11-06-2009, 10:25 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:The most appropriate term I can offer is "intellectual secret police." Chomsky, for example, is such an obvious liar and fraud on such issues as 9/11, and the pogrom of the US centre-left leadership in the 1960s, that attempts to portray or comprehend him as merely misguided are, ultimately, fatuous and dishonest.
G. K. Chesterton. The Man Who Was Thursday (London: Penguin):
Quote:1) p. 44: "The work of the philosophical policeman is at once bolder and more subtle than that of the ordinary detective. The ordinary detective goes to pot-houses to arrest thieves; we go to artistic tea-parties to detect pessimists"
2) p. 45: "the most dangerous criminal is the educated criminal…the most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher…"