Posted on 02/25/2005 7:52:29 AM PST by Thanatos
Evidence has been found that 5th Columinst Ward Churchill copied a painting by reknown artist Thomas E. Mails
Churchill's Serigraph is a mirror image of the Miles painting.
Churchill made the serigraph in question in 1981 and called it "Winter Attack." He printed 150 copies and sold one of them to Duke Prentup for about $100.
On Video, confronting Churchill about the obvious copyright violation by CBS4 Reporter Raj Chohan, Churchill then attacked the cameraman filming the incident.
Read the whole Story here and watch the video:
CBS4, Denver Colorado: 'Original' Churchill Art Piece Creates Controversy
Rocky Mountain News: Churchill artwork mirrors artist's
Also, Churchill claims he earned a Bachelors Degree and a Master Degree at the Sangamon State University in Illinois (where 5th Columinst were created) but school officials cannot locate his Master's Thesis. Colorado University regents expressed concerns that a person be appointed professor without a doctorate.
Read the story in the Rocky Mountain News:
Rocky Mountain News: School can't locate Churchill's thesis
A professor once told me, when he was a student himself, about catching one of his professors giving a series of lectures, as if his own, nearly verbatim from a published source. Confronted in his office the busted prof didn't bat an eye, saying he was simply using the "blind text" teaching method.
Thanks for the TV show. I finally got it to work. I am not too good on computers. Fantastic!!
He also plagiarized the Osage Indian Murders FBI file to make up his lies except that he made the FBI the bad guys instead of the good guys.
He is such a creep.
This reminds me of the other great fake Indian-- “Chief Iron Eyes Cody”
And then there's "Chief Seattle," denizen of newage ecoscreeds and high school textbooks.
http://www.textbookleague.org/95faker.htm
"The Web of Life"! That catchy subtitle looks as if it may actually mean something -- and we soon learn where it allegedly originated, because [Addison Wesley Longman's] writers have put this epigraph on their book's title page: " 'We did not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.' -- CHIEF SEATTLE"Yes, folks, he has returned again -- old Chief Seattle, the silver- tongued spokesman for the Eco-Freak Brigade of the Noble Savages. Readers who keep track of phony-Injun lore will recall that the Chief is famously associated with a splurge of mawkish rhetoric titled "Chief Seattle's Speech," though there is no evidence to suggest that he uttered any of it. In short, the speech is bogus. Fanciers of phony-Injun stuff will also know that the so-called speech doesn't contain the sentences that the [Addison Wesley Longman] writers have used for their epigraph. The writers have taken two lines from the bogus speech and have doctored them to make them politically correct. In short, the writers have concocted a fake "quotation" from a speech that was phony to begin with, and their epigraph is fakery squared.
Read his "speech". It's a real hoot, and a classic of flowery fake-injun appropriation.
Thanks for the post. Ward speaks with forked tongue and paints with crooked brush.
Thanks, I'll check it out. I agree, the reporter did an excellent job... I emailed him and told him so.
Have you seen this article? It is highly probable that both of these individuals had contact with Ward Churchill.
Four days shy of the first anniversary of JonBenet's death, CU student Susannah Chase was found dead on a Boulder sidewalk. She had been murdered while walking home from the Pearl Street Mall on Dec. 21, 1997. I knew from my conversations with John Ramsey that he suspected his daughter's murderer had also killed Chase, since they were both struck fatally in the head around Christmas time. In fact, Chase had been struck with an aluminum baseball bat. Not long after the Chase murder, I would learn of a man known as "The Warrior"-an American Indian who had studied political science at the University of Colorado at the time of Chase's murder. The Warrior was a tall, violent young man who had nearly killed his mother in Virginia by striking her across the head with a shotgun. Police stumbled across The Warrior when someone filed ethnic intimidation charges against him for leaving a threatening, anti-Semitic message on an answering machine. "I will find you," The Warrior said. "Do you hear me? Do you understand me? I will steal your breath from you." Police became concerned when they went into the bedroom of his apartment and found it wallpapered with hundreds of news clippings from the Chase and Ramsey murders. A judge issued an order to have DNA samples taken from The Warrior. The order recounted information The Warrior's roommate had told investigators. The roommate told investigators that The Warrior had made a bumper sticker that stated: "I killed her." The roommate reportedly asked The Warrior, "Which one-Susannah Chase or JonBenet Ramsey?" The Warrior replied, "Either, or." I was looking forward to meeting The Warrior when I received a disappointing call from one of my colleagues, Matt Sebastian-who was the lead police reporter for the Boulder Daily Camera. Sebastian, who himself was hot on the trail of The Warrior, told me that The Warrior had an air-tight alibi in the Chase case-namely, proof that he was out of state at the time of her death.
