Posted on 02/12/2005 7:22:14 AM PST by Snapple
The University of Colorado is....hearing from Indian country [http://www.indiancountry.com] scholars whose previous protests against Churchill's appointment fell on deaf ears. The three-person panel reviewing Churchill's work is receiving studies that accuse him of fabricating evidence for his academic writing and even of plagiarism. At least one member of the UC faculty has also questioned why the University hired and promoted Churchill in the first place...
Charges such as these will be grist for the University of Colorado review mill over the next 30 days. As DiStefano described it at the tumultuous Board of Regents meeting, it would consider two questions: ''1) Does Professor Churchill's conduct, including his speech, provide any grounds for dismissal for cause, as described in the Regents' Laws? And (2) if so, is this conduct or speech protected by the First Amendment against University action?''
He said the review would provide due process in consultation with University counsel. ''Even as the debate continues,'' he said, ''we must understand the serious nature of actions to terminate or suspend a professor on the basis of conduct that includes political speech.''
In addition to DiStefano, other members of the panel will be Arts and Sciences Dean Todd Gleeson and Law Dean David Getches, an authority on Indian law and a founder of the Native American Rights Fund.
(Excerpt) Read more at indiancountry.com ...
wrote UC Law Professor Paul Campos in a newspaper column, ''Churchill lacks what are normally considered the minimum requirements for a tenure-track job at a research university: he never earned a doctorate, and his only degrees are a bachelor's and a master's from a then-obscure Illinois college.
''To the extent that Churchill was hired because he claimed to be a Native American, he would seem to be guilty of academic fraud.''
Campos cites two articles, now available on the Internet, that document separate instances in which Churchill allegedly invented evidence out of whole cloth to support polemics against U.S. and tribal governments. One, by Thomas Brown, assistant professor of Sociology at Lamar University, charges that Churchill simply made up a story that the U.S. Army deliberately caused a devastating 1837 smallpox epidemic in the upper Plains by distributing infected blankets to the Mandan Tribe.
Although documents exist to show that the English Lord Amherst approved such a strategy - one of the earliest examples of biological warfare - in the mid-18th century, Brown wrote that none of Churchill's citations supported his charge against the U.S. Army and in fact showed the contrary: that the 1837 epidemic was a natural disaster. Yet, said Brown, Churchill not only repeated the story but also embellished in a series of writings.
The article is available at http://hal.lamar.edu/~browntf/Churchill1.htm.
University of New Mexico Law Professor John P. LaVelle published an article in the spring 1999 ''Wicazo Sa Review'' tracking Churchill's false assertion that the General Allotment Act of 1887 included blood quantum requirements. LaVelle found that the statement, unsupported by any evidence, appeared in 18 of Churchill's writings. He described it as part of Churchill's ''propaganda-driven attack on tribal self-determination.''
In addition, a lengthy footnote described several apparent instances of plagiarism in the 1992 essay collection, ''The State of Native America: Genocide, Colonization and Resistance,'' published in the Race and Resistance Series of South End Press, Boston. (The pattern is somewhat complicated, since LaVelle concluded that Churchill had also provided language for his collaborators in the volume.)
A link to the article appears on LaVelle's University of New Mexico Web site at http://lawschool.unm.edu/faculty/lavelle/publications.htm.
Thanks for the post. I think they're gonna get him.
I hope everyone remembers that his horrible words were the words of a white man who exploited Indians for his advancement. His views are NOT the views of Indian people.
This is just one more reason that this clown is a fraud, as if there weren't enough already. It's disgusting that this kind of crap is rampant in today's universities under the guise of education.
Whenever these idiots gets exposed, the university system always rants that all opinions are important and this guy is doing a good thing be exercising his 1st Amendment rights, which the university supports.
Try to get Jerry Falwell, Clarence Thomas, or Wayne LaPierre a speaking spot at a university and see how fast their arguments break down.
We can only hope this happens. Maybe it would send a message to other America hating professors.
Lone Ranger (Churchill) to Tonto: "The Indians have us surrounded."
Tonto: "What do you mean...us?"
That would be great irony to have the Indians defeat a fake Indian.
Lone Ranger (Churchill) to Tonto: "The Indians have us surrounded."
Tonto: "What do you mean...us?"
That would be great irony to have the Indians defeat a fake Indian.
KInda of weaird. Churchill, a fake Indian, is a member of a political party that had a fake black man for President.
Worse, any questions raised about leftwing idiocy were never answered, but attacked--sometimes physically. This atmosphere allowed Stalinist liars like Churchill to become more bold until even their academic fellow travelers could not defend them anymore.
