Posted on 07/01/2005 12:57:39 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill's latest toxic remarks, this time condoning - if not encouraging - attacks on military officers, are beyond outrageous.
"Conscientious objection removes a given piece of cannon fodder from the fray," Churchill said at an anti-military forum last week in Portland, Ore. "Fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect."
Fragging is the killing or injuring of a military officer by a subordinate.
How is it that CU can produce Nobel prize-winning research but still can't find a way to get Churchill off its payroll? Until he's removed as a tenured professor, double-digit tuition hikes will be just one of the reasons Colorado families and out-of-state students take a pass on a CU education.
Churchill, wisely, wasn't willing to stand up for his unconscionable remarks. When confronted, Churchill would only equivocate. "I neither advocated nor suggested to anyone, anything," he said. "I asked them to think about where they stood on things."
Oh? Where do you think they stood on this Churchill "question?": "Would you render the same support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit?" When a questioner expressed human concern about such an officer's family, Churchill asked, "How do you feel about Adolph Eichmann's family?"
Incoming CU president Hank Brown has said he doesn't want to buy out Churchill to make him go away, but if university investigators don't find cause for dismissal, he needs to be open-minded about it. CU is best off if Churchill goes away.
Even a hypocrite like Churchill, who hides behind First Amendment protections yet denies those same rights to Columbus Day parade marchers, is entitled to due process. CU's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct is investigating accusations that Churchill committed plagiarism, academic fraud and misrepresentation of his ethnic background. In the case of tenured professors, due process can take years. But it's high time for Churchill to go. A buyout might even save the taxpayers a bundle since officials figure it could cost $750,000 or more if the university has to defend a firing in court. Meanwhile, the cost to CU's reputation for keeping Churchill on its teaching staff is incalculable.
Churchill has the right to free expression, but he doesn't have the right to a tenured University of Colorado teaching position. CU needs to take away his disguise as a scholar and let Churchill make his way as a political activist.
"Conscientious objection removes a given piece of cannon fodder from the fray."
He finally makes the case for himself being a good fodder.
Yep, this guy might be suprised to find out he is just another pawn.
I prefer to usese this guy to make a point about America. This man is a tenured professor at an major American University and is publicly saying highly treasonous and downright disgusting things.
But, in America - even an America at war - this man has a right to due process. The men who he wants killed and the people who he compares to Adolf Eichmann are fighting and sacrifcing so that he has this right.
Whereas, there appear to be an ever dwindling number that do not think him a scumbag, I still feel proud to be from a country that continues to afford and honor his fundamental rights.
I don't want to see him get a big payoff, though. I just wish the press would ignore him. He is a nut on a soapbox.
Yep, this guy might be suprised to find out he is just another pawn.
That he is. Once-a-pawn a time....
As far as I'm concern Ward Churchill is the soul of the Democratic Party. He should be the co-chairman along with fellow loon Howie Dean.
Anyways, isn't Ward's 15 minutes up by now??
Actually, there appears to be an ever-increasing number that thinks of him as a scumbag.
Churchill is just the tip of the iceberg. Has anyone
read Jack Cashill’s incredible new book, just out,
Hoodwinked? He not only undoes Churchill, he outs
all the other “intellectual hucksters” who preceded
him—Alex Haley, Kinsey, Sanger, Margaret Mead, Rachel
Carson, Mumia, Michael Moore, Lillian Hellman, Alger
Hiss etc. etc. Great book.
I say ""Fragging a certain tenured professor at CCU has a much more impactful effect than paying him off."
Note to the paper: Some things are worth defending.
Indeed he is. He is a walking talking advertisement for the degeneracy of the Academy.
His mouthings find resonance among the lefty academics that infest our colleges and universities.
tar and feather him
They prefer to do their dirty work under the radar screen and this piece of excrement is much too much out there in the public.
ward churchill, big chief squatting turkey ... too full of it to fly.
I read this right after this, which I missed reading yesterday.
Help us, please, Lord!
Living here in proximity to NY, we've been real time observers of the left's love of the profane and it's hatred of patriotism.
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