The Wolf
One day, I got a tip with new information regarding a man I'd met months before-Chris Wolf. I didn't know it at the time, but recent information indicates he may have known McReynolds while studying at the University of Colorado-despite claims by each man that they've never known each other. Chris Wolf was a local reporter whose girlfriend, Jacqueline Dilson, had accused him of killing both JonBenet Ramsey and Susannah Chase. I initially met with Wolf in the fall of 1997 to tell him what I had learned, although he had a difficult time accepting the fact his own girlfriend was the tipster who caused his most recent ordeals. Despite his reputation for being somewhat aggressive and argumentative, I sensed a deep sadness within Wolf that often made me feel sorry for him. He had traveled throughout the United States and Latin America, where he quickly bonded with poverty-stricken peasants and adopted an anti-imperialist political view on the world. Eventually, he moved to Boulder where he earned a master's degree in journalism at CU and went on to work as a mountain climbing instructor for Outward Bound, an outdoor confidence building program. Wolf became a surprising suspect in the JonBenet case when Dilson told police only two weeks after JonBenet's murder that Wolf had disappeared the night JonBenet was killed. She told police Wolf was wearing a tennis club-style sweatshirt, which said "Santa Barbara." Since the supposed foreign faction claiming responsibility for JonBenet's kidnapping in the ransom note identified itself as "SBTC," Dilson wondered if it stood for "Santa Barbara Tennis Club." Dilson also claimed: She saw a package of cord on his dresser. He owned mountain climbing boots. He often expressed hostile emotions when talking about John Ramsey and Access Graphics' parent company, Lockheed Martin, which he believed was responsible for exploiting third-world countries. She awoke in the early morning hours of Dec. 26 to find Wolf with mud on the Santa Barbara sweatshirt and a pair of black jeans. When she asked where he'd been, he grew angry with her. There was one other interesting possible connection. Wolf worked as a reporter for the Boulder County Business Report at the time of JonBenet's murder. I learned that police had found an issue of the newspaper in the Ramsey house, which featured a story about John Ramsey. There was a heart drawn around Ramsey's picture and on the inside of the issue was a separate story, written by Wolf. It sounded like a strange coincidence, nothing more. Nevertheless, I was intrigued enough to visit Dilson. She allowed me to read Wolf's journals. As I read about his journeys in El Salvador, ,I realized that Wolf's Marxist viewpoints were strikingly similar to the politics expressed in the ransom note. Wolf had previously said that before JonBenet's murder, he'd never even heard of Ramsey's company, Access Graphics. But based on his reporting notes, he actually interviewed a company spokeswoman there several months before the murder took place. Had he simply forgotten? Perhaps. Reporters don't remember many of the stories they write, especially the softer features. Later, when I was examining Wolf's boots, Dilson approached me. "Can you feel it?" she asked me. I nodded slowly. I felt something-my heart was pounding, and little by little I began to feel like I was getting closer. Perhaps an intruder had killed JonBenet, but two important facts seemed to work in defense of Wolf: Handwriting experts in New York said he was not the author of the ransom note. His climbing boots were Danner's, not Hi-Tec, like the print at the Ramsey house. My suspicion of Wolf resurfaced briefly when his ex-roommate told me he had once tried to date Susannah Chase. He later told Boulder Weekly Editor Wayne Laugesen he was friends with Susannah Chase, and often visited the woman at a health food store where she worked as a clerk. When Boulder police asked me if I thought Wolf had killed Chase, I told them I didn't. Eventually, Wolf was cleared in the Chase murder after I convinced him to cooperate with authorities by giving them his DNA.
"IMO"
I wouldn't disagree with your astute diagnosis.
Info bump.
I was very impressed.
It would have been difficult for me to maintain my composure, but I bet he is thinking "Emmy" as Churchill is slamming him, so he keeps his cool. :)
He was fair and balanced, too. He gave Churchill's side later, but then said, you know what at least we could find no evidence he credited the original artist. And even if he did, this First Amendment lawyer said it would not matter.
If all reporters were like this, journalism would not be so despised, and I would not feel such a pull to change my major to it in order to be a good example.
Bump so I can re - read your post.
Thanks,
Good Question! Fox showed the video last night.
That's really funny! It's exactly the kind of interjection Fred would make.
original artwork drawn by the late artist Thomas E. Mails
Art signed by Prof. Ward Churchill
According to a member of CBS's crack 60 Minutes investigative staff:
| "We have complete assurance that Professor Churchill's artwork is not only an 'original' piece, but believe that it also provides a stunningly fresh perspective on his well-documented Indian heritage." |
Dear Thantos,
This article, Ward Churchill trashes people who pose as Indians.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1350495/posts
God bless you for doing all this research and trying to expose these domestic terrorists like Churchill and his ilk.
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