CDR: Re: Niiice kitty....

[Ken Brown]

The quote it attributed to Clive Ponting's book on Churchill. So all
anyone has to do is check that. 
Ponting is a reasonably well-known author it should be possible to find
the book and check page 132. Whether Ponting was telling the truth is
another matter - but he isn't Chomsky.  

Nor is he a socialist of course. Chomsky is a left socialist anarchist
so JAD assumes that anything he says has to be a lie, with or without
evidence.

Ken

> If Churchill really said such a thing, we would have some source better
> than Chomsky for it, and if Churchill really did say it, Chomsky would have
> given us a source that was possible to verify.
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> As Winston Churchill observed in a paper
> submitted to his Cabinet colleagues in January 1914, 

> "we are not a young people with an innocent record 
> and a scanty inheritance. We have engrossed to
> ourselves...an altogether disproportionate share
> of the wealth and traffic of the world. We have
> got all we want in territory, and our claim to 
> be left in the unmolested enjoyment of vast and
> splendid possessions, mainly acquired by violence,
> largely maintained by force, often seems
> less reasonable to others than to us." 

> To be sure, such honesty is rare in respectable 
> society, though the passage would be acceptable 
> without the italicized phrases, as Churchill 
> understood. He did make the paper public in the 
> 1920s, in The World Crisis, but with the offending 
> phrases removed.{Clive Ponting, Churchill
> (Sinclair-Stevenson 1994), 132.}