Within 5 years, Churchill will either be in the brig or stoned in a flophouse.
It is dangerous to go after Churchill.
Here is the excellent article by Campos comparing Churchill to a Facist.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1341658/posts
Campos writes, "That through whatever combination of negligence, cowardice and complicity we have allowed Ward Churchill to besmear those ideals by invoking them in the defense of his contemptible rantings is now our burden and our shame."
Campos mentions cowardice. People should be afraid of Churchill because he has those Dog Soldiers--AIM's security/enforcement gorillas.
The University is being very brave. They are confronting a real terrorist. Ward churchill is a terrorist. He advocates the destruction of the US and is in AIM which has bombed and killed.
I don't think this guy just talks.
Or hiding out with Lee Hill and planning how to kill Americans of all colors--white, Indian, Black, conservatives, liberals.
He hates us all.
They need to find Lee Hill.
Churchill is not a liberal.
Tonto: "What do you mean...us?"
I think the complete response was "What do you mean, 'us,' White Man?"
Never said he was. I called him a Stalinist.
Churchill is not a Democrat. He is an anarchist. He is more in line with communists or facists.
He is nothing to do with Democrats. Liberal professors are disgusted by him, too. It is just difficult to get him out without violating free speech or a lawsuit.
This man does not accept democracy and elections.
We may be more conservative that the Democrats but they do accept our core values of democracy and elections.
You say, "Churchill is not a liberal."
What is that statement based on? You certainly wouldn't describe him as a conservative? If it walks like a liberal, talks like a liberal and lives off the system like a liberal, it is most likely a liberal.
Then I guess the Feds will be looking at him too.
(if they aren't already)
OK, it seemed that you said he was against conservatives. He would be against real liberals too.
Let's not use Churchill to bash the liberals. They don't own him any more than the Indians do.
We need to make common cause on this fight.
His words are those of a disgusting human being. The sort that can be found among people of all descriptions.
RoK
I don't know any liberals who call for the violent overthrow of the US.
I am liberal on some issues and conservative on others. I voted for Bush, but I see much to admire in honest liberals.
And I have been after the Colorado AIM for years. It is the educated and generally liberal Indian intellectuals who have been exposing Ward Churchill.
The liberals have been in the fight against Ward Churchill and his kind for years because he is ripping off the Indians.
We want the liberals with us on this.
Don't confuse sociopaths with anarchists. Means and Churchill are no Sacco and Vanzetti, no Rosa Luxemborg. Churchill's more like Guiteau. Means is a balloon.
What?
Dead people voting is free elections?
You kid yourself if you think democrats want free elections and support democracy.
If they supported democracy, why would they go against the will of the majority of the people on idea such as gay marriage and abortion?
If they support democracy, then why do the have the media lie and suppress the expression of ideas which they find offensive to their minority?
Hey, this is amazing -- I had some vague remembrance of Guiteau's bio but the more it is examined the wilder it is, and the more like "Prof" Churchill's!
The wild man:
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/guiteau/
The AIM activist Lee Hill tried to discredit the FBI by manipulating the JonBenet Ramsey trial.
HE brought forth fake witnesses and used clients to manipulate the grand jury to promote a conspiracy theory that a ring of highly-placed pedophiles were operating with FBI/police protection.
Lee Hill even ran for public office in Boulder. Now he is on the run--this attorney skipped out on his bail and is hiding from the law on assault and weapons charges. He carries burglar tools. He is Ward Churchill's comrade in Colorado Denver/Boulder AIM
See:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1336690/posts
At the University of Colorado-Boulder Employment Application Information", it takes you to here Classified Job Announcements, which allows you to click onto Job Application Forms, which brings you to the three format choices for the application (pdf, word, text). At the bottom of one of the pages for the online text version application form, it reads thus:
CERTIFICATION: I certify that I possess the experience, education and/or licenses required for the job for which I am applying. I also certify that all statements, information and documents provided with this application are true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and are made in good faith. I understand that omissions, misleading, false or untrue information, or any attempt at fraud or deceit in any manner connected with this application and subsequent testing may result in my NOT being considered for jobs with the State of Colorado; may constitute grounds for discipline and/or termination after hire; and/or may constitute grounds for further actions pursuant to law. If requested, I can and will supply documentation that will confirm that the entries made on this application are true, complete and correct. Notice to Individuals applying for employment with a child care provider or facility, per Colorado Revised Statues ( C.R.S.) 26-6-105.5, "Any applicant who knowingly or willfully makes a false statement of any material fact or thing in this application is guilty of perjury in the second degree as defined in section 18-8-503, Colorado Revised Statutes, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished accordingly." I am also aware that the State of Colorado has a payroll direct deposit requirement for employment. When needed I can supply the correct documentation for direct deposit.
