Posted on 02/13/2005 7:38:34 AM PST by dirtboy
Wade Churchill is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado. Up until a couple of weeks ago, nobody outside the radical left community had ever heard of Churchill. But somebody tipped off Bill O’Reilly that Churchill was invited to speak at a small college in New York. When O’Reilly checked into Churchill’s background, he was stunned. That’s been the reaction of just about everybody who researches the kind of hate-filled, anti-American propaganda Churchill has been spewing for years in the guise of teaching "ethnic studies."
Churchill hates the United States. He hates everything about this country. Our government. Our faith. Our people. Our education system. Our social fabric. Our foreign policy. Our economy. He hates you and me.
Churchill blames the United States for everything wrong in the world. He has said repeatedly that the United States has murdered millions of innocent children throughout the world and Americans deserve to die for their sins against the "dark" people of the world. By dark, he refers to anyone other than Caucasian. Churchill likes to tell people that he is a Native American from some unspecified tribe, but there’s no evidence of that.
It’s one of the delusions that this screwball harbors so he can blame everyone else in the country except for the Native Americans.
I watched a televised hour-long speech Churchill gave last week on the campus of the University of Colorado. He surrounded himself with Native Americans and he even had somebody beating a tom-tom every time he made a major point. Talk about demeaning an ethnic group. I fully expected Churchill to strap on a feather headdress and do a rain dance in the middle of the auditorium. He’s about as Native American as I am.
Churchill was happy in his psychotic little world until Bill O’Reilly made him Public Enemy No. 1. What caught O’Reilly’s attention was an essay that Churchill published shortly after the attacks on Sept. 11 that said the 3,000 American men and women who died on Sept. 11 deserved what they got. He also compared the victims of 9/11 to a Nazi war criminal.
There’s a movement in Colorado to fire Churchill. He’s already stepped down as chairman of the ethnic studies department, but because he has tenure, Churchill has no intention of giving up his $100,000-a-year job.
The American Civil Liberties Union has already come to Churchill’s defense, saying this a freedom of speech case. Would it surprise anyone that the ACLU would support such a radical anti-American? Is there a more anti-American organization than the ACLU? This is not a free speech issue. No one is infringing on Churchill’s rights. His essay is readily available on the Internet. He has a Web site. He lectures daily to a captive audience of students. He can stand on any street corner in America and spew his venom. Nobody is denying Churchill the right to free speech.
What this case boils down to is competency. Should a teacher distort the truth to indoctrinate young people to his radical views? Should a person who is paid by the taxpayers of Colorado use classroom time to advocate the overthrow of the United States government?
The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that there is no "absolute" right to free speech. You can’t run into a movie theater and scream "fire!" at the top of your lungs to create a panic because you feel you’re exercising free speech.
So what does Professor Churchill believe? He says the victims of 9/11 had it coming because 400 years ago, the Dutch cheated the Native Americans out of Manhattan island. Yes, he actually said that.
He is virulently anti-Semitic. He doesn’t believe the Holocaust took place. He says it’s all a big conspiracy by the Jews to gain sympathy. He blames Israel for many of the problems in the Middle East.
He believes the U.S. was the aggressor in World War II and had no right to bomb the Japanese home islands. (I’m guessing Professor Churchill never heard of Pearl Harbor.)
He also says the United States is an outlaw nation because it used "weapons of mass destruction" (the atomic bombs) on Japan to end World War II.
It might be wiser to ignore Churchill until his 15 minutes of fame expire, but he is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to radical leftists who populate our college campus. Where are communists hiding these days? In the faculty lounge of many of our institutions of higher learning. More on that in a future column. In the meantime, size up Churchill for a straitjacket.
E-mail Tony Phyrillas at tphyrillas@pottsmerc.com
Gee Wally!
Churchill is a great future candidate for Chairman of the DNC and possibly a runningmate for Hitlery.
booked
"Any of us that hire college grads should let the University of Colorado know that we won't be hiring any of their graduates that took courses and received good grades in classes taught by this POS. In fact- that we will avoid hiring any Colorado graduates at all until they police their faculty of this puke."
