Ward Churchill

               I watched Megyn Kelly interview Ward Churchill on The Kelly File last week.  Ward Churchill was a professor of ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1990 to 2007.  He is also a political activist, an author, and a Vietnam veteran.

               In the interview, Churchill referred to the terrorists that few the planes into the twin towers and the pentagon as courageous and gallant.  He said the victims of 9/11 deserved to die, and called them “Little Eichmanns”.  He was comparing them to Otto Adolf Eichmann, who was in charge of the techniques and logistics used during the holocaust to eliminate the Jews.

              Churchill admitted to belonging to Students for a Democratic Society.  He also admitted to teaching the Weather Underground how to handle guns and make bombs for the purpose of domestic terrorism.  He did not admit to any personal acts of violence. 

Churchill kept implying that Megyn Kelly was too dumb to understand what he was saying.  Megyn Kelly is certainly not dumb.  In my opinion, Churchill is an arrogant, idiot using the academic arena for his personal ego.   The interview first made me mad and by the time it was over, I felt sick to my stomach.  

Churchill originally made his statements that the victims of 9/11 deserved to die, and called the terrorists courageous and gallant shortly after 9/11/2001.  The academic community endorsed or ignored his statements, and he received no reprimands from the University of Colorado. 

Churchill continued writing and speaking of his views on 9/11.  He eventually started to receive some bad publicity.  In 2005, the University started investigating him for engaging in “research misconduct” and he was fired.  Maybe Churchill was having an adverse effect on alumni donations. 

I don’t have a problem with Churchill speaking his mind.  That is his first amendment right and many people have fought and died to guarantee him that right.  I do have a problem with him being a collage professor and teaching young impressionable minds that garbage. 

I wish he was the only ridiculous example of this, but that is not the case.  Here are a few others:

Kathy Boudin – Columbia University

Bill Ayers – University of Illinois at Chicago

Bernardine Dohrn – Northwestern University of Law

Cathy Wilkerson – High school teacher

Some of these people are murderers, convicted felons, and domestic terrorists.   They may have served their time, but what responsible educational institution would hire them to teach radical ideas to young impressionable students? 

These institutions allow and endorse this left-wing extremism, but fail to teach accurate American history, American government, or the Constitution.  My personal pet peeve is failure to teach the basic principles of insurance and how its correct use is to protect against catastrophic events.  Insurance should not be used as a very expensive and wasteful tool for managing personal finances.  This is what we do with first-dollar-billing medical insurance.

I find this liberal attitude by the academic community totally unacceptable.  We must make a change.  Maybe we need to get the federal government out of education as the Constitution intended.  We must change to give our youth a good work ethic, and give them the tools to succeed in life without government handouts.