Friday, March 30, 2007
Pyramid Hierarchy System
The Pyramid Hierarchy System
The Root of All Evil
Ten thousand years ago, the Red, Black, White, Brown, and Yellow Race Peoples of the world lived in harmony with Nature naturally. The people gathered, hunted, and lived happily around the circle of their sacred fireplace. They lived as humans and knew the sacred Earth to be round, as evidenced by the annual lunar eclipses and the circle of life. They were without slavery, taxes, religion, god, government, domesticated “food” animals, money, or any control entity dictating onto them or causing them stress, anxiety, and dysfunction.
Then a man invented the Pyramid Hierarchy System (PHS). With the introduction of the Pyramid Hierarchy System of the “Four G’s” of “gold, greed, god, government”, communities were overtaken and their history altered and changed forever by those who now controlled and dictated over them. The domestication of animals and slavery was developed in order to create male-dominating systems (and their “cities”) that were controlled by a few; a king, leader, or president, so that those few individuals might acquire great wealth and power over their “working poor masses.”
Those masses first needed to be primed. They were fooled into thinking “gold” had a “value.” The religions were invented so that there was some sort of “punishing god” in the sky dictating “over” people. This paved the way so that the practice of exploiting the Natural World would become acceptable. PHS remains the basis for “eco-cide.”
Within the PHS system, anything “natural” was and is labeled as “wild” and is condemned as “barbaric, evil, or witchcraft.” Man-made, concocted religions teach that man has “dominance” over nature; that they were “better than” or superior to the sacred Natural Beings of the earth. This allows them destroy, kill, and exploit Nature at will – while sanctioned by the church and state.
Great Turtle Island – the Last Bastion of Democracy
By 1492, the harmonious ways of life of the world’s nations of people were primarily destroyed, save for the Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations of Great Turtle Island (misnomer “western hemisphere” by male-dominating “globe dividers”)
Their ancient ways remained in tact other than for the brief invasion a few thousand years back in what is now “Central America” by PHS “Boat People” who landed, befriended, then forced the Mayan and Incan peoples to build pyramids and temporarily adopt barbaric ways until the PHS forced away and the terrible remnants grown over by the forest foliage.
But the ancient Way of Life of the Nakota (misnomer "Sioux") Indigenous Red "Indian" Nation of the Northern Great Plains Region of Great Turtle Island continued unhampered until 1851. Community Talking Circles called “Oyate Omniciye” by the Nakota Nation represented the truest form of “democracy.” Women and men gathered in the camp and community center to discuss and take action upon a particular subject until unanimous consent was agreed upon and all were satisfied.
The Nakota have always lived upon the Great Plains Region and surrounding areas. Their Nakota Language proves their residency to over 60 million years, as evidenced through the use of the word “Sunka Wakan”, the “Mysterious Dog” or “Horse.” The Nakota witnessed Sunka Wakan “grow” from the small, three toed, herd prairie grazers millions of years ago, to the two-toed, larger animal, and into the hooved, full grown “horse” seen today. This is one reason why the Nakota are known as the world’s greatest horse trainers and riders. It is not because the “spanish brought the horse to america in the 1700’s” – a common stereotype misconception taught in public schools in racist attempts to discredit Nakota ancient existence.
The Nakota refer to Earth and Sky as Sacred. The Earth is the Nakota’s Grand Mother - that could never be disrespect or violated – a basic tenant lost in "book religions.” Grand Father Sky is home to the Wind, the Clouds, the Stars, the Sun and the Moon.
Very few Indigenous Red Nations have their true democracy manner of governing in tact after the “Great Dying” from 1492 – 1890. Chemical warfare (small pox infected blanket distribution), scalp bounties (settlers were offered $200 for an adult “Indian” male, $100 for women and $50 per Indigenous child), and military actions (mass murders, terrorism) were employed through the PHS devastatingly by pilgrim, settlers, and the u.s. government citizenry, military, and their colonizing government policy.
Nature Superior To Man
The female must be disrespected for today's “god/higher power” societies to continue their rape of the earth for the profit of a few greedy at the top of the PHS.