Can't one be sued for discrimination for not hiring graduates of a certain college? I appreciate your idea, but have you talked to a lawyer about this?
Churchill makes Howard Dean seem like a reasonable guy!
It really bugs me that his last name is Churchill too.
What an insult to the great man.
should not be fired,just tranfered to teach in Guantanimo,cuba
"Churchill is a great future candidate for Chairman of the DNC".
When Dean gets fired after the 2006 elections, Churchill and Jordan Eason can co chair the party that hates America.
That is a good point. This is not the "free Speech" issue the left would want us to believe. He is an incompetent jerk who would never have gotten tenure, or even any position at a good State University if it were not for his radical politics.
the university would have to care that he lied on his application. end of story.
I'm sure hillary can book a few fund raisers with him!
Great, now I can't think of Ward Cleaver the same way now.
(And because of my sis doing the "Weird Al" thng on songs, I can't listen to most music now without hearing alternate lyrics!)
*chuckle*
Thanks!
The university will have to sit up and take notice, and will have to care, because of the bad publicity, not to mention funding cuts by alums and parents who are offended that this fraud is passing on his venom.
This jerk lied on his application, and took the job over 11 other candidates, all of whom were actually Native American.
Doesn't look good.
But here's the erroneous part of the argument:
The Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly that there is no "absolute" right to free speech. You can’t run into a movie theater and scream "fire!" at the top of your lungs to create a panic because you feel you’re exercising free speech.... So what does Professor Churchill believe? He says the victims of 9/11 had it coming because 400 years ago, the Dutch cheated the Native Americans out of Manhattan island. Yes, he actually said that. ... He also says the United States is an outlaw nation because it used "weapons of mass destruction" (the atomic ) on Japan to end World War II.
Yes, it's true that the 1st Amendment does not protect against some forms of speech, but it most assuredly and most vigorously protects against state restraint on POLITICAL speech, and that's a value that conservatives cherish.
And all the comments offered in the litany above are pure, classic political speech.
Churchill's ill-advised political opinion/speech may be abhorrent, it may be wrong on the facts, but a free society doesn't seek to censor it, but rather to rebut it.
So much for the pure "political speech" part of the argument. I think it's a disaster for UC to have him on the faculty, because he's an academic fraud. My point is that the attack on Churchill would be more effective if it focused on the fraud, i.e., did he fraudulently misrepresent his academic credentials, did he lie about his personal biography, does he has the minimum qualifications (i.e., a terminal degree, i.e., a Ph.D., rather than a phony-major half-baked one-year "masters" from an experimental college?)
Are his 'publications' materially deficient from an academic standards perspective, i.e., subject to peer review? Has he been involved in falsifying and fraudulent academic research and publication? (and, by the way, the answer here is YES).
These are the grounds where Churchill is vulnerable. Silencing his political speech, and attacking his right to speak it, will only make him a winner in the courts and then a martyr in the eyes of public opinion.
You've summed up what the real debate about this POS should be.
even so, I am not optimistic. he will stay put, liberals and those they educated rule the universities and will for many more years.
eason jordan and dan rather are big fish, and danny still rides, it remains to be seen about jordan - he could yet land on his feet.
"Can't one be sued for discrimination for not hiring graduates of a certain college? I appreciate your idea, but have you talked to a lawyer about this?
The simple answer to your question is no. Education is an allowable form of discrimination.
For instance, you have two applicants who have identical degrees. One received his degree from Princeton University, and the other from Parsons. You hire the candidate from Princeton based upon the reputation of the institution granting the degree. Can you be sued? NO.
Or- both applicants have identical degrees but one has a transcript reflecting additional study in areas that would be an asset to the company you are hiring for. Can you be sued for selecting the applicant that had taken the additional courses that benefit your company? NO.
If you find that the course of study pursued by the applicant is not an asset your company needs, then you certainly have the right not to hire that applicant.
Over here! Excellent article.
This isn't entirely accurate, either. It's more that he believes the holocaust is not such a big deal; what happened to the indians was just as bad.
A quibble, but if we want to bring the Churchills of the world down, our scholarship has to be better, too.
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