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"Sometimes this happens in totalitarian regimes."

Started by starramus, 10/14/2009 07:36AM
Posted 10/14/2009 07:36AM Opening Post
Ironically I heard about this book ban while listening to Radio Havana. I don't get out much either. grin

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/international/americas/view/20091012noam_chomskys_works_banned_at_guantanamo_prison_camp/srvc=home&position=recent

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Posted 10/14/2009 12:32PM #1
"I'm of course opposed to terror, any rational person is, but I think that if we're serious about the question of terror and serious about the question of violence we have to recognize that it is a tactical and hence moral matter, incidentally tactical issues are basically moral issues, they have to do with human consequences. And if we're interested in let's say diminishing the amount of violence in the world it's at least arguable and sometimes true that a terroristic act does diminish the amount of violence in the world hence a person who is opposed to violence will not be opposed to that terroristic act." --Noam Chomsky

Yeah, that sounds like the the kind of light reading your terror detainees should be reading.