Letters from NYC

9/11 Victims called Nazi's

I believe everyone has the right to speak their mind in a coherent and intelligent manner to prove their point. When you get to name calling, however, all bets are off. An insult like this can only be responded to with a swift kick to the "nads".

In his essay, Some People Push Back: On the Justice of Roosting Chickens, CU professor Ward Churchill argues that:

• Victims of the Sept. 11th attacks were "technocrats of empire, ... little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers"

• The Sept. 11 attacks were in retaliation for the Iraqi children who were killed in a 1991 bombing raid and for economic sanctions imposed on Iraq by the United Nations following the Persian Gulf War.

• Hijackers who crashed jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11 were "combat teams," not terrorists.

• The people killed inside the Pentagon were "military targets."

Here's Churchill's primary offending excerpt (thanks to Political Zen):

Let’s get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America’s global financial empire — the “mighty engine of profit” to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved — and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to “ignorance” — a derivative, after all, of the word “ignore” — counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in — and in many cases excelling at — it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I’d really be interested in hearing about it.

I say we should let him hear about it! I say we should also let the University of Colorado hear about it. In fact, I think we should not only tell the Dept. Chair and the President, but also their board and major donors. In fact, we should write to every panel and every university that books him to speak and let him know all our thoughts! What say you?

Here's a few articles about this clown so you can form your own opinion:

Fox News
Independent of San Francisco Bay
Independent Media Center [Ultra Left Wing]
New York Newsday
Satya

Posted by Michele at February 5, 2005 09:10 PM