RE: Noam Chomsky (was RE: join The American Peace Movement)

From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 06 2003 - 19:33:38 MST


--- "Dickey, Michael F" wrote:

"North Vietnam was clearly a corrupt despotic state,
it subjugated oppressed and killed its people and was
bent on doing the same to South Vietnam, with the
industrial support of the Soviet Union, a similiarly
morally invalid state, and South Vietnam was a
democratic state that did not want to live under such
a rule. While South Vietnam was not perfect, it was
orders of magnitude less imperfect than the north, and
regardless of who signed what, no document can make
what north vietnam did moral."

Michael,

You have repeatedly made the above claim. And I have
responded by declaring it to be mythological nonsense
attributable to secular fundamentalism, specifically
anti-communist fundamentalism.

In support of my view I have provided extensive
authentic historic documentary resources, and can
easily provide more. You have, to the best of my
recollection, provided no documentation. Zero, zippo,
nada. Nothing substantive, nothing credible. Your
'evidence' has been limited entirely to usual
unsupported anti-communist exhortations.

No amount of declaring it to be so will make the moon
a lump of green cheese.

It is time for you to--as they say--shit or get off
the pot. Provide some evidence--vetted to establish
its credibility--to support your point of view.

This is a forum which, ostensibly, places some value
on rational discourse. Rational discourse is only
rational if it is supported by a foundation of fact.
Establish your foundation of fact or retire to
ideological irrelevance.

I'm tired of doing all the work of providing solid,
authentic, credible evidence, while you and others
repeat the "communism is evil" mantra, or provide
psuedo-journalism from propaganda organs. Time for
you to face up to your responsibility, to first, find
the truth, and to then--and this is the hard
part--accept it.

Best, Jeff Davis

  "During times of universal deceit, telling the
         truth becomes a revolutionary act."
                         George Orwell

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