The Animals, Plants, Insects of the Natural World are our superiors - all good and perfect. The human role is to be thankful for all the good of Nature, never to be referred to as the “wild.” The great gifts of life that we must harvest each day to survive allows us to maintain happiness and joy.
The only “bad” lies in the bad thoughts and actions within the corrupted minds of the human being, as they unfortunately view the Natural World as an “enemy” or something to be controlled, exploited, or manipulated.
The reason and excuse for the invasion and occupation of Indigenous lands and resources by columbus’ gang beginning in 1492 was based upon the teachings of religion and carried out by those who claimed to believe in god’s “own words” - the man-written “bible.”
The “devil” concept was created by religious fanatics in order to scare people straight and coerce others into believing in the PHS. In effect worshipping a devil who lives near open “fire” in a place called “hell.” Of course with this idea, fire is bad and hell lies within the earth, which sanctions the exploitation of digging for gold, drilling for oil, gouging and raping the land. The earth, after all, is the home of the devil, anyways, represented by fire and “horns” – objects viewed as special or sacred to those humans who live naturally with the land and with Nature.
The Iraq debacle of the early 2000’s mirrors what happened to Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations and Peoples of Great Turtle Island from 1492 to the present, as well as what happened to the Germans, and Irish, Armenians, and all peoples of all colors of the world.
Exposing The Pyramid Hierarchy
The 1492 invasion followed with mass genocide and subsequent and ongoing theft by the u.s. government of the “Indian’s” Black Hills gold of over 9 trillion dollars which sits each day as stolen property in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
The 1851 Treaty Resource, Indigenous-owned “Wyoming” coal, is transported daily in hundred-car trains illegally across state lines, providing most of the electrical needs of millions of americans across the u.s. The electricity supplies lights, computers, televisions, communication systems, and industry - offering “free” electricity to “power” companies through their coal fire gasification (acid rain) plants while the owners remain impoverished and unpaid.
Trillions of dollars “worth” of other Indigenous-owned resources such as timber, tourism, and mining throughout 1851 Treaty Homelands, “supreme law” rights and resources that are supposed to be protected through Article VI of the United States Constitution.
The Ihanktunwan DaNakota “Yankton Dakota” Nation in southeast South Dakota are one of the few remaining Nations who continue to maintain and preserve true democracy through their Oyate Omniciye “General Council” meetings where men and women gather to discuss and take action on pressing issues of their nation. You can support the remnants of democracy by contacting the “Yankton Sioux Tribe” at (605) 384-3641 and ask them how you can help preserve this great and endangered Way of Life so that the last democracy is not exterminated from the face of Grand Mother Earth.
It is time to live and not just survive. It is the duty of all good humans to phase out the terrible Pyramid Hierarchy System and begin, once again, to respect, love, cherish, and be thankful for our superior, Nature - our sacred Grand Mother Earth.
www.1851Treaty.com
The Root of All Evil
Ten thousand years ago, the Red, Black, White, Brown, and Yellow Race Peoples of the world lived in harmony with Nature naturally. The people gathered, hunted, and lived happily around the circle of their sacred fireplace. They lived as humans and knew the sacred Earth to be round, as evidenced by the annual lunar eclipses and the circle of life. They were without slavery, taxes, religion, god, government, domesticated “food” animals, money, or any control entity dictating onto them or causing them stress, anxiety, and dysfunction.
Then a man invented the Pyramid Hierarchy System (PHS). With the introduction of the Pyramid Hierarchy System of the “Four G’s” of “gold, greed, god, government”, communities were overtaken and their history altered and changed forever by those who now controlled and dictated over them. The domestication of animals and slavery was developed in order to create male-dominating systems (and their “cities”) that were controlled by a few; a king, leader, or president, so that those few individuals might acquire great wealth and power over their “working poor masses.”
Those masses first needed to be primed. They were fooled into thinking “gold” had a “value.” The religions were invented so that there was some sort of “punishing god” in the sky dictating “over” people. This paved the way so that the practice of exploiting the Natural World would become acceptable. PHS remains the basis for “eco-cide.”
Within the PHS system, anything “natural” was and is labeled as “wild” and is condemned as “barbaric, evil, or witchcraft.” Man-made, concocted religions teach that man has “dominance” over nature; that they were “better than” or superior to the sacred Natural Beings of the earth. This allows them destroy, kill, and exploit Nature at will – while sanctioned by the church and state.
