Posted on 02/01/2005 8:12:43 AM PST by kellynla
As I wrote to CU/Boulder -and to Hamilton College. I will
defend his right to free speech.but recognize as well the
institutes of higher education do NOT recognize the rights
of the student body ,or faculty to Free speech.They encourage ingorance by inviting this schlepp to speak.
I compare what he published to the blasphemy published by
Thomas Paine And feel the educated idiot ought recieve a
similar response. Until Paine felt the pain of being a man
without American freedom he did not regret the blasphemy he
published.Ward C. ought feel the same pain for what he has claimed.I have no sympathy for this whiner.
Yikes! I am so sorry. I just looked at the name kelly and assumed. Well you know assumptions start with ass and I've done a good job.
Semper fi to you sir and thank you for your service to our country
Bingo. On the other hand, what do you do with a degree in Ethnic Studies?
"Want fries with that, white oppressor?"
I GUESS OUR EMAILS & TELEPHONE CALLS WORKED!
yabba dabba dooooooooo! LOL
now for getting this traitor removed from University of Colorado!!!
"College cancels Churchill's talk"
By Rocky Mountain News
February 1, 2005
The New York state college whose invitation to CU professor Ward Churchill touched off a firestorm of controversy cancelled his talk this morning over security concerns.
Hamilton College told the professor it is concerned that Clinton, N.Y., police might not be able to provide adequate security for the ethnic studies professor at the panel discussion scheduled Thursday because of the number of death threats made against him in response to his essay that argued the 9/11 attacks were justified and compared victims to Adolf Eichmann, the chief operative in Hitler's extermination of the Jews during World War II.
"Considerable threats of violence have been directed at the college and members of the panel," said Hamilton president Joan Hinde Stewart. "I have made the decision to cancel the event in the interest of protecting those at risk."
Churchill has 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 an essay written the day of the attacks.
Churchill's essay referred to victims of the World Trade Center attacks as "little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers."
In a 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 wrote in a statement accompanying his announcement to step down as chair of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado.
The essay, On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, was intended 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.'"
They might not be able tofire him, but they are NOT required to let him actually teach a class...
Thank you!
I was proud to serve with some of the finest Marines the Corps has ever produced!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
"They might not be able to fire him"
Have you ever seen a Marine in combat?
Well, this traitor WILL BE REMOVED!
PERIOD!
one way or the other...
We've lost too many good people since 9/11 to let this POS roam about the University of Colorado!
Yes, I do. Tenure, in my opinion, serves no good purpose. It rewards laziness and incompetence, and really doesn't protect conservatives very effectively. There are all sorts of ways of driving someone out, if you want to do so.
I would replace tenure with a rolling five-year evaluation. This would ensure that faculty don't get fired for one weak year's publications or a couple of bad teaching evaluations, but that those who've settled into quasi-retirement get the boot.
By the way, I've never experienced any substantial sanctions for being an outspoken campus conservative. That may be because I'm a hard scientist, and scientists are rarely ideologues to the same extent as humanities and soc. sci. types. My departmental colleagues are amused by my politics; several of them agree with them (and a few disagree sharply); but none care enough to try to get me fired.
My friend is going to law school. Her grades were not good enough to get her into law school before switching majors. This major insures that minorities will fill more slots in the grad schools and that's the reason that I called it an affirmative action major.
To change the rules in mid-stream for currently employed instructors would create these problems. However, tenure could be eliminated for new hires. And how can you be certain that conservative instructors would all be fired or that none of them deserved it? And do you really believe that elementary and high school teachers should be given jobs for life? Remember this policy affects our youngest children, not just young adults. Job security is not some "right" to which we are entitled.
Unfortunately, this cretin will be celebrated by the inhabitants of The People's Republic of Boulder. Trust me, I grew up there. To give you some idea of the level of socialism that we're dealing with - speeding 4-19mph is a $500 fine. 19mph + is a $1,000 fine. I'm not kidding.
That's like throwing Brer Rabbit in the briar patch. You think faculty want to teach classes?
Be advised, there are plenty of good Marines living in Colorado. So I wouldn't bet against us getting him removed...one way or the other.
ping
we've got the speech Hamilton College cancelled!
now for getting the POS removed from Univ. of Colorado!
You are playing with fire. The administrators are generally more leftist that tenured faculty. These leftist administrators would love any excuse to fire conservative faculty or silence them and your proposal to eliminate tenutre would play right into their hands..
If you truly want reform, then support term limits for administrators. They are the main danger on college campuses today, not leftist faculty.
He resigned is post, although he will still teach. He is just one of many ultra liberal professors teaching the mushy kids.
Your proposal will only empower college administrators who are generally *more* leftist that college faculty. It will lead them to engage in mass firings of conservatives. That is ssimple fact. More of the diversity training nonsese, for example, comes from administrators not faculty. Do you really want to give them more power?
If you truly support reform of higher education, then you should first support proposals to eliminate the iron grip of PC professional administrators (most of whom earn six figure salaries, don't publish, and are heavily into thought reform).
He has resigned his chairmanship, but since he is tenured, he will continue to "teach."
yea, but he's still there and I understand taking down 90K a year!!!
that will not stand!
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