Posted on 07/25/2007 11:29:05 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Fight Not Over: Churchill Sues CU Professor Compared 9-11 Victims To Nazis
POSTED: 9:34 pm EDT July 24, 2007 UPDATED: 2:14 pm EDT July 25, 2007 BOULDER, Colo. -- Just when you thought the saga between Ward Churchill and the University of Colorado was over, it's not.
The CU professor is challenging his dismissal from the university and it could take another year before a jury hears the case.
"I am going nowhere," Churchill said Tuesday after university regents voted 8-1 to dismiss him.
The regents said that they fired the ethnic studies professor on grounds of academic misconduct and plagiarism. The university said he is not being fired for his volatile speech about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Churchill's essay, titled "Some People Push Back: On Justice Of Roosting Chickens," compared some of the victims of the World Trade Center to Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who helped orchestrate the Holocaust. That comparison sparked a national outrage and forced school officials to closely scrutinize Churchill's academic writings, research, and even his ethnicity.
Churchill's lawyer said they are "now on offense" and he will electronically file a First Amendment retaliation lawsuit on Wednesday. Attorney David Lane said this is an amendment to a pending lawsuit that Churchill had filed in October 2006 over a salary dispute.
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Truer words have seldom been spoken, Ward.
Weird Ward has his empty headed groupies banging on drums to support him. It’s amazing how some students will look up to any idiot who badmouths the United States.
The first time he has ever been right:”I am going nowhere”.
Don’t be to sure of that. The ACLU still has to ring in on this.
The first time he has ever been right:”I am going nowhere”.<<
He should be charged with assaulting the English language. Maybe add being a criminal dufus.
DK
Now, this is where the school can learn from big business. This should prove interesting. If they want you out bad enough, you will go.
Keep in mind that Churchill and some of his fellow travelers violated the First Amendment rights of others when they tried to block the Columbus Day parade in Denver a few years ago.
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