Chuck Armsbury replied:

Yeah, count me in with those who appreciate Noam Chomsky's
scholarship/activism. If anything, his kind of person best represents what
radical graduate students valued the most by 1969-70: researchers breaking
free of the mindbending propaganda taught by Ph.Ds. with contempt for most
of the population surrounding most universities. I was a graduate-school
colleague of the University of Oregon's John Froines of the Chicago Seven
in Eugene, Oregon in the late-1960s-- a place where the U of O almost began
to respect and serve the Eugene/Springfield community. Most of the email
critics of NC sound like other lonely academic types or institute
consultants or COINTELPRO freaks who really need a real job. From a real
town in real America (Colville, WA) comes the good word that Chomsky
appeals to many ordinary people precisely because he nails the imperialist,
capaitalist USA with its 2 million prisoners, the world's largest jailer,
the planetary boss hog. What a drag always having to be the one to break
myths and be hated for it. That's the Drug War too, and you can learn who I
am by taking a look at the November Coalition website at
http://www.november.org. Get a grip or a real job you Chomsky haters!
power to the people,
Chuck Armsbury, Senior Editor
The Razor Wire newspaper -- reporting from the trenches of the murderous
War on Drugs

Thomas Tepfer wrote:

> ragards and best wishes to all Chomsky supporters.
> lg
> th.
>
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>
> Chomsky protests court case against his Turkish publisher
>
> Januray 2002
> Source: The A-Infos News Service http://www.ainfos.ca/
>
> Dateline: ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Noam Chomsky, the American linguist and
> political dissident, has attacked a court's decision to prosecute his
> Turkish publisher over a
> book that slams Turkey's human rights record.
>
> In a letter to Istanbul-based Aram Publishing, Chomsky expressed
> sympathy with the firm's director Fatih Tas, who faces a one-year jail
> sentence if convicted on charges
> of conducting propaganda against the state. The trial is due to begin in
> February.
>
> The charges are "a very severe attack on the most elementary human and
> civil rights," wrote Chomsky, a professor of linguistics at the
> Massachusetts Institute of
> Technology.
>
> Aram earlier this year published "American Interventionism," a
> collection of Chomsky's essays and lectures translated into Turkish.
>
> The book includes a translation of a lecture Chomsky gave at the
> University of Toledo, Ohio in March. In the lecture, Chomsky said the
> Turkish government had
> "launched a major war in the Southeast against the Kurdish population,"
> and described the conflict as "one of the most severe human rights
> atrocities of the 1990s."
>
> Chomsky said the lecture was based on material from "the leading human
> rights organizations ... the most respected standard scholarship, and
> official U.S. government
> documents."
>
> In an indictment issued last week, Istanbul's State Security Court said
> these and other passages in the book constituted "propaganda against the
> indivisible unity of the
> nation."
>
> No charges have been filed against Chomsky himself.
>
> Turkey fought a 15-year war against Kurdish rebels demanding autonomy in
> the southeast. The conflict has eased since the Kurdistan Workers'
> Party, or PKK,
> announced a unilateral cease-fire in 1999, but the government rejected
> the cease-fire and sporadic fighting continues.
>
> About 37,000 people, mostly Kurdish rebels and civilians, have been
> killed as a result of the fighting since 1984.
>
> Dozens of Turkish writers and intellectuals have been jailed under
> strict laws that forbid criticism of the state's conduct of the war.
>
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