Great Turtle Island – the Last Bastion of Democracy
By 1492, the harmonious ways of life of the world’s nations of people were primarily destroyed, save for the Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations of Great Turtle Island (misnomer “western hemisphere” by male-dominating “globe dividers”)
Their ancient ways remained in tact other than for the brief invasion a few thousand years back in what is now “Central America” by PHS “Boat People” who landed, befriended, then forced the Mayan and Incan peoples to build pyramids and temporarily adopt barbaric ways until the PHS forced away and the terrible remnants grown over by the forest foliage.
But the ancient Way of Life of the Nakota (misnomer "Sioux") Indigenous Red "Indian" Nation of the Northern Great Plains Region of Great Turtle Island continued unhampered until 1851. Community Talking Circles called “Oyate Omniciye” by the Nakota Nation represented the truest form of “democracy.” Women and men gathered in the camp and community center to discuss and take action upon a particular subject until unanimous consent was agreed upon and all were satisfied.
The Nakota have always lived upon the Great Plains Region and surrounding areas. Their Nakota Language proves their residency to over 60 million years, as evidenced through the use of the word “Sunka Wakan”, the “Mysterious Dog” or “Horse.” The Nakota witnessed Sunka Wakan “grow” from the small, three toed, herd prairie grazers millions of years ago, to the two-toed, larger animal, and into the hooved, full grown “horse” seen today. This is one reason why the Nakota are known as the world’s greatest horse trainers and riders. It is not because the “spanish brought the horse to america in the 1700’s” – a common stereotype misconception taught in public schools in racist attempts to discredit Nakota ancient existence.
The Nakota refer to Earth and Sky as Sacred. The Earth is the Nakota’s Grand Mother - that could never be disrespect or violated – a basic tenant lost in "book religions.” Grand Father Sky is home to the Wind, the Clouds, the Stars, the Sun and the Moon.
Very few Indigenous Red Nations have their true democracy manner of governing in tact after the “Great Dying” from 1492 – 1890. Chemical warfare (small pox infected blanket distribution), scalp bounties (settlers were offered $200 for an adult “Indian” male, $100 for women and $50 per Indigenous child), and military actions (mass murders, terrorism) were employed through the PHS devastatingly by pilgrim, settlers, and the u.s. government citizenry, military, and their colonizing government policy.
Nature Superior To Man
The female must be disrespected for today's “god/higher power” societies to continue their rape of the earth for the profit of a few greedy at the top of the PHS.
The Animals, Plants, Insects of the Natural World are our superiors - all good and perfect. The human role is to be thankful for all the good of Nature, never to be referred to as the “wild.” The great gifts of life that we must harvest each day to survive allows us to maintain happiness and joy.
The only “bad” lies in the bad thoughts and actions within the corrupted minds of the human being, as they unfortunately view the Natural World as an “enemy” or something to be controlled, exploited, or manipulated.
The reason and excuse for the invasion and occupation of Indigenous lands and resources by columbus’ gang beginning in 1492 was based upon the teachings of religion and carried out by those who claimed to believe in god’s “own words” - the man-written “bible.”
The “devil” concept was created by religious fanatics in order to scare people straight and coerce others into believing in the PHS. In effect worshipping a devil who lives near open “fire” in a place called “hell.” Of course with this idea, fire is bad and hell lies within the earth, which sanctions the exploitation of digging for gold, drilling for oil, gouging and raping the land. The earth, after all, is the home of the devil, anyways, represented by fire and “horns” – objects viewed as special or sacred to those humans who live naturally with the land and with Nature.
The Iraq debacle of the early 2000’s mirrors what happened to Indigenous Red “Indian” Nations and Peoples of Great Turtle Island from 1492 to the present, as well as what happened to the Germans, and Irish, Armenians, and all peoples of all colors of the world.
Exposing The Pyramid Hierarchy
The 1492 invasion followed with mass genocide and subsequent and ongoing theft by the u.s. government of the “Indian’s” Black Hills gold of over 9 trillion dollars which sits each day as stolen property in Fort Knox, Kentucky.
