As a former graduate and honorarium instructor at the University of Colorado and a former leftist, I was not surprised to hear of Professor Ward Churchill's tirade against the United States and its conduct as the world's preeminent superpower. Churchill's radical worldview has been popular among the professoriate for generations, stubbornly retaining its deceptive allure at our colleges and universities.
I take pride in the fact that America-bashers like Churchill are entitled to air their defamatory vitriol under the umbrella of free speech. But I am ashamed when Churchill's detractors vandalize his property and threaten his life. Thoughtless retaliation of this sort can only embolden the radical left, falsely reinforcing their hypothesis that people who feel marginalized inevitably resort to violence, and may even be justified when doing so.
Those who disagree with Churchill's view of evil are either intellectually bankrupt and \banal"" (Churchill's description of his critics), or are practitioners of ethnic intimidation and must be silenced. If you're a campus radical, only hate speech from the left is worthy of constitutional protection.
