This Guy's a Peach

Ward Churchill. I've not said anything on this buffoon, but you read things like this and just wish the worst on this guy. Someone that should be forced to live under a dictator like Saddam, then he'd know that the USA isn't "repressive."

Churchill, a professor of ethnic studies, spoke for 35 minutes. He did say he was not referring to children, firefighters, janitors or people passing by the World Trade Center who were killed during the attacks when he referred to technocrats at the World Trade Center as 'little Eichmanns.' His controversial essay described the victims of the World Trade Center attacks by saying, 'True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire.' Churchill later told Reuters, 'Nowhere in there did I justify the killing of innocent people. Those words are not there.'

He reiterated that what he calls America's 'repressive policies' throughout the world were a major cause of the September 11 attacks. He went to far as to describe U.S. foreign policy against Iraq as a campaign of 'genocide.' He described the actions of the hijackers as 'counter attacks'.

Genocide? I think if the intent was genocide, the results would have been much more telling. Sorry, I should know better than throw logic at emotional rhetoric.

The Denver channel has more on the topic.

Churchill said that his comments comparing World Trade Center victims to a Nazi leader were misinterpreted by the media and others. In his essay, "Some People Push Back," Churchill wrote that workers in the towers were the equivalent of "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who ensured the smooth running of the Nazi system.

Churchill also wrote of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.

Combat teams? Combat teams in the US Military don't intentionally murder non-combatants and then are called "gallant." Most of the time they go to jail.

Most of the questions posed to Churchill were sympathetic but there were people who were angered by his essay who spoke up during the rally.

"Where do you get the gall to call the victims of the September 11th attacks technocrats when you get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?" an audience member asked.

"I am not innocent and I am subject to the same penalty, and that is the answer to your question," Churchill responded.

A longtime American Indian Movement activist, he said he is as culpable as his government because his efforts to change the system haven't succeeded.

"I could do more. I'm complicit. I'm not innocent," he said.

Nice fat pay check and a pass to call America names. I'd go farther then saying he has gall. I'd say he's a bloody hypocrite to take pay from the government he obviously despises.

Fire him for his statements? No. I wouldn't want to strain his 1st amendment rights. Leave him there and where he can remain the Marxist hypocrite that he is. We all need ethical boundary markers, and he certainly is one.

Power Line has some interesting bits about Churchill, especially about his own schooling.

HINDROCKET adds: Two readers have submitted comments on Professor Churchill that I think are of interest. Tracy Allen notes that "His degrees are from Sangamon State University, an 'experiment' in Illinois that appears to have been designed to create a convergence of Marxists and anarchists. Here is a link from a couple of the believers about how the Corporate State destroyed their utopia:"

http://www.dennisfox.net/uis/state-agent.html

Among its other unusual qualities, Sangamon State recruited professors via ads in Rolling Stone magazine and didn't grade its students. The experiment was terminated in 1995 when Sangamon State became a "normal" member of the Illinois system, as the University of Illinois at Springfield. Churchill thus came out of an academic background in which activism was prized more highly than scholarship, which would seem consistent with his later practice of fabricating historical evidence to support preordained political conclusions.

Interesting? How does this qualify a guy for a professorship?