Posted on 02/04/2005 4:38:34 PM PST by Indy Pendance
Have the good Chancellor invite Sean Hannity or Ann Coulter to speak. You know, in the interest of free speech and all!
What annoys me to no end is that these supposedly learned academics do not comprehend the simple concept of free speech. It means that the law will not prevent you from speaking your mind. It does not, I repeat not, mean that others, whether taxpayers or employers, are compelled to subsidize this speech. What is so difficult about this? I think their ignorance is a self-serving and determined refusal to recognize the truth.
Oh, jeepers, have Ann Coulter "debate" Churchill, if she would bother to appear anywhere near him.
I have heard Judge Andrew Napolitano, on Fox News, say several times today that it would be illegal to fire Churchill because the right of tenured professors to say ANYTHING they want to say is settled law...under the context of free speech. He said if the university tries to fire Churchill they will end up owing lawyer's fees and a big settlement--plus they will be ordered to reinstate him. I just HOPE this is not true.
No kidding. Free speech means that people have the right to say what they want, yet there are consequences to those words. I don't grasp how that escapes liberals.
Sad to say that is the plain truth. There are enough liberal Extremists in all of our institutions that, should he be properly terminated he likely will end up in a more lucrative bully pulpit very quickly. the Liberal Establishment will accept anything except Moderate or Conservative views which, as opposed to their espoused dedication to 'Free Speech' they denounce as 'Hate Speech from Nazis'. Pathetic.
The First Amendment means he won't go to jail for it. It doesn't mean he can keep his job, d*mb@ss. Consider, too, that his job is publicly funded.
the right to free speech is not a right to be heard or a right to hold on to a job.
Bingo. Any American of average intelligence should know that. Our founding fathers would be SO proud of us.</sarcasm>
"have Ann Coulter "debate" Churchill"
The problem is the lefties wouldn't let Coulter set foot on campus. That's their idea of free speech.
Just *&#$ing lovely, ain't it?
In this case, as Dickens, I think, stated in one of his novels, "The law are an ass". Imagine how fast the University would find a reason to fire this nincompoop if he said something against the PC canon. Imagine if he said, for example, that blacks are inferior or that women should stay at home and raise children. Imagine.
Napolitano claims that if Churchill taught at a private college he could be fired with ease, but that the courts have decided that no "state-funded" professor may be terminated for anything he says because that would be an infringement on his free speech. And if this is true, then yes, it is DISGUSTING.
And so the plot thickens.
What if said professor LIED on his resume to get a job as an "Indian" teaching about Indian and other other ethnic studies? He's a fraud. Surely that should count for something (good thing he's not the Chair of the CU Ethics Studies...but I guess his lies would be defended as First Amendment rights in THAT instance, as well).
There were a bunch of stories posted yesterday about that.
The same thought had occurred to me. Namely, if Churchill put into writing the fraudulent claim that is he part Native American Indian, and used that on his resume to help him get this job, it does seem as if that would be a basis for termination. At least I'm hoping.
Now it seems you can't get a job at one of these places unless you are one!
I think Ward Churchill is a total fraud. He thinks he's immune to criticism. And he's the biggest jerk I've seen in a long time. His arrogance surpasses even Ted Kennedy's, IHO.
The two students on with John Gibson reflect the bogus ideas and arrogance Churchill is spreading among his students. Churchill is a bitter, old hippie, feeding his ego, and filling his purse off the taxpayers of Colorado.
I hope Gov. Owens goes over his background with a fine toothed comb.
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