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March 28, 2016

Ward Churchill on 9/11 - Roosting Chickens & Among Malignant Toads


Article
SOURCE
https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm


Ward Churchill on 9/11
Roosting Chickens & Among Malign Malignant Toads

https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm


"Some People Push Back"
On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

By Ward Churchill

3 February 2005


(SELECT) EXTRACTS
*Full at source
https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm



"On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens – along with some half-million dead Iraqi children – came home to roost in a very big way at the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.

The Iraqi youngsters, all of them under 12, died as a predictable – in fact, widely predicted – result of the 1991 US "surgical" bombing of their country's water purification and sewage facilities, as well as other "infrastructural" targets upon which Iraq's civilian population depends for its very survival.

 If the nature of the bombing were not already bad enough – and it should be noted that this sort of "aerial warfare" constitutes a Class I Crime Against humanity, entailing myriad gross violations of international law, as well as every conceivable standard of "civilized" behavior – the death toll has been steadily ratcheted up by US-imposed sanctions for a full decade now. Enforced all the while by a massive military presence and periodic bombing raids, the embargo has greatly impaired the victims' ability to import the nutrients, medicines and other materials necessary to saving the lives of even their toddlers.

All told, Iraq has a population of about 18 million. The 500,000 kids lost to date thus represent something on the order of 25 percent of their age group. Indisputably, the rest have suffered – are still suffering – a combination of physical debilitation and psychological trauma severe enough to prevent their ever fully recovering. In effect, an entire generation has been obliterated."

"... technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly ... little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers ..."

" ... firm-jawed lads" who delighted in flying stealth aircraft through the undefended airspace of Baghdad, dropping payload after payload of bombs on anyone unfortunate enough to be belowincluding tens of thousands of genuinely innocent civilianswhile themselves incurring all the risk one might expect during a visit to the local video arcade. Still more, the word describes all those "fighting men and women" who sat at computer consoles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf, enjoying air-conditioned comfort while launching cruise missiles into neighborhoods filled with random human beings. Whatever else can be said of them, the men who struck on September 11 manifested the courage of their convictions, willingly expending their own lives in attaining their objectives. "

"Evil – for those inclined to embrace the banality of such a concept – was perfectly incarnated in that malignant toad known as Madeline Albright, squatting in her studio chair like Jaba the Hutt, blandly spewing the news that she'd imposed a collective death sentence upon the unoffending youth of Iraq. Evil was to be heard in that great American hero "Stormin' Norman" Schwartzkopf's utterly dehumanizing dismissal of their systematic torture and annihilation as mere "collateral damage." Evil, moreover, is a term appropriate to describing the mentality of a public that finds such perspectives and the policies attending them acceptable, or even momentarily tolerable. "

" ...  America's indiscriminately lethal arrogance and psychotic sense of self-entitlement have long since given the great majority of the world's peoples ample cause to be at war with it ..."

"FBI counterintelligence personnel have proven quite adept at framing anarchists, communists and Black Panthers, sometimes murdering them in their beds or the electric chair. The Bureau's SWAT units have displayed their ability to combat child abuse in Waco by burning babies alive, and its vaunted Crime Lab has been shown to pad its "crime-fighting' statistics by fabricating evidence against many an alleged car thief. But actual "heavy-duty bad guys" of the sort at issue now? This isn't a Bruce Willis/Chuck Norris/Sly Stallone movie, after all.. And J. Edgar Hoover doesn't get to approve either the script or the casting."

"The number of spies, saboteurs and bona fide terrorists apprehended, or even detected by the FBI in the course of its long and slimy history could be counted on one's fingers and toes. On occasion, its agents have even turned out to be the spies, and, in many instances, the terrorists as well."

"... if the Bureau functions as at best a carnival of clowns where its "domestic security responsibilities" are concerned, this is because – regardless of official hype – it has none. It is now, as it's always been, the national political police force, and instrument created and perfected to ensure that all Americans, not just the consenting mass, are "free" to do exactly as they're told."

