Noam Chomsky
Al Shelton
> Vol. 2 #9 Thursday, September 27, 2001 David Horowitz
>
> The Ayatollah
> of Anti-American Hate
>
> THE GURU OF THE CAMPUS LEFT: The most devious, the most dishonest and --
in this hour of his nation's grave crisis - the most treacherous
intellect
in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses
that
have mounted "teach-ins" and rallies against America's right to defend
herself; on the streets of Genoa and Seattle where "anti-globalist"
anarchists have attacked the symbols of markets and world trade; among
the
demonstrators at Vieques who wish to deny our military its training
grounds;
and wherever young people manifest an otherwise incomprehensible rage
against their country, the inspirer of their loathing and the
instructor of
their hate is most likely this man.
>
> There are many who ask how it is possible that our most privileged and
educated youth should come to despise their own nation - a free, open,
democratic society -- and to do so with such ferocious passion. They
ask how
it is possible for American youth to even consider lending comfort and
aid
to the Osama bin Ladens and the Saddam Husseins (and the Communists
before
them). A full answer would involve a search of the deep structures of
the
human psyche, and its irrepressible longings for a redemptive
illusion. But
the short answer is to be found in the speeches and writings of an
embittered academic and his intellectual supporters.
>
> AMERICA IS THE GREAT SATAN: For forty years Noam Chomsky has turned out
book after book, pamphlet after pamphlet and speech after speech with
one
message, and one message alone: America is the Great Satan; it is the
fount
of evil in the world. In Chomsky's demented universe, America is
responsible
not only for its own bad deeds, but for the bad deeds of others,
including
those of the terrorists who struck the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon.
In this attitude he is the medium for all those who now search the
ruins of
Manhattan not for the victims and the American dead, but for the "root
causes" of the catastrophe that befell them.
>
> One little pamphlet of Chomsky's -- What Uncle Sam Really Wants - has
already sold 160,000 copies, but this represents only the tip of the
Chomsky iceberg. His venomous message is spread on tapes and CDs, and
the
campus lecture circuit; he is promoted at rock concerts by superstar
bands
such as Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and U-2 (whose lead
singer Bono
called Chomsky a "rebel without a pause"). He is the icon of Hollywood
stars
like Matt Damon whose genius character in the Academy Award film Good
Will
Hunting is made to invoke Chomsky as the go to authority for political
insight.
>
> According to the Chicago Tribune, Noam Chomsky is "the most often cited
living author. Among intellectual luminaries of all eras, Chomsky
placed
eighth, just behind Plato and Sigmund Freud." On the web there are
more chat
room references to Noam Chomsky than to Vice President Dick Cheney and
10
times as many as there are to Democratic congressional leaders Richard
Gephardt and Tom Daschle. This is because Chomsky is also the
political
mentor of the academic left, the legions of Sixties radicals who have
entrenched themselves in American universities to indoctrinate
students in
their anti-American creeds. The New York Times calls Chomsky "arguably
the
most important intellectual alive," and Rolling Stone - which
otherwise does
not even acknowledge the realm of the mind -- "one of the most
respected and
influential intellectuals in the world."
>
> In fact Chomsky's influence is best understood not as that of an
intellectual figure, but as the leader of a secular religious cult --
as the
ayatollah of anti-American hate. This cultic resonance is recognized
by his
followers. His most important devotee, David Barsamian, is an obscure
public
radio producer on KGNU in Boulder Colorado, who has created a library
of
Chomsky screeds on tape from interviews he conducted with the master,
and
has converted them into pamphlets and books as well. In the
introduction to
one such offering, Barsamian describes Chomsky's power over his
disciples:
"Although decidedly secular, he is for many of us our rabbi, our
preacher,
our rinpoche, our pundit, our imam, our sensei."
>
> THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT: Chomsky's theology is Manichean with America as
its evil principle. For Chomsky no evil however great can exceed that
of
America, and America is also the cause of evil in others. This is the
key to
the mystery of September 11: The devil made them do it. In every one
of the
150 shameful demonstrations that took place on America's campuses on
September 20, these were the twin themes of those who agitated to
prevent
America from taking up arms in her self-defense: America is
responsible for
the "root causes" of this criminal attack; America has done worse to
others.
