February 3, 2005

I am probably writing about Ward Churchill very late. The University of Colorado professor has sparked controversy in New York over an essay he wrote that maintains that people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not innocent victims.    He goes as far as describing the victims as "little Eichmanns," referring to Adolph Eichmann, who executed Adolph Hitler's plan to exterminate Jews during World War II. I am all for freedom of speech, and he certainly is entitled to his opinion, however, the more I scratch, the more the whole things smells. Besides the whole "holocaust denial" I feel any comparison between Nazi's and the US displays, it seems Churchill might be a fraud, and that many people believe that Churchill was not "a leader of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement", or even a Native at all.   Of course there are those who defend him, but it looks like this guy is no stranger to 'being misunderstood'. Does that make any difference at all? Does the smoke around him mean there is fire? Does it speak at all to the credibility of this individual? In order to accept the whole 'chicken home to roost' meme, you have accept the the falsehoods about 500,000 Iraqi children being murdered by the US etc. I don't buy it. It probably is easier to buy the whole poor palestinian children thing, if you want to make them somehow equal to the native community. I don't. In fact I think it dilutes the terrible genocide experienced by the native people, when you compare it to Iraqi's and Palestinians.  If instead you believe that the true killers of Iraqi's and Palestinians are Saddam, Arafat, and OBL et al, then you can see that the future for 50 million arabs and muslims have recently been saved from the horrors of their past. Men, women, and children. 1:34:40 PM

What is it with the left that they always go back to Hitler images? Calling Inked Fingers "Disgusting," Garofalo Uses Nazi Salute CyberAlert - "The inked fingers was disgusting," Air America radio talk show host Janeane Garofalo declared on MSNBC in denouncing Republican lawmakers who, before and after the State of the Union, showed off an inked finger meant to demonstrate solidarity with Iraqi voters who dipped a finger in ink when they voted. To mock the display, Garofalo soon held up her hand in a Nazi salute as she predicted: "The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a Daily Show photo already, of them signaling in this manner [Nazi salute], as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that." 10:49:11 AM

Chechens 'vow Beslan-type attacks' CNN International - Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, who claimed responsibility for last year's brutal terrorist attack on a Russian school, was quoted as saying Thursday that the separatist rebels are planning more such operations. 9:43:04 AM

Napster takes on iPod with portable service, ad campaign iPodlounge - Napster today introduced a portable version of its digital music subscription service, backed by a $30 million print and broadcast ad campaign that takes aim at Apple's iPod and iTunes Music Store. 9:41:22 AM