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Posted on 02/13/2005 7:03:02 PM PST by Jay777
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 8, 2005
The First Amendment of the U. S. Constitution protects Ward Churchill's right to speak or write his opinions and it protects the rights of his detractors to say they do not like what he wrote or said. The ACLU of Colorado stands firmly for these rights of free speech.
The ACLU of Colorado calls upon the Regents, legislators and the Governor to stop threatening Mr. Churchill's job because of the content of his opinions. This governmental interference with the content of Mr. Churchill's constitutionally protected opinions tramples on fundamental American values.
The Regents should take care that the Chancellor's investigation of Mr. Churchill's competence is not a fishing expedition to find something - anything - to use as an excuse to fire him. If that happens, their action will be subjected to a high level of scrutiny to determine if it is really a guise to fire him for the content of his writing. As Justice Anthony Kennedy said, "[t]he First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech."
Free speech means we may hear something we do not want to hear. However, that does not give anyone the right to stifle dissent, especially on a university campus. After World War I, when the United States was gripped with fear over the first red scare, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes urged Americans to tolerate even opinions "that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death." It is understandable that people found Mr. Churchill's comment offensive. His language was harsh and he pointed his finger of blame for the attacks at the U.S. government, not at the zealots who flew the planes....
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Thank You, ACLU of Colorado, for letting us know, once again, who you stand with.
Can we threaten him because he is a liar and a plagiarist?
And his employer has the freedom of speech to say "your fired"
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They will pull a Clinton on this one. You can't get rid of Clinton because it was "just a few indiscretions" and it's wrong to get rid of a president for that. NO matter that he was involved in selling compromising satellite technology to the Chinese or perjury or any of the other crimes.
Here, though Churchill has a whole list of offenses worthy of dismissal, they will focus on "offensive speech" and since you can't dismiss a tenured prof because of that, you can't dismiss him for anything.
Freedom of Speech does not include immunity from repercussions from insulting, unwanted comments!
Note to the ACLU- Freedom of Speech doesn't extend to sedition and treason.
Those should be the reasons he should be fired. Wouldn't any other professor be fired for those reasons?
The First Amendment does not protect that loon from-
A) Being exposed and experiencing consequences for making bogus statements that insult the memory of those killed 9/11, those who protect our freedom, and our nation.
B) CU firing him for acting in a way that harms CU. Most all tenured profs. can be fired for the behavior.
Employers have the right to fire folks.
Furthermore, he lied when he represented himself as a member of a native american idian tribe. He is a ethnic studies prof. and he lied about that issue.
He has not been jailed for spreading his idiotic crap.
His first amendment has not been violated.
I call for a full IRS,DEA, FBI, CIA and other full anal exam of the ACLU.
Time they move to NK or elsewhere.
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Freedom of speech is one thing, but teaching that B.S. to our children is quite another. He should not be permitted to teach that in the classroom. He should stick to what is in the textbooks.
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He merely drew attention to himself with his speaches and publications. They would not be the reason for a dismissal. They are like a broken tail light that a Policeman stops a car for only to notice a gun and crack pipe on the seat.
Free speech means we may hear something we do not want to hear. However, that does not give anyone the right to stifle dissent, especially on a university campus.
Unless of course you are a Christian, or are against the homosexual agenda for any reason, or a law abiding, honest, tax paying Conservative!
BTW, ACLU, he has free speech, but that does not mean he has to be paid to excercise it. He can get on a soap box and say whatever he wants, the University does not have to pay him for it.
Any tribal members out there who are bothered by this?
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