[neverdem]

University of Colorado, Boulder
Ward Churchill was critical of trade center victims.

[Tarpaulin]

Bit of a jerk, that fellow.

[Calpernia]

This one?

[beltfed308]

It sure took them long enough to pull the plug on this jerk. Of course a picture is worth a thousand words. As the saying goes "Once a hippy always a hippy".

[mammer]

I am willing to bet money no one threatened to bring a gun, they just can't admit to their liberal friends that money is more important than a fellow professors free speech.

[trebb]

"His remarks about the victims of 9/11 are repellent, but our reaction to 'repellent' is how we test the right to free speech," Ms. Stewart said in an interview on Tuesday shortly before addressing the turn of events with the Hamilton faculty, who gave her a standing ovation.

Actually, the reaction of being repelled by 'repellent' is how we test the decency and morality of a people...

[processing please hold]

That sorry bastard.(pardon my french)

Never Forget!!!!

[the_Watchman]

Deciding to not provide your podium to a total jerk is NOT a matter of free speech.

When the speaker is someone from the American Nazi Party, they seem to understand the issue correctly. They only stumble over themselves when the offended person is a leftist.

The real telling part of this whole episode is that Churchill had been the Chair of the Department of Ethics at CU!!

[Polyxene]

GOOD! Get him where it will hurt the most -- his pocketbook! BTW -- If he truly believed the tripe he spews, he would not be on the lecture circuit earning extra money. Isn't that capitalistic and doesn't he eschew everything that capitalistic America stands for?? Hypocrite!

[grobdriver]

"In the end, free speech couldn't happen at Hamilton."

Oh, he can speak alright. No one except the college has the power to deny him that.
They just have to be prepared to accept the consequences of the free speech of others in response.

[Sax]

"We did our best to protect the principles and the values that we believe in - the right to speak, to study, to teach freely - but the point came that I simply felt that this threat was too large for us to handle," said Ms. Stewart, who was told by campus security that even additional police officers could not ensure safety.

Lies plain and simple. This guy is not Solomon Rushdie - it wasn't security that was the deciding factor, it was damage control on their own reputation. How about honesty for a change Ms. Stewart? We've had enough spin lately.

[cksharks]

When they let a prolife,progun,procaptilist,anticommunist speak then they can bitch.

[Lee Heggy]

Nutjob with a degree.

[appalachian_dweller]

>> In his original essay, Mr. Churchill wrote that the thousands killed at the World Trade Center had played a role in American sanctions on Iraq that "translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants." <<

Typical America hating liberal. I really wish these folks would learn about what they are talking about. I've seen reports that Saddam would not allow the kids to receive the medicines sent. He wanted them to die in a ploy to have the sanctions removed. I wish I could find that thread.

[international american]

"She denounced his comments in December, but said rescinding the invitation would harm First Amendment principles."

Where in the First Amendment does it protect the promotion of terrorism, and mass murder?

[nina0113]

Mr. Churchill - who had planned to give his remarks Thursday in a flak jacket with two bodyguards in tow

Drama queen.

[speed_addiction]

People fail to grasp one very simple concept about the freedom of speech. Freedom to speak does not mean anyone has to listen to you. If I refuse to pay money or even show up to hear you, I am not infringing on your freedom of speech, I am exercising my right not to hear you.

[gridlock]

Note they did not cancel this speaker because he is a jacka$$. Academia is immune to common sense.

[Lazamataz]

Mr. Churchill - who had planned to give his remarks Thursday in a flak jacket with two bodyguards in tow

I believe an American Fatwa has been issued on Churchill. I suspect this will be his normal routine from now on.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[shekkian]

It's good to see the college call off the appearance. I don't believe threats are a wise way to protest, but what's done is done.