Reply #25: Hmm .....

[omulcol]

Ward Churchill said,

Quote: " It should be emphasized that I applied the "little Eichmanns" characterization only to those described as "technicians." Thus, it was obviously not directed to the children, janitors, food service workers, firemen and random passers-by killed in the 9-1-1 attack. According to Pentagon logic, they were simply part of the collateral damage. Ugly? Yes. Hurtful? Yes. And that's my point. It's no less ugly, painful or dehumanizing a description when applied to Iraqis, Palestinians, or anyone else. If we ourselves do not want to be treated in this fashion, we must refuse to allow others to be similarly devalued and dehumanized in our name. Unquote:

I went and read Churchill's, " Ê"Some People Push Back"
On the Justice of Roosting ChickensÊ", and found nothing offensive.

http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html

His reference with regard to, " Little Eichmanns " was perhaps a hasty description - but nonetheless synonymous with his perceptions of loyal workers of capitalism naively contributing to the suffering and deaths of 500,000 children under 12 years old, and unknown thousands of - Iraqi civilians.

Eichmann was responsible for the planning, organisation, and efficiency of concentration camps -- which led to the deaths of some 6 or so million people.
Churchill merely describes those workers at the WTCs as being an integral part of a much larger machine that was indirectly responsible for exacting genocide on a nation of innocent people based on nothing more than selfishness and greed.

Nowhere has Churchill made reference to Nazism - this was done conveniently by others with the sole intention of discrediting him .... for attempting to open up closed minds.
In some cases it seems he failed miserably.