Chomsky Gets Top Pentagon "Honor"

Instead of thanking the Pentagon for his � ??honor,� ? � Chomsky, is said to be angry. The Herald quotes him as saying, � ??This happens sometimes in totalitarian regimes.� ? �

Indeed! Nazi newsreels show Hitler's brown shirts igniting huge bonfires in German streets into which they pitched banned books. Hitler banned over 4,000 books ranging from anti-war novel � ??All Quiet on the Western Front� ? � by Erich Maria Remarque to Jack London's � ??The Call of The Wild.� ? �

And just as Communist Russia wouldn't let its citizens read � ??The First Circle� ? � and � ??Cancer Ward� ? � by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, comrades in the Pentagon refused to allow Gitmo prisoner Hamza al Bahlul to read Chomsky's � ??Interventions,� ? � sent him by a defense lawyer.

The Pentagon's ban mimics Iran's campaign to kill British novelist Salman Rushdie for his 1988 epic � ??The Satanic Verses.� ? � Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeni indicted Rushdie as � ??blasphemous against Islam.� ? � The Pentagon, according to The Herald, won't authorize a book that is � ??anti-American, anti-Semitic, (or) anti-Western.� ? � Note the similarities of the Pentagon's objections and the Ayatollah's. Kissin' cousins, maybe? Some might suspect its Pentagon censorship that's � ??anti-American.� ? �

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