Noam Chomsky Books Banned in Guantánamo

[Better Believe It]

Chomsky Banned in Guantánamo
By Matthew Rothschild
October 13, 2009

That’s right. A book by the leading leftwing intellectual in America is verboten in the prison library there.

Though the library has 16,000 books, according to the Miami Herald, and though some of them deal with politics and current events, a book of Chomsky’s essays post 9/11 was expressly denied to a Guantánamo prisoner.

All of those essays were op-eds that Chomsky had originally written for the New York Times syndicate.

A spokesperson for the prison said “force protection reasons” precluded him from discussing the matter, but he confirmed that not a single copy of any Chomsky book was in the library.

Chomsky was his usual matter-of-fact self. “This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes,” he told the Miami Herald.

http://www.progressive.org/wx101309.html

[fascisthunter]

1. lol

[Cleita]

2. Interesting how they brand those who tell the truth as left wingers.

Chomsky criticizes the left as much as the right when they are wrong.

[BolivarianHero]

3. I remember a very bizarre right-wing bash I heard of Chomsky...

The crux of it is that a political spectrum that included him would make Lenin a conservative.