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Noam Chomsky, the leading anti-war intellectual, vowed "to speak the truth and to expose lies" as a reason for his pro-Vietnamese communist stand. As he made this passionate avowal, North Vietnamese poet Nguyen Chi Thien was imprisoned for doing just that, writing the truth about the communists. Nguyen was imprisoned for 27 years...there's more truth in these few lines by Thien than in every labored tome Chomsky ever produced:

If Uncle and the Party, let's suppose,
Allowed free movement in and out,
Grandfather Marx's paradise
Would soon become the wilds where monkeys roam.

If Uncle and the Party, let's suppose,
Allowed free movement in and out,
Grandfather Marx's paradise
Would soon become the wilds where monkeys roam.

Good stuff. Being from NJ, you're not related by any chance to William Carlos Williams?

9 posted on 04/28/2005 9:47:24 PM PDT by kenavi ("Remember, your fathers sacrificed themselves without need of a messianic complex." Ariel Sharon)