It's unclear when Ward Churchill watched Soul Man, but watch it he did. The '80s comedy starring C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong changed Churchill's life. The politically incorrect movie features Howell transforming into an African American to gain a blacks-only scholarship for Harvard Law School. If C. Thomas Howell could get away with playing a black man in the movies, certainly Ward Churchill could pawn himself off as an Indian in real life. And he needn't fool crafty admissions officers at Harvard, just the burnouts on the hiring committee at the University of Colorado. Last night, Churchill admitted that he is no more Native American than Billy Jack. "Let's cut to the chase," he told an audience at the University of Hawaii regarding whether he was an Indian. "I am not."

In Soul Man, when C. Thomas Howell gets found out, he apologizes and Harvard declines to press charges. At the time, film critic Roger Ebert found this unbelievable. "That scene is absolutely impossible--he would have been thrown out of Harvard in a second, his reputation ruined," Ebert wrote. But of course, Churchill, just like his celluloid inspiration, won't be thrown out of the University of Colorado. Why? Throwing Churchill out is a tacit admission that his faux-Indian heritage had something to do with his hiring. If ethnic background is inconsequential, then lying about your ethnic background is inconsequential.

The worst-kept secret of every major university in America is that your ethnic background does matter. It matters in admissions, hiring, and scholarships. It matters in making required reading lists, invited lecturers, and even entire academic concentrations appear more diverse. It matters in imposing racial quotas on the democratic process in student governments and in allocating funds to student groups. Ward Churchill understood all this and used it to his advantage. How else, but by claiming to be an oppressed minority, could someone with a masters degree in communications from Sangamon State University get tenure and an appointment as a department chairman at a prestigious state institution of higher learning?

The University of Colorado hired Ward Churchill because they believed he was a Native American. But they can't fire him now that he has admitted that he is not a Native American. The official line is that the university hired Churchill because of his academic qualifications. Baloney. He has none. Radical views and a minority pedigree go a long way in academia. Just as the University of Colorado would admit it discriminates based on ethnicity if it came clean about the real reason the school hired Churchill, the Boulder school would admit discrimination if it fired him for lying about this seemingly trivial matter. They're stuck with him, and Ward Churchill knew this all along just from going to the movies.

It's certainly irritating that a jerk like this may get away with lying and being an incompetent buffoon, but there is an up side. The University of Colorado deserves the riducule that will accrue. The public will have its attention drawn to the hypocrisy and unconstitutionality of race preferences. Pressure for change to more righteous behavior will rise. The price of Ward Churchill is meagre compared to the good that may come out of this. You go, Ward!

Sigh...why doesn't my life imitate the movies? I thought that going "Back to School" in my adult years would be just like the movie...how wrong I was. My college doesn't even have a dive team.

Though, sometimes life does feel a bit like "D.C Cab".

"I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules." -- Mr. T.

Mr. T is part Indian. It's true.

All I have to say is "Jeff Gannon" You schmucks. Right inside of the whitehouse. Which one deserves more coverage? Oh yeah, have a look at some unpropagandized news for once at http://www.madcowprod.com/

Jeff Gannon is an Indian? Who knew? A gay Indian at that. Perhaps there's a place in the esteemed halls of academia for such a two-fer.

Well, I'm defeated, now that Jeff Gannon's name has been mentioned. Thank God he didn't say "Halliburton," we'd be in traction.

ALTHOUGH I will mention, in passing, how strange it is that security clearance scandals only matter in a Republican, not a Democratic, administration. Or is Truth too young to remember Clinton's White House?

But back on topic: fudging one's resume is a sackable offense. In other words, U of C could fire Churchill for being a liar and thus damaging the university's reputation, while soft-soaping the ethnic implications. Naturally they won't do this, but I think they could, and although their scrap of cover would be transparently bogus, it would be accepted eventually.

Truth,
I often check in with the lefty blogs to see if they have any news, but all I ever see is how Bush is responsible for everything that's wrong in the world with no proof whatsoever. There are no ideas, just "Bush lied!" or "F Bush" or like sentiments. At best they slam him on the social security fix while his plan is still being worked out. I am happy to slam Bush for a big nanny government republican, but they have him down as the new Hitler, that is to say the lefty blogs have morons writing and commenting. I've already seen it along with your latest, at least so far, non-news item. No thanks.