The 1851 Treaty Resource, Indigenous-owned “Wyoming” coal, is transported daily in hundred-car trains illegally across state lines, providing most of the electrical needs of millions of americans across the u.s. The electricity supplies lights, computers, televisions, communication systems, and industry - offering “free” electricity to “power” companies through their coal fire gasification (acid rain) plants while the owners remain impoverished and unpaid.
Trillions of dollars “worth” of other Indigenous-owned resources such as timber, tourism, and mining throughout 1851 Treaty Homelands, “supreme law” rights and resources that are supposed to be protected through Article VI of the United States Constitution.
The Ihanktunwan DaNakota “Yankton Dakota” Nation in southeast South Dakota are one of the few remaining Nations who continue to maintain and preserve true democracy through their Oyate Omniciye “General Council” meetings where men and women gather to discuss and take action on pressing issues of their nation. You can support the remnants of democracy by contacting the “Yankton Sioux Tribe” at (605) 384-3641 and ask them how you can help preserve this great and endangered Way of Life so that the last democracy is not exterminated from the face of Grand Mother Earth.
It is time to live and not just survive. It is the duty of all good humans to phase out the terrible Pyramid Hierarchy System and begin, once again, to respect, love, cherish, and be thankful for our superior, Nature - our sacred Grand Mother Earth.
www.1851Treaty.com
Churchill Review
Ward Churchill Speaks
at Southwest Minnesota State University SMSU - March 28, 2007
Famed indigenous advocate, scholar, and human rights activist, Dr. Ward Churchill, will give a talk on Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in the second floor ballroom of the Conference Center at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU), Marshall, MN.
Churchill is a professor of Ethnic Studies and coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Churchill has garnered much publicity over the past several years for his outspokenness on some topics, most recently in 2005 for a 2001 essay in which he questioned the innocence of the many killed in the World Trade Center attacks.
Churchill has authored more than 20 books and over 150 essays. His work is mostly centered on historical mistreatment of political dissenters and the genocide of indigenous peoples by the government and citizenry of the u.s. He recently appeared in the documentary entitled “Canary Effect.”
An acclaimed public speaker and award-winning writer, Churchill is a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement. He is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, and has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
His appearance is part of the “Difficult Dialogues” initiative at SMSU. The event is sponsored by SMSU, the Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies program, and is funded by the Ford Foundation’s Difficult Dialogues Grant to the university.
Marshall, MN is located 50 minutes northeast of Sioux Falls, SD.
For more information, contact Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies, at 507-537-6118,
matonunpa@southwestmsu.edu
or Jim Tate 1-800-642-0684
tatej@southwestmsu.edu
“Marshall Independent”: Newspaper, Marshall, Minn.
Editorial - Ward Churchill at SMSU: As difficult as it gets
http://www.marshallindependent.com/opinion/articles.asp?articleID=11174
Based on the title of the program alone, you knew this was not going to be easy sometimes. Wednesday night may be one of those times: As part of the Difficult Dialogue series, Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) is bringing the controversial Ward Churchill to campus for a speech at 7 p.m. in the Conference Center.It’s a little different than the speaker the night before: Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who talks Tuesday through the same Difficult Dialogues program, has earned national awards, while Churchill has earned scorn.The Difficult Dialogues program brings speakers and courses to SMSU through a $100,000 Ford Foundation grant aimed at building understanding and open discussion on some tough issues.Churchill, the Colorado professor, has mainly stirred skepticism and outrage with his comments after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — the kind of outrage that got him canceled at a small college in New York, the kind that got him talked about intensely in the national media.Why? Because, if not flat-out saying the 9/11 victims had it coming, Churchill has said we should not be surprised they were killed and suggested the World Trade Center was a logical target for a terror attack. You don’t make friends that way, and Churchill certainly has not.He’s been attacked by academics and pundits, not to mention families of the victims. He’s also been defended by some academics for his free-speech rights, which he certainly can exercise. But, of course, the First Amendment goes both ways: People have the right to protest Churchill or ignore him, too. His main rationale for his comments seems to be that the way America treats other countries