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In reply to the discussion: Exclusive: After Multiple Denials, CIA Admits to Snooping on Noam Chomsky [View all]RevStPatrick
(2,208 posts)That's a no brainer.
He's an international figure, which is probably why the CIA was interested, and he speaks truth to power.
I'm sure the FBI has a file on me, having investigated both my parents (Mom for getting arrested in Chicago in 1968, Dad for working on The Pentagon Papers) and because I was a member of a high-profile hippie commune in the Haight-Ashbury, which was there and visible for many years.
So I've probably got an FBI file.
And you know what?
I've decided I'm fine with that.
In fact, I welcome it.
I WANT the fascists to know what I think of them.
I welcome their hatred and suspicion.
I WANT them to know that this piddly little nobody of an ant on their picnic table is shaking his fist at them while telling them to fuck themselves.
Go ahead, fascists.
Keep all the files on me you want.
You can't hurt me...