"All I have to say is "Jeff Gannon" You schmucks. Right inside of the whitehouse. Which one deserves more coverage? Oh yeah, have a look at some unpropagandized news for once at http://www.madcowprod.com/
Posted by Truth at February 24, 2005 12:57 PM"

Oh man, I hope this post is a joke. The liberals are so bookless and clueless that all they have to rant and rave about is one reporter with a sordid past. Attention liberals: resorting to ad hominem attacks about a person that has virtually nothing to do with the policy direction of your opponents is not going to recapture the hearts and minds of the American people; produce some valid and positive ideas for making the country a better place!

In regards to Ward Churchill, I agree that the result of Ward Churchill being forgiven for his academic incompetence, prevarication, and sadism will be the exact opposite of what the liberals and faculty at the University of Colorado want to cultivate. They desire an academic atmosphere where only the most liberal ideas are considered, but there will be a backlash. There is no way that taxpayers will consent to having their state universities highjacked by the morally unjustified and academically incompetent liberals.

While I agree with the most of the article I disagree with the statement that the University is stuck with him. If Chief faux of Colorado designated himself as an American Indian on his application AND on his paperwork for Federal grants then he lied in the first instance and perpetrated fraud in the second. Lying on your application is reason for dismissal. There's the university's out.

The amusing aspect of this whole shebanga is that acedemia is circling the wagons 'cause the whites are attacking!

The American indians have been trying to get this hater out of their hair for years and yet he's like an STD. The gift that keeps on giving.
If I were Cherokee I'd sue for damages.

An M.A. in communications from where!? Or should I say: A what! from Sangamon State? Wait, now I've got it: A what! from where!?

That's ridiculous. Forget that ethnic studies is an absurdly fanciful discipline, and that Ward has a degree from some place I've never heard of. How on earth can the tenured chair of a department at the University of Colorado (not exactly a community college) have a freakin' masters degree in communications. It's not a Ph.D. and it's not in ethic studies!

Unreal.

Make that "ethNic studies."

I thought that "Sangamon" was the newest Pokemon character.

Maybe Ward meant to say all along that he went to a school that had an Indian name (at least I am guessing Sangamon is Indian).

Maybe Sangamon is one of those bogus colleges that you get in junk emails that claim you can get a bachelor's, master's, or even a Phd over the internet....in minutes!

It seems the University of Notre Dame puts its prospective football coaches under more scrutiny than University of Colorado does its tenured professors. As far as i'm concerned, Colorado is reaping what it sewed. It's no wonder why our state universities are still filled with marxists.

We've replaced competence with political correctness. Hard work out the door, handouts here we come!

Just thought I'd post that Sangamon State University is now the University of Illinois at Springfield. I guess, according to the article that goes with a link I will put at the end of this post, that it was a "radical" university.

http://www.dennisfox.net/uis/state-agent.html

2 things. Ward is brilliant and Bush is not responsible for anything... he is a little brainless puppet. Perfect man for the job says the NWO. www.infowars.com

I THINK THIS IS A STUPID WEBSITE! YOU ARE ALL BU**HOLE

Truth and your buddy,

Your discourse says all you have to say. You're not necessarily wrong, but neither we nor you will ever know because, apparently, you cannot think or speak. It must be frustrating.

Truth, I didn't see where Gannon had ~500 confidential files. Until the Clintons can explain the breech with Livingstone setting up shop in an empty office, having wondered off a whitehouse tour somewhere (apparently), and ordered up some FBI files on Clinton's political enemies---because apparently he ran out of reading material at home---you need to get a new teapot.

SF Chronicle: "It's hard to say which is worse: That the White House had no idea who it was allowing to be within shouting distance of the president -- or that it knew exactly who Jeff Gannon was and why he was there."

This is about "softball questions" at a press conference. Not about confidential FBI files and nobody remembering hiring a guy (in what was supposed to be a competant administration.) The way the press let the Clintons skate on that matter, I can see that it is best that they leave mystery about how a "unqualified" reporter can get into a pressroom alone.

Sea King - not just competent, remember, but "the most ethical administration in history." They didn't say of which country, however, so technically (again), I suppose Slick Willie didn't lie; they were ethical by Communist standards.

How did they sweep that Sandy Burgalar thing under the carpet? Talk about your security breeches.

Apparently the media got sick of that real quick. Wrong Party, don't you know.

Nightfly, I can't imagine a press give a trace of a hint that maybe this is a sex scandal, of some sort (George or Rummy likes boys?), could have ever let the Clinton administration off with "not remembering" who hired Livingstone.