and people around the world invited the attacks of 9/11 — that we’ve done our share of human rights abuses around the globe. We probably have. But to tie those abuses to the 9/11 attacks is insensitive and illogical. Our civilians should not have to die for the wrongs of our government; rather, our government should be held accountable through the democratic process.Churchill, though, is a lightning rod. Very candid, very bold, unafraid to challenge authority or convention. Yet, unlike Rowley’s determination to point to facts and hold her bosses in the FBI accountable, Churchill seems to lump a lot of groups under the same umbrella. For instance, in a public radio interview in February 2005, Churchill was asked if he thought the World Trade Center was an acceptable or legitimate target on 9/11.Part of his response: “Do I personally think it was a legitimate target or should have been a legitimate target? Absolutely not. And that's said on the basis of all but absolute rejection of and opposition to U.S. policy. “But what you have to understand, and what the listeners have to understand, is that under U.S. rules, it was an acceptable target,” he continued. “And the reason it was an acceptable target, if none other, was that because the C.I.A., the Defense Department, and other parts of the U.S. military intelligence infrastructure, had situated offices within it, and you'll recall that that is precisely the justification advanced by the Donald Rumsfelds of the world, the Norman Schwarzkopfs, and the Colin Powells of the world, to explain why civilian targets had been bombed in Baghdad. Because that nefarious Saddam Hussein had situated elements of his command and control infrastructure within otherwise civilian occupied facilities.”Even if you try to equate our military’s choices with those of Saddam, it’s impossible to justify the 9/11 deaths. And it’s hard to think he’ll get a warm welcome in rural Minnesota, a place that has sent hundreds of its soldiers to Iraq.Churchill has been accused of hate speech, heartlessness, of blaming Israel for the 9/11 attacks, of preventing others from exercising their own free speech. He’s also been the subject of dozens of reports by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly (make of that what you will).However you look at it, his speech Wednesday is bound to live up to the program’s title: A difficult dialogue indeed.
March 26, 2007
Response to Minnesota “Marshall Independent” newspaper editorial:
http://www.marshallindependent.com/opinion/articles.asp?articleID=11246
Regarding the March 26, 2007 Independent “Opinion Page” reference to Ward Churchill’s talk at SMSU, it is still amazing how the media seemingly continues to support a corrupt government and even more corrupt “war.” Keep in mind war was never “declared officially” by congress so that atrocities could take place outside of the Geneva Convention (Abu Ghraib, Guantanimo Bay, etc.).
Instead of embracing those who predict what everyone should have known about this misguided invasion/occupation, many – including democrats choose to admit their mistake of supporting the genocide now in Iraq. Also keep in mind the government gave Hussein the chemicals and propped him up when he supposedly “gassed the Kurds.”
The public should go ask intelligent questions and try to find out the wisdom Churchill may have to share with them. An open mind is a valuable resource in an often too closed-minded society. Thank Ward Churchill for bringing this to light when it wasn’t popular to do so.
Churchill Review
March 29, 2007
(API)
Controversial tenured University of Colorado at Boulder Professor, Ward Churchill, continued his high energy speaking tour with a recent stop at the Southern Minnesota State University campus in Marshall, Minn. On March 28, 2007. Over 150 students, faculty, and members of the public from as far away as White Earth, Minn. to Sioux City, Iowa came to hear the dynamic and eloquent speaker address the issue of world genocide – pointing a finger at and exposing the denial of the holocaust which occurred (and continues to occur) against Indigenous “American Indians” right here in the United States.
In 2001 just after the planes were flown into the world trade center in New York, City, Churchill explained in a paper that many corporations who violated mideast citizens rights to a government free form big oil and corporate and United States manipulation were housed in the “twin towers” – which might explain why the Arab “freedom-fighters” chose that target to send a message to America to stop meddling middle eastern affairs and oil fields.
This ignited a firestorm among far right wing republicans who supported and concocted the “war” (a war was never officially “declared” against Iraq by the government, many feel so that the United States could skirt Geneva Convention “war rules” prohibiting torture and illegal detention).
Efforts were carried out – and are ongoing - to remove Churchill from his professorship in Boulder based upon his thoughts and writings on the 911 incident and he remains steadfast to expose the Iraq and mideast debacle present and past presidential administrations have put the American people in.
