In my (seemingly) daily Ward Churchill update, it seems the
native
Indian
professor gave an interview to a magazine called SATYA. I looked, because I love this stuff, and yup, I keep confirming my prescience: their motto is, “SATYA: Vegetarianism · Environmentalism · Animal Advocacy · Social Justice”. (Here’s some more: In Sanskrit, “satya” means “truth”!)
To get up-to-speed on Ward Churchill: [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5]
Like a novice politician without a press aid who made a major gaff, he makes the mistake of using the opportunity to moderate his own past views by making them even worse, and decidedly refuses to apologize in an interview on CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now” program .
(CBS/AP) A professor who likened World Trade Center victims to a notorious Nazi suggested to a magazine that more terror attacks may be necessary to radicalize Americans to fight the misuse of U.S. power.
In an interview Ward Churchill gave with Satya magazine, he was asked about the effectiveness of protests of U.S. policies and the Iraq war, and responded: “One of the things I’ve suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.”
The interview prompted Gov. Bill Owens to renew his call for Churchill’s firing.
“It’s amazing that the more we look at Ward Churchill, the more outrageous, treasonous statements we hear from Churchill,” Owens said.
“I don’t believe I owe an apology,” Churchill said Friday on CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now” program — his first public comments since the University of Colorado began a review that could lead to his dismissal.
Meanwhile, Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., and Eastern Washington University canceled plans for Churchill to speak on campus, citing public safety concerns. Stephen Jordan, president of Eastern Washington University, declined Friday to say whether specific threats had been made.
Churchill defended the essay in which he compared those killed in the Sept. 11 attack to “little Eichmanns,” a reference to Adolf Eichmann, who organized Nazi plans to exterminate European Jews. He said the victims were akin to U.S. military operations’ collateral damage — or innocent civilians mistakenly killed by soldiers.
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