Posted on 01/31/2005 6:23:36 PM PST by freespirited
Embattled University of Colorado ethnic studies professor Ward Churchill today released a lengthy statement defending his controversial essay concerning the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.
Also, today, he resigned his post of chairman of the ethnic studies program but not his professorship — because he did not want the attention focused on him to reflect on fellow department members.
Churchill has been in the eye of a media hurricane since last week when students and 9/11 victims' family members began to protest his scheduled Thursday appearance on a panel at Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y. Churchill had triggered angry reactions in many quarters with his argument that American foreign policy, including support for U.N. sanctions of Iraq following the first Gulf War, had done much to provoke the terrorists' actions.
In his statement released Monday, Churchill protested what he called "grossly inaccurate media coverage," which had "resulted in defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself," Churchill stated.
The essay, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, wasintended to make the point "that we cannot allow the U.S. government, acting in our name, to engage in massive violations of international law and fundamental human rights and not expect to reap the consequences."
Denying that he is a "defender" of the September 11 attacks, Churchill said, he had simply been "pointing out that if U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
"I have never said that people "should" engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy. As Martin Luther King, quoting Robert F. Kennedy, said, 'Those who make peaceful change impossible make violent change inevitable'."
I'll post his latest manifesto separately. It's a doozie.
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This POS should have had to live in Iran or pre-war Iraq for a while.
Does this guy have any loved ones, or property?
For decades we have had to endure the leftist media poisoning the airwaves, sure he can speak, but it doesn't immune him from being responsible for what he says. There are laws currently on the books about people who encourage our enemies and excuse their crimes against the innocent, and this dirt bag Churchill is very close to crossing the line.
I would love to see this traitor speak to a large gathering of the FDNY, somehow I doubt he has the nads.
Freep the poll.
Yep, that's really him.
Poster child for the Democrat party.
I'm confused Professor Churchill. Based on what you wrote, doesn't defamation and threats against your life qualify as free speech? After all, it is only words that are being uttered just like your comparing the victims of 9/11 to being 'little Eichmanns'.
Maybe he should just admit that what he said was offensive.
It'll be a cold day in Hell when he does that. Liberals rarely apologize for being wrong, even when they know they're wrong.
The only "chair" this man ought to inhabit faces the back of the room and comes with a dunce cap. By the way, thanks ever so much for encouraging our mortal enemies, Churchill. May what you truly deserve never visit you, lest you not survive to see the victory of the Good that you detest over the Evil you have given hope to.
You are correct, they never admit their mistakes. They merely go on to the next mistake.
No. The reason he didn't resign his professorship was he knows he'll never find anyone stupid enough to hire him again.If he had any guts at all (??) he'd resign and stand on the statement he made. Then, that'd be expecting too much.
And what? Stop accepting those filthy dollars, those symbols of putrid American capitolism that have the word "God" written on them? No way! The world does not have enough "Ethnic Studies" professors as it is.
He lives in Boulder, therefore he is superior to all. How would you like to have him teaching your kids?
NOT HIS PROFESSORSHIP being the key words.
Commies can't leave the Education system... especially with big bucks pensions involved!
you got that right.
a leftist enclave.
superior to the peasants they rule over.
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