>
> In his first statement on the terrorist attack, Chomsky's response to
Osama bin Laden's calculated strike on a building containing 50,000
innocent
human beings was to eclipse it with an even greater atrocity he was
confident he could attribute to former president Bill Clinton.
Chomsky's
infamous September 12 statement "On the Bombings" began:
>
> The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach
the level of many others, for example, Clinton's bombing of the Sudan
with
no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and
killing
unknown numbers of people (no one knows, because the US blocked an
inquiry
at the UN and no one cares to pursue it).
>
> Observe the syntax. The opening reference to the actual attacks is clipped
and bloodless, a kind of rhetorical throat clearing for Chomsky to get
out
of the way, so that he can announce the real subject of his concern -
America's crimes. The accusation against Clinton is even slipped into
the
text, weasel fashion, as though it were a modifier, when it is
actually the
substantive message itself. It is a message that says: Look away,
America,
from the injury that has been done to you, and contemplate the
injuries you
have done to them. It is in this sleight of hand that Chomsky reveals
his
true gift, which is to make the victim, America, appear as an even
more
heinous perpetrator than the criminal himself. However bad this may
seem,
you have done worse.
>
> In point of fact - and just for the record -- however ill-conceived Bill
Clinton's decision to launch a missile into the Sudan, it was not
remotely
comparable to the World Trade Center massacre. It was, in its very
design,
precisely the opposite -- a defensive response that attempted to
minimize
casualties. Clinton's missile was launched in reaction to the blowing
up of
two of our African embassies, the murder of hundreds of innocent
people and
the injury to thousands, mostly African civilians. It was designed
with
every precaution possible to prevent the loss of innocent life. The
missile
was fired at night, so that no one would be in the building when it
was hit.
The target was selected because the best information available
indicated it
was not a pharmaceutical factory, but a factory producing biological
weapons. Chomsky's use of this incident to diminish the monstrosity of
the
terrorist attack is a typical Chomsky maneuver, an accurate measure of
his
instinctive mendacity, and an index of the anti-American dementia,
which
infuses everything he writes and says.
>
> IMPERIALIST AMERICA: This same psychotic hatred shapes the "historical"
perspective he offered to his disciples in an interview conducted a
few days
after the World Trade Center bombing. It was intended to present
America as
the devil incarnate - and therefore a worthy target of attack for the
guerilla forces of "social justice" all over the world. This was the
first
time America itself - or as Chomsky put it the "national territory" --
had
been attacked since the War of 1812. Pearl Harbor doesn't count in
Chomsky's
calculus because Hawaii was a "colony" at the time. The fact that it
was a
benignly run colony and that it is now a proud state of the Union
counts for
nothing, of course, in Chomsky's eyes.
>
> During these years [i.e., between 1812 and 1941], the US annihilated the
indigenous population (millions of people), conqered half of Mexico,
intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii and
the
Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and in the
past
half century particularly, extended its resort to force throughout
much of
the world. The number of victims is colossal. For the first time, the
guns
have been directed the other way. That is a dramatic change.
>
> Listening to Chomsky, you can almost feel the justice of Osama bin Laden's
strike on the World Trade Center.
>
> NAZI AMERICA: If you were one of the hundreds of thousands of young people
who had been exposed to his propaganda - and the equally vile
teachings of
his academic disciples - you too would be able to extend your outrage
against America into the present.
>
> Ø According to Chomsky, in the first battle of the postwar struggle with
the Soviet Empire, "the United States was picking up where the Nazis
had
left off."
>
> Ø According to Chomsky, during the Cold War, American operations behind
the Iron Curtain included "a 'secret army' under US-Nazi auspices that
sought to provide agents and military supplies to armies that had been
established by Hitler and which were still operating inside the Soviet
Union
and Eastern Europe through the early 1950s."
>
> Ø According to Chomsky, in Latin America during the Cold War, U.S. support
for legitimate governments against Communist subversion led to US
complicity
under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, in "the methods of Heinrich
Himmler's extermination squads."
