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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 11:52 AM
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Wrd Chrchill: Cons thump chests proclaim justice then turn on Oxycontin Limpballs
Justice that is one sided is never justice.

Progressives have correctly argued that Ward Churchill should be fired but miss the fact that justice in this country is so one sided.

It has been called the "good ol'e boy system" in the past. Cons were outraged by Churchill's comments and then went on a witch hunt. They said that Churchill should not be poisoning the minds of our youth. Meanwhile the world's most infamous drug addict continues to spew his vile and proven lies for over 15 years! There is no question that a huge corporation like Clear Channel Corporation, the massive radio conglomerate, should fire Rush Limbaugh. He will not be fired. There is no justice.

One Colorado STATE senator, Shawn Mitchell, was quoted by the Denver Post "His treasonous comments after 9/11 would have been just grounds for termination, but if it took catching him in the academic equivalent of tax evasion, I'm glad they did it...."

My past observations of this senator is that he is the most homophobic cretin in Colorado. To compare COMMENTS made by Churchill to the murderer, Al Capone, shows that the cons have no sense of values or justice. Churchill's law suit will discuss the motivation for the investigation. It was in fact exercising his free-speech that motivated the investigation.

Surely most progressives have swallowed some of the Kool Aid from Cons and will realize that the "justice" system will not accept that argument. Yet the fact will still be that there is no justice. Let's stop pretending there is. Especially now, that liar bush has stacked the courts with so many good ol'e boys. Let the "king" proclaim justice and we peasants will remember how the kings men seem to escape justice. America looks no different than the monarchies of old.

Progressives often throw the phrase, "What would Jesus say?" in the faces of the hypocrite cons. There is documented evidence of what he did say about hypocrites: Do as they say, not as they do. Clearly, today, he would not even encourage us to do as they say. Jesus would say stay separate from them. In other words: Jesus would say, vote the cons out.


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hughee99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 12:29 PM
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1. Sorry,
but IMHO there's a big difference between a college professor and a radio talk show host. I'd be pissed if Rush were teaching at a college, where students were forced to listen to his BS, but I wouldn't have any issues with Ward Churchill having a radio show, since people would only have to listen by choice.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-26-07 12:37 PM
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2. I'm very torn over the whole Ward Churchill thing.
On the one hand, there's the issue of the whole tax-evasion sort of thing with the lack of Native American heritage he claimed, and the cries of plagiarism that appeared a couple years ago. If those are the only reasons he got fired, I don't have an issue with it.

However, on the other hand, there is the issue raised about what Churchill wrote following September 11, 2001. If I'm not mistaken, there is still something called "free speech" in this country, and I believe it does indeed apply to college professors. The fact that the whole investigation sprang forth out of those writings is what bothers me the most.

Yes, he probably deserved to be fired for the reasons he WAS fired for, but it all came about because somebody got offended by something he wrote while exercising his right as an American citizen to voice his opinion, no matter how offensive it may have been.
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