Posted on 02/17/2005 9:05:19 PM PST by FairOpinion
University of Hawaii Professors Launch Aggressive Fundraising Effort to Sponsor Highly Controversial, Anti-American Speaker
Ward Churchill, Who Says 9-11 Victims are Not 'Innocent' and Terrorists are 'Combat Teams,' Being Invited to Main Manoa Campus; Not All Professors, Students are Pleased
University of Hawaii professors have organized an aggressive fundraising effort to bring Ward Churchill, a highly controversial professor based at the University of Colorado and activist in the American Indian Movement, to lecture at the University’s Manoa Campus, according to an internal memo obtained by Hawaii Reporter.
Churchill, who prides himself on publishing inflammatory anti-American propaganda, came into the national spotlight in recent weeks for his declaration in a recently published essay that the victims killed and injured in the 9-11 attack on America were not "innocent."
In Churchill’s essay "Some People Push Back; On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," he writes: "True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the 'mighty engine of profit' to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" – a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it."
Churchill writes "terrorists" who slammed their planes into the World Trade Center killing 3,000 Americans, are not in fact terrorists, rather they are "combat teams." He claims Americans got what they deserved when Americans were murdered on American soil because America has killed 500,000 Iraqi children. He says the attacks on Sept. 11 were "a natural and inevitable consequence of what happens as a result of business as usual in the United States. Wake up."
See the full essay at: http://cryptome.org/ward-churchill.htm
Many of the families of victims in the 9-11 terrorist attack on America said his comments were hurtful. Matt Coppo, a sophomore whose father died in the World Trade Center attacks, told the mainland media: "His views are completely hurtful to the families of 3,000 people."
Jon Goldberg-Hiller, Ph.D., the chair of the University of Hawaii Political Science Department, says in a memo obtained by Hawaii Reporter that he is sure there will be controversy over Churchill’s visit.
Hiller says Churchill’s visit is being coordinated by "a number of his friends and colleagues across the university," and he asks the Department to help sponsor the speech by funding Churchill’s honorarium.
"As I am certain that Churchill's visit will provoke some community controversy, I am also certain that we will share some of this attention because of this donation. Whether you support Churchill or not, I do hope, when questioned, that you will speak to the issues of academic fairness, protection for controversial ideas and conservative attempts to limit the scope of political speech, indigenous rights, and identity politics that put this particular controversy in its broader context."
Hiller could not be reached for further comment.
University of Hawaii Political Science Professor Kate Zhou says she is upset that Churchill has received so much support from the University of Hawaii, when much more qualified and well respected academics and authors have been snubbed. Last year, Zhou says, she attempted to get a prominent Washington Post writer and Pulitzer Prize winner to Hawaii, but the faculty did not support this speaker, or many others who could share with students their valuable experiences. Many students also are upset about Churchill’s visit, Zhou says.
Read Post 77. You have Ward Churchills in Hawaii.
""In 1779 Cook visited one of the islands and left, then returned to repair a broken mast. A boat was stolen from one of Cook's ships, and Cook and his men decided to detain a chief until the boat was returned. A fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Europeans, and people were killed on both sides, including Captain Cook. Despite such disputes, outsiders continued to visit Hawaii, and the islands became a hub for traders and whalers."""
http://www.royalty.nu/America/Hawaii.html
And I went off on a Tangent to explain that NATIVES LOVE WHITE PEOPLE.
alright. There
I am aware of some people who might be interested in my post, so I pinged them.
If "Can't you just leave me be? ", is your way of asking me not to post to you, I can certainly do that, but then how would you learn, if not challenged?
Bring tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes.
AND- I admitted I was wrong the Affirmative ACTION thing.
Yet another of the illogical statements you want us to accept. Take the criticism as you will... Have you sat down to wonder why people don't believe you are who you say you are?
I enjoy being engaged, and debated, but I don't enjoy being personally attacked. And whenever we have one of these conversations it turns into a gang up on me.
I hate absolutely HATE Ward Churchill.
no, but you have to call me a liar because I never told you I've been to the Islands. I don't have to tell you anything.
I see where I drew too broad a comparison.
Alright?
""There is no way you win debates easily- unless you have been debating 6 year olds.""
want to bet? Maybe it's because I've been debating liberals. Liberals are much too easy.
Sean Hannity was right, you do eat your own.
From your own source
"In 1839 Kamehameha III guaranteed religious freedom to the people of Hawaii. He was also responsible for transforming the kingdom into a modern constitutional monarchy. The 1840 constitution gave male citizens the vote and established a representative legislature. By 1843 France, England and the United States had recognized Hawaii as an independent nation."
Don't cherry pick a fight over a boat as a source for proving the white man was bent on oppressing a culture when your own reference evidences a social upheaval due to exposure to more a modern social structure subsequently endorsed by the traditional ruling party.
In fact, I'm going to stop boycotting Sean right now.
I Never said white men were BENT on oppressing a culture.
Everyone is related to oppressors and those who were oppressed. It should not even matter anymore.
So someone tell that To Ward Churchill.
I don't know you, except from your posts....I'm just looking for clarification.
You have refused help to sharpen your debate skills and you have refused help from freepers here who have offered to help you gain knowledge of politics and the world in general.
I have extend offers to help you with your reading comp.
and you refuse.
Sean may teach you a thing or two. I hope you will spend many hours listening to him and getting an education.
No, you were not disagreeing with me on an issue. You were attacking my personal character and accusing me on lying about my identity.
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