Posted on 02/01/2005 8:12:43 AM PST by kellynla
The fate of a tenured University of Colorado professor who compared victims of the 9-11 World Trade Center terror attacks to Nazis, while praising the suicide hijackers for their "gallant sacrifices" will be decided at a special meeting of the school's board of regents Thursday night.
In the meantime, Ward Churchill, who yesterday preemptively stepped down as chairman of the Ethnic Studies Department, remains a professor of Ethnic Studies and Coordinator of American Indian Studies at the Colorado school.
The controversy stems from an essay Churchill wrote titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," written shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. In it, he describes the thousands of American victims who died in the World Trade Center inferno as "little Eichmanns" (a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann) who were perpetuating America's "mighty engine of profit." They were destroyed, he added, thanks to the "gallant sacrifices" of "combat teams" that successfully targeted the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
The 2001 essay emerged from obscurity onto center stage when Churchill was invited recently to speak at Hamilton College, in Clinton, N.Y., near Syracuse. Hundreds of relatives of Sept. 11 victims are protesting Churchill's appearance at Hamilton, which is scheduled for Thursday. However, the college's president, Joan Hinde Stewart, assured the Associated Press that "however repugnant one might find Mr. Churchill's remarks," the college would honor his right to free speech and the show would go on.
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I don't think he can...he's there for life.
My theory is, he caused 9/11.
Ms. Laura Ingram doing a great job with this on her show.
TO: Mr. Ward Churchill
FM: BOARD OF REGENTS
RE: "Praising 9/11 Terrorists"
DT: 2/3/05
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"American victims who died in the World Trade Center inferno as "little Eichmanns" (a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann) who were perpetuating America's "mighty engine of profit."
Apparently this moron really thinks the WTC was destroyed by Marxist revolutionaries. I guess that's not a great leap if he really believes the towers were populated with capitalist oppressors. No mental problems here.
The Board can make him quit. They are quite good at that kind of thing.
But I'll bet the farm they buy him out.
Why hasn't anyone considered this essay as evidence of real mental illness? Perhaps Churchill should be on medical leave pending the outcome of a mental evaluation. I suspect he's certifiable.....in which case he could then collect under a Long Term Disability Policy, be relieved of his teaching duties, and both schools could bow out of this semi-gracefully.
His mind is ill. No doubt about that.
The school may take a markedly different stance if they watch their enrollment drop by 50% or more. This kind of treason needs to carry consequences! While there most certainly is freedom of speech in this country, that speech carries responsibility and consequences.
People need to condemn this terrorist sympathizer in every way possible, in the strongest terms.
Here is the contact infor for the interim chancellor of Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. Please let them know how you feel!
Interim Chancellor Phillip P. DiStefano
Phone:
303-492-8908
University of Colorado, Boulder
17 UCB
Regent 301
Boulder, CO
80309
This traitor needs to be shot!
Well I agree that he is there for life but what do we do
with traitors?
That should end his tenure.
"Hey man, back off!"
This guy is only one small step away from Ted Kaczinski.
Did the bus boys at Windows of the World know they were War Criminals?
That's what Michael Savage always says. Liberalism is mental illness!
Or one hop scoth from Ted Kennedy!
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