Posted on 02/15/2005 1:30:36 PM PST by kellynla
The University of Oregon has canceled plans to have Ward Churchill, the University of Colorado professor under fire for calling victims of the 9-11 attacks "Little Eichmans," speak at an on-campus symposium.
Churchill was scheduled to give the keynote lunch address at a symposium titled "Homeland 'In'Security: Race, Immigration and Labor in Post-9/11 North America," a joint presentation of the University of Oregon's Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics and the Center on Diversity and Community, the school's Oregon Daily Emerald reported.
According to the report, the directors of the program nixed plans for Churchill and his colleague, Natsu Taylor Saito, to speak at the symposium because they wanted the event to stay on topic.
"His topic was not the main focus of the conference," Morse Center Director Margaret Hallock told the paper. "It wasn't part of the original intent."
John Shuford, associate director of the Eugene, Ore., campus' Center on Diversity and Community, said security was also a concern, stating, "The joint presentation – which was not centrally related to the conference – would overshadow two days' worth of other presentations."
As WorldNetDaily reported, the national furor over Churchill stems from an essay he wrote titled "Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens," written shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks. In it, he describes the thousands of American victims who died in the World Trade Center inferno as "little Eichmanns" (a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann) who were perpetuating America's "mighty engine of profit." They were destroyed, he added, thanks to the "gallant sacrifices" of "combat teams" that successfully targeted the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon.
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Oh yeah!....he has the right to free speech, WE have the right to respond....LOUDLY: CHURCHILL IS A DORK. TAKE YOUR TRAVELLING MEDICINE SHOW ELSEWHERE!
yeah!! SOME PEOPLE DO PUSH BACK
But he was the scheduled keynote speaker, unless the author has his facts wrong.
(/massive sarcasm)
The University of Oregon is my alma mater (and Animal House was filmed there). I'm glad to see they're cancelling Churchill's appearance.
We should all be aware of this Prof also, from Univ of Texas:
The Anti-American Academy: Robert Jensen ( he says Ward Churchill is right about 9/11 )
fyi
Ward Mosquehill, sounds so much more appropriate for this Dunghillian, let's give him a name change.
Cool! Thanks for the head's up.
-----Ward Churchill, commenting on his situation, February, 2005.
Roger that and welcome to Free Republic!
Me too, class of '62, liberal place even then. Welcome to FR .
This is good news indeed!
Dang, and in the People's Republic of Eugene, too.
I'm amazed and impressed.
Take a step back and breathe deep. Life is great and the klintoon stench has finally cleared!!
What's he gonna do with all this extra time on his hands?
Bones
"When you do dirt on people, it blows right back on you...."
-----Ward Churchill, commenting on his situation, February, 2005.
"When you are a piece of sh**, you stink and flies land on you"
----Bones75, comenting on Ward Churchill's situation, February 2005.
;-)
Seriously.. I like the term Savage has for this guy.. the "cigar store indian"..
Savage's show is like a tirade of insanity with moments of pure gold interspersed throughout.
Bones
Not so fast. The Klintoon factor is just warming up. Any of you that take The Hildabeast lightly are such fools. This witch is gonna push & shove & lie & cheat & sell her soul for the WH & with the number of willing corrupt accomplises the pubbies better have their game face on & get prepared TODAY for what I see - a Dem victory at present. You are going to fight some of the pubbie elites that are going for her. The real reason I don't want her in is I want to show all of you that with a 8 plus at least 4 yrs of republican domination you won't have any excuse than to have a true conservative Supreme Court. If it isn't present then you all will know how you've been smoked over for decades by these elites.
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