A lot of Democrats went against the majority when they were for civil rights. I admire these liberal who have tried to get everyone a chance to participate in the system.
They are promoting their views, but if they lose they don't advocate violent overthrow of the government.
Democrats support democracy.
"may constitute grounds for discipline and/or termination after hire; and/or may constitute grounds for further actions pursuant to law. If requested, I can and will supply documentation that will confirm that the entries made on this application are true, complete and correct."
Exactly. And I hope he signed something like this when he was hired.
This is the kind of stuff they need to get him on. Not stuff that can be argued on free speech rights.
I vote Republican because of some of these issues, too.
I still admire what liberals have done historically for the little guy.
I am disturbed by how they have embraced some issues.
Still, they do not advocate violent revolution. Churchill does.
The Indians who are the most effective at exposing Churchill are liberals. Give them their due.
I'm positive he signed something like that...these clauses have long been in teacher applications and US government/state applications.....he's hung himself and there's nothing the ACLU can do about the consequence(s) of an applicant's "certification" with regard to his/her fraudulent application.
With that said, I have no idea where you came up with an anti-liberal slant in my postings on this thread about Churchill. But, since you insist on bringing it up, I'm happy to diagree with you. Cheers!
and he did such a good job during world war 2
Yes, everything about the left is fake!
I think we aren't really in disagreement except about how we define liberals.
I don't define liberals as leftists. I do agree the left is getting too much power in the Democratic party, but I still see a difference.
Had Charles Guiteau lived today, being the lying no-account deadbeat he was, he would surely have attached himself to some political cause -- as he did attempt to join the "Half-Breed" branch of the GOP, and would have weaseled his way in to modern deadbeat's sinecure of a college professorship.
It is just difficult to get him out without violating free speech or a lawsuit.
Which begs the question: exactly why, how, and by whom, was this fool hired by the UC? If there is a lesson in this for UC, it is to examine the manner in which they place anyone on their campus to so-called 'teach'. They created this mess themselves with their blind desire to 'diversify'.
Ward Churchill isn't just a big mouth.
He is a terrorist. He has terrorized Indians for a long time. I really want to see the full truth come out.
HE is a real behind-the-scenes kind of guy.
Probably. But Ward Churchill also has ways of "making an offer you can't refuse."
People don't like to tell that they did something because they were scared.
Boulder should see about keeping Churchill's Dog Soldiers off campus. These are AIM's security/enforcement good squad.
It doesn't get much better than this.
Churchill ping!
In the 1950's members of the American Communist Party were jailed and/or deported for advocating the violent overthrow of the United States government.
You are sadly misinformed if you think liberals have done anything at all for the good of the 'little guy'.
He claims it would be dangerous to dismiss the professor because it's a free speech issue.
Perhaps Carrigan was born and bred to the manner of the ACLU.
How many on that goon squad?
I think that's the nub of it. The drift I got from the article was that his defenders would use the First Amendment ploy rather than his bogus credentials, which should be the prominent reason.
A ray of hope:
"The three-person panel reviewing Churchill's work is receiving studies that accuse him of fabricating evidence for his academic writing and even of plagiarism. At least one member of the UC faculty has also questioned why the University hired and promoted Churchill in the first place.[sic 'em!!]
'To the extent that Churchill was hired because he claimed to be a Native American, he would seem to be guilty of academic fraud.'"
It would be great if this were the first shot in exposing the incestuous relationship these left-wing professors have with book sellers and other academic leeches.
I don't know. I think the FBI knows about Dog Soldiers because they cause trouble on the reservations.
A writer for Indian Country Today noted that AIM security protected Churchill. That would be the Dog Soldiers.
They are like gangsters and very dangerous.
These college leaders may be scared like the Indians are when the Dog Soldiers intimidate their officials.
Just because the Colorado regents are more sophisticated doesn't mean you can't scare them with the Dog Soldiers.
That would be Paul Campos who is questioning why Churchill was hired in the first place. Scroll up and read about him.
He also said that the university had exhibited "cowardice."
Maybe he is alluding to these Dog Soldiers. Hard to be positive.
It could be that Churchill has his job because AIM made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Churchill is a dangerous person. He is not just a big mouth.
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