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| How Magna Carta messed up the world | |
| 2015-03-29 | |
By Noam Chomsky
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| Posted by:ryuge |
#13 The Nation's title for this piece is completely inaccurate. Chomsky doesn't criticize the Magna Carta in any way shape or form, let alone claim that it messed up the world. Rather, he praises it, and claims (accurately, I think) that Obama is violating it:The constitutional lawyer in the White House has introduced further modifications. His Justice Department explained that “due process of law”—at least where “terrorism offenses” are concerned—is satisfied by internal deliberations within the executive branch. King John would have nodded in approval. The term “guilty” has also been given a refined interpretation: it now means “targeted for assassination by the White House.” |
| Posted by: dlr 2015-03-29 23:43 |
| #12 He learned nothing from |
| Posted by: 3dc 2015-03-29 16:53 |
| #11 Shouldn't cunning and linguist be hyphenated, or is it properly all one word ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-29 16:32 |
| #10 To your room, Alaska Paul! That was absolutely dreadful!!! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-29 16:22 |
| #9 As a linguist he is quite cunning. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2015-03-29 15:25 |
| #8 Some ideas are so stupid that only the very highly educated believe them. I am so stealing that! |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-29 14:05 |
| #7 Some ideas are so stupid that only the very highly educated believe them. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2015-03-29 12:55 |
| #6 I actually went and read the thing. To summarize: The Magna Carta is a bad thing because the tragedy of the commons is capitalism. There's also the issue that the original document referred to a narrow slice of English humanity, though it was expanded later in America to apply to all around 1970 or so. As of a minute ago, nobody had bothered to comment. It must be awfully boring inside his head. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2015-03-29 11:45 |
| #5 He's against the Magna Carta. He is nothing but a crank. |
| Posted by: Fred 2015-03-29 11:08 |
| #4 Not the onion? I'm disapointed. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-03-29 11:05 |
| #3 CF, I'm afraid you've answered your own question. To a prog being a celebrity trumps all else. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2015-03-29 11:00 |
| #2 Why does anyone listen to him? He's as relevant as Miley Cyrus. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-03-29 09:08 |
| #1 I wish Chomsky would hurry up and f'ing die. It happens that I'm qualified in the area he first made his name - linquistics. Where all contrary evidence to his theory was twisted to support his theories, when none of it actually did. Perfect Poster Boy for the Left. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2015-03-29 03:43 |