The great, balanced professor Ward Churchill continues to mock himself, unwittingly.
[…] “I am not backing off an inch,” said Ward Churchill, drawing an ovation from a standing-room-only crowd of about 1,200 students and backers gathered in a ballroom. “I owe no one an apology.”
Churchill, who filed a lawsuit earlier in the day after officials at the state-funded university had threatened to cancel his speech, said his central message was that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks had been provoked by U.S. foreign policy.
“Naturally and inevitably, what you put out will blow back on you and that’s what happened,” Churchill said.
Tell me he didn’t just mock himself.
Here’s some of the remarks that started all the love and didn’t blow back on him at all:
In his essay, “Some People Push Back,” written shortly after Sept. 11, Churchill said the hijackers had mounted “counterattacks” in the face of hostile U.S. policy in the Middle East and a campaign of “genocide” against Iraq through the trade sanctions imposed after the first Gulf War.
In the essay, later revised for a book, Churchill also said that World Trade Center victims could not be seen as innocent, calling them “little Eichmanns,” a reference to German World War II Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann.
“True enough, they were civilians of a sort,” he wrote. “But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire.”
And that’s what makes them worthy of being killed like Jews in gas chambers, see. It’s the ubiquitous left-wing “You seek profits, now you must die,” theory that’s so very popular in schools and college campuses these days.
Then there’s this alarming revelation, which oh my gosh I simply can’t believe, considering that the speech organizers were left-wing lumber-head student and were the source of the whines about death threats before the speech was canceled:
University administrators reversed course on Tuesday, allowing Churchill’s speech to take place after determining students who organized the speech had not received death threats, as one had earlier claimed.
To get up-to-speed on my ongoing fascination with this Ward Churchill story: [Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7]
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