Thank you to Ward Churchill's LAWYERS . . . and to the Denver JURY

[Krashkopf]

Congratulations to David Lane, and the team at Killmer, Lane & Newman, for their outstanding victory in the Ward Churchill case. I want to thank them for preserving, protecting, and defending the Constitution. They are PATRIOTS in the truest sense of the word.

This is SO MUCH MORE than just a victory for Ward Churchill. It's a victory for every person - famous, like Bill Maher and the Dixie Chicks, and not famous like you and me - who were "shouted down" by the right-wing noise machine. It was a victory for the CONSTITUTION!

Thank you, also, to the Denver Jury, who saw through the bullshit, and who saw Churchill's firing for what it was - a ham-handed effort by the government to punish a person for expressing an unpopular opinion.

[spag68]

1. Churchill

I'm glad he got off, but I still think he is an a-hole.

[Krashkopf]

2. "Big Time"

Even though Churchill's his opinions about "America's chickens coming home to roost" on 9/11 were offensive, they were actually a lot closer to the truth than most people gave him credit for. But, I have always thought that, as a person, he was a pompus ass.

But that is NOT the point. This was NEVER about Ward Churchill. It was about protecting the 1st Amendment.

America isn't easy. America is advanced citizenship. You've gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours." You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms . . . then you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."

Fictional President Andrew Shepard, The American President (1995):

[Onceuponalife]

3. Even A-holes have rights

I wonder if anyone else here besides me has actually gone to see him speak in person? I didn't think he was an A-hole. Pompous? Maybe.

This is a victory. I'm celebrating.:toast:

[Krashkopf]

4. Yes, I've seen him . . .

yes, he's pompous . . .

and yes, its a HUGE victory . . . I'm celebrating, too!