Terrorism just means the terrorism that they carry out against us. Noam Chomsky, lecture New York 2002, ‘The History and Hypocrisy of the War on Terror’
When the United States invades Iraq, kills a couple of hundred thousand people, generates millions of refugees, destroys the country, sets off a sectarian conflict that’s tearing Iraq and by now the whole region to shreds, and on the side increases terrorism worldwide by a factor of seven just in the first year – that’s stabilization, part of our mission that we must continue for the benefit of the world. Noam Chomsky, lecture The New School New York City, ‘On Power and Ideology’, Youtube 1.16.30
Some of the primary characteristics of failed states can be identified: one is their inability or unwillingness to protect their citizens from violence and perhaps even destruction; another is their tendency to regards themselves as beyond the reach of domestic or international law and hence free to carry out aggression and violence. Noam Chomsky, Failed States audio
The United States has the right to make them suffer by economic strangulation: Eisenhower approved economic sanctions in the expectation that if the Cuban people are hungry they will throw Castro out. Kennedy agreed that the embargo would hasten Fiden Castro’s departure as a result of the rising discomfort among hungry Cubans. Along with expanding the embargo Kennedy initiated a major terrorist campaign designed to bring the terrors of the Earth to Cuba. ibid.
As for the rule of law – the guiding principle of the famous New World Order – it requires a certain amount of audacity to take its guardian to be the only head of state in the world that stands condemned before the International Court of Justice for conducting international terrorism – this meaning on a vast scale. Noam Chomsky, lecture Ireland 1993, ‘Creating a New World Order’
The United States expelled or mostly exterminated the indigenous population, many millions of people, conquered half of Mexico, carried out degradations all over the region – Central America, sometimes beyond – conquered Hawaii and the Philippines killing several hundred thousand Filipinos … It was always killing someone else, fighting somewhere else. Noam Chomsky, lecture MIT October 2001, ‘The War on Terror’, Youtube 1.17.13
Terrorism works. It doesn’t fail; it works. Violence usually works … Primarily a weapon of the strong. ibid.
The United States had total control of their [Nicaraguan] airspace; they were overflying it, and using that to pass instructions to the terrorist army to enable them to attack soft targets … But the idea that Nicaragua should be permitted to defend its airspace against a superpower attack that is directing terrorist forces to attack undefended civilian targets – that was considered in the United States outrageous and uniformly so. ibid.
El Salvador, of course, declared no cease-fire. On the contrary, when the FMLN declared a unilateral ceasefire as a gesture of good faith during the peace talks they had initiated a few weeks earlier, the Salvadorian military responded by launching operations into most of the guerrilla base areas and stepping up arrests of union activists and other repression. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
Throughout the decade, and well after ‘democracy’ was established, the Salvadoran Church and human rights groups continued to describe how the security forces of the ‘fledgling democracy’ with the full knowledge and cooperation of their US sponsors, imposed upon Salvadoran society a regime of ‘terror and panic, a result of the persistent violation of basic human rights’, marked by ‘collective intimidation and generalized fear, on the one hand, and on the other the internalized acceptance of the terror because of the daily and frequent use of violent means’. ibid.
Fifteen specialists in counterinsurgency were sent to El Salvador from the US Army School of Special Forces. From the start, the Battalion was engaged in the murder of large numbers of civilians. ibid.
In December 1981, the Battalion took part in an operation in which hundreds of civilians were killed in an orgy of murder, rape, and burning – over 1,000, according to the Church legal aid office. Later it was involved in the bombing of villages and the murder of hundreds of civilians by shooting, drowning, and other methods, the vast majority being women, children, and the elderly. This has been the systematic pattern of special warfare in El Salvador since the first major military operation in May 1980, when six hundred civilians were murdered and mutilated at the Rio Sumpul. ibid.
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights alleged in a letter to Defense Secretary Cheney that the killers of the Jesuits were trained by US Special Forces up to three days before the assassinations. ibid.
