CDR: Fwd: Re: Niiice kitty....

[Reese]

Another one,

  Entity 5 writes:
 >This is a calumny. I have personally checked hundreds, and I do mean
 >hundreds--probably over 500--Chomsky citations to original texts and
 >documents, and have never found any error that was not an obvious
 >typographical error, a misprint or something like that. One can always
 >argue about meaning and context, but the person who says that Chomsky
 >is a fabricator is ignorant or lying. --.sig
 >
   Entity 4 wrote:
 ><< this was posted on the cypherpunks list. the respondent maintains that
 >chomsky is well-known for misquoting or twisting quotes/sources.  never
 >heard that come up here in all our discussions... comments?   cypherpunks
 >is archived if you want more info.
 >
 >.sig
 >
 ><fowarded>
 >      --
 >  > I've been reading Noam Chomsky's book on Kosovo and came across this
 >  > quote from a Cabinet note written by Churchill in January 1914
 >  > explaining the need for increased military expenditure (taken in
 >  > turn from Clive Ponting's Churchill, 1994, P 132):
 >  >
 >  > "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."
 >
 >
 >Chomsky is hardly a reliable source.  He routinely fabricates or falsifies
 >quotes.  I suggest you check his alleged sources.
 >
 >Chances are you will be unable to find his alleged source.  In the unlikely
 >event that you are able to find it, it will not say quite what Chomsky
 >claims it said.
 >
 >      --digsig
 >
 >
 ></backwarded>
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