But what I love are the wacko sites that care about this suggesting that conservatives are being disingenuous about this. Because it was after all a sex scandal that caused us to go after--or was that just the liberal strawman? I keep forgetting...

"When they say it's not about the sex, it's really about the sex."

As I've said before reading the minds of we lying conservatives has become common fare by liberals and pundits in the media. Arguing against us would be so much harder if they actually had to deal with an argument we actually made.

2008 Democratic Presidential ticket:

Truth-President
Poopy-Vice President

Clinton is a puppet as well. Wake up and smell the java you foolish men. 911 was staged. We can not and will not ever find Bin Laden. For one, there is no evidence against him and secondly, it would be opening up a can of worms on the whole deal. The current administration discourages any further inquiry on this. The biggest "security" breach in our history and they close the case? That in and of itself points to guilt. www.physics911.org Hard Evidence.

PS "So I said, Pull It" And the building collapsed...

Truth: bin Laden has claimed credit on videotape. Stop being a fool.

Boy, the truth just isn't what it used to be.

Check me if I'm wrong, but haven't they run a poopy VP before?

Hey Flynn, you fuking moron. Bin Laden has advocated and praised the attacks on film. He has NEVER claimed responsibility. Also, Bin Laden worked for the CIA (an American institution) for over a decade under a different name. This is a fact. You foolish little man. So easily deceived like the rest of them

Yes Dan, in all actuality and in the name of common sense, it is you who should stop being a fool. Take a deep, hard, and OPEN-MINDED look at all the evidence available. You will painfully arrive at the truth.

To the ironically named Truth:
One man's Truth is clearly another man's raving nut. Potty mouth remarks and unsupported claims do not win any converts, my man. If you really want to be persuasive try arguments, respect, and demonstrable facts. All you are doing here is making an ass of yourself and, I guess, purging yourself of pent up bile. Take stock and get better.

Read the posts, you all started personal attacks before I did. These are not unsupported claims. Do some research. SOunds like you are taking offense Webster. Why? Did I hit on a sensitive subject. There are many criminal acts, which have been implemented by your government. 911 is just one these. The conjecture that it is "bile", is amusing to any person with half a mind. I would highly reccomend that you actually look into these matters. It is better to know the truth, even if it goes against collective ideologies and preferences represented by those FlynnFiles visitors. War is almost impossible to justify

Oh yeah, there is no evidence that 911 was engineered by "Al Queada". Al Queada as it were, is a state of mind. Thats about it

Are there not at least a dozen websites that debunk the various conspiracy theories about 9-11?

The biggest government conspiracy of all, is the view that there are no government conspiracies.

Ryan, your statement is meaningless. There are at least 500 websites that are currently striving to reveal at least some part of the mass conspiracy. All I can say is have a look at the evidence your self. Pictures are indeed worth 1000 words

The statement "The biggest conspiracy of all, is the view that there are no government conspiracies" is a red herring precisely because what is at issue is whether or not a particular conspiracy was carried out, not "the view that there are no government conspiracies."

Also, from the fact that there are websites supporting various 9-11 conspiracy theories, it does not follow that a question suggesting the existence of websites offering criticisms of such theories is "meaningless."

I examined this issue several months ago and was not pursuaded by the arguments of the conspiracy theorists.

Truth:
You claim others started the personal attacks, but on post number 5 it is you starting the attacks calling posters schmucks. So much for your telling the truth. That Jeff Gannon thing is really taking off, by the way. Right again, Truth!

And what is the deal with Ward? You say he is brilliant, but he believes muslim terrorists crashed planes into the World Trade Center. So is he brilliant or is he wrong? How can a brilliant man be so deluded as the miscreants who disagree with your mass conspiracy theory?

I thought "Truth" was an anti-smoking campaign?

Yes, Ward is wrong in his assessment that terrorists brought down the WTC, etc, (I simply forgot to mention this). But he is correct in his theory about how U.S. interventionalist foreign policy is invasive, unethical and unprecedented. A country can only go around bullying the rest of a planet for so long before they get what they deserve. Full circle, as it were. Ward has said some very ignorant things. However, it is brilliant in that he has the guts to speak against conventionalism and current administrative policies. That act alone, I admire. Unfortunately we don't see much of this anymore. This is dangerous to any democracy. The forefathers are surely turning over in their grave's right now...

