Agent provocateur
28th November 2004, 01:45
Originally posted by The New
[email protected] 27 2004, 12:41 AM
What does Chomsky think of the FARC's terroristic activities?
The US is supplying the nation of Colombia with supplies to fight off a large terrorist organization that deals in drugs and intimidation.
When the Colombian Army seized the rebel capital, they were met with open arms by the downtrodden peasants living under the yoke of elite Communist oligarchs.
What terrorism? Sounds like you are confusing an insurrectionary/revolutionary movement with terrorism?
"But at least 100,000 people left the British colonies in
America during and after the American Revolution. These Tories
could not abide by the political and social changes, both actual
and feared, particularly that change which attends all
revolutions worthy of the name: Those looked down upon as
inferiors no longer know their place. (Or as the US Secretary of
State put it after the Russian Revolution: The Bolsheviks sought
"to make the ignorant and incapable mass of humanity dominant in
the earth."){3}
The Tories fled to Nova Scotia and Britain carrying tales of
the godless, dissolute, barbaric American revolutionaries. Those
who remained and refused to take an oath of allegiance to the new
state governments were denied virtually all civil liberties.
Many were jailed, murdered, or forced into exile. After the
American Civil War, thousands more fled to South America and
other points, again disturbed by the social upheaval. How much
more is such an exodus to be expected following the Cuban
Revolution? -- a true social revolution, giving rise to changes
much more profound than anything in the American experience. How
many more would have left the United States if 90 miles away lay
the world's wealthiest nation welcoming their residence and
promising all manner of benefits and rewards? "
William Blum Killing Hope