Super-creep, amazing charlatan, and general thug Ward Churchill is a psychopath who watched one too many Billy Jack movies back in the 1970's. Thank God, someone is finally standing up to this monster.
Posted on 12/01/2005 7:08:29 AM PST by Millee
A small group of students at the University of Colorado confronted Ward Churchill outside his classroom Wednesday about his essay on the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
"Who do you think deserved to die?" asked Ian VanBuskirk, 23, chairman of the College Republicans.
"Why don't you circle the names?" he said as he tried to hand Churchill a marker while pointing to a large banner carried by other students that listed the names of all the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Churchill, who was surrounded by students, as he made his way to his basement office, gave a cryptic reply:
"I'll circle names when you start circling names of babies," he said to VanBuskirk.
VanBuskirk, a graduate student in accounting at CU, was among 17 members of the College Republicans who lined the hallway in Ketchum Arts and Sciences building to protest against Churchill Wednesday.
"He's become the poster child for liberal bias on campus," said VanBuskirk. "It's hard for Coloradans to realize what their kids are being taught. While Churchill is extreme, they (the university) teach kids with a liberal bias and we want a balanced education."
The students focused on a 2001 essay Churchill wrote in which he likened some Sept. 11 victims to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. They were particularly upset over one explanation he later offered:
"It should be emphasized that I applied the 'little Eichmanns' characterization only to those described as 'technicians,' " Churchill said.
"Thus, it was obviously not directed to the children, janitors, food service workers, firemen and random passers-by killed in the 9/11 attack."
The College Republicans wanted Churchill to clarify his comment by circling the names of the victims he considered "technicians."
The protest began earlier Wednesday outside the Ketchum building, in Hawthorne Court, where several students held the banner, which included the words, "Never Forget."
Students passing by had mixed reactions to the demonstration.
"I don't understand why they're doing this now," said Kelly Getha, 18, a freshman in psychology. "I don't know what they're doing is going to help."
Bitter cold eventually drove the demonstrators indoors. Campus police approved as long as demonstrators didn't block anyone's path and were quiet.
After the confrontation with Churchill, his students were angry.
"I thought it was very disruptive of my class," said Yuzo Nieto, 23, a senior in creative writing.
"As conservatives, they should be protecting the Constitution. They should be speaking up for free speech and not protesting against it."
""As conservatives, they should be protecting the Constitution. They should be speaking up for free speech and not protesting against it.""
Uh...freedom of speech goes both ways, bozo. Typical lib response - libs can say anything and it's free speech, conservatives exercising their freedom of speech it actually a protest against free speech.
i.e., journalism.
Wasn't it Al Gore in the movie "love story" who said...." Being a liberal means never having to say your logical?"
"As conservatives, they should be protecting the Constitution. They should be speaking up for free speech and not protesting against it."
If this is what UC produces, I'll gladly not send my child there!!
Seems to me they were giving him more freedom of speech in allowing him to clarify, not to mention their free speech rights.
Keep giving him more rope guys. Will it be considered suicide when he actually hangs himself?
Super-creep, amazing charlatan, and general thug Ward Churchill is a psychopath who watched one too many Billy Jack movies back in the 1970's. Thank God, someone is finally standing up to this monster.
that is what i thought...........HUH?
I think this is what he meant.
If they would indicate which names on the list were children, then he would indicate which names on the list deserved to die.
My interpretation of his answer: All of the adults on the list deserved to die. The children did not.
But this is only my opinion of what this nut-case meant.
Another complete Demo-phony! Sad that the taxpayers of Colorado are STILL paying his salary.
He got a raise this year.
He wants another pay raise next year...with no classes.
Hundreds of his fellow liberal professors took out newspaper ads in support of Ward.
They might work 6 to 8 eight hours per week for their $100,000 plus benefits. They get the summer off, retirement, health insurance, every holiday paid/off...even two weeks at Christmas, but they will not call it Christmas.
"They should be speaking up for free speech and not protesting against it."
Freedom of speech is NOT freedom to lie.
A fascinating series of non-sequiturs in this student's reasoning. The protestors were calling Churchill to account for his earlier comments with a simple logical outworking, i.e. identifying the individuals in that class of victims he so clearly stated were present in the WTC on 9/11.
"Uh...freedom of speech goes both ways, bozo. Typical lib response - libs can say anything and it's free speech, conservatives exercising their freedom of speech it actually a protest against free speech."
Free speech only applies to the leftist point of view. Didn't you learn anything from the Sinclair debacle of 2004?
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No. He meant for them to circle the names of all the babies murdered by American GIs in Iraq.
It's not hard when you understand how the liberal mind works.
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