2/05/2005

Still Working on Trying to Understand This Ward Churchill Thing...

I watched Ward Churchill's attorney and a student on FoxNews tonight. The student called Churchill "one of the most inspiring professors I have ever had"...

INSPIRING?

The attorney stated over and over that any professor has a right to say, under the First Amendment, whatever they want to say in the classroom, and because they are 'government employees', they are protected under the First Amendment from losing their job...

OH REALLY??

These liberals are so fond of throwing around First Amendment this and First Amendment that, threatening the rest of us with a lawsuit if we DARE challenge *their right* to say anything they want to say and the rest of the world be damned...

Let me take you back a few years...

Does anyone remember the broo-hah-hah over what Senator Trent Lott said during Strom Thurmond’s birthday party?

A refresher from December 2002 as reported by ABC News:

Here is what Senator Trent Lott, Republican of Mississippi, said yesterday at Senator Strom Thurmond's birthday party, according to ABCNEWS’ O'Keefe.

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had of followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

If you remember, Trent Lott lost his job as Senate Majority Leader over those "vile comments"…

Note that Lott didn’t compare anyone to Nazi functionary Adolf Eichmann, or call their horrific deaths a ''befitting ... penalty'' for the ''little Eichmanns' ... participation.''

Ward Churchill did.

Shortly after the murderous attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 in New York, Washington, D.C. and over Pennsylvania, Professor Churchill widely circulated an article stating just that…

I didn’t see or hear any liberal rushing to defend Senator Lott’s First Amendment rights…quite the contrary…

In fact, Talking Points Memo was all over it and Trent Lott at the same time…

Don’t talk to me about First Amendment rights…Ward Churchill is a dangerous man...pesenting his extreme views of the world to our college students as some kind of utopian worthy goal...and the liberals and the MSM are choosing to gloss over this as if it is a non-issue...

I have sounded the warning bell many times over what I see as a putrid, morally corrupt cesspool that our universities have become…

This problem is not simply going to go away…we need to address this situation now…our youthful minds are being molded around these outlandish, anarchist, evil ideologies…and if we don’t do something right away the future of this nation will be in grave danger…

DR