March 30, 2006

FUCKING CAPITALIST BASTARDS

via The Scrutinator

Noam Chomsky: One of the premiere anti-capitalists and anti-militarists in academia today, Chomsky, a self-described "anarchist-socialist," has been paid millions by the Pentagon—which he once called "the most hideous institution on this earth"—over the last 40 years, as well as various corporations, which he has described as "just as totalitarian as Bolshevism and fascism." When asked by Schweizer about his seeming contradiction, Chomsky responded (via email), "I think we should be responsible for what we do, not for the bureaucratic queston of who stamps the paycheck." Chomsky then went on to rationalize his wealth achieved via Pentagon contacts by stating that anyone who uses the Internet, which was created the U.S. military, is guilty of working for the Pentagon. Though he has lectured that other university professors should ween themselves of Pentagon funding in the form of grants and scholarships, he has yet to do so himself.

Chomsky's public condemnations of capitalism, which he calls a "grotesque catastrophe," are similarly contradicted by his private lifestyle. Mr. Chomsky lives in an $850,000 house and has a $1.2 million vacation home, both in Massachusetts. A critic of the "massive use of tax havens to shift the burden to the general population and away from the rich," he has called tax rebates "equivalent to a welfare payment," yet has set up trusts in his children's and tax attorney's names in order to avoid future payment of inheritance taxes. His loathing of copyrights and patents has also not stopped him from copyrighting his lectures, speeches and articles over the years (which can be downloaded—for a fee—off the Internet). After speaking at a benefit sponsored by the Greater Philadelphia Democratic Left where Chomsky stated, "A democracy requires a free, independent and inquiring media," a reporter named Deborah Bolling was told that she would have to pay $35 to interview him. Perhaps most damning is his impressive stock portfolio, which includes shares in oil companies, military contractors and pharmaceuticals.



HAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA HAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11 comments:

The Scrutinator said...

Cheers, mate! I'm famous!

BigDog said...

Chomsky is a hypocrit AND he twists logic into a pretzel to blame America for just about everything.

DAVE BONES said...

and hes rich from working for the pentagon. BASTARD!! WE 'ATES IM!!!

DAVE BONES said...

was that his pretzel? How come he wasn't arrested then?

The Scrutinator said...

How come he wasn't arrested then?

Because America is freer than Chomsky makes out.

Beware the most shrill voices.

BigDog said...

McHenry’s Third Law: People who write manifestos are always wrong.

DAVE BONES said...

well the second one anyway and you forgot good looking.

cheers worms! great blog.

BigDog said...

Chomsky will not be "silenced", he lives in a free nation and is free to say whatever crazy bovine excrement he wishes. The real world is not X-Files.

DAVE BONES said...

or is it? (cue x-files music)

DAVE BONES said...

anyway he's a capitalist. Hes your best pal.

BigDog said...

Chomsky is not the only one.

http://victorhanson.com/articles/thornton040206.html