Chomsky on Deacon

[Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer]

>Glad to hear about the Voice exchange.  If you have copies of Hentoff and
>your response I'd like to see them.  I've been collecting some of the
>recent nauseating accolades to this self-confessed mass murderer, and read
>the Hodgson biolgraphy and reviews of it.  Everyone talks about his noble
>time in the UN, standing up forthrightly against Idi Amin and defending
>Israel (which takes enormous courage in New York).  I have yet to see a
>single word referring to his proud description of his responsibility for
>undermining any UN action to impede Indonesia's invasion -- which must be
>one of the most extraordinary passages on record, describing what is surely
>the most important act of his life (he casually notes that 60,000 were
>killed in the first few months, pretending that this had to do with the
>"civil war" that was over months earlier, and then goes on to another
>topic.  I'm surprised at Hentoff.  He's been away from the activist
>solidarity scene for decades, as far as I know, but he surely must have
>known about this, if only from his earlier contacts in the pacifist
>nonviolent community.
>
>
>Noam

I meant to cut this part of Chomsky's e-mail to me. About my letter to the
Voice about Nat Hentoff and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Irrelevant to this
thread. Apologies. 

DP