If I were a paranoid conspiracy theorist, I would suspect that I'm in the middle of a Turing test, communicating with a CIA computer-generated linguistic simulacrum designed to drive me crazy, rather than the great, honorable dissident Noam Chomsky. - Kevin Barrett

It's not just Chomsky, of course. In general, I think Pacifica's Democracy Now! is an excellent program, but every time I hear Amy Goodman refer to "the 19 hijackers, fifteen of whom were from Saudi Arabia," I want to scream. Likewise with CounterPunch, which is in general outstanding, but whose editors have tried to repudiate 9-11 "conspiracy theories." The "Left Gatekeeper" list is long, and like you, I've wondered if these people are simply uninformed, afraid, or actually part of an Establishment dog and pony show. It makes me doubt myself at times, but when I review all of the impossible "coincidences" and outright absurdities put forth in the official explanations for both 9-11 and Dallas, I'm always left again wondering how these otherwise bright folk can be so deaf, dumb, and blind. The overall effect is a feeling of separation and isolation, and the question arises... who benefits from divisions within the "counterculture?"

In one way, I tend to agree with Chomsky. I really don't believe that research and debate will make any difference now with regard to the assassinations of the 60's. Too much time has passed, most of the principle figures (suspects and witnesses) are dead and gone, and the state media will simply keep the truth buried, as they've successfully done for almost half a century, now. There was a flurry of excitement recently about new evidence in the RFK case, which was even mentioned in the "mainstream" news, but I haven't seen the walls of Jericho come tumbling down yet, and I don't expect to. The new evidence will be added to the old, discussed over and over again at seminars, on websites and in books, but time will continue to pass until the Kennedy assassinations are no more relevant to the here and now than the Lincoln assassination. I don't like or understand Chomsky's "so what and who cares" attitude concerning JFK, and I think he's doing nothing but helping the neocons and imperialists with his position on 9-11, which happened recently enough that exposing the truth could still bring "the powers that be" to their knees. 

There's no reason, of course, that people who are interested in JFK and 9-11 research can't also be activists in other areas. I suspect that most of them are.

Fuck Noam Chomsky.

Or not.

Gee, it took the brilliant genius 9 years to finally admit the glaringly obvious?  It's too late to play catch-up now, Professor Chomsky.  Blankfort was right.

Poor guy must scan through the data like Echel*n!     
Always at least eight years behind!

And he seemed so certain about it, too, so sure in his position, all those years.  A casual observer might've assumed he'd read up on the event or something. 

Well... now he has.

The fact that he waited till he was on Press TV to say this will make the job of those who want to discredit him much, much easier.  And his newfound insight will be discreditted alongside him.  He can't really be this dumb.

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