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BOULDER, COLORADO 28June2006--Hours after newspapers hit the stands with the University of Colorado's Chancellor's call to fire Ward Churchill, MIM Notes hit the streets. We thought we would need to do some "attitude adjustment" work, but instead we found about three-quarters of people still had not made their minds up about the Ward Churchill case. The front page media bombardment over months had little success in attacking Ward Churchill.
MIM is not denying that the usual rednecks in Colorado want Churchill fired along with any other professor who opposes the united $tates's wars in the world. Yet among people up close in this conflict and people on the fence, the attack machine has failed. Even some white people know a slime machine when they see it based on experience in white collar politics.
It was some consolation that the majority among those with an opinion favored Ward Churchill. In the words of one Boulder student "free speech just took a big hit."
The University of Colorado has been trying to fire Ward Churchill since his comments about 9/11 riled up Amerika's Eichmanns, who Churchill had the gall to name by name in a reference to cogs in the Nazi machine. Many took the comments as meaning that Amerikans in the World Trade Center deserved their fate.
In so doing, Ward Churchill did nothing the Allies did not do in reference to nuclear bombing of Japan or conventional bombing of German cities. It was the Amerikans who spread "co-responsibility" as a concept of war blame involving civilians during and after World War II.
MIM agrees with Ward Churchill's comments. In fact, it is naive to think Amerikans are not co-responsible for the daily war horrors of the united $tates and its ally Israel in the Middle East. Votes and tax dollars are directly implicated. We cannot be surprised as civilians if Arabs attack us after we attack their civilians.
Now the white attack network has been called on to review Ward Churchill 1000 times more carefully than the rest of the faculty at the University of Colorado. The governor and various dogs have encouraged everyone to go back and make new charges against Ward Churchill including plagiarism charges. Had federal prosecutors acted in the first rounds of this conflict to prosecute the people who suggested firing him for his speech about Eichmanns, for criminal conspiracy to deprive Ward Churchill of his civil rights, these follow-up white lies would not have happened.
(Watch here for interviews with students at the University of Colorado.)