On hand for the event were numerous professors, an Ojibwe Spiritual Advisor, from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and Scott C. Barta, Ihanktunwan DaNakota (Yankton Dakota “Sioux”) of Sioux City, Iowa, founder of 1851Treaty.com and the Morning Glory Foundation.
The SMSU event lasted well over four hours long – many feeling that even a Bill Clinton or George W. Bush speaking event could’ve held listeners that long, with Churchill sitting down among the die-hard crowd towards the closing of the historic learning experience, revealing his grass roots and “hard truth/cold facts” style which makes him such a sought-after presenter.
at Southwest Minnesota State University SMSU - March 28, 2007
Famed indigenous advocate, scholar, and human rights activist, Dr. Ward Churchill, will give a talk on Wednesday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in the second floor ballroom of the Conference Center at Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU), Marshall, MN.
Churchill is a professor of Ethnic Studies and coordinator of American Indian Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Churchill has garnered much publicity over the past several years for his outspokenness on some topics, most recently in 2005 for a 2001 essay in which he questioned the innocence of the many killed in the World Trade Center attacks.
Churchill has authored more than 20 books and over 150 essays. His work is mostly centered on historical mistreatment of political dissenters and the genocide of indigenous peoples by the government and citizenry of the u.s. He recently appeared in the documentary entitled “Canary Effect.”
An acclaimed public speaker and award-winning writer, Churchill is a member of the Governing Council of the Colorado chapter of the American Indian Movement. He is a past national spokesperson for the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, and has served as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
His appearance is part of the “Difficult Dialogues” initiative at SMSU. The event is sponsored by SMSU, the Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies program, and is funded by the Ford Foundation’s Difficult Dialogues Grant to the university.
Marshall, MN is located 50 minutes northeast of Sioux Falls, SD.
For more information, contact Dr. Chris Mato Nunpa, Associate Professor of Indigenous Nations & Dakota Studies, at 507-537-6118,
matonunpa@southwestmsu.edu
or Jim Tate 1-800-642-0684
tatej@southwestmsu.edu
“Marshall Independent”: Newspaper, Marshall, Minn.
Editorial - Ward Churchill at SMSU: As difficult as it gets
http://www.marshallindependent.com/opinion/articles.asp?articleID=11174
Based on the title of the program alone, you knew this was not going to be easy sometimes. Wednesday night may be one of those times: As part of the Difficult Dialogue series, Southwest Minnesota State University (SMSU) is bringing the controversial Ward Churchill to campus for a speech at 7 p.m. in the Conference Center.It’s a little different than the speaker the night before: Former FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who talks Tuesday through the same Difficult Dialogues program, has earned national awards, while Churchill has earned scorn.The Difficult Dialogues program brings speakers and courses to SMSU through a $100,000 Ford Foundation grant aimed at building understanding and open discussion on some tough issues.Churchill, the Colorado professor, has mainly stirred skepticism and outrage with his comments after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks — the kind of outrage that got him canceled at a small college in New York, the kind that got him talked about intensely in the national media.Why? Because, if not flat-out saying the 9/11 victims had it coming, Churchill has said we should not be surprised they were killed and suggested the World Trade Center was a logical target for a terror attack. You don’t make friends that way, and Churchill certainly has not.He’s been attacked by academics and pundits, not to mention families of the victims. He’s also been defended by some academics for his free-speech rights, which he certainly can exercise. But, of course, the First Amendment goes both ways: People have the right to protest Churchill or ignore him, too. His main rationale for his comments seems to be that the way America treats other countries and people around the world invited the attacks of 9/11 — that we’ve done our share of human rights abuses around the globe. We probably have. But to tie those abuses to the 9/11 attacks is insensitive and illogical. Our civilians should not have to die for the wrongs of our government; rather, our government should be held accountable through the democratic process.Churchill, though, is a lightning rod. Very candid, very bold, unafraid to challenge authority or convention. Yet, unlike Rowley’s determination to point to facts and hold her bosses in the FBI accountable, Churchill seems to lump a lot of groups under the same umbrella. For instance, in a public radio interview in February 2005, Churchill was