Niiice kitty....

[Gordon Fitch]

kelley:
> 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.
>
> kelley
>
> <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

I believe that's James Donald, one of the Net's remarkable
characters, who perpetually asserts that Chomsky is a Pol Pot
apologist, etc., and who performs some outstanding quotation-
manipulation and logic-chopping-and-pasting himself.  For
instance, he accused me of anti- Semitism because I asserted
that the Sandinista regime had held two national elections
and recognized the results of both of them.