Ryan, a lot has happened "in a few months" since you last investigated. The data and definitive assessments, are now exponentially accumulating and nearly all of it is pointing towards 911 being an inside operation. Later

Florida Straits
Bush Presses Education Agenda in Sunshine State

W A S H I N G T O N, Sept. 10 — President Bush headed to Florida today to push for quick passage of his education reforms as the flagging economy commands increasing attention back in the nation's capital. [ABC News]

President Bush's visit to Booker Elementary was public knowledge on September 10, 2001.

The Secret Service at Booker Elementary:
The Dog That Did Not Bark

THE VIDEO THAT PROVES 9/11 WAS NOT A SURPRISE

Inspector Gregory:
"Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"

Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."

"The dog did nothing in the nighttime"

"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.

From "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Forget what is in this video. Concentrate instead on what should be there and isn't!
We've all seen the video. It figures prominently in Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11". It is the video of George Bush at Booker Elementary School being informed by Andy Card of the second impact of a passenger jetliner into the World Trade Center, then sitting there for several minutes reading about goats.

What damns the Bush administration is not what is in this video, but what SHOULD be in the video and is not. Ostensibly, Bush and Card are reacting to a surprise attack, but Bush does not act surprised, and Andrew Card does not act like a man delivering an unexpected piece of news but instead is merely delivering a progress report to which he already knows Bush will not have an immediate response.

There is one more thing that should be in this video and isn't, and that is the Secret Service, the protective detail whose one and only job is the President's safety.

The fictional Sherlock Holmes solved the crime in "Silver Blaze" deducing that it is the owner of the house who is the criminal. How does he know? Because the dog did not bark. The only criminal who could could carry out the crime and not arouse the dog was a criminal the dog already knew as a friend, the dog's owner.

Now let us turn our Sherlockian logic on 9-11. Hijacked aircraft were wandering across the eastern half of the country. In theory nobody could have known how many there are or if more planes were not in the process of being hijacked. How could they? Two of the planes had crashed into the World Trade Center. There is an airport only four miles from Booker Elementary School, and Bush's presence at the school was in the news media days in advance. The Sarasota Herald Tribune announced Bush's visit to Booker on September 8th, given the 9-11 planners three days to include Bush as a target for a diving jetliner. Nobody could have safely assumed he was not a target.

And yet the Secret Service did not rush in and remove the President to a secure location, or at least to the safety of the armored Presidential Limousine. That's their job. That's what they do in the case of a real surprise attack with so many unknowns. They don't do anything else.

But the Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.

Bush defenders try to explain away Bush's inaction as not wanting to upset the children. Michael Moore explains away Bush's inaction by suggesting he hadn't been told to leave. But Michael Moore failed to follow that line of reasoning through to its logical conclusion; where were the people whose job it is to get the President to a place of safety in event of attack, the people who would have, SHOULD have, pulled Bush out of there, children and public appearances be damned!

The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.

If the events of 9-11 were really a surprise to the United States Government, then there is no way that the Secret Service could know there wasn't a hijacked or stolen plane headed towards Booker Elementary School that very second.

The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.

The Secret Service should be in that video but they are not. From their inaction, it is clear that the Secret Service KNEW FOR A FACT THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS NOT A TARGET OF ONE OF THE HIJACKED PLANES. And the only way anyone could know that for a fact at that moment is to have known what the targets of the hijacked planes were, at that exact moment, standing there in the school.

The Secret Service did nothing. The dog did not bark.

Quod Erat Demonstradum, the Bush Administration was part of the 9-11 plot.

Quod Erat Demonstradum, "Truth" is a crackpot.

Truth, have you had a bad fall?

The attacks took many months (if not years) of planning - getting into the country, learning to fly the planes, etc. So on three days' notice, the hijackers are going to suddenly look up Booker Elementary School on Mapquest? And then, how the hell are they supposed to locate a school in a residential neighborhood from several hundred feet in the air and hit it at 350 mph? We're not talking about a very tall landmark or the only pentagonal building in the western hemisphere.

Point number two: there are a lot of places near airports. The presence of one near this particular school is not suggestive of anything save the ease of the president to reach the school.

Point number three: if you're going to crash a plane, an airport is NOT required. The terrorists' idea was to smash buildings and kill those inside, not land at a convenient location and drive on over. The proximity of an airport is entirely irrelevant to the hijackers' aims.

Point number four: quit sniffing glue.

Point number five: the president has shown himself to be calm and stand-up in other unexpected situations; for example, in Chile a few months ago when one of his guards was cut off from his security detail. He turned and fought back through the crowd to retrieve him. His actions that morning are consistent with his character, and not incriminatory - unless you happen to be running against him for president.