asked if he thought the World Trade Center was an acceptable or legitimate target on 9/11.Part of his response: “Do I personally think it was a legitimate target or should have been a legitimate target? Absolutely not. And that's said on the basis of all but absolute rejection of and opposition to U.S. policy. “But what you have to understand, and what the listeners have to understand, is that under U.S. rules, it was an acceptable target,” he continued. “And the reason it was an acceptable target, if none other, was that because the C.I.A., the Defense Department, and other parts of the U.S. military intelligence infrastructure, had situated offices within it, and you'll recall that that is precisely the justification advanced by the Donald Rumsfelds of the world, the Norman Schwarzkopfs, and the Colin Powells of the world, to explain why civilian targets had been bombed in Baghdad. Because that nefarious Saddam Hussein had situated elements of his command and control infrastructure within otherwise civilian occupied facilities.”Even if you try to equate our military’s choices with those of Saddam, it’s impossible to justify the 9/11 deaths. And it’s hard to think he’ll get a warm welcome in rural Minnesota, a place that has sent hundreds of its soldiers to Iraq.Churchill has been accused of hate speech, heartlessness, of blaming Israel for the 9/11 attacks, of preventing others from exercising their own free speech. He’s also been the subject of dozens of reports by Fox’s Bill O’Reilly (make of that what you will).However you look at it, his speech Wednesday is bound to live up to the program’s title: A difficult dialogue indeed.
March 26, 2007
Response to Minnesota “Marshall Independent” newspaper editorial:
http://www.marshallindependent.com/opinion/articles.asp?articleID=11246
Regarding the March 26, 2007 Independent “Opinion Page” reference to Ward Churchill’s talk at SMSU, it is still amazing how the media seemingly continues to support a corrupt government and even more corrupt “war.” Keep in mind war was never “declared officially” by congress so that atrocities could take place outside of the Geneva Convention (Abu Ghraib, Guantanimo Bay, etc.).
Instead of embracing those who predict what everyone should have known about this misguided invasion/occupation, many – including democrats choose to admit their mistake of supporting the genocide now in Iraq. Also keep in mind the government gave Hussein the chemicals and propped him up when he supposedly “gassed the Kurds.”
The public should go ask intelligent questions and try to find out the wisdom Churchill may have to share with them. An open mind is a valuable resource in an often too closed-minded society. Thank Ward Churchill for bringing this to light when it wasn’t popular to do so.
Churchill Review
March 29, 2007
(API)
Controversial tenured University of Colorado at Boulder Professor, Ward Churchill, continued his high energy speaking tour with a recent stop at the Southern Minnesota State University campus in Marshall, Minn. On March 28, 2007. Over 150 students, faculty, and members of the public from as far away as White Earth, Minn. to Sioux City, Iowa came to hear the dynamic and eloquent speaker address the issue of world genocide – pointing a finger at and exposing the denial of the holocaust which occurred (and continues to occur) against Indigenous “American Indians” right here in the United States.
In 2001 just after the planes were flown into the world trade center in New York, City, Churchill explained in a paper that many corporations who violated mideast citizens rights to a government free form big oil and corporate and United States manipulation were housed in the “twin towers” – which might explain why the Arab “freedom-fighters” chose that target to send a message to America to stop meddling middle eastern affairs and oil fields.
This ignited a firestorm among far right wing republicans who supported and concocted the “war” (a war was never officially “declared” against Iraq by the government, many feel so that the United States could skirt Geneva Convention “war rules” prohibiting torture and illegal detention).
Efforts were carried out – and are ongoing - to remove Churchill from his professorship in Boulder based upon his thoughts and writings on the 911 incident and he remains steadfast to expose the Iraq and mideast debacle present and past presidential administrations have put the American people in.
On hand for the event were numerous professors, an Ojibwe Spiritual Advisor, from the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota, and Scott C. Barta, Ihanktunwan DaNakota (Yankton Dakota “Sioux”) of Sioux City, Iowa, founder of 1851Treaty.com and the Morning Glory Foundation.
The SMSU event lasted well over four hours long – many feeling that even a Bill Clinton or George W. Bush speaking event could’ve held listeners that long, with Churchill sitting down among the die-hard crowd towards the closing of the historic learning experience, revealing his grass roots and “hard truth/cold facts” style which makes him such a sought-after presenter.
