Libya: Chomsky on the hypocrisy of western intervention

The oil, once again

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[loccoptic]

@Sockfaces i dunno dude i mean im thinking middle eastern and rab countries should have a strong democracy with strongly held principles and high levels of freedom of speech concience and press which can allowed them to stay on their own feet

[Sockfaces]

@loccoptic They haven't been in power for even a year. Give them some time (at least a year) before you make a judgement. They have a golden opportunity to change Libya for the better. I'm pretty pessimistic as well but lets just wait and see.

[loccoptic]

@AbuAmanah qaddafi had to go but the people that are replacing him are worse

[liamev21]

i hate the euro star advert!

[Dtchmastrkilla7]

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[FLARE95127]

@AbuAmanah You forgot Paris as well.

[AbuAmanah]

To all those so called "rebels" in Libya, I have a message for you! Remember Iraq? Afghanistan? Diego Garcia? Finally always remember that "if you go to bed with American you will get F****D".

Col Qaddafi gave u FREE education & health care, medicine including treatment abroad, FREE housing. FREE land & seeds to farmers, HIGHEST standard of living in Africa, $500 to every citizen last year, $50,000 to EVERY newly married couple!

Qaddafi paid your Nation, now you will pay Washington & London!

[nocturnezero]

@MillionthUsername More importantly, demonizing him for his wealth and notably Capitalist methods of sale and distribution does not invalidate his points in any way, so it can serve only the misleading practice of ad hominem attack or some strange personal obsession with Chomsky's character rather than his content. And it's frequently understood that even Socialists must operate on Capitalist terms in a Capitalist world - Capitalism is too integrated in many aspects of society to do without.

[nocturnezero]

@MillionthUsername I'm not going to spend much time defending Noam Chomsky because I don't think it's very important to protect an individual person, as much as I do appreciate his writing; I should point out, however, that he's not a property owner, who are the real people who we Socialists and Anarchists think should have their wealth expropriated. He publishes through collectivist printing presses and in cooperatively-run magazines.

[MillionthUsername]

@flybynight420 I don't know if he donates his fees. But the fact is that he does not socialize his wealth. He clings to it as all rational people do. He has not socialized his dept at MIT, has he? Does he share his salary with his secretary or staff? He's the one who preaches all the socialist nonsense, not me. I have no problem with him making money. It's just that he claims to believe one thing, but lives in the opposite way. But that kind of hypocrisy doesn't seem to register with many.