"A grave assault on academic institutions"

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CHURCHILL'S PLIGHT DISTURBING

by James DiPadua
March 06, 2005
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Currently teaching at the University of Colorado--Boulder, is a professor, Ward Churchill, who is under review for speaking his opinion on the events leading up to the attacks of Sept. 11, 20001. I would hate to put words into the mouth of such an intelligent and powerful speaker and thinker, but the crux of the issue is that there are people who were offended by what Mr. Churchill describes as the truth. The truth being that he explicitly holds every American responsible for the 9/11 attacks, as it is American policy that ultimately created an international atmosphere of hatred and animosity toward our nation.
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What ultimately caused such a ruckus is that Mr. Churchill used a Malcolm X expression, " chickens coming home to roost," to describe how it is that an attack of such magnitude and obvious hatred could occur within the United States. This statement has been used countless times in its short 40-year history to describe the double standards as well as hypocrisy represented by U.S. international and domestic policy.

Simply stated, "What goes around, comes around."
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Mr. Churchill illustrates how American policy has influenced and provided the templates necessary for other world atrocities such as the Holocaust.
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The fact that a tenured professor may lose his profession because of an analysis and documentation of what he perceives as the truth is a grave assault on academic institutions. There is no longer a bastion of protection provided by being intellectual. Please keep in mind that we created a "halfamnesty" for professors so that they could think and express themselves without worry of ramifications such as loss of employment. This is a reinforcement of our first amendment right and absolutely necessary for real progress to be made and achieved.
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Mr. Churchill's current predicament also illustrates American reaction to its own dark history.
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we Americans tend to think of ourselves as good people: liberators and bringers of democracy and freedom from oppression. Outside a few isolated events, this is hardly the case and it is general ignorance that leads to such self-conceptions. We're not innocents in any sense of the word.
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James DiPadua
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