So, last night, by virture of the fact that I attend a college that has been categorized by a friend of mine as "The Amsterdam of the West", I had the tremendous fortune of getting to attend a hastily scheduled lecture given by the current bullseye of the liberal academic community, Ward Churchill. I've got to say that he's a fantastic fellow to watch and that he made a fairly significant impression on me. His lecture, intended originally to be a discussion of some of his new writings on Native American politics and treaties and such and then adapted to also encompass his now notorious essay discussing what he felt was the forgone nature of the September 11th attacks, was one of the most interesting, compelling and articulate syntheses of the hypocracy of U.S. policy, and its repeated and continuing violation by its own government, that I had ever encountered.
Anyway, Churchill's truly critical points that I'd like to highlight (and remember myself) were:
1) Based on precedents set at the Nuremburg Trials the common citizenry of any given country is responsible for the actions of its government, and if the government is committing crimes the citizenry is legally compelled to try to stop them "by any means necessary".
2) There will be no painless solution to these problems.
Weird, eh?
Anyway, it got me all riled up and excited about the end of global civilization, or at the very least the U.S. Empire.
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