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mesue · 05-17-2005, 03:16 PM

Thank you for finding this and posting it. Jolie have you not noticed that in recent years the few that have said anything at all negative about the Bush Administration or our government have been attacked in every way? And it is not they are proven wrong or evidence comes forward that proves them wrong, thats only fair, but I am talking about this type of attempt to tarnish his name. They could not prove him a liar or get him to back down so they come up with a charge of plagiarism which he clearly denies and his name is not on it and so therefore there can be no plagiarism. Then they tried to say he was stealing the Native American Heritage which he is clearly not, he was recognized by the Native Americans as one of their own long before this essay was written.
I keep hearing Americans talking about freedom of speech but in the current political climate if you exercise that right in a way that the powers that be do not like they will shut you up and shut you down, not by proving you wrong but by attacking on all levels. Do we have freedom of speech in this country when just by stating an opinion, ones job is called in jeopardy, ones life is threatened, what is freedom of speech? To me it is the right to speak out on any issue without fear of retribution from the powers that be.
Whether one likes what he is saying or not this mans freedom of speech is in jeopardy and when one mans freedom of speech is in jeopardy everyone elses is too. I don't neccessarily like everything that is said on here on many issues but each of us have a right to say what we think and how we feel, and even I don't neccessarily like how Ward Churchill said what he did but the main thing was that we need to understand why we were attacked, if we don't look beyond that window of anger we will never change anything and this type of thing will continue.
I guess what I think Ward Churchill is saying is that we should each get up each day and care whether a child around the world has food to eat and we should care whether the one down the street has food also and we should all work to make the whole world better and if we allow our corporations to suck the life out of other countries while impovishing the people who live in that country by the lack of care by these corporations and government policies then terrorism will continue to happen and will never stop as long as we continue on this same path and don't change our ways. I'll get off my soapbox now again thanks for the post of the new info and I am now handing the soapbox over to you.

05-17-2005, 03:16 PM	#28 (permalink)
mesue Registered User Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: not the middle of nowhere but I can see it from here. Posts: 4,314 iTrader: (0) Thanks: 26 Thanked 167 Times in 92 Posts	Re: Professor Refuses Apology for 9/11 Essay Thank you for finding this and posting it. Jolie have you not noticed that in recent years the few that have said anything at all negative about the Bush Administration or our government have been attacked in every way? And it is not they are proven wrong or evidence comes forward that proves them wrong, thats only fair, but I am talking about this type of attempt to tarnish his name. They could not prove him a liar or get him to back down so they come up with a charge of plagiarism which he clearly denies and his name is not on it and so therefore there can be no plagiarism. Then they tried to say he was stealing the Native American Heritage which he is clearly not, he was recognized by the Native Americans as one of their own long before this essay was written. I keep hearing Americans talking about freedom of speech but in the current political climate if you exercise that right in a way that the powers that be do not like they will shut you up and shut you down, not by proving you wrong but by attacking on all levels. Do we have freedom of speech in this country when just by stating an opinion, ones job is called in jeopardy, ones life is threatened, what is freedom of speech? To me it is the right to speak out on any issue without fear of retribution from the powers that be. Whether one likes what he is saying or not this mans freedom of speech is in jeopardy and when one mans freedom of speech is in jeopardy everyone elses is too. I don't neccessarily like everything that is said on here on many issues but each of us have a right to say what we think and how we feel, and even I don't neccessarily like how Ward Churchill said what he did but the main thing was that we need to understand why we were attacked, if we don't look beyond that window of anger we will never change anything and this type of thing will continue. I guess what I think Ward Churchill is saying is that we should each get up each day and care whether a child around the world has food to eat and we should care whether the one down the street has food also and we should all work to make the whole world better and if we allow our corporations to suck the life out of other countries while impovishing the people who live in that country by the lack of care by these corporations and government policies then terrorism will continue to happen and will never stop as long as we continue on this same path and don't change our ways. I'll get off my soapbox now again thanks for the post of the new info and I am now handing the soapbox over to you. __________________ Ignorance is bliss but the question is can we afford it?