Ding Dong the WITCH is dead!
So here's a little blurb from an article I stumbled across today while procrastinating online.
Globalization » "Some People Push Back" On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
Written by Ward Churchill, published 9/11/2001 // Dark Night Press (www.darknightpress.org) -This article appeared in Pockets of Resistance #11 September 2001
*Notice the author of this article is Ward Churchill, one of the most outspoken of Native American activists and scholars in North America.
They did not license themselves to "target innocent civilians."
There is simply no argument to be made that the Pentagon personnel killed on September 11 fill that bill. The building and those inside comprised military targets, pure and simple. As to those in the World Trade Center . . . 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 [referring here to the 500,000 children Churchill is claiming have been killed in Iraq as a result of warfare]. 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.
"little Eichmanns" is a pretty powerful implication. Churchill got in a lot of trouble for this. Churchill said, "Eichmann was a technocrat who 'crunched numbers' and made the trains that carried Jews to death camps run on time. And likewise, those in the Trade Center were technocrats whose work was just as deadly".
What do you think?