Tag: noam chomsky

:raised eyebrow: Why on Earth WOULD the CIA spy on Noam Chomsky?

I mean, honestly: what’s the point?

For years, the Central Intelligence Agency denied it had a secret file on MIT professor and famed dissident Noam Chomsky. But a new government disclosure obtained by The Cable reveals for the first time that the agency did in fact gather records on the anti-war iconoclast during his heyday in the 1970s.

The disclosure also reveals that Chomsky’s entire CIA file was scrubbed from Langley’s archives, raising questions as to when the file was destroyed and under what authority.

Were they spying on somebody relevant at the time that just hung around Chomsky? – That would make sense: God knows that the antiwar movement has always been a hotbed of subversion, sedition, foreign espionage, and general hatred of Western Civilization in general and the United States of America in particular. Continue reading :raised eyebrow: Why on Earth WOULD the CIA spy on Noam Chomsky?

#rsrh Noam Chomsky is remarkably ignorant…

…about Native Americans, apparently:

It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes “Jew” and “Gypsy.”

Not to mention the US Army, but we knew that already.  I can only assume that it’s due to his being steeped in the deeply parochial and insular culture that is Western academia: if he had more extensive life experience then he’d know that the Army honors Native American nations by naming its military helicopter classes after them, and makes it a point to have representatives of said nations participate in solemn rituals involving those helicopters.   The next example of same will take place in May of 2011, involving Lakota Light Utility Helicopters; as the link shows, representatives of the Oglala Sioux Nation…

– that’s a Native American nation associated with the Lakota, Chomsky; I only mention this elementary detail since you apparently don’t know anything about the original inhabitants of this continent –

…have been involved as respected participants in the acquisition of the helicopters from the beginning.  And why should they not be respected?  Their ancestors were brave men and women and renowned warriors, and their descendants have shown – REPEATEDLY – that they have not forgotten how to fight with valor and skill; it is no insult to honor their nations by naming our war machines after them.

(pause)

That made absolutely no sense to you at all, Chomsky?  Well, it was your choice to so thoroughly isolate yourself from your country, not mine.

Moe Lane

PS: What?  Oh, yes, the rest of the article was equally ignorant.