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		<title>Chomsky Calls Elie Wiesel “One of The Major Frauds of Our Time”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:02:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kathy Shaidle]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Released private letters reveal the dark world of the leftist guru.]]></description>
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<p>Noam Chomsky is a linguist and political philosopher of dubious  repute, who remains, in spite of his errors and failed predictions, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1232">the Left’s “rabbi, our preacher, our rinpoche, our sensei.”</a></p>
<p>This week at <em>CounterContempt</em>, David Stein announced the release of letters he says shed harsh light on one of Chomsky’s most troubling associations: <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=4437">his literary relationship with a Holocaust denier.</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.countercontempt.com/archives/1185">As Stein explains:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>In the late 1970s and early ‘80s, leftist author,  professor, and anti-Israel activist Noam Chomsky became embroiled in  what would become known as “The Faurisson Affair.” In 1979, a professor  of literature at the University of Lyon, Robert Faurisson, was fined by a  French court for claiming in Le Monde that the Holocaust was a hoax.</p>
<p>Chomsky, a rabid critic of Israel, was asked by a friend of  Faurisson’s to sign a petition supporting Faurisson’s right to free  speech. The petition did not mention Faurisson’s views; it merely  defended his right to express them.</p></blockquote>
<p>I should relate here that I share Chomsky’s disinterested, “absolute  free speech” philosophy, which I would summarize artlessly as “let a  thousand morons bloom.” (I don’t even believe in libel laws.)</p>
<p>As we learned to our dismay here in Canada, singling out Holocaust denial for special punishment not only <a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/11/david-ahenakew-celebrity.html">turned obscure dingbats into household names</a>; that same quasi-legal mechanism <a href="http://www.ezralevant.com/2010/05/burny-and-the-nazis.html">was eventually used by Muslims</a> to persecute Jews and those with, shall we say, suspiciously  Jewish-sounding names — such as Ezra Levant and Mark Steyn. (Had Steyn’s  surname been “Smith,” I’m convinced his writings would never have  attracted the attention of the Canadian Islamic Congress.)</p>
<p>In fact, <a href="http://ezralevant.com/2008/12/noam-chomsky-canadas-section-1.html">Chomsky’s widely distributed condemnation of our “Human Rights Commissions”</a> marked a turning point in our battle against state-sponsored, politically correct censorship.</p>
<p>However, Chomsky did more than just sign a petition defending a  professor’s right to express questionable, controversial opinions back  in 1979. (And who can blame him? That same freedom <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_as_I_Say_%28Not_as_I_Do%29:_Profiles_in_Liberal_Hypocrisy">has made Chomsky himself relatively wealthy</a>…)</p>
<p>Chomsky then wrote an essay explaining to his critics why he defended  Faurisson’s right to free expression  — again, understandable and  defensible as an expression of abstract principles that reasonable men  have disagreed upon for centuries.</p>
<p>It was after that, as<em> CounterContempt’s</em> backgrounder explains, that things got messy:</p>
<blockquote><p>Chomsky’s essay was used by a [Holocaust] denial publishing house as a preface for a book about Faurisson. Chomsky  admitted that he had issued the essay with no restrictions regarding  how it could be used, but he claimed to have asked the deniers to  refrain from using it in their book. According to Chomsky, his request arrived too late, and the book (with the Chomsky preface) was published.</p>
<p>And that was that. Chomsky has continued, for the past thirty years,  to defend his role in L’Affaire Faurisson. His defense always consists  of the same points: His lack of knowledge of Faurisson’s work, and (more  importantly) his absolute, total lack of interest in Holocaust denial.  Chomsky has stressed, time and again, that the subject doesn’t interest  him, and that he doesn’t care about, nor does he have knowledge of,  anything the deniers say or write.</p>
<p>In short, Chomsky’s defense can be paraphrased as, ‘Look, I helped a  guy out because I don’t believe in government censorship. I don’t care  who he was; I’d have helped anyone in the same way. And now it’s done  and I have no interest in knowing anything about who this guy is or what  he believes in.’</p></blockquote>
<p>Then <em>CounterContempt </em>drops the hammer:</p>
<blockquote><p>…according to recently uncovered documents, that’s simply not true.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>CounterContempt</em> has released two letters which they say are a  sampling of correspondence showing that Chomsky’s relationship with  Holocaust deniers was more serious than he has let on.</p>
<p>These letters are between Chomsky and L.A. “Lou” Rollins, “a writer  and contributing editor at the Institute for Historical Review (IHR),  the North American headquarters of Holocaust denial and Nazi  literature.”</p>
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		<title>Ann Coulter Hits Back</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Threatens Human Rights complaint.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com">Newsreal</a>.</strong></p>
<p>I could have told you this would happen if you ever got <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30033">Ezra Levant</a> and Ann Coulter in the <a href="http://torydrroy.blogspot.com/2010/03/ann-coulter-in-london.html">same room together</a>.</p>
<p>In response to <a href="http://www.newsrealblog.com/2010/03/22/whereas-ann-coulter-is-a-hateful-woman/">that embarrassing, vaguely threatening message she got from that tax-teat sucking Canadian academic </a>before she even set foot in the country, Ann Coulter announced recently that she is considering — you guessed it — filing a “Human Rights” Commission complaint against known Frenchman Francoise Houle (his real name).</p>
<p>At her first ever speech at a Canadian university (<a href="http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/:entry:fivefeet-2010-03-23-0001/">which I attended</a>, of course), she told the sold-out crowd of (mostly) supporters, tongue firmly in cheek, that she was going to take her cue from <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=29304">all those other friviolous, professionally “offended” complainants who’ve made Canada the laughing stock of the world,</a> and <a href="http://theothermccain.com/2010/03/23/do-blondes-have-rights-in-canada/">charge <em>Houle</em> with violating <em>her</em> “rights” as part of an “identifiable group.”</a></p>
<p>Of course, the definition of “identifiable group” most assuredly does not include “white, Christian conservatives” — as white Christian conservatives have discovered when they’ve tried to file Human Rights complaints against anti-Catholic homosexual activists and so forth.</p>
<p>I think Coulter should claim “American” as her “identifiable group.” After all, in Canada,<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=94&amp;type=issue"> Americans are the only people you are allowed, and encouraged, to viciously insult at will</a> — <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=2577">even on, <em>especiall</em>y on, 9/11</a>, with the encouragement of our tax-payer funded national broadcaster, no less.</p>
<p>Such a <em>cause celebre</em> might force my fellow citizens to confront this poisonous little habit of theirs once and for all.</p>
<p>And naturally, we all hope Coulter will hire Ezra Levant as her lawyer. He was more or less forced to become Canada’s leading expert on our censorious, politically correct kangaroo courts, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n3SdV2cwn4&amp;feature=player_embedded">when he fought them — and (900 days and $100,000 later) won.</a></p>
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