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Over the past week over 70,000 people have read Ward Churchill’s essay “Some People Push Back” on my website.Several people have sent me emails commenting on Churchill’s essay, on my site, on how they see things.Many people may not be aware of what others are saying and thinking about this, so in the interests of letting people know i’ve decided to upload the mail i have received. I have removed people’s names to protect their identity.WARNING: Some intelligent people have written me, but by and large most of the emails i received were from idiots and cretins. Their views are extreme, violent, and vulgar, and certainly are not shared by myself. Scroll down to read their emails, or just click on the link below if you do not want to.

Hi there American hating shitheads…. And happy days from an Imperialist Pig (one of the people that Ward Churchill calls having an attention span of 15 minutes)……              Isn’t it great that we have in our midst a genious like ol’ Churchill to tells everyone how stupid and uninformed all of us are (especially the white race) when it comes to our own crimes against humanity and that the attack on 9/11 wasn’t nearly enough retribution for centuries of crimes against other nations.              It’s a very good thing that those statements were made here and about us, for if he made them in one of the poor countries where we’ve killed millions of  poor innocent people…….his throat would have been slit and head would have been cut off.  End of story.              Hey fuck for brains…..Wardo….if you hate this country so damn much why don’t you move to Iraq or the Gaza Strip and help all those poor people that you say we’re hurting and killing and starving and maiming and terrorizing?  Seems to me that you’ve made yourself quite wealthy with authoring books and essays speaking engagements not to mention your teaching position…..would I be wrong to say that you’ve etched out a pretty good living doing what you do (spewing hate propaganda in my opinion).              Gee, but wait…….aquiring personal wealth through selling books and essays and teaching……isn’t that called…….ah…..CAPITALISM?              What a fucking lying stupid hipocrit…….what an asshole!              If you dispise the way things are done in this country, and capitalism is a big part of how things are done….why don’t you provide your services for nothing?              I know why……              Because just like all the Michael Moores of this country who exploit and muddy the facts about corporate CEO’s, the military, big business and how the little guy is always screwed, you take your millions earned off this bullshit machine of yours and happily scamper to the confines of some mansion overlooking some valley where you can look down on all the little people you proclaim to be one of.  The King over all he surveys.              Yes, I can see why some impressionable young, as well as some disenfranchised older people believe your message of hate against this country. You hit them when they are at their weakest….when they are the most vulnerable to accept anything as the explanation of why their lives might be miserable at this time.  Blame someone else,  blame the government, blame George W blame capitalism,  blame the horrible country of America……the same country that defends the right of free speech where even a hate spewing, worthless pile of shit like yourself can make tons of money off the very system he so dispises.              The strongest reason I needed to send this was where you proclaimed that the 9/11 victums deserved to die for they were part of this great corporate monstor that fueled the fire of America’s insatiable appetite of invoking it’s power around the world.  I challenge you to invite all the relatives and friends of those people to one of your bolshevick ralleys and tell that to each and everyone of them face to face.  But of course you won’t……because you are a coward, and a phoney and much less than a human being.  Calling you a sick animal would would be a discrace to any living beast on this earth.               Finally,  Wardo, my hope for you is to someday find yourself  in the friendly company of your fondly referred to “combat unit” (normal people call them murdering terrorist thugs, by the way) and in the middle of telling them how much you admire their bravery, civility and charm…………………………………….they blow your head clean off.                                                              Here’s to you fuckhead…..                                                                                Happy Days,  ____ _________

