20-08-2013, 11:47 PM
I know this was posted somewhere on DPF but I cant find it...
i myself.. met Chomsky twice.. once at a fundraiser at the Catholic worker where he was speaking (it was the day Kurt Cobain died) and I actually was a fundraiser for the FMLN for a time in San francisco and called him on the phone and asked him for 2k and he was so sweet and kind to me (yes he gave it).. i was fresh out of college and felt that he could do no wrong... shortly after watching JFK.. i remember standing on my parents back porch.. my head was REELING from having just seen JFK and then reading the swill and disinfo from the nation, z magazine and yes even counterpunch (though i also read covert action quarterly religiously too).. and i stood there for probably an hour (oh also trying to wrap my head around the war against yugoslavia that most everyone seemed Okey dokey with)... I thought i really want to study the JFK assasination but according to my beloved Chomsky said that was a dead end and even anti intellectual.. so i mentally buried it.. sure i read some countercultural stuff like paul krassner and the whole "you've been lied to series" but those were just written by a bunch of creative burnouts.. so it was just fantasyland.. until of course.. 9/11 which changed all that... anyhoo, is Chomsky a "gatekeeper" maybe..... I think he gets a paycheck from MIT and that information speaks volumes... might not go any deeper than that... the following link that excerpts ray marcuses work... the most interesting point to me was that Chomsky was originally interested in the JFK assasination but the retracted his interest.. Marcus argues that by the time the anti Vietnam war movement got going people like chomsky and Zinn jumped on the bandwagon because it was already underway and safer than looking into the murders of JFK and Co. is it true? i dont know but its a pretty provocative thesis....
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/HWNA...pVIII.html
i myself.. met Chomsky twice.. once at a fundraiser at the Catholic worker where he was speaking (it was the day Kurt Cobain died) and I actually was a fundraiser for the FMLN for a time in San francisco and called him on the phone and asked him for 2k and he was so sweet and kind to me (yes he gave it).. i was fresh out of college and felt that he could do no wrong... shortly after watching JFK.. i remember standing on my parents back porch.. my head was REELING from having just seen JFK and then reading the swill and disinfo from the nation, z magazine and yes even counterpunch (though i also read covert action quarterly religiously too).. and i stood there for probably an hour (oh also trying to wrap my head around the war against yugoslavia that most everyone seemed Okey dokey with)... I thought i really want to study the JFK assasination but according to my beloved Chomsky said that was a dead end and even anti intellectual.. so i mentally buried it.. sure i read some countercultural stuff like paul krassner and the whole "you've been lied to series" but those were just written by a bunch of creative burnouts.. so it was just fantasyland.. until of course.. 9/11 which changed all that... anyhoo, is Chomsky a "gatekeeper" maybe..... I think he gets a paycheck from MIT and that information speaks volumes... might not go any deeper than that... the following link that excerpts ray marcuses work... the most interesting point to me was that Chomsky was originally interested in the JFK assasination but the retracted his interest.. Marcus argues that by the time the anti Vietnam war movement got going people like chomsky and Zinn jumped on the bandwagon because it was already underway and safer than looking into the murders of JFK and Co. is it true? i dont know but its a pretty provocative thesis....
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/HWNA...pVIII.html