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> Ø According to Chomsky, there is "a close correlation worldwide between
torture and U.S. aid."
>
> Ø According to Chomsky, America "invaded" Vietnam to slaughter its people,
and even after America left in 1975, under Jimmy Carter and Ronald
Reagan,
"the major policy goal of the US has been to maximize repression and
suffering in the countries that were devastated by our violence. The
degree
of the cruelty is quite astonishing."
>
> Ø According to Chomsky, "the pretext for Washington's terrorist wars
[i.e., in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chile, Guatemala, Iraq, etc.] was
self-defense, the standard official justification for just about any
monstrous act, even the Nazi Holocaust."
>
> Ø In sum, according to Chomsky, "legally speaking, there's a very solid
case for impeaching every American president since the Second World
War.
They've all been either outright war criminals or involved in serious
war
crimes."
>
> What decent, caring human being would not want to see America and its war
criminals brought to justice?
>
> According to Chomsky, what America really wants is to steal from the poor
and give to the rich. America's crusade against Communism was actually
a
crusade "to protect our doctrine that the rich should plunder the
poor."
That is why we busied ourselves in launching a new crusade against
terrorism
after the end of the Cold War:
>
> Of course, the end of the Cold War brings its problems too. Notably, the
technique for controlling the domestic population has to had to shift…
New
enemies have to be invented. It becomes hard to disguise the fact that
the
real enemy has always been 'the poor who seek to plunder the rich' -
in
particular, Third World miscreants who seek to break out of the
service
role.
>
> NO WONDER THEY WANT TO BOMB US: According to Chomsky, America is afraid of
the success of Third World countries and does not want them to succeed
on
their own. Those who threaten to succeed like the Marxist governments
of
North Vietnam, Nicaragua and Granada America regards as viruses.
According
to Chomsky, during the Cold War, "except for a few madmen and nitwits,
none
feared [Communist] conquest - they were afraid of a positive example
of
successful development. "What do you do when you have a virus? First
you
destroy it, then you inoculate potential victims, so that the disease
does
not spread. That's basically the US strategy in the Third World." .
>
> No wonder they want to bomb us.
>
> Schooled in these big lies, taught to see America as Greed Incarnate and a
political twin of the Third Reich, why wouldn't young people -- with
no
historical memory - come to believe that the danger ahead lies in
Washington
rather than Baghdad or Kabul?
>
> It would be easy to demonstrate how on every page of every book and in
every statement that Chomsky has written the facts are twisted, the
political context is distorted (and often inverted) and the historical
record is systematically traduced. Every piece of evidence and every
analysis is subordinated to the overweening purpose of Chomsky's
lifework,
which is to justify an idée fixe -- his pathological hatred of his own
country.
>
> It would take volumes, however, to do this and there really is no need.
Because every Chomsky argument exists to serve this end, a fact
transparent
in each offensive and preposterous claim he makes. Hence, the
invidious
comparison of Clinton's misguided missile and the monstrous World
Trade
Center attack.
>
> THE MIND OF THE LEFT: In fact the Trade Center and the Pentagon targets of
the terrorists present a real political problem for American leftists,
like
Chomsky, who know better than to celebrate an event that is the almost
predictable realization of their agitations and their dreams. The
destroyed
buildings are the very symbols of the American empire with which they
have
been at war for fifty years. In a memoir published on the eve of the
attack,
the 60s American terrorist Bill Ayers, recorded his joy at striking
one of
these very targets: "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I
bombed the
Pentagon. The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards
were
finally going to get what was coming to them." In the wake of
September 11,
Ayers - a "Distinguished Professor of Education[!] at the University
of
Chicago -had to feverishly backtrack and explain that these revealing
sentiments of an "anti-war" leftist do not mean what they obviously
do.
Claiming to be "filled with horror and grief," Ayers attempted to
reinterpret his terrorist years as an effort to explore his own
struggle
with "the intricate relationships between social justice, commitment
and
resistance."
>
> Chomsky is so much Ayers' superior at the lie direct that he works the
same denial into his account of the World Trade Center bombing itself.
