One of an ever-increasing number of American academics hounded,vilified, and forcibly removed from their positions, and after years of enduring persecution and grandstanding self-righteous slander by The University of Colorado and the Board of Regents, Ward Churchill was finally fired last week.
Here is an excerpt from DRANT # 121: Ward in the Water, May 27, 2005. It was true then, and its truer now.
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In an irony totally lost on the Inquisitors- but blatantly real and obvious to those of us with still-functioning cerebra much less working memory cells, Ward Churchill is being Foxed and persecuted by the University, The State of Colorado, The US Government, and major media, in a vicious and perfect replication of classic Nazi technique. For what ? For calling some Americans “little Eichmanns."
The Nazis are outraged because Ward called them Nazis. So the Amero-Eichmanns have Bunded together to get his ass. Nazi-style.
These are people who still can’t begin to answer the famous question : “Why Do They Hate Us?”
But there’s no question why They hate Him.
The REAL reason they hate Ward Churchill, and the REAL reason they are doing everything they can to Himmler him to silence, is –
He told the truth. And he ain’t stopping.
WHAT DID HE SAY ?
1- 9-11 was basically "chickens coming home to roost"-- The inevitable repercussions of the ongoing US genocide against Iraq and 100s of 1000s of its children, most recently and murderously by George the Elder, Bill Clinton and of course George The Lesser and his faithful ofay companion Rumto.
2- The attack of 9-11 was an act of War; retaliation in self-defense to wars of aggression and murder historically inflicted by countless generations of white Christians on Arabs, Muslims and various other brown and red and yellow and black humans, most currently and most viciously by The US and Israel, Desert Shield,The Clinton sanctions, and now George’s Crusadocide.
3- Adolf Eichmann was an very very ordinary minor functionary, who never pulled a trigger, never fired a shot. An unmemorable putz who just did his anal little job every day to feed his lovely wife and cute little kids, a barely noticeable little speck on a pimple on the little ass of Hitler’s little dog, who paid the bills, and got along, and never made trouble. An ordinary little man who always made the trains run on time, realllly on time, all the time. Of course, the fact that the trains were punctually going to Auschwitz and Dachau and Bergen Belsen has nothing to do with it. He made them run on time, which was his job, and then he went home and put his feet up, and had some wurst, and played mit der kinder, and fell asleep in front of the radio listening to Strauss. That’s Eichmann.
4- On 9-11, the World Trade Center was filled with thousands of “Little Eichmanns,” doing their little jobs, making sure that the wheels of capitalism and profit and global hegemony turned exceeding swift, and that all the puts got putted, and all the options opted, the right taxes evaded, and the right inside information passed along to the right people, and basically, that the trains run on time. As Churchill said:
“ 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 ..."
Churchill made it extremely clear that he was not referring to the workpeople, mostly illegal immigrants, washing the dishes or delivering the Danish and coffee or taking care of the kids of the Little Eichmanns. They were innocent victims. "Collateral damage," actually.
5- We are ALL complicit “little Eichmanns.” Just ordinary little people who make the trains run on time, and go home and play with the kids, and would never shoot anyone. Little technocrats or obscure worker bees just trying to make a living, but this time the trains run right on time to destinations Fallujah and Mosul and Baghdad and Abu Ghraib. You know, us little Eichmanns.
6- And what of “Us” who have so diligently protested and demonstrated and written angry blogs and petitions and even been arrested or worse in the fight against the crimes committed in our names, with our money ? Too little too late. And obviously- too totally ineffective. And too many so-called leftists saying that they “disagree with his ideas, but will fight to the death for Churchill's right to express them.”
Disagree with what ? Where is there a grain of untruth in what he has said?
If we ever are to change the course of this, if we are ever to make amends for what we have done, and if all this death and murder and waste is ever to be infinitesimally redeeming - then we must begin by taking full responsibility for what we have done, accepting all of it, each last one of us, and begin again from a place of deep humility, service to the other above all else, profound respect for ourselves and every other being on the earth, and embrace the great truth that there are no chosen people, no hierarchy of human souls, and that every single one of us is responsible for every single other one of us, and for what all the rest of us do.
