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The Pentagon has rejected MIM's FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request for data on faculty involved with military contracts at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the University of Colorado, Boulder. MIM's request of three months ago and since repeated has not drawn even an acknowledgement from the Pentagon.
By law, the federal government has to release information on its activities to the public, but in practice, a large portion of FOIA requests goes ignored.
In a recent book, Republican Party polemicist David Horowitz tries to paint a picture of 100 radical professors run amok. At the University of Colorado, Boulder, the governor of Colorado and some administrators are trying to fire Ward Churchill who attracted extra scrutiny of his academic work for remarks about U.$. militarism and 9/11. At the University of Wisconsin, Kevin Barrett has come under fire from yahoo state legislators for talking about Islam and theories of the World Trade Center attacks.
Left out of the discussion of a hundred professors is the thousands of professors tied into the military. Two professors questioning the official version of history--along with the majority of New Yorkers according to polls--attract all the attention, while the professors turning academia into an extension of the government receive no equivalent scrutiny.
Also unresolved as of this date is a FOIA request for documents on U.$. military spying on MIM. In that case, the FOIA has received acknowledgement but no action yet.
An investigation of events in 2005 and 2006 will show that undercover federal agents were creating weapons provocations and issuing death threats against University of Colorado faculty members and pinning them on Ward Churchill supporters. MIM is calling for a legal investigation of federal pressure on the University of Colorado firing process of Ward Churchill.
In particular, MIM is drawing attention to the role of the FBI in pressuring the University of Colorado in retaliation for Ward Churchill's past work on the FBI. Ward Churchill is one of the leading published authorities on political police activities. The FBI lobbies doggedly against anyone not interpreting FBI agents as historical angels, but it is important to understand that such FBI lobbying has no legal standing and in fact ranges into corrupt territory when it is involved in trying to get Ward Churchill fired.
Simultaneous with federal death threats, federal arms provocations and verbal criticisms aimed at stoking up violence by Ward Churchill supporters, undercover agents and their reactionary supporters claim to be working strenuously to interpret MIM articles for allegorical violence. This violence would require lengthy and contradictory explanations of their manufacturing while the violence federal agents have carried out would require only the exposure of undercover agent identities.
A raft of web pages also exists in an effort to create divisions in the Ward Churchill camp and between it and the University of Colorado people responsible for firing Ward Churchill. MIM is calling for a legal investigation of hundreds of web pages, web articles and statements created by undercover federal agents in connection to the University of Colorado. We demand that the federal government publish documentation of its undercover role in connection to the University of Colorado and Ward Churchill supporters.
MIM is aware of these web pages and the identity of those who produce them via professional means and ongoing interactions with the spy community. However, MIM's knowledge is not the same as the University of Colorado's knowledge and the press of Colorado is less than worthless. We are here to say that what has gone on with Colorado in 2005 and 2006 is way, way over the line and spies interacting with MIM better know it. The fact that MIM is willing to converse with spies is not carte blanche.
MIM itself could sue to publicize information now hidden from view, but then spies would stop talking to MIM and our journalism would suffer. At the same time, Ward Churchill and the international proletariat have a compelling and concrete reason to win.
The population of Colorado is too pro-police to hear the truth from MIM even if MIM bothered to document it. In any case, MIM has been threatened with legal action for documenting what it knows about the federal role in Colorado. That is why the federal government has to be forced into documenting its own role, to make it into the allowed official consciousness of the white people trying to fire Ward Churchill. Ordinarily this would be done through a FOIA followed by a book, that everyone from the reactionaries to the Liberals masquerading as Marxists would ignore. This time, if it needs to happen, the truth can come out in a trial context where it will matter to a struggle in real-time, the firing of Ward Churchill.
In the struggle connected to Ward Churchill, the left-wing of parasitism raced ahead into irrelevant and pornographic territory that it is comfortable with rather than terrain where it could actually help the struggle. Where the struggle requires the diving equivalent of a triple somersault for victory, the ingrained habits of state-sponsored parasites make a triple somersault with a twist necessary to advance Ward Churchill's cause as well as many others.