Point number six: in between the first and second planes, it was quite easy to suspect that some horrible accident had occurred, and not a premeditated assault. It was also not immediately known that other planes had gone missing. It's more plausible to presume that the president didn't rush off because there was no way to assume further danger. (It requires no more magical powers than your own fever-dream assertions as to the state of other people's minds.)

Point seven: Florida is a hell of a lot further away from Boston than either New York or Washington DC. Even if he had heard about the other two planes right away, he would have known that he was not an immediate target, and have been able to take a few minutes not to terrorize a bunch of grade schoolers on his way out the door.

Point number eight: didn't I mention the glue? Put that down!

Nightfly, the President and his criminal cabinet knew the attacks would happen precisely when they did. Quit watching fox news and due the painful research. Tip number 3, Quit watching foxnews

Truth,
It's not as simple as not watching Fox News. It's also CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the NY Times, The Nation, New Republic, Atlantic Monthly, and virtually every reputable news outlet left right and center. Most of these outlets would love to take Bush out with such a story as yours. They, however, do not judge the theory and evidence you've brought out here as you do. They are surely aware of your evidence, so you cannot accuse them of ignorance. I don't think they all are afraid Bush would have them all killed if they dared utter your theory. They, and most people on these posts, simply disagree with you. Simple.

I don't watch Fox News. I don't have their website bookmarked. I prefer newsprint.

It took me fifteen minutes to shoot a half-dozen holes in the elaborate "Booker Elementary Conspiracy Theory." If it's really a sound theory and not simply irrational speculation, you'd think it would take more work to smash it. But no....I Just Pulled, and it collapsed.

The point is that any schlub can put up a website and weave a mobius strip of raw conjecture and finely-distilled horsefeathers. These theories are on the same level as those detailing the condos on Mars and the Loch Ness monster's secret plan to use the Knights Templar to control the world's refrigerator-magnet market. It takes no research to refute and dismiss - at least, no more research than it takes to dream up this moonshine - only a little logic.

With this, I stop trying to teach pigs to sing.

It is a very complex conspiracy with many deliberate blinds and dead ends that were so meticulously thought out. It obviously was not flawless however. I am done here for now. In time those humanitarian criminals that are running the show, will clearly stand out and be self-exposed in various ways. A few of you might actually feel a little sorry for supporting these corporate and war criminals into office, that have their strings tugged about by an evil governance.
4 MORE YEARS!!!
www.bushflash.com

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- (OfficialWire) -- 03/01/05 -- Does anyone else smell it? For many years now, U.S. authorities have allegedly been searching for Usama bin Laden. Particularly after the events of September 11, 2001, during which time George W. Bush said he had him on the run, many around the world thought he might actually be found.

Likewise, since the illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of Iraq, by America, the Bush administration has sought the capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who they claim is the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Monday, it was reported by several mainstream media organizations that the United States intelligence community had intercepted messages between these two men, leading officials to believe that bin Laden has encouraged al-Zarqawi and his group "to focus on attacks inside the United States."

Unfortunately, though predictably, these reports do not get into detail about how or when the communication was made or how it was intercepted by the United States. They also said that there is nothing specific in the message, such as maps or references to particular cities or buildings. Rather, the communication simply encourages a "focus" on attacks inside U.S. borders.

Pleeeaaaazzze!

According to reports, the Homeland Security Department has issued a classified bulletin to officials over the weekend about the intelligence, which spokesman Brian Roehrkasse described as "credible but not specific."

Smell it? I smell it.

The U.S. has "no immediate plans" to raise its national alert level, Roehrkasse said. However, the intelligence "reiterates the desire by al Qaeda and its associates to target the homeland," he said.

Be very afraid.

Frankly, if U.S. officials are able to intercept messages between these men, one would have thought that they could quite simply pick either of them up. Far from it—indeed, if bin Laden is alive and I doubt it—I suspect he would have an alibi for 9/11. The finger of blame would then revert to the real guilty party—the U.S. government.

Hey Truth, I bet your favorite person is Oliver Stone. You're a big a crackpot nut as he is. You'd do real well in Hollywood with your "theories".

Truth...Truth...now you know youre not supposed to be on that computer after the street lights are on. Now go on get back into bed with your sister and make your mother proud! Stop acting like a child, youre 33 years old for crying out loud. Always trying to pick a fight with someone over the computer. I know I didnt hold you or hug you enough when you were younger, but you know that mommy had customers of the seedy type those nights and you know customers come first!