Posted on 06/11/2005 8:44:51 AM PDT by MindBender26
"Little Eichmans" Professor Further Discredited.
The Rocky Mountain News and others have done a great job of investigative reporting. In a meticulously researched series, they decimated radical Colorado University professor Churchill’s claims to Native American heritage. They also demonstrated his penchant series of perverse plagiarisms that run through Churchill’s so-called literary works.
In addition, the RMN reporters showed that Churchill, the man who called the WTC victims “little Eichmans” completely fabricated his claim that the U.S Army killed thousands of Indians at Fort Clark, North Dakota by giving them smallpox infected blankets. Churchill’s story is a centerpiece of his claim that he and only he can tell the real story of the White mans’ oppression of the Indians. Now that claim lies in tatters.
But one nagging question has remained. Since Churchill plagiarizes most of his work, rather than using original thoughts, then where did the professor get the idea for infecting Indians with smallpox using infected blankets as the source of the disease?
That last remaining question of the Churchill puzzle has now been solved. Yes, Churchill even plagiarized his false story about the U.S. Army infecting the North Dakota Indians.
That story comes from the plot line of a 1953 movie, “The Battles of Chief Pontiac.” In this grade B “Saturday afternoon at the moves” classic starring Lon Chaney and Lex Barker, colonial British soldiers infect their Indian opponents with the diseased bad blankets. The fictional movie is a retelling of the real actions of the British General, Lord Jeffery Amherst, in the French and Indian wars. The movie gave Churchill the idea to accuse the U.S. Army of a false charge supposedly committed 100 years later.
So now the Churchill saga is complete. Nothing in his work is original, and like his life and political thinking itself, is all build on fraud and fantasy.
Can smallpox be passed this way?
Can smallpox be passed this way?
Funny you should mention this. When I heard that he had made this claim, I had to search my memory for where I had heard it before--or actually, seen it before. It was indeed in a movie when I was a mere tadpole. It might have even been in more than one movie.
Yes, and the Brits really did do it.
What's the latest on CU actually doing something about this fraud?
Exactly where I got the memory from too. Saw it at summer camp, back in the mid-50s!
whatta laugh!
tv corrupting academia.
tv viewers often have a fabricated view of american history.
Hadn't heard his claim, but as I read this thread, I thought I remembered the movie plot from when I was very, very young. I guess Churchill who is about my age (looks older, to say the least) has a very vivid imagination and he can't distinguish between what's real and what isn't. Too much pot, dude!
Maybe Psycho Ward can get a job as Historian at Evil Willie's Liebury.
Not so funny. I think great swaths of society are really under the sway of the the entertainment elite. A lot of my personal 'research' on history has been motivated by my complete refusal to believe some the ridiculous and prejudicial concepts espoused under the auspices of the Hollywood 'wisdom'. Most of our neighbors live in a dream world. On Lord Jeff I found this
http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/amherst/lord_jeff.html
Not really conclusive.
see #8
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CU is doing
Undoubtedly, provided you don't mind getting the disease yourself. If you do, then it gets difficult.
I'd like to see that, but unfortunately it may not happend anytime soon. A couple of months ago, one of CU's Board of Regents said that even if all these allegations against Churchill prove to be true, it could take 2 1/2 years to fire him. And by that time he could retire anyway.
Well, yes and no.
Lord Amherst's action was not a germ warfare attack, but a severely misguided act of charity.
At the time the 'contagion theory of disease' was disfavored because it was viewed as 'blaming the vicitim'. The blankets belonging to smallpox victims were 'surplus', and were given to the Indians as charity.
Unfortunately, then as now, what was 'politically correct' was seldom true, and smallpox really is spread by a contagious infectious agent, and the Indians, having no previous exposure to the agent, died in droves.
(The claim that American Indians were devasted by European diseases is almost certainly true, though it was not an intentional action, but the same effect as when a novel variant of the flu sweeps through a population never exposed before. And most of the damage was already done before significant English settlement--the disease spread around the continent from the Spanish colonies.)
That's one interpretation... ;)
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