There are no exemptions, no innocent, no bystanders.
We cannot be the equivalent of B-51 bomber pilots, killing featureless specks miles from our view. We cannot ever say we didn't know, for we must be as morally responsible for what we don’t know as what we do.
As Joseph Welch said to Joe McCarthy, so I say to all of you, to myself, and all of us:
Have you no SHAME ?
What the hell is it going to take for US to get up off our sofas and out of our complicit somnolence, and DO something ?
Exactly how many crimes will WE commit – or allow to be committed -against ourselves, against the world and its various beings, and against our own children before WE reach a threshold of pain or shame sufficiently unbearable to impel US to take real action ?
I mean, whatzit gonna take ?
We worked (for Enron or World.com, or United, and lordknowsitscoming Ford and GM for years. Showed up everyday, and now we’re being told that our pension is gone? And we sit ?
We work for Morgan Stanley, or some Sub-prime predator, or Goldman Sachs, and we know full well that every day we are doing business with some of the lowest scum on this earth, and we sit ?
We watched our son or daughter go off to fight for Democracy, and if they come back at all, it’s missing a leg or eye or their sanity, or they have cancer or lesions from the DU ? And we sit ?
We told our kids that if they worked real hard, they could move up the ladder in this great country of opportunity, and now they can't afford to go to school, their kids have no health care, and their jobs are being done for pennies by Sri Lankans ? And we sit ?
We are paying everyday for the murder, imprisonment, and torture of people by the thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan and in the USA and elsewhere ? And we sit ?
We have watched our real earnings drop to less than they were five years ago, while filling the tank costs twice what it did back then, ENRON and SHELL and CHEVRON make more billions than have ever been counted before --- And we sit ?
We work (if we still have a full time job) for a company that has cut our health care coverage, pension contributions, real wages, and union rights, while the CEO and his pals in the boardroom are making tens of millions ? And we sit ?
Our kids go to school through metal detectors, have no crayons or computers, and have armed Homeland Security Guards and Military Recruiters all over the school everyday, and we sit ?
What the hell is it gonna take ?
“Such issues must be faced straightforwardly, without dissembling, if Americans are ever to hold rightful title to the “good conscience” they've so long laid claim to owning. How they are to respond to what stares back at them from the proverbial mirror is an altogether different question however.
Transformation from beastliness to beauty can be neither instantaneous nor, in terms of its retroactive undoing, complete.
There is no painless, privilege-preserving pill that can be taken to effect a quick fix of what ails the US, no petition no manifesto, no song nor candle light vigil that will suffice.
The terms of change must and will be harsh, inevitably so, given the propensity of those who seek to prevent it to gauge their success by the rotting corpses of toddlers. This truth, no matter its inconvenience to those snugly situated within the comfort zone of political pretense, is all that defines the substance of meaningful struggle.”
Ward Churchill
On The Justice of Roosting Chickens
1- It should be emphasized that I applied the "little Eichmanns" characterization only to those described as "technicians". Thus, it was obviously not directed to the children, janitors, food service workers, firemen and random passers-by killed in the 9-1-1 attack. According to Pentagon logic, were simply part of the collateral damage. Ugly? Yes. Hurtful? Yes. And that's my point. It's no less ugly, painful or dehumanizing a description when applied to Iraqis, Palestinians, or anyone else. If we ourselves do not want to be treated in this fashion, we must refuse to allow others to be similarly devalued and dehumanized in our name.
2- The bottom line of my argument is that the best and perhaps only way to prevent 9-1-1-style attacks on the U.S. is for American citizens to compel their government to comply with the rule of law. The lesson of Nuremberg is that this is not only our right, but our obligation. To the extent we shirk this responsibility, we, like the "Good Germans" of the 1930s and '40s, are complicit in its actions and have no legitimate basis for complaint when we suffer the consequences. This, of course, includes me, personally, as well as my family, no less than anyone else.
3- There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center . . . 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 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.
From Some People Push Back-- On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
written by Ward Churchill 9-11-2001 . Updated Ward Churchill
Boulder, Colorado January 31, 2005
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