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Posted on 07/29/2007 7:02:18 AM PDT by george76
THE UNIVERSITY of Colorado Board of Regents finally pulled the trigger and voted to fire the disgraceful Professor Ward Churchill.
Churchill first came to the nation’s attention when he called the victims of the 9/11 attacks “little Eichmanns,” referring to Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi who oversaw Hitler’s “final solution” to execute all the Jews in Europe.
But it wasn’t that comment that caused Professor Churchill’s firing this week. It was his phoney research and his plagiarism.
The Regents’ action on Tuesday followed thorough reviews by other members of the CU faculty and then the recommendation by CU President Hank Brown that the professor be canned. Mr. Brown said the school had little choice but to fire Churchill to protect the integrity of CU’s research.
The prof claimed - falsely - to be an American Indian. He fabricated a story later widely circulated that the U.S. Army intentionally gave members of an Indian tribe blankets tainted with smallpox in order to annihilate them.
Ever since the spring of 2006, he has been on CU’s payroll, even though he was on leave and then on suspension during the academic investigations. That means taxpayers and those who pay tuition have been supporting a jerk.
Furthermore, under current CU policy, he’ll be paid another full year’s salary. We hope the Regents change that policy - liars should not be rewarded.
He’s been on the public dole since 1978 when he began lecturing at the Boulder campus. In 1991 he was granted a tenured associate professorship.
His lawyer, David Lane, has indicated that the professor would sue if he were fired. Good. Let him sue.
The Regents, President Brown and others in CU’s administration bent over backwards to afford him his academic rights.
Meanwhile, he doesn’t need to be anywhere near the Boulder campus - or any other higher education institution in Colorado, for that matter.
“...Churchill thus represents the reductio ad absurdum of the contemporary university’s willingness to subordinate all other values to affirmative action.
When such a grotesque fraud - a white man pretending to be an Indian, an intellectual charlatan spewing polemical garbage festooned with phony footnotes, a shameless demagogue fabricating imaginary historical incidents to justify his pathological hatreds, an apparent plagiarist who steals and distorts the work of real scholars - manages to scam his way into a full professorship at what is still a serious research university, we know the practice of affirmative action has hit rock bottom ...”
— Paul Campos:
No, not cheap but spot on.
And selling that Negative of another artist’s picture as his own!!!
Ah yes, Niel Abercrombie, my hippie,commie,idiot,representative from Hawaii.
“Just desserts” for this fake Indian would be 10 years in prison for inciting terrorism, and then lifetime parole to the poorest Indian reservation in the country.
Ward also copied “Little Big Man,” Copyright 1877 by Charles M. Bell.
http://www.grandfathersspirit.com/cards/111LittleBigMan.html
Then sold it on Ebay ( the Ebay link is gone now ).
Ward Churchill’s response to the Ebay buyer : “The fact that the purchaser was ignorant...is not my responsibility.”
Ward might win from Boulder.
He made up lies about the Army, blankets and smallpox. The kids learned this and have even talked about how bad white men are...they gave the indians smallpox. When I heard this...I didn't believe it...just more re-writing of history. Making indians out to be saints...when they were brutal savages...
I loved the cartoon about Keith Olbermann. Too funny.
The first example was drawn by the late artist Thomas E. Mails published in a 1972 book called The Mystic Warriors of the Plains. The copy ( ? ) “Winter Attack,” was later “drawn” by Ward Churchill.
Ward’s second scheme was “Little Big Man,” by Charles M. Bell.
About the same.
Suh-LYE-duh for Salida.
PWEB-lo...not Peeblo.
Some may disagree with me.
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Of those, at the very least plagiarism does not fall under First Amendment protections. Anyone is free to quote anyone else, as was Churchill here. That freedom does not extend to claiming authorship.
But there is a broader issue here that bears examination, especially in view of Campos's invocation of reductio ad absurdum with regard to affirmative action. There is another reductio at play in this affair, typified by the ACLU's position.
It is simply the 60's notion that dissent has a prima facie value to society that somehow offers the dissenter absolution from the necessity to observe basic restrictions - in this case, on theft, in others, violence, moral dissolution, or murder - based on the spurious argument that society benefits more from dissent than it suffers from the lawlessness of the dissenter. It is a notion beloved of social theorists and amateur philosophers but it offers one prohibitive weakness, and that is the vulnerability to corruption. Should an individual desire to attain absolution from law he or she need only pose as a dissenter. That pose - and Churchill is, if nothing else, a master poseur - acts as a real-world Get Out Of Jail Free card.
In point of fact this case has very little to do with the First Amendment and everything to do with the demonstrable fact that Churchill is a thief and a fake. It has nothing to do with his personal character outside those portions of that character that led him to thievery and fakery. It has nothing to do with academic freedom, which is itself, like dissent, often regarded as a transcendental end in pursuit of which other norms must be disregarded.
It is, in fact, about a thief and a fake who was caught, and it is about nothing more than that. Churchill's outrageously cruel "Little Eichmanns" essay did nothing more than bring attention to what really got him fired. As it should.
Ward will continue to say his garbage, use his ‘sock puppet’ as a source, steal others research and art work...after being fired by CU.
There should be civil lawsuits by the artist Thomas E. Mails family and others.
But Lane’s First Amendment claims are bogus on Ward being fired. CU has the right to fire him. Ward is lucky to be able to collect another year of paid vacation.
The ACLU continues to prove the ACLU founder and longtime executive director Roger Baldwin’s infamous quote :
“I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”
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