[lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill

[Joseph Wanzala]

I totally reject the right wing efforts to shoot down Churchill, to censor 
him over *anything*.
But his position is really bad on two accounts. First, He supports the 
official story, ie that 9/11 was an attack from the outside on America, only 
he celebrates it, much as the article by the Retort Group (my friend Iain 
Boal & Co.) in the New Left Review from last Summer did. Such people WANT to 
believe 9/11 was an attack on America, because such a view corresponds to 
their ideological needs. Two, his branding of the victims as "little 
Eichmanns" is off-the-wall. The vast majority were but wage slaves, and 
paper pushers are no less wage slaves than janitors or cafeteria workers. 
All of us, including Chruchill, enable the continued functioning of the 
empire by the very act of working for a wage, or buying anything. That is 
hardly something which makes us Eichmanns. I will defend Churchill's right 
to say what he wants to say, but will strongly condemn what he said because 
of the massive inaccuracies he elevates to the level of "truth".


>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill
>Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:21:56 -0500
>
>Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>
>Ward Churchill's Press Release:
>
>January 31, 2005
>
>In the last few days there has been widespread and grossly inaccurate media 
>coverage concerning my analysis of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the 
>World Trade Center and the Pentagon, coverage that has resulted in 
>defamation of my character and threats against my life. What I actually 
>said has been lost, indeed turned into the opposite of itself, and I hope 
>the following facts will be reported at least to the same extent that the 
>fabrications have been.
>
>Here's the full text of Churchill's analysis. Readers can judge how fair 
>the interpretations have been.
>
>Doug
>
>----
>
>POCKETS of RESISTANCE no. 11 A supplement of Dark Night field notes -- 
>September 2001
>
>"Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens by Ward 
>Churchill
>
>When queried by reporters concerning his views on the assassination of John 
>F. Kennedy in November 1963, Malcolm X famously - and quite charitably, all 
>things considered - replied that it was merely a case of "chickens coming 
>home to roost."
>
>On the morning of September 11, 2001, a few more chickens - along with some 
>half-million dead Iraqi children - came home to roost in a very big way at 
>the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Well, actually, a few of 
>them seem to have nestled in at the Pentagon as well.
>
>