Noam Chomsky Quotes
Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.
Chomsky, Noam. "Open Letter Regarding Judge María Lourdes Afiuni." 2 Jul. 2011.
He was finally brought to justice after being protected by the right wing for many years. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. See related quote.
Einstein had changed his mind. He like almost everyone else at the time favored the death penalty, but in 1927 came to the new conclusion for the same reasons that many American politicians stated 70 years later. He had no compunctions against capital punishment for murderers who were dangers to society, but the potential error of the justice system led him to oppose state sanctioned execution. At the time the number of errors in capital cases that had been demonstrated were few. But as a scientist, Einstein knew that all human endeavors were prone to error. He was a strong law and order supporter however—see {588606}.
Named after penal reformer Johne Howard, 1726-1790. Howard Associations have since been organized in many countries.
After the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat hundreds of Egyptian religious fundamentalists were rounded up, jailed and tortured. al-Zawahiri broke under torture and revealed the names of some of his anti-government associates. Although he was not personally involved in the murder of Sadat, he served three additional years in jail. Motivated by has thirst for revenge at his torturers and his guilt at having been forced to betray his friend, he learned all he could about terrorism from the older Jihadists also in the same jail, and when he was released he elevated Islamic terrorism to another level by developing a strategy for the use of suicide bombers.
In 1643 the Massachusetts Bay Colony wanted to dominate the region. Miantonomi, the Narragansett Indian Chief had a large well organized tribe who while friendly with the English were very independent. The Mohegan Indians, close allies of the colonists captured Miantonomi and turned him over to the Colony. Governor Winthrop’s actions have always been a disgrace to the justice of the Colony. Winthrop then turned him over to his traditional enemy, Chief Uncas, of the Mohawk to remove him from the boundaries of the Puritan Colony and then tomahawk Miantonomi to death. Winthrop actually sent several Puritan Englishmen to “see the execution for our more full satisfaction.” Among Miantonomi’s “evil” deeds was the fact that he gave Roger Williams, a religious and political dissenter from Winthrop’s Colony and religious “heretic”, a large tract of land (Providence) for his colony.
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", Chomsky is also a major figure in analytic philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona and Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and is the author of more than 150 books on topics such as linguistics, war, politics, and mass media. Ideologically, he aligns with anarcho-syndicalism and libertarian socialism.