"The FBI and "cooperating agencies" can be thus relied upon to set about "protecting freedom" by destroying whatever rights and liberties were left to U.S. citizens before September 11 (in fact, they've already received authorization to begin). Sheeplike, the great majority of Americans can also be counted upon to bleat their approval, at least in the short run, believing as they always do that the nasty implications of what they're doing will pertain only to others."


"Oh Yeah, and "The Company," Too

A possibly even sicker joke is the notion, suddenly in vogue, that the CIA will be able to pinpoint "terrorist threats," "rooting out their infrastructure" where it exists and/or "terminating" it before it can materialize, if only it's allowed to beef up its "human intelligence gathering capacity" in an unrestrained manner (including full-bore operations inside the US, of course).

Yeah. Right.

Since America has a collective attention-span of about 15 minutes, a little refresher seems in order: "The Company" had something like a quarter-million people serving as "intelligence assets" by feeding it information in Vietnam in 1968, and it couldn't even predict the Tet Offensive. God knows how many spies it was fielding against the USSR at the height of Ronald Reagan's version of the Cold War, and it was still caught flatfooted by the collapse of the Soviet Union. As to destroying "terrorist infrastructures," one would do well to remember Operation Phoenix, another product of its open season in Vietnam. In that one, the CIA enlisted elite US units like the Navy Seals and Army Special Forces, as well as those of friendly countries – the south Vietnamese Rangers, for example, and Australian SASto run around "neutralizing" folks targeted by The Company's legion of snitches as "guerrillas" (as those now known as "terrorists" were then called).

Sound familiar?

Upwards of 40,000 people – mostly bystanders, as it turns out – were murdered by Phoenix hit teams before the guerrillas, stronger than ever, ran the US and its collaborators out of their country altogether. And these are the guys who are gonna save the day, if unleashed to do their thing in North America?

The net impact of all this "counterterrorism" activity upon the combat teams' ability to do what they came to do, of course, will be nil. "

"On Matters of Proportion and Intent

"As things stand, including the 1993 detonation at the WTC, "Arab terrorists" have responded to the massive and sustained American terror bombing of Iraq with a total of four assaults by explosives inside the US. That's about 1% of the 50,000 bombs the Pentagon announced were rained on Baghdad alone during the Gulf War (add in Oklahoma City and you'll get something nearer an actual 1%).

They've managed in the process to kill about 5,000 Americans, or roughly 1% of the dead Iraqi children (the percentage is far smaller if you factor in the killing of adult Iraqi civilians, not to mention troops butchered as/after they'd surrendered and/or after the "war-ending" ceasefire had been announced).

In terms undoubtedly more meaningful to the property/profit-minded American mainstream, they've knocked down a half-dozen buildings – albeit some very well-chosen ones – as opposed to the "strategic devastation" visited upon the whole of Iraq, and punched a $100 billion hole in the earnings outlook of major corporate shareholders, as opposed to the U.S. obliteration of Iraq's entire economy."

"The problem is that vengeance is usually framed in terms of "getting even," a concept which is plainly inapplicable in this instance. As the above data indicate, it would require another 49,996 detonations killing 495,000 more Americans, for the "terrorists" to "break even" for the bombing of Baghdad/extermination of Iraqi children alone. And that's to achieve "real number" parity. To attain an actual proportional parity of damage – the US is about 15 times as large as Iraq in terms of population, even more in terms of territory – they would, at a minimum, have to blow up about 300,000 more buildings and kill something on the order of 7.5 million people.

Were this the intent of those who've entered the US to wage war against it, it would remain no less true that America and Americans were only receiving the bill for what they'd already done. Payback, as they say, can be a real motherfucker (ask the Germans)."

"... America's abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) ..."

