"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones".
What possessed Ward to think he could make the kinds of inflamatory statements that he did and people wouldn't uncover his fraud?
Psychosis, in this case Paranoid Schizophrenia.
He will eventually kill himself, shooting himself with one of those firearms he bandies about in threatening poses. His suicide will come as the inevitable consequences of his hateful behavior and his complete life of fraud close in. He will leave a suicide note maintaining his lifelong delusion of professional victimhood, and blaming his "persecutors."
"What possessed Ward to think he could make the kinds of inflamatory statements that he did and people wouldn't uncover his fraud?"
No surprise here. We already had evidence that he would lie and cheat; of course he will steal. No one ever said a man had to be intelligent to be a common criminal.
The question is how did this common criminal ever get put into a position where could have such an influence on our children? Not only must Ward Churchill be fired from UC Boulder, but the people who hired him must face a similar fate.