1985-6, the US and its Israeli ally was responsible for the most serious acts of international terrorism in this region, not to speak of the leading role of the United States in international terrorism elsewhere in the world, and in earlier years. The worst single terrorist act in the region in 1985 was a car-bombing in Beirut that killed eighty people and wounded 250. ibid.
1989: An elite Salvadorean battalion, who are fresh from renewed training in the John F Kennedy School of Special Warfare in North Carolina, invaded the Jesuit University in El Salvador and brutally murdered six leading Latin-American intellectuals. (El Salvador & US Empire & Terror) Noam Chomsky, lecture Rickman Godlee Lecture 2011, ‘Contours of Global Order’, Youtube 1.39.23
During that period around 70,000 people were killed in El Salvador overwhelmingly by the US armed and trained forces. ibid.
Now, if we had the slightest concern with democracy, which we do not in our foreign affairs and never have, we would turn to countries where we have influence like El Salvador. Now in El Salvador they don’t call the Archbishop bad names; what they do is murder him. They don’t censor the press; they wipe the press out. They sent the army in to blow up the Church radio station. Noam Chomsky, Ten O’Clock News WGBH Public TV 1985
You [Chomsky] are a systematic liar. These things did not happen in the context in which you suggest at all. John Silber, president Boston University
Let us call a truce to terror. The logical place to begin is a treaty assuring the end of nuclear tests of all kinds. John F Kennedy
Terror is not a new weapon. Throughout history it has been used by those who could not prevail, either by persuasion or example. But inevitably they fail, either because men are not afraid to die for a life worth living, or because the terrorists themselves came to realize that free men cannot be frightened by threats, and that aggression would meet its own response. John F Kennedy, address United Nations September 1961
The training, the assaults on the population, have been going on for over a decade here in the United States, and the death toll is climbing. What’s happened to our Special Forces? What types of cowards have they been twisted into, that they go out and attack American citizens, wooden churches full of men, women and children, and then slough it off as if – oh well; they are a just a bunch of cult members? Whatever happened to live and let live? And whatever happened to the Federal Law barring troops from assaulting civilians? Alex Jones, 9/11 The Road to Tyranny
And I want you to let them know that if there is any terrorism we know who to blame. Alex Jones, radio show 25th July 2001
Face the facts, America – you are the terrorist. Alex Jones, 9/11 The Road to Tyranny
3/11, Madrid: Every one of the supposed bombers had intimate links with the Spanish security services. Alex Jones, 7/7 London Bombings – Government Involvement
We are ten years into the biggest hoax in human history – the threat of terrorism. Alex Jones, New World Order: Blueprint of Madmen, 2012
The system itself is actually engaging in terrorism. ibid.
The true terrorists of our world do not meet at the docks at midnight, or scream Allahu Akbar before some violent action; the true terrorists of our world wear five-thousand-dollar suits, and work in the highest positions of finance, government, business. Zeitgeist Addendum, 2008
Terror … often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. Stephen King, Danse Macabre, 1981
There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it. Alfred Hitchcock
Too many arrests, too few charges? Since the 11 September attacks hundreds of people have been arrested in the UK under anti-terror laws, but only a handful convicted. Security forces have been accused by some of heavy-handedness. But there’s nothing new about this pattern when policing terror. BBC online article 2nd April 2004
Our two countries [US & UK] are the biggest rogue states in the world today. George Galloway, Galloway v Hitchens, Baruch College New York September 2005
Great Britain has become the host country for international Islamic terrorism. Some of it home grown, some of it from people as far away as Algeria and Afghanistan. Christopher Hitchens, interview Dennis Miller 2007
Terrorism works better as a tactic for dictatorships, or for would-be dictators, than for revolutionaries. Christopher Hitchens
Britain is crawling with suspected terrorists and those who give them succour. The Sun editorial day after 7/7 bombings