For quite some time, Noam Chomsky has joined other radical luminaries on the “Editorial Advisory Group” of the ACORN-linked Social Policy magazine. Published by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, the magazine airs the views of Chomsky, Frances Fox Piven, Gloria Steinem, and Peter Dreier, among others.
This is the same publication that ran an analytical piece on Barack Obama’s 2004 primary campaign for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate, written by a Chicago ACORN leader.
The article contained such gems as: “By the time he ran for U.S. Senate, we were old friends.” The point is not to bring up President Obama’s apparently forgotten memories, but instead to point out Chomsky is not some nut that is isolated – he runs with the big dogs.
Chomsky recently painted a disturbing picture of America in the Russian news outlet Pravda, when he compared the opposition to President Obama and the Congress’ policies to what happened in Germany just prior to Adolf Hitler’s rise to power.
“It’s very similar to Weimar Germany, the parallels are striking.
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“The United States is very lucky that no honest and charismatic figure has appeared, and if this were to happen this country would be in real trouble for the frustration, disillusionment and the justified anger combined with the absence of a coherent response,” he concludes.
Chomsky, apparently, is referring to the Tea Party movement and other expressions of frustration with the direction of our country.
In Germany, he recalls, an enemy was created to explain the crisis which was the Jew. “Here they are the illegal immigrants and blacks. We will say that white men are a persecuted minority. We will say that we must uphold and defend the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. There will be blows. This could be converted into an undeniable force. And if it takes place, it will be more dangerous than Nazi Germany. The United States is a world power … I do not believe that this is far from happening,” he says.
Chomsky makes outrageous claims that are indefensible. Frances Fox Piven recently criticized Glenn Beck, saying he made scapegoats out of people with “dark skin, foreigners and intellectuals.”
It’s only a matter of time before Chomsky’s opinions show up in the pages of Social Policy.
What Chomsky fails to point out, of course, is that Hitler and the Nazis sought a perfect socialist society through government policy, that is, supreme government control. It was not borne out of the belief of individual freedom and curtailed government spending, as are generally the principles of the Tea Party movement.
But Chomsky and his ilk can’t afford to let a few facts get in the way of some good old fashioned fear mongering. If there’s any scapegoating going on, it’s being done by Chomsky, Dreier, Piven and others who are claiming peaceful old people showing up to protest Medicare cuts are leading some sort of seditious movement.