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>Just sat through the streaming video of Ward Churchill's speech at the
>U. of Colo. I have mixed feelings about this person. He has a point
>about American policy and about Native Americans, but his manner of
>delivery--the hysteria and the lack of reasoning behind his words, as
>well as his open advocacy of violence--doesn't belong in a classroom.
>He'll do well on the speaker's circuit, plus the buy-out that's
>coming up from the U. of Colorado will keep him going. It's obvious to
>me that he's another wannabe who grew up watching Billy Jack movies.
>(I have more Cherokee blood in my right fist than he does in his whole
>body.) A paper of his is up for view at his official University
>web-page and it's not very impressive. On top of that more information
>keep coming out on his plagiarisms and other more sinsiter practices.
>Too bad that the Red Power movement has embraced this one. Jesse
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This morning I read all of Churchill's comments that I could endure,
including the arrogant, sarcastic, and not-so-slightly authoritarian
injunctions to his questioners to basically shut up. I wonder what this
man is like in a classroom. He's already cost the President of UoC her
job. The idea he stated, that he doesn't answer to anyone, is what I
would expect from a fucked-up 15-year-old in a school for troubled
adolescents, not the comment of a grown man.
To turn around The Godfather, this is not just business, it's personal.
I did not know anyone who died in the Trade Center, but I know two men
who worked in it and were fortunately elsewhere that day: one went
surfing, the other was at a seminar in New Jersey. They both were in
the investment banking business. One works for Cantor Fitzgerald, the
other for Marsh McClennan. I suppose that makes them Little Eichmanns
in Churchill's roster of shameful people. On September 11, 2001 I was
working at Merrill Lynch, 1/2 mile due north of Tower One, ironically
writing disaster recovery procedures that would keep yet another
financial joint in business. Is this where I say "Sieg heil" or throw
"The Ride of the Valkyries" on the tape deck while I strafe a Vietnamese
village?
I have no doubt that the Bush White House had a pretty good idea of what
was about to happen, in much the same way the sainted FDR allowed Pearl
Harbor to happen as a pretext to get us into WW2, and just as the
British allowed Coventry to be bombed lest they betray to the Germans
that they'd cracked their code. Complicity starts at a far higher level
than with some trader on the phone at Cantor at 8:46 that morning. If
Dr. Churchill is so fucking in love with his beloved kitchen help and
porters in such buildings, my fondest hope is that he goes to work
alongside them.
Ken
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Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com kenwolman.blogspot.com
If you want patience, go to medical school.
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