dropping statement in that article was that “we might ask
ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W.
Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic.” But
Chomsky said some other bizarre things too.
Notably, the MIT linguist emphasized that bin Laden was only a “suspect” in
the 9/11 attacks, and then, after some historical meandering, added: “There
is much talk of bin Laden’s ‘confession,’ but that is rather like my
confession that I won the Boston Marathon. He boasted of what he regarded as
a great achievement.” These words have appalled just about every sensible
person, including Alan Dershowitz, who wrote on Wednesday: “Noam Chomsky has
shown his true colors. . . . He apparently thinks Osama Bin Laden is the
innocent victim of a cold-blooded murder. . . . If Bin Laden and Al Qaeda
were not responsible for 9/11, who was?”
It so happens that I asked Noam Chomsky exactly this question two years ago,
when I was doing research for my recently published book about 9/11
conspiracy theorists, Among The Truthers.
Chomsky-haters might assume that their bête noire is a hero within the “9/11
Truth Movement” (as the Bush-did-it crowd call themselves). In fact, the
exact opposite is true.
I learned this the hard way at a 911 Truther event in Montreal in early
2009. (The speaker that night was Richard Gage, the head of a group called
“Architects & Engineers for 911 Truth.”) When a fellow in the crowd
mentioned Chomsky’s name during the Q&A, the cascade of catcalls was
extraordinary. I later found out that Chomsky is reviled by conspiracy
theorists because he refuses to use his intellectual fame to back their
cause. They call Chomsky the dean of the “Left Gatekeepers”—and some have
written lengthy tracts arguing that he is secretly an agent of right-wing
corporate agents seeking to suppress the “truth” about 9/11. In at least one
case that I have confirmed, a leading 9/11 Truther called Chomsky’s personal
residence at 2:00 in the morning to challenge him on his views.
None of this serves to excuse the vile nonsense that Chomsky wrote in his
Guernica essay. But it does put his views about 9/11 into context. He is not
some garden-variety conspiracy theorist. Rather, he might better be
described as a hard-boiled anti-American monomaniac who simply refuses to
believe anything that any American leader says, whether on the subject of
9/11 or anything else.
When I asked Chomsky in 2009 about what he believes actually happened on
September 11, 2001, he told me what he tells every Truther who’s come
calling. He doesn’t realty think about the issue much, and he finds the
obsessions of 9/11 Truthers to be a distraction from American crimes (as he
describes them) that are far more serious than the destruction of the World
Trade Center.
This is how Chomsky put it to a relentless 9/11 Truther who engaged him in a
lengthy email debate on the issue:
Suppose that the government demolished WTC and lied about it. That would
rank so low among [official American lies] that it would take some work even
to go down the list to find it. Consider the lies that led to the massacre
of perhaps 4-million people in Indochina and the destruction of three
countries (not to speak of creating the Khmer Rouge). Or the lies that led
to acquiescence in Reaganite terror, leaving some 200,000 tortured and
mutilated bodies in Central America and four countries ruined, perhaps
forever; along with 1.5 million corpses in the countries subjected to
Reagan-backed South African depredations; and on, and on. Or … consider one
of the very minor peccadilloes and lies of leaders, [Bill] Clinton’s
destruction of most of the pharmaceutical industry in a poor African (mostly
Muslim) country, with an estimated tens of thousands dead—small by our
standards.
Noam Chomsky understandably drives his critics crazy. Yet he himself never
seems to get angry, perhaps because he is so absolutely sure of his
position. Even in his online email debates with conspiracy
theorists—including one exchange I’ve seen that extends to 15,000-words—he
exhibits the patience of Job, going back to his main thesis over and over
again, long after ordinary souls would have thrown their hands up in
exasperation and put their Truther correspondents on auto-delete.
And what is his main thesis? As the catalogue above indicates, it is this.
In every historical episode in which the Americans have projected state
power, the overall death toll must be laid at Washington’s door; and,
moreover, should be treated as an intended (or at least predictable)
consequence of American leaders who are either full-blown murderers or so
recklessly indifferent to human life as to be morally indistinguishable from
them. Chomsky’s entire career as a commentator on foreign affairs consists
of building this catalogue in his mind—a catalogue that he rattles off with
an idiot savant’s precision at the drop of a hat, and to which, apparently,
Osama bin Laden’s death now has been added. Nowhere is there any indication
that this list-maker pays much attention to the opposite side of the
ledger—the millions upon millions of lives saved, either from death or
slavery at the hands of totalitarian forces, in the fight against the Soviet
Union and the more modern Islamist threat.
Nor does he seem to pay any regard to the freedom won in these
struggles—freedom that allows people like him, and crackpot conspiracy
theorists as well, to shout bloody murder at their government without any
fear that SEAL Team 6 will invade the MIT campus and carry his body away.
Chomsky’s reaction to bin Laden’s death isn’t something new. It follows a
pattern of monomania he has traced for decades. The only surprise is that
anyone is still surprised.
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/american-society/dems-oppose-executive-order-targeting-political-speech/
