“Borrowed” from Cursor.com
In an interview with the Rocky Mountain News, Ward Churchill called a university regents' resolution apologizing to America for his writings "ridiculous," and he told CNN that it is the "media sources that have me calling for the deaths of millions of Americans" who owe an apology. Plus: Jim Baumer on the silence of the left, and Kurt Nimmo asks: 'Is the Attack on Churchill Orchestrated by Neocon Fellow Travelers?'
in his first in-depth interview with a Colorado newspaper since being engulfed in a controversy that led him to resign his chairmanship of the CU Ethnic Studies Department. CU administrators have launched a broad investigation of his expansive published and spoken record to determine whether he should be terminated.“This was a gut response opinion speech written in about four hours. It's not completely reasoned and thought through,” said Churchill, of his now infamous Sept. 11 treatise.
“If I'd had more time . . . I probably would have included prose to indicate that the way I was using the term (”little Eichmanns“) was in the Hannah Arendt sense,” referring to the scholar who wrote Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, an account of Eichmann's trial.
“He's everyman. There's nothing special about Eichmann,” said Churchill. “He's just a goddamn bureaucrat who probably even believed there was nothing wrong with what he did” in implementing Hitler's Final Solution to exterminate Jews.
“Because, after all, he wasn't pulling a trigger. He was at a safe remove from the actual commission of the crime. And this is what she meant about the banality of evil. None of these people in that building were deliberate themselves, locking (an Iraqi) child in a room and depriving the child of food and starving him or her to death.”
A revised, fleshed-out version of the essay, now titled Some People Push Back, is a runner-up for the Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Books Advancing Human Rights, Churchill has pointed out repeatedly in the last week.
Churchill said that other writers, including Chalmers Johnson and Michael Scheuer, also have published books in the past year advancing the idea that terrorist strikes against America should not be considered a complete surprise, given the way many of its policies are perceived across the global stage.
