CU In the news again... Ward Churchill

There has been a good deal in the news of late regarding CU Boulder's Chair of ethnic studies, Ward Churchhill. This is his essay ostensibly written on 9-12-01(I've as yet been unable to verify this):

"Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens

The section of the essay that is getting the most commentary is as follows - he's referring to the people in the twin towers on 9-11:

Well, really. Let's get a grip here, shall we? True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break. They formed a technocratic corps at the very heart of America's global financial empire – the "mighty engine of profit" to which the military dimension of U.S. policy has always been enslaved – and they did so both willingly and knowingly. Recourse to "ignorance" – a derivative, after all, of the word "ignore" – counts as less than an excuse among this relatively well-educated elite. To the extent that any of them were unaware of the costs and consequences to others of what they were involved in – and in many cases excelling at – it was because of their absolute refusal to see. More likely, it was because they were too busy braying, incessantly and self-importantly, into their cell phones, arranging power lunches and stock transactions, each of which translated, conveniently out of sight, mind and smelling distance, into the starved and rotting flesh of infants. If there was a better, more effective, or in fact any other way of visiting some penalty befitting their participation upon the little Eichmanns inhabiting the sterile sanctuary of the twin towers, I'd really be interested in hearing about it.

ICK! It honestly scares the hell out of me that we have people like this teaching, let alone being a department chair, at a state funded University. I'm the first to support free speech but, I think calling the victims of 9-11 "little Eichmanns" crosses the line into hate speech.

RCS