AIM and the Indigenous Opinion

MSNBC - Embattled Colorado professor cleared to speak

One of my loyal readers suggested Ward Churchill as a topic to look into. I found this recent article from the kind folks at GE who bring good things to life and good things to war. This article does give me something to speak to.

Did anyone read all the way to the end of the article? Right at the end they give you the most important fact: Churchill is an AIM activist.

The media fervor over this issue has grown out of control. When read in context, the whole Eichmans comparison seems in keeping with his style. He exaggerates to make his point. Why create such an uproar and bring attention to him?

Behind ever story about righteous indignation lies a Republican. Lying for political purposes. What's the goal this time? Perhaps to make speaking your mind illegal. Especially when it's unpopular.

Ward Churchill has a legitimate beef with our government. With Iraq and Social Security and the deficit and declining wages and Hollywood hijinks maybe we've forgotten that America genocidally conquered the New World in order to fulfill our Manifest Destiny. We still keep North America's indigeneous population on "reservations." AIM and Churchill have every right to be critical of everything our government does.

Ward Churchill has developed a valid theory about Corporate America, as experienced and studied from the perspective of a victim of the whole system. Shaking a flag draped fist at him is not the answer. Making him a celebrity has only made a mountain out of a molehill.

He has his First Amendment rights. That is the end of the story. Unless this is the beginning of the end of free thought.