A controversy to warm the cockles of the off-topic board.
An embattled Colorado University professor who compared Sept. 11 victims to Nazis struck a defiant tone during a campus speech, saying "I'm not backing up an inch."
In an essay, Churchill wrote that workers in the World Trade Center were the equivalent of "little Eichmanns," a reference to Adolf Eichmann (search), who ensured the smooth running of the Nazi system. Churchill also spoke of the "gallant sacrifices" of the "combat teams" that struck America.
The ethnic studies professor said Tuesday his essay was referring to "technocrats" who participate in what he calls repressive American policies around the world.
A longtime American Indian Movement (search) activist, he said he is also culpable because his efforts to change the system haven't succeeded. "I could do more. I'm complicit. I'm not innocent," he said.
In case you hadn't noticed, Bill O'Reilly has been after him, predictably, but he's also being torched in various other places. The normally sedate and professional Paula Zahn on CNN the other night greased him pretty good in a rare display of anger.
Aside from the issue of whether or not a stockbroker in the WTC on Sept. 11, 2001 was a "little Eichmann," does he have the priviledge of "academic freedom?"
Is he saying anything different than the eminently employable Noam Chomsky?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,146833,00.html
Cowperson