-- James A. Donald:
It would take you [Justin Schwartz] years to check five hundred Chomsky citations. His citations are at best obscure and hard to find, at worst impossible to find.
At 09:41 PM 10/5/2000 -0400, snit wrote:
look, digslug, Justin Schwartz is an oxford-trained, yale-trained scholar, now a lawyer with the seventh circuit. he doesn't type things on a publicly accessible listserv where he can easily be quoted and humiliated for saying foolish things since the major new york papers monitor it for political gossip. the man who typed that, justin schwartz, has written and published more than you've typed on usenet so you ought to just STFU&STFD because your attempts to crawl out of the gutter where you seem to happily luxuriate in the scum, grime and waste are embarrassing.
Yet I seem to hit false citations, citations that are misleading and sometimes nonexistent, every few pages of Chomsky. If Justin Schwartz has a success rate is so strangely different from my own, perhaps he can find the infamous citation "repeated discoveries that massacre reports were false". Which massacre reports were these? And while he is at it, can he explain how come the eyewitness reports of terror and intimidation taken by Ponchaud constitute third hand reports in Chomsky's cites of Ponchaud? And while he is at it, how come one of Chomsky's highly qualified experts who supposedly ridiculed the false reports of Khmer Rouge crimes later said that Phnom Penh was evacuated to smash resistance (a claim later confirmed by Pol Pot) and that perhaps ten percent of the population of Phnom Penh died as a result of the evactuation, an estimate he made before the famous left wing U turn on Cambodia, an estimate that contradicts the general tone of the letter Chomsky quoted, but does not contradict the substance of it or the facts reported. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG zpm0nF0PAslx5syXxOvx/fLisCaXVxVrcIoHJ31o 421EBABRmFfhBBXoKipKxu560aLyoq6DdhmY05cNo