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Churchill will file a free speech lawsuit
Posted by Raven on June 12th, 2007
Ward Churchill is using the “free speech card”, as I suspected he would.
University of Colorado ethnic-studies professor Ward Churchill will formally request a hearing before the Board of Regents in response to CU president Hank Brown’s letter last week recommending his dismissal for academic misconduct, his attorney said Monday.
Attorney David Lane said Churchill has 20 days to respond in writing with a request for a private hearing. After that, unless the regents choose to reinstate Churchill and forgo all forms of discipline, Lane said, Churchill will file a free speech lawsuit against the university.
Churchill used his free speech as anyone can and should, to express an opinion. It offended many people so shortly after the 9-11 attacks. Free speech is a right. Along with it comes responsibility…personal accountability- something many liberals do not accept as a valuable trait.
To Churchill and many like him, this is about free speech and nothing else. I guess if we look at this like they do we would have to agree…if Churchill hadn’t spewed off about 9-11 victims beings Nazi’s he wouldn’t have come under national attention. Then people wouldn’t have noted the obvious and blatant historical errors in his writings; we wouldn’t have noticed that he stole the works of others as passed it off as his own. No one would have cared that his claims of being an Indian were also found to be false. He used his right to free speech; now he doesn’t want to accept any responsibility for the ensuing national attention and scrutiny he got from said speech.
There is a big IF here, however.
Every behavior has a consequence. And yes- vile hateful free speech is a behavior.