 Professor Campos,  Wish it wasn’t just a dream …  Thank God yours is a voice of reason from the ridiculous Republic of Boulder, my former place of residency for nearly 10 years. I’m a CU-Boulder alumnus (School of Journalism ’84), and am, to say the least, having a difficult time stomaching the fact that a professor at my beloved alma mater has written the callous, mean-spirited essay “Some People Push Back” On the Justice of Roosting Chickens (posted at http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/churchill.html), then this evening I saw your interview by Bill O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel, Professor Campos, and read your Rocky Mountain News column online Kudos to you on your comments! I was serving with the U.S. Navy as Deputy Director of Public Affairs for Joint Task Force-Southwest Asia in support of Operation Southern Watch in 1997, and had been in Saudi Arabia for about two weeks when Saddam Hussein first kicked the UN weapons inspectors out of Iraq. We came dangerously close to having an all-out war with Iraq. I didn’t want to go to war at the time (we had only 18,000 troops in the region), but in retrospect, we probably should have. At the very least, the world should have put its collective foot down, and forced Saddam to comply with UN resolutions which required Iraq to submit to weapons inspections (and a whole slew of other resolutions). Instead, the Clinton Administration played ostrich, fearing the consequences of a “Wag the Dog War” in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and did not effectively deal with Saddam’s idiocy, despite the backing of a number of UN resolutions. I could write books about that whole situation. I witnessed it firsthand. I would personally have been affected by such a war. The war didn’t happen in 1997. We had somewhat of a buildup in the region, Clinton lobbed a few missiles at Iraqi targets during Operation Desert Fox in 1998, and the world went back to sleep regarding Iraq … not doing a thing about Saddam … until President George W. Bush cured the world of its collective amnesia. Now, thankfully, Saddam will no longer be able to threaten the world, his neighbors, nor his own people. I doubt former Ethnic Studies Chairman Ward Churchill has any personal involvement in any of this. He — like many of those who try to blame the U.S. for the world’s problems — is still asleep. The backlash (yes, we too can push back) he’s feeling today must feel like a bit of a wakeup call, though. He forgets that Saddam started this madness when he invaded Kuwait. He forgets that Saddam had conducted his own genocide. Ask the Kurds. Ask the families of those thousands buried in mass graves throughout Iraq. The 1991 bombings he blames for justifying 9-11 were part of Operation Desert Storm — the successful effort to get the Iraqi military out of Kuwait and to ensure Saddam would never attack his neighbors again. The modern U.S. military has terrible weapons at its disposal. We have, however, taken greater pains to ensure that civilians are not killed than any force in the history of the world. I have friends currently serving in Iraq and other nations in Southwest Asia. As a Naval Reservist for more than 10 years, I have personally been fighting the Global War on Terrorism all that time, whether I knew it or not. I have to agree with Churchill on at least two points. The terrorists have been fighting the United States and the West for a lot longer than we give them credit. And, Americans have been asleep (“getting ‘Jeremy’ and ‘Ellington’ to their weekly soccer game) — but not to the plight of the Iraqi children. (For that matter, I don’t see Mr. Churchill doing anything to help the Iraqi children even now, but my colleagues in the military are — even as I write this.) We were, however, long asleep to the dangers of terrorism and our reaction (or lack thereof) to it. I understand some of those at Hamilton College, where Churchill is scheduled to speak, may have family members of the victims of 9-11. I wonder how they, especially the victims in the World Trade Center and the plane which crashed in Pennsylvania, feel about his viewpoints that these “civilians of a sort” were not innocent (he has the gall to call them “little Eichmanns”). The World Trade Center did not contain only Americans: they came from across the globe. They had every color of skin seen on the planet. They were not just the children of pampered soccer moms. That’s why it was called the “World Trade Center”! I know how the associates of the Pentagon victims feel. (I work with them.) How would Mr. Churchill feel if someone said his people, the Cherokees, who were forced to move in the Trail of Tears were “civilians of a sort,” that the victims of Wounded Knee were “fanatics,” or that those massacred at Sand Creek were “guerillas.” The victims of 9-11 were just as innocent as those American Indians. I am somewhat heartened to hear that Mr. Churchill has resigned his chairmanship of the Ethnic Studies Department. CU officials: I still may return my diploma if you do not revoke Churchill’s tenure. Sincerely, ____ _____  LTJG USNR Public Affairs Officer Public Affairs Specialist Air Force Reserve Command

Though most Americans would fiercely agree that ‘freedom of speech’ is one of the cornerstones of Human Rights, I find the article/book predisposed to take an Anti-American position from the first paragraph.

I find no mention of the other groups, ethnic/religious/national, who have perpetrated crimes against others; such as the Japanese slaughter of millions of Chinese nationals, Chinese Communists against millions of its own citizens, Vietnamese government’s murder of hundreds of thousands of its own citizens, Cambodia’s ‘garden of skulls’, etc.

I don’t see mention of the murder of the Isreali Olympic athletes, the kidnapping and murder of Lebanese and Isreali noncombatants/ civilians, or the persecution of non-Muslims and Muslims in pure Muslim countries, such as Iran.  I don’t see mention of North Koreas starvation of millions of its citizens to maintain a 1,000,000+ armed services while pursuing a nuclear weapon, or the slaughter/starvation of Somali’s at the hands of fellow Somali’s, or daily kidnapping/murder of foreigners and citizens in South America. 

Please note that all of these events occurred where the US had no military presence at the time.

How about these ‘soldiers’ sawing the heads off of people on film in Iraq, the kidnapping and subsequent execution of Iraqi police trainees just trying to make a living and ensure the safety of their fellow citizens, or the truck bombing of the UN headquarters.  

Why not discuss the withholding of billions of dinars by Saddam Hussain, and his government, from the Iraqi people. This theft of oil revenue and other funds denying the average Iraqi citizen of infrastructure and basic services improvement essential to the survival of their children. Why not add that expansion of Iraqs military infrastructure, weapons programs and Hussains palace building into the conversation regarding the death of these innocents. While you are discussing the ‘illegal’ and immoral’ war being waged against these ‘soldiers’ by American ‘cowards’, please don’t hesitate to point out that these volunteer Americans are now risking their lives to help the average Iraqi citizen become eligible to say anything they want, as Ward has done, without immediate arrest, torture and execution. I don’t think Saddam Hussain or the Taliban would have merely spoken their discontent with Ward’s opinion of their governments, if he were a citizen there.

 The fact that our pilots flew missions in million dollar aircraft, militarily superior to the enemy, does not negate the fact that the pilots were not facing possible death. As a former Marine and one who grew up in Saudi Arabia, I feel that the actions taken by the government have not always reflected my own thoughts on the subject. But I do take offense at being depicted as a coward based solely on the equipment provided. I will say that the Highway of Death was WAR and WAR is an unpleasant, disgusting, and hellish experience for anyone to survive. The purpose of war is to win and just because an enemy is retreating, does not mean they are not dangerous.  

 The off center assertion, though denied on this web site by the author, of little Eichmanns at the WTC is a little disguised claim that American businesses are centers of Nazi-like activities bent on the elimination of anything non-American/non-Christian. I’m sure that the number of the proposed ‘Eichmanns’ comprised less than 1% of the total killed vs the persons listed as ‘collateral damage’ by these ‘soldiers’ and surprised that Ward disassociated the religious aspect, given the evidence and subsequent statements by like-minded individuals before and since that day. Self examination by the American public regarding our overseas activities should be a constant job, as living in foreign countries most of my life has taught me, but exclusive declarations like those by Ward are not productive and do a disservice to the his fellow professors, his department, the University………and his country.

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