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May 26 2007
Adding a piece to the puzzle about the timing of conspiracies against Ward Churchill, emails have surfaced that show that Marianne Wesson reached her opinion of Ward Churchill a year before her University of Colorado kangaroo committee report on him came out. Reports are surfacing regarding emails from early 2005.
According to Benjamin Whitmer, chair of the kangaroo committee Marianne Wesson said:
"'I confess to being somewhat mystified by the variety of people this unpleasant (to say the least) individual has been able to enlist to defend him. I know people say it's the principle, but we aren't all out there defending Bob Guccione's first amendment rights, though God knows he has them. I thought that us middle-aged feminists, at least, had learned not to all fall into that trap.'"
There was also a gender lynching angle:
"The rallying around Churchill reminds me unhappily of the rallying around OJ Simpson and Bill Clinton and now Michael Jackson and other charismatic male celebrity wrongdoers (well, okay, I don't really know that Jackson is a wrongdoer) — the tortured defenses (the cops planted the blood, 'it depends on what you mean by sex'), the claim that we have to defend the principle, the idea that if 'they' get him, then 'they' will come to get you next."
Hello feds, as we told you before, it is inevitable that the Law School is going to figure out what happened with you. MIM reported that federal activity to pin death threats on Ward Churchill supporters started in 2005. The sooner you feds tell Hank Brown why to give it up, the sooner this thing can be over. The longer you wait, the greater the costs.
The sooner the University of Colorado kangaroo committee and Hank Brown realize that their struggle is going down in flames, the better for everyone involved. The reactionaries' effort will be futile. They can make much noise, disturb some lives, manage to get the reputations of several more scholars destroyed and then they will lose anyway. And that is just to mention what will happen in Colorado.
Ward Churchill has already resigned his chair position. The proper response to his speech was to wonder if he would be an effective fund- raiser for his department. That has been done already. It's time for the University of Colorado to give it up. In most universities, someone with as much notoriety and influence in a field who had taught as long as Ward Churchill would be paid a lot more than $96,000. The University of Colorado was getting a great bargain. It looks like the University of Colorado could be looking at a massive discrimination suit, and even a liberal should be able to see that now.