'' ...  Nuremberg-style trials in which a few thousand US military/corporate personnel could be properly adjudicated and punished for their Crimes Against humanity, and payment of reparations to the array of nations/peoples whose assets the US has plundered over the years, would suffice."

https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm

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Ward Churchill
US author and political activist
former prof. ethnic studies
University of Colorado Boulder
1990 - 2007
focus:  historical treatment of political dissenters
& native Americans
[2003, Churchill]:
-- Muscogee and Creek descent ( father's side)
-- Cherokee (mother's side)


Controversy in 2005
-- circulation of essay:
-- 2001 - 'On the Justice of Roosting Chickens'
-- University of Colorado Boulder
-- investigates allegations Ward Churchill committed 'research misconduct'
-- University of Colorado Boulder claims he has:  2006
-- Churchill fired 2007
-- Churchill sues for unlawful termination
-- 2009:  Denver jury find Churchill wrongly fired (awarded $1.00 damages)
-- District judge declined Churchill request to order reinstatement
-- & 'vacated the monetary award' (whatever that is)
-- *District Judge decides:  university =  'quasi-judicial immunity'
-- 2010:  appeals District Judge's decision
-- 2010:  Colorado Court of Appeals:  upholds decision
-- 2012:  Colorado Supreme Court upholds decision in favour of University
-- 2013: US Supreme Court declined to hear case
-- 2013:  Churchill moves to Atlanta, Georgia

Background:
-- Urbana, Illinois
-- 1966 drafted - US Army
-- Vietnam 10mths volunteer
-- politically radicalised as result Vietnam
-- allegedly taught Weather Underground (US left-wing domestic terrorists org. campus University Michigan)
-- how to build bombs & fire weapons

-- BA & MA communications, Sangamon State Uni (Springfield, Illinois)
-- affirmative action officer, University of Colorado
-- lectured on native American issues in ethnic studies program
-- 1990 hired as associate professor

-- granted tenure following year (communications dept.) 
-- interests: Dawes Act & 'blood quantum'

[source:  Wikipedia]


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America's FBI & CIA


FBI
According to Ward Churchill, FBI:

  • ADEPT AT FRAMING dissenters
(incl. anarchists, communists, black panthers)
  • has dissenters assassinated in bed or state executed
  • combats child abuse by burning babies alive (Waco)
  • fabricates evidence against petty criminals
  • has a long, slimy history
  • & FBI was & continues to be a:

NATIONAL
POLITICAL POLICE
FORCE
Expect FBI to destroy what rights & liberties are left post 9/11

CIA
CIA (aka 'The Company')
  • 250,000 intelligence assets feeding it info in Vietnam 1968
  • *but could not predict 'Tet Offensive'
  • despite god knows how many Reagan 'Cold War' spies
  • *was caught flatfooted by collapse of Soviet Union
  • conducted 'Operation Phoenix' - Vietnam
  • along with allied elite military
  • 'neutralising' Vietnamese targets of CIA's legion of snitches
  • *over 40,000 Vietnamese (mostly bystanders)
  • were murdered by Operation Phoenix hit squads
  • *yet Vietnamese guerrillas stronger than ever
  • ran USA & USA collaborators out of Vietnam
  • ... so are these CIA guys likely to save the day?
  • with their 'counter-terrorism' activity?
https://cryptome.wikileaks.org/ward-churchill.htm

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COMMENT


Really enjoyed Ward Churchill's article.

Like his irreverence ... and he's so funny.

The description of Madeleine Albright was perfect.  LOL

Article's also packed full of information.  I might have to come back to this when I'm not so tired.

Anyway, Ward Churchill's 'blowback paradigm' views were considered controversial in 2005 ... and he got fired from his academic post not long afterwards.

Although he was found to have been dismissed unfairly by University of Colorado, he was only awarded some ridiculous nominal $1.00 amount -- and further court action went in favour of the institution, because the District Judge has decided universities have a 'quasi-judicial immunity' (2009), which means they're not accountable for their decisions, I guess.
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Amazing article.

It would probably help knowing the Gulf War history (I don't yet) and wider history of US and allied war machine aggression (eg. Vietnam war).