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Crime Quotes by Noam Chomsky

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Noam Chomsky calls the Iraq invasion a war crime and points to other atrocities like the Mayan genocide. He mentions a U.S. War Crimes Act that defines grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. He also argues that personal refusal to follow illegal orders can be a powerful protest.

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For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.

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See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.

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The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

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The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

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The worst terrorist crimes going on right now are the drone campaigns.

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Take the Iraq War,it's the second worst crime after the Second World War. It's the first time in history, in the history…

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Some international law specialists compare the invasion of Iraq to the 'crimes against the peace' for which Nazi leaders were indicted at…

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The intellectual world is deeply conformist... We talk a lot about the crimes of others. When it comes to our own crimes,…

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The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard…

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An individual's refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for…

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In November 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched their second major attack on the city of Falluja. The press reported major war crimes…

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It's fine to criticize somebody else's crimes and misdeeds, but you don't talk about your own. The only exception is a country…

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Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes…

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Our current prison state has the dual effect of getting rid of a superfluous population of basically unskilled workers (with a close…

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If something is right (or wrong) for us, it’s right (or wrong) for others. It follows that if it’s wrong for Cuba,…

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There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been…

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The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is…

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The crime of liberation theology was that it takes the Gospels seriously. That's unacceptable. The Gospels are radical pacifist material, if you…

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Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the…

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Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has…

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Nothing can justify crimes such as those of September 11, but we can think of the United States as an innocent victim…

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Why did the people think [Vietnam war] was fundamentally wrong and immoral? The guys who ran the polls, John E. Rielly, a…

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If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the…

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If in fact, the US story is correct, if it is true that Syria used chemical weapons, then it wouldn't be a…

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“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at…

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The crimes committed against the people of West Papua are some of the most shameful of the past years. The Western powers…

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Take any country that has laws against hate crimes, inspiring hatred and genocide and so on. The first thing they would do…

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If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions…

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“The two main criminals are France and the United States. They owe Haiti enormous reparations because of actions going back hundreds of…

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“But until you ask why there’s an increase in social disintegration, and why more and more resources are being directed towards the…

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The basic principle is that the losers have to confess, not the victors. When they do it, it's a crime. When we…

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The invasion of Panama, what was that? The U.S. killed, according to the Panamanians, 3,000 civilians. Maybe they're right. We don't investigate…

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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

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The US cannot be brought to the World Court for major crimes, for example the supreme international crime, invasion, or violation of…

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As far as U.S. intelligence knows, Iran is developing nuclear capacities, but they don't know if they are trying to develop nuclear…

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The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg principles. They understand that…

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As international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen…

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To achieve respectability, to be admitted to the debate, they must accept without question or inquiry the fundamental doctrine that the state…

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The September 11 attacks were major atrocities. . . . This was a horrendous crime . . . The primary victims .…

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In fact, various lawyers' groups - to some extent in the U.S. but mostly in England and Canada and elsewhere - are…

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