Consider first the fact that the Trade Center is the very symbol of
American
capitalism and "globalization" that Chomsky and his radical comrades
despise. It is Wall Street, its twin towers filled on that fateful day
with
bankers, brokers, international traders, and corporate lawyers - the
hated
men and women of the "ruling class," who - according to Chomsky - run
the
global order. The twin towers are palace of the Great Satan himself -
they
are the belly of the beast, the object of Chomsky's lifelong righteous
wrath. But he is too clever and too cowardly to admit it. He knows
that in
the hour of the nation's grief the fact itself is a third rail he must
avoid. And so he dismisses the very meaning of the terrorists target
in
these words:
>
> The primary victims, as usual, were working people: janitors, secretaries,
firemen, etc. It is likely to be a crushing blow to Palestinians and
other
poor and oppressed people.
>
> Chomsky's deception which attempts to erase the victims who were not
merely "janitors, secretaries, firemen, etc.," tells us more than we
might
care to know about his own standard of human concern.
>
> ADVOCATING SABOTAGE: That concern is exclusively reserved for the
revolutionary forces of his Manichean vision, the Third World
oppressed by
American evil. Chomsky's message to his disciples in this country, the
young
on our college campuses, the radicals in our streets, the moles in our
government offices, is a message of action and therefore needs to be
attended to, even by those who will never read his rancid works. To
those
who believe his words of hate, Chomsky has this instruction:
>
> The people of the Third World need our sympathetic understanding and, much
more than that, they need our help. We can provide them with a margin
of
survival by internal disruption in the United States. Whether they can
succeed against the kind of brutality we impose on them depends in
large
part on what happens here.
>
> This is the voice of the Fifth Column left. Disruption in this country is
what the terrorists want, and what the terrorists need, and what the
followers of Noam Chomsky intend to give them.
>
> In his address before Congress on September 19, President Bush reminded
us: "We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the
murderous
ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve
their
radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power,
they
follw in the path of fascism, Nazism and totalitarianism. And they
will
follow that path all the way to where it ends in history's unmarked
grave of
discarded lies."
>
> President Bush was talking about the terrorists and their sponsors abroad.
But he might just as well have been talking about their fifth column
allies
at home.
>
> It's time for Americans who love their country to stand up, and defend it.
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Lonnie Courtney Clay
> This is a copy of a message that was sent to me by a friend:
>
>
>
>
> > Vol. 2 #9 Thursday, September 27, 2001 David Horowitz
> >
> > The Ayatollah
> > of Anti-American Hate
> >
> > THE GURU OF THE CAMPUS LEFT: The most devious, the most dishonest and --
> in this hour of his nation's grave crisis - the most treacherous
> intellect
> in America belongs to MIT professor Noam Chomsky. On the 150 campuses
> that
> > President Bush was talking about the terrorists and their sponsors abroad.
> But he might just as well have been talking about their fifth column
> allies
> at home.
> >
> > It's time for Americans who love their country to stand up, and defend it.
> ***************************************************
>
> The Mad Trapper is nothing more than a voice crying out in the Wilderness.
>
> www.alshelton.com
If you have a clever little product called Anagram Genius, then you
will immediately see that "Chomsky" is an anagram for :
Mock Shy, My shock, My hocks, Hy mocks etc.
In other words, perhaps he is the Devil's hoof himself and is
projecting his own persona on America. Of course if you run the
program on my own name then you will see some rather amusing and or
unflattering things there too! I assure you all that "I only want to
HELP" you........
LCC - in exile from his favorite forum for telling jokes to the sober
BTL62768
>America,
Sorry, couldn't read anymore. I don't think that this person understands N.C.
at all because all of his books and minor writings that I've read as well as
several appearances on cspan suggest just the opposite-- i.e. examine yourself
more closely. Although, I have to admit that I haven't followed him in the
past 3 years. I've found him to be a very nice balance to the bs fed to us
via the corporated gov media machinces. I don't always agree with him but he
is a very important componenet of our free society in that he takes the
time(albeit via research assistants whom I've personally known) to actually
research policies and procedures of our government/society. I really wouldn't
classify him as a "student left" but actually more of a centrist anarchist.