The Ward Churchill-Moammar Gadhafi Coincidence?
Ward Churchill, head of the Ethnic Studies department at the University of Colorado has recently came under heavy fire for his comments in an essay blaming the victims of 9-11 for the attacks, calling them "little Eichmanns" who were "faceless technocrats" who received the "befitting penalty." Mohamed Atta and his gang of 19 hijackers, were, according to Churchill, no "cowards." And "nor were they 'fanatics' devoted to 'Islamic fundamentalism.'" He even went further than claiming that they weren't religious fundamentalists, that they were actually "secular activists - soldiers, really."
The striking similarities between Churchill and Gadhafi:


Gadhafi is the fella on the right, and Ward's on the left. it's quite interesting given the fact that in 1983, Ward Churchill went to Tripoli and met with Gadhafi. According to this source,
This is not the first time Ward Churchill has disagreed with the U.S. government's idea of who is, and is not, a terrorist. In April 1983, Churchill went to Libya to meet with Col. Moammar Gadhafi. The U.S. government had banned travel to Libya two years earlier, saying Gadhafi supported terrorism. Churchill traveled to Tripoli and Benghazi as a representative of the International Indian Treaty Council and the American Indian Movement. He went with Dace Means, brother of AIM leader Russell Means. They were seeking recognition from Gadhafi of the U.S. government's breaking of Indian treaties. "The main thing we sought and received was diplomatic support," Churchill told the Associated Press at the time. He added, "AIM has not requested arms from the Libyan government." The meeting took place five years before a bomb exploded on an American passenger jet above the small Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.Now, an excerpt from Ward Churchill's essay:
There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill [of being legitimate military targets]. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center...Of course, I am not advocating that he be lynched or be put in some federal gulag deep under Yucca Mountain. After all, this is America, and I can say anything I want, right? However, no one can take him seriously if he also says in his essay:
Well, really. 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.
Evil - for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept - was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline [sic] Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba [sic] the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she'd imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq.So, bottom line, because Ward Churchill seems to idolize Col. Moammar Gadhafi so much to the point where he looks like the dictator himself, Ward ought take a lesson from Moammar. A raving lunatic DOES have opportunities to clean his or her act up. Moammar got caught trying to smuggle nuclear materials into Libya, and he quickly cleaned up his act, muted his criticisms of the "evil West," and began an rapprochement with the formerly "evil ones." In the process of bad-mouthing his fellow Americans, Ward got caught with repeated cases of plagiarism, copied artwork being passed on as his own, and fraudulently posing as a red-blooded American Indian, of the Keetoowah Cherokee tribe.
Moammar kept his job as dictator of Libya when he stopped badmouthing and threatening the West even though he was caught with something illegal - nuclear materials. Saddam was suspected of having what Moammar actually had - and he lost his job as a result, despite supposedly having nothing. Fearful of being fired by the U.S. military like Saddam was, Moammar quickly wised up. Ward finds himself in the same shoes Moammar was in last year (albeit much smaller, but as guilty). So if Ward wants to keep his $96,000 job, he should act wise, clean up his act and stop his inciting rhetoric. Then, he will get away with his plagiarism.
Hmmm... Now a thought comes to mind... If I ever want to get some kind of charge dropped against me, I should already be a thorn in the government's back, the thorn being my trump card. I'd be in a position to either make the thorn hurt worse or make the pain go away, a win-win situation.
**ADDENUM**
I wouldn't be doing my fellow Americans justice if I didn't add some more snippets from Ward Churchill's essay, and let you come to your own conclusion whether if his writing has a subversive tone. From what I understand, subversive speech is not free speech, nor is yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theater.
Were the opportunity acted upon in some reasonably good faith fashion - a sufficiently large number of Americans rising up and doing whatever is necessary to force an immediate lifting of the sanctions on Iraq, for instance, or maybe hanging a few of America's abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline [sic] Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) - there is every reason to expect that military operations against the US on its domestic front would be immediately suspended.I know one thing for sure. I will receive a visit from the Secret Service if I seriously talk about executing our President, whether current or former (or in other words, assassination). It is funny, who's being bloodthirsty here? It is not like Americans are clamoring for the hanging of Saddam Hussein. There ARE certain Americans longing for the day George W. Bush gets lynched and hanged by a mob, Mussolini-fashion.
Whether they would remain so would of course be contingent upon follow-up. By that, it may be assumed that American acceptance of onsite inspections by international observers to verify destruction of its weapons of mass destruction (as well as dismantlement of all facilities in which more might be manufactured), Nuremberg-style trials in which a few thousand US military/corporate personnel could be properly adjudicated and punished for their Crimes Against humanity, and payment of reparations to the array of nations/peoples whose assets the US has plundered over the years, would suffice.
[emphases mine]
**DISCLAIMER**
To the person at NSA reading this blog, note my emphasis of the word "serious." If you happen to have no sense of humor, I, in no way, was condoning the assassination of our government officials. That was Ward Churchill, not me. *points finger in the direction of Colorado*

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