From 9News...
A University of Colorado professor who compared victims of the 2001 terrorist attacks to Nazis says he won't back down from the topic in a speech next month in New York state.
Ward Churchill has been invited to join a panel discussion at Hamilton College near Utica, New York, where news of his planned visit has ignited protests over comments he wrote one day after the September Eleventh attacks.
Churchill wrote that the people in the World Trade Center towers were NOT innocent victims, and worked for "the mighty engine of profit" but chose to ignore their roles.
Meanwhile, a brother of a man who died in the twin towers says he's outraged the college would invite Churchill to speak.
James Giaccone says free speech should come with responsibility, and the college shouldn't be "a lightning rod for nut cases, such as Churchill."
Churchill is head of the ethnic studies program at CU-Boulder.
Interim chancellor Phil DiStefano issued a statement yesterday saying Churchill's views "are his own and do not represent the views of University of Colorado faculty, staff, students, administration or Regents."
Of course he won't apologize, he lives in Boulder, where anything anti-american is celebrated. You wanna know why I don't live in the town where I was born and lived until I was eighteen...The place my parents still live? Here's your answer.
I find it funny that the head of the ethnic studies program at C.U. is more interested in maligning innocent victims, than he is interested in finding out why black athletes are leaving C.U. due to racism at the school.
Although almost never mentioned publicly, race served as a backdrop for the series of investigations that targeted the CU program this year.
But why would the head of the ethnic studies program care about racism at his school? That would be silly.
Thanks much to the blogosphere. Despite this story being around for about three years, only now are the facts about Churchill come to print. It turns out he doesn't even hold a doctorate, his publishing track is at best weak and weak-kneed, and remarks such as those he recently have gotten him in trouble with higher-ups in ivy-covered academia before.
But here are some questions not yet answered: Who is paying for him to go from Colorado to New York? Is he getting paid for his speech? If so, how much? Where is that money coming from? Is Hamilton College in New York taxpayer-funded?
Posted by: James C. Hess | January 30, 2005 at 01:40 PM
Darren
I was hoping you caught what this ass- stain said. The Rocky Mountain News ran a article on friday and one on thursday about Churchills trip to New York. The Rottweiler picked it up also. Emperor Misha gave the RMN article a good and proper rant.
This is the assnugget of wisdom that really set me off -"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."
Churchill is an absolute pussbag for saying this shit. Would he feel the same way if his wife and daughter died in the WTC?
Maybe Professor Vinny and the good people of New York will take Churchill on a very, very, longterm research project, studying pollution problems on the Hudson River bottom.
FETE
LC Geno
Posted by: LC Geno | January 29, 2005 at 12:46 AM