Between this and USC telling jews not to call themselves 'zionists' because it might offend the muslims I think our education system is going to hell in a handbasket....
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.
| Nor has anybody ever killed before or after in a terrorist attack an innocent victim, right Ward? |
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.
| Ethnic studies, is it? That's what I always look for on a resume... |
They are upset over an essay Churchill wrote titled, "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens." 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.
| Then why didn't they attack the United Nations? Seems they'd be on the list someplace... |
The essay contends the hijackers who crashed airplanes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were "combat teams," not terrorists.
| Ward's a little fuzzy on the concept of "combat teams," apparently... |
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 "most" than can honestly be said about them? I guess that, speaking of quantities less than "most", you could also say that those "combat teams" hijacked four planeloads of innocent civilians going about their legitimate business, running two of them into civilian targets, one of them into the ground, and one into a legitimate military target. But you can't stop there, Ward. There are other acts of terrorism specifically directed against civilians, most of whom are innocent as babes, and some of whom have actually been babes. The same flavor of terrorists, for instance, took 600 people hostage who went to enjoy an evening at the theater in Moscow. The same flavor or "combat team" took an entire elementary school hostage in Beslan. The same flavor of "combat team" blew up a couple beer joints in Bali, blew up commuter trains in Madrid, shot up churches in Pakistan, and blew up two of our embassies in Africa. The very same "combat teams" are trying to intimidate all of Iraq out of voting, because they're convinced that people need to be ruled by holy men. To make their point, they're chopping people's heads off whenever they get a chance. But they're just giving back some of what they received, right, Ward? |
The essay maintains that the people killed inside the Pentagon were "military targets."
| That's arguably so, assuming we were in a state of hostilities. Even though Binny declared war on us in 1998, we hadn't geared up to a war footing. As far as the passengers on those four planes were concerned, we were at peace. |
"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."
| Give you a break in what manner, Ward? They were either civilians or they weren't... |
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.
| No one in the either of the World Trade Center buildings, to my knowledge, was a "little Eichmann." Some were no doubt mean to their wives or ducked their child support. Some probably surfed the internet on their employers' time, or stiffed their creditors. Most probably didn't do any of those things, merely getting up in the morning and going to work, like most of us do. By that measure we're all "little Eichmanns," to include you, Ward... Oh, and in what manner were the passengers on the four planes "little Eichmanns"? Or don't they count? |
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."
| First you'd have to demonstrate that half a million children were in fact killed by the UN sanctions and during the first Gulf War. That's an arguable point. Any of the UN sanctions figures would be doubtful, since Sammy was milking the system and grabbing off the money that should have been going to the kiddies, using it to build palaces and maintain an iron grip on power. Remember the truckloads of gold bars found after the war? How many kiddies would a truckload of gold bars feed for how long? |
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."
| I would state unequivocably that such acts are not a "natural and inevitable consequence" of U.S. policy. Otherwise we'd no doubt have Vietnamese flying planes into buildings all the time. Otherwise such acts would be directed exclusively at the U.S. |
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.
| Things like that don't matter to innalekshuls like Ward. They're little people, of no consequence... |
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."
| Are they searching attendees for rotted fruit at the door? Are the campus police breaking up gatherings that feature tar and feathers? |
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