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AECCP loves Democracy
Sep 1999
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quote:
CU prof's essay sparks dispute
Ward Churchill says 9/11 victims were not innocent people
By John C. Ensslin, Rocky Mountain News
January 27, 2005
A University of Colorado professor has sparked controversy in New York over an essay he wrote that maintains that people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not innocent victims.
Students and faculty members at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., have been protesting a speaking appearance on Feb. 3 by Ward L. Churchill, chairman of the CU Ethnic Studies Department.
They are upset over an essay Churchill wrote titled, "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens."
The essay takes its title from a remark that black activist Malcolm X made in the wake of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Malcolm X created controversy when he said Kennedy's murder was a case of "chickens coming home to roost."
Churchill's essay argues that the Sept. 11 attacks were in retaliation for the Iraqi children killed in a 1991 U.S. bombing raid and by economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations following the Persian Gulf War.
The essay contends the hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were "combat teams," not terrorists.
It states: "The most that can honestly be said of those involved on Sept. 11 is that they finally responded in kind to some of what this country has dispensed to their people as a matter of course."
The essay maintains that the people killed inside the Pentagon were "military targets."
"As for those in the World Trade Center," the essay said, "well, really, let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break."
The essay goes on to describe the victims as "little Eichmanns," referring to Adolph Eichmann, who executed Adolph Hitler's plan to exterminate Jews during World War II.
Churchill said he was not especially surprised at the controversy at Hamilton, but he also defended the opinions contained in his essay.
"When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind," Churchill said.
"If it's not comfortable, that's the point. It's not comfortable for the people on the other side, either."
The attacks on Sept. 11, he said, were "a natural and inevitable consequence of what happens as a result of business as usual in the United States. Wake up."
A longtime activist with the American Indian Movement, Churchill was one of eight defendants acquitted last week in Denver County Court on charges of disrupting Denver's Columbus Day parade.
His pending speech at Hamilton has drawn criticism from professors and students, including Matt Coppo, a sophomore whose father died in the World Trade Center attacks.
"His views are completely hurtful to the families of 3,000 people," Coppo said.
A spokesman for Hamilton College released a statement noting that Hamilton is committed to "the free exchange of ideas. We expect that many of those who strongly disagree with Mr. Churchill's comments will attend his talk and make their views known." |
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/dr...3501617,00.html
Suprised there wasn't a thread already.
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MRT144
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Seattle Washington
Oct 2002
time: 21:27
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only people in the second building are at fault.
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Gatekeeper
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United States of America
Feb 2000
time: 23:27
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Hmm ... it looks like the man received multiple death threats and won't be speaking in New York state after all:
quote:
Professor Talk Nixed After 9/11 Comment
By WILLIAM KATES
Associated Press Writer
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Citing death threats, an upstate New York college on Tuesday canceled a panel discussion featuring a professor who compared the World Trade Center victims to Nazis.
Hamilton College spokesman Michael DeBraggio said multiple death threats were made against both college officials and guest speaker Ward Churchill, who resigned Monday as chairman of the ethnic studies department at the University of Colorado.
In an essay written in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Churchill said the World Trade Center victims were "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate Europe's Jews. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.
The essay attracted little attention until Churchill was invited to speak Thursday at Hamilton College, about 40 miles east of Syracuse, N.Y. Hundreds of relatives of Sept. 11 victims have protested the appearance.
Administrators at first moved the scheduled appearance to a building that can seat 2,000, instead of the originally planned 300.
Hamilton College President Joan Hinde Stewart had said the college was committed to free speech, "however repugnant one might find Mr. Churchill's remarks."
On Tuesday, however, Stewart sent an e-mail to students, faculty and staff saying the college had a "higher responsibility ... and that is the safety and security" of the campus community. She said the threats were "credible" and had been turned over to police.
Despite resigning as department chair, Churchill will retain his teaching job.
Colorado Gov. Bill Owens called on Churchill to resign his faculty position too, saying taxpayers shouldn't have to subsidize his "outrageous and insupportable" views.
"If anyone could possibly be compared to the evildoers of Nazi Germany, it is the terrorists of the 21st century who have an equally repugnant disregard for human life," Owens said in a letter to the university's College Republicans released Tuesday.
Churchill did not immediately return telephone messages and e-mails from The Associated Press.
In an interview Monday with Denver station KCNC-TV, Churchill said he is not an advocate of violence, but that the attacks were a response to the way the United States treats people abroad.
"The overriding question that was being posed at the time was 'Why did this happen, why did they hate us so much,' and my premise was when you do this to other people's families and children, that is going to be a natural response," he said. |
The man's giving *way* too much credit for the likes of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida terror organization. Guess he's just another one of those ivory tower, head-in-the-clouds types.
Gatekeeper
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laurentius
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Helsinki, Finland
Jun 2001
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I totally agree with this article 
Sane, fresh thoughts....at last.
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Looking back, it will seem to future generations inexplicable why Americans were unable on their own, and in time to save themselves, to accept a rule of nature so basic that it could be mouthed by an actor, Lawrence Fishburn, in a movie, The Cotton Club.
"You've got to learn, " the line went, "that when you push people around, some people push back." |
Last edited by laurentius on 02-02-2005 at 07:43
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Dr Strangelove
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Some time after the 9/11 attack Osama Ben Laden owned up to the attack. During that speech he did not mention the bombing of Iraq as a motivation for the attack but instead cited the usual stuiff about the oppression of the Palestinians and US forces stationed in Saudi Arabia as well as demanding the conversion of the rest of the world to Islam, so it is not reasonable to claim that the 9/11 attack was "chickens coming home to roost" re: the deaths of Iraqi children.
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