Monday, March 07, 2005
An Open Letter to the Board of Regents at C.U. Boulder
Please, do not give in to the temptation to buy this man out. If you do so, he will have learned several lessons, and he will have learned them well. If you pay him millions of dollars (some of which come from me, by the way) then Ward Churchill will have learned:
1. If you whine loudly enough, someone will eventually cave in and give you what you want.
2. If you whine long enough--preferably while throwing a full-on tantrum in the form of violent hate speech and anarchist threats--then someone will eventually cave in and give you what you want. (He will have instilled fear in his superiors, and he will then have control over them.)
3. If you scream loudly enough that it isn't your fault, that those bad reporters took your words "out of context," then eventually someone will believe you and feel sorry enough for you to open their checkbook.
4. If you continually turn the subject back to your First Amendment rights, then people will begin to forget that you are a plagiarist, an admitted bomb-maker for the Weather Underground, a resume liar, a bully to your students who disagree with you, a man who teaches terrorist tactics repeatedly and loudly, a copyright thief, and another white man who has broken all faith with Native Americans.
Please, Regents, you have more sense than this. I am a Coloradan born and bred, my Dad is a C.U. alum, and I want very badly to see the university rise above this with heads held high. If you give in to this bully rather than facing him head-on, he will have learned that crime pays, that he will never be held accountable for any of his treasonous actions--and I do not mean Free Speech here. I mean actual actions that should be punishable by imprisonment, terrorist beliefs that could bring down buildings. He has actively taught bomb-making, and he is on tape teaching a man how to turn himself into a suicide bomber. He has used false claims to genetic heritage to obtain high-paying tenured positions--he did, after all, get his job at C.U. in the first place by checking the Native American boxes on his application.
If you pay him millions of dollars, he will take that money and spew his vicious terrorist beliefs from one end of this earth to the other.
Do not reward crime. Do not reward hate. Do not reward anarchy. Do not reward terrorism. Do not give an admitted member of the Weather Underground $10,000,000. Stand up for what C.U. is, for what it could be. Stand up to the bully. Do not allow yourselves to be held hostage. He is only one man, and the future of the state of Colorado isn't worth the price he's demanding.
Thank you.
1. If you whine loudly enough, someone will eventually cave in and give you what you want.
2. If you whine long enough--preferably while throwing a full-on tantrum in the form of violent hate speech and anarchist threats--then someone will eventually cave in and give you what you want. (He will have instilled fear in his superiors, and he will then have control over them.)
3. If you scream loudly enough that it isn't your fault, that those bad reporters took your words "out of context," then eventually someone will believe you and feel sorry enough for you to open their checkbook.
4. If you continually turn the subject back to your First Amendment rights, then people will begin to forget that you are a plagiarist, an admitted bomb-maker for the Weather Underground, a resume liar, a bully to your students who disagree with you, a man who teaches terrorist tactics repeatedly and loudly, a copyright thief, and another white man who has broken all faith with Native Americans.
Please, Regents, you have more sense than this. I am a Coloradan born and bred, my Dad is a C.U. alum, and I want very badly to see the university rise above this with heads held high. If you give in to this bully rather than facing him head-on, he will have learned that crime pays, that he will never be held accountable for any of his treasonous actions--and I do not mean Free Speech here. I mean actual actions that should be punishable by imprisonment, terrorist beliefs that could bring down buildings. He has actively taught bomb-making, and he is on tape teaching a man how to turn himself into a suicide bomber. He has used false claims to genetic heritage to obtain high-paying tenured positions--he did, after all, get his job at C.U. in the first place by checking the Native American boxes on his application.
If you pay him millions of dollars, he will take that money and spew his vicious terrorist beliefs from one end of this earth to the other.
Do not reward crime. Do not reward hate. Do not reward anarchy. Do not reward terrorism. Do not give an admitted member of the Weather Underground $10,000,000. Stand up for what C.U. is, for what it could be. Stand up to the bully. Do not allow yourselves to be held hostage. He is only one man, and the future of the state of Colorado isn't worth the price he's demanding.
Thank you.