Lawless reactionaries on the Internet opposed to the Constitution and Bill of Rights include some functionally illiterate Harvard PhDs. They complain about Fox News and the monarchist drift of the country, but these same people working for the government and in other occupations do not have a rudimentary understanding of how to support journalism in the united $tates. These reactionaries often boasting educations in feminism and Marxism are involved in supporting illegal activities against MIM's press and Ward Churchill.
MIM opposes allegorical writing in general except when dealing with imperialists and their spies. Nonetheless, MIM opposes allegorical writing, because it displaces scientific thought, not because it is illegal. If we go too far in attacking allegorical writing, we are going to drift into monarchist territory. MIM does some "story-telling" itself, but very little, and only as a step into a context of more general thought grounded in concrete knowledge.
To the reactionaries campaigning against MIM's alleged allegorical writing in a fruitless search for individual motivations: there is no legal authority for the government to set up a press to lobby MIM's press on its allegorical writing or non-allegorical writing. Any government officials involved in lobbying MIM or disrupting its press are on persynal vendettas only, because the First Amendment says there can be no legal authority supporting the government against the press. Such persynal vendettas subject their makers to civil suit by MIM. A judge in Michigan awarded one journalist a five digit sum from a government official deemed to be on a persynal vendetta against the press. Pay heed reactionaries: that money comes out of your own pockets, regardless of unconstitutional laws or policies your bosses may have told you about. Contrary to monarchists used to thinking that government officials are divine, in a bourgeois democracy, government officials are subject to suits as individuals for persynal vendettas against the press. That's why it is important for reactionaries to read and re-read the First Amendment until they understand that it is for the citizens, not the government. Ideas such as "the right for the CIA to interview" and the "right of the FBI to lobby" are strictly figments of the reactionary imagination.
In the Maoist form of government, government officials are subject to criticism and overthrow, as in the Cultural Revolution. Although Maoist-led government has eliminated law suits, Maoist ideology retains a strong distinction between the rulers and the ruled for the purposes of the battle against corruption.
For an example of how poorly understood journalism and the law in the united $tates are today, more than one Harvard PhD seeks to defend a government official with professional duties in gender-related topics from MIM's alleged gender-related allegorical attack. In other words, if MIM were composed of the types of English and lit majors who write allegorically as claimed, MIM would be doing exactly what the original framers of the Constitution had intended--engage the citizens to criticize government officials. Meanwhile, our critics are lost in a pre-scientific haze of ad hominem attack and they draw support lazily from collegial practices that have no place in politics, journalism and law. We are not here co-chairing a panel of colleagues on literary criticism by the rules of political correctness, but a number of spies and pseudo-leftists raced into acting as if that is what we should be doing in the Ward Churchill case. People who used to be colleagues in history and literature seminars should take a look at the roles they are in today and make sure they understand what is appropriate now.
The attempt to move from the academic workplace to the real world by Harvard PhDs and the like shows that Marx's materialist method is correct: people unconsciously take the ideas of their workplace and use those ideas outside the workplace, regardless of appropriateness. They unconsciously seek to weld the world together in a way compatible with their workplace, when what is necessary is an understanding of how to flush out various forces at work in the Ward Churchill case.
We are here as journalists investigating the role of the federal government's undercover work pressuring the University of Colorado on Ward Churchill. This work is also the substance of Ward Churchill's work, and if our Harvard PhDs would take a minute to actually read the Bill of Rights and Ward Churchill, they would know that already.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."Note that it says people petition the government, not the other way around. The other way around is known as corruption. Reactionary government agents are engaged in corruption on Ward Churchill and the left-wing of parasitism is supporting them with irrelevant seminar etiquette.
What the struggle needs is that these intelligent people at Harvard, Yale etc. help directly in rooting out undercover work opposing the international proletariat. The intellectuals should also cease legitimizing mass production of mediocre political correctness or academia will just be the politically correct administration of military research and other officially whiteness-approved activities. Winning means defeating White Fright and intellectuals unprepared for that reality should just get out of the way and let others do the fighting instead of adding to the degree of difficulty in the struggle.
Obviously the rules of the whole game in academia are being challenged in the Ward Churchill case. The battle has to be fought and won with tactics appropriate for the terrain, not stereotyped bedtime stories of liberalism.