Dismantling the Politics of Comfort
The Satya Interview with Ward Churchill
Posted on 02/01/2005 10:00:47 AM PST by doug from upland
At C.U. is a professor...and Ward Churchill is the man's name
This man molds mush-headed students...it's a real crying shame
He spills bilge in ethnic studies...9-11's justified
The folks who died, well, they were Nazis...that should come as no surprise
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...tell us what you've had to smoke
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...while you teach, you shouldn't toke
Hamilton put out a welcome...it had not been received too well
Your pals killed innocent people...there's no virgins in their hell
In New York, if you try speaking...one man won't give you a pass
Yes, Mike Moran will grab you firmly...he'll make you kiss his Irish ***
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...tell us what you've had to smoke
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...while you teach, you shouldn't toke
While you teach, you shouldn't toke
LOL - riiiiight
Who is this man?
Recently there was a story about a kid with downs syndrome being recruited as a suicide bomber. I bet when they told him he would get 72 virgins, he asked: "What's that?" Anyway, I wonder what Churchill thinks of recruiting the handicapped as suicide bombers.
Thanks! I'd never heard of him.
O'Reilly stated last night Churchill has tendered his resignation - but the politically correct "regents" or whoever is running the show will probably turn it down.
I hate that he adopted the name Churchill - unless it comes from Churchill Manitoba and has nothing to do with the Brit.
Text of Ward Churchill statement -- (Pinko Alert!)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2686093,00.html ^
Posted on 02/01/2005 1:33:05 PM PST by jasoncann
By DenverPost.com
Here is the text of a statement distributed to the media Monday on behalf of University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill. Spelling and punctuation have been left unaltered.
Press Release - Ward Churchill January 31, 2005
In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has 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, and I hope the following facts will be reported at least to the same extent that the fabrications have been. Advertisement
* The piece circulating on the internet was developed into a book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens. Most of the book is a detailed chronology of U.S. military interventions since 1776 and U.S. violations of international law since World War II. My point is 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.
* I am not a "defender"of the September 11 attacks, but simply 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."
* This is not to say that I advocate violence; as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam I witnessed and participated in more violence than I ever wish to see. What I am saying is that if we want an end to violence, especially that perpetrated against civilians, we must take the responsibility for halting the slaughter perpetrated by the United States around the world. My feelings are reflected in Dr. King's April 1967 Riverside speech, where, when asked about the wave of urban rebellions in U.S. cities, he said, "I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed . . . without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government."
* In 1996 Madeleine Albright, then Ambassador to the UN and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, did not dispute that 500,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of economic sanctions, but stated on national television that "we" had decided it was "worth the cost." I mourn the victims of the September 11 attacks, just as I mourn the deaths of those Iraqi children, the more than 3 million people killed in the war in Indochina, those who died in the U.S. invasions of Grenada, Panama and elsewhere in Central America, the victims of the transatlantic slave trade, and the indigenous peoples still subjected to genocidal policies. If we respond with callous disregard to the deaths of others, we can only expect equal callousness to American deaths.
* Finally, I have never characterized all the September 11 victims as "Nazis." What I said was that the "technocrats of empire" working in the World Trade Center were the equivalent of "little Eichmanns." Adolf Eichmann was not charged with direct killing but with ensuring the smooth running of the infrastructure that enabled the Nazi genocide. Similarly, German industrialists were legitimately targeted by the Allies.
* It is not disputed that the Pentagon was a military target, or that a CIA office was situated in the World Trade Center. Following the logic by which U.S. Defense Department spokespersons have consistently sought to justify target selection in places like Baghdad, this placement of an element of the American "command and control infrastructure" in an ostensibly civilian facility converted the Trade Center itself into a "legitimate" target. Again following U.S. military doctrine, as announced in briefing after briefing, those who did not work for the CIA but were nonetheless killed in the attack amounted to no more than "collateral damage." If the U.S. public is prepared to accept these "standards" when the are routinely applied to other people, they should be not be surprised when the same standards are applied to them.
* It should be emphasized that I applied the "little Eichmanns" characterization only to those described as "technicians." Thus, it was obviously not directed to the children, janitors, food service workers, firemen and random passers-by killed in the 9-1-1 attack. According to Pentagon logic, were simply part of the collateral damage. Ugly? Yes. Hurtful? Yes. And that's my point. It's no less ugly, painful or dehumanizing a description when applied to Iraqis, Palestinians, or anyone else. If we ourselves do not want to be treated in this fashion, we must refuse to allow others to be similarly devalued and dehumanized in our name.
* The bottom line of my argument is that the best and perhaps only way to prevent 9-1-1-style attacks on the U.S. is for American citizens to compel their government to comply with the rule of law. The lesson of Nuremberg is that this is not only our right, but our obligation. To the extent we shirk this responsibility, we, like the "Good Germans" of the 1930s and '40s, are complicit in its actions and have no legitimate basis for complaint when we suffer the consequences. This, of course, includes me, personally, as well as my family, no less than anyone else.
* These points are clearly stated and documented in my book, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, which recently won Honorary Mention for the Gustavus Myer Human Rights Award. for best writing on human rights. Some people will, of course, disagree with my analysis, but it presents questions that must be addressed in academic and public debate if we are to find a real solution to the violence that pervades today's world. The gross distortions of what I actually said can only be viewed as an attempt to distract the public from the real issues at hand and to further stifle freedom of speech and academic debate in this country.
He almost looks like Imus.
Just sent to the Republican club on campus. I'd love to see them do an MP3 and pass it around campus. :) I made a few changes for them.
Bwaahahahahah. I sent this to the college Republicans. They got back to me right away and said they will share it with the campus.
We are sick of PC nonsense...we will not give you a pass
It's about time you were confronted...and told your head is in your ***
Ping
At UC is a professor...and Ward Churchill is the man's name
This man molds mush-headed students...it's a real crying shame
He spills bilge in ethnic studies...9-11's justified
The folks who died, well, they were Nazis...that should come as no surprise
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...tell us what you've had to smoke
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...while you teach, you shouldn't toke
Hamilton put out a welcome...it had not been received too well
Your pals killed innocent people...there's no virgins in their hell
We are sick of PC nonsense...we will not give you a pass
It's about time you were confronted...and told your head is in your ***
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...tell us what you've had to smoke
Churchill, what is in your peacepipe...while you teach, you shouldn't toke
While you teach, you shouldn't toke
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