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Chomsky is a person of great personal and political integrity. His respectful call for the immediate and unconditional release of these two people, and, even more, his declaration that he is willing to testify on their behalf should their case come to a trial, is an indication of the importance Chomsky places on the need to speak out about this case. While I don't know anything about these two, I am willing to defer to Noam Chomsky on this, and think it's silly for others who also know either little or nothing about this specific case to revile Chomsky over this through the Internet. The bottom line is a crudely transparent effort to imply that Chomsky, by speaking out on this specific case, is in essence, collaborating with the CIA. In the absence of meaningful specific information about this particular case, the best thing to do is to simply shut up. Walter Lippmann Los Angeles, California ====================================== Stephens: Chomsky entirely misses the point...All I have said is that there are without question SOME PEOPLE who are collaborating with the U.S. government and the CIA in an attempt to overthrow the Iranian government, both Iranian and non-Iranian, and that some of those are no-doubt "progressives", and that, as a result, Chomsky's claim that the three hikers must be innocent because, after all, they were social justice activists doesn't hold water. Chomsky: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/19/noam-chomskys-video-plea-to-iran-on-behalf-of-detained-americans/ ========================================= WALTER LIPPMANN Los Angeles, California Editor-in-Chief, CubaNews http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/ "Cuba - Un Paraíso bajo el bloqueo" ========================================= ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
