Colorado Missing Link

[arisbe]

Soon after I finished editing a profile of the University of Colorado the Ward Churchill affair broke, and my boss asked me to stay on top of it. I fond it useful to refer to the original essay, one sentence of which, quoted in the Hamilton College student paper and aired nationwide by Mr. O'Reilly, started the whole thing.

I am not a terrorist by any reasonable definition of the term. I am a philosopher with a degree in higher education, who does part-time work for a nonprofit generally considered right of center. I keep my links on del.icio.us, but not this one; it doesn't take. I evidently can't be trusted with this information, even when I uncovered it in the first place, and I suppose nobody else can either.

I wonder if I need to go looking for another free web-based link server. Has anyone here encountered this kind of censorship? Or is there some obscure technical reason, unconnected with ideology, why I couldn't save this one link? In any case the link is now embedded here, and I assume I can link to this post.

Later: I tried again, and there it was, right where it would be if I had saved it yesterday; probably I somehow missed it when I looked earlier today. As for Thursday, I probably didn't save it when I thought I had, or, to be more exact, hoped I had.

Apologies to anyone I might have misled.

Comments

[supergee.livejournal.com]

Churchill and Bush agree on blaming the Iraqis.

[winegodeatsyou.livejournal.com]

While I detest Ward Churchill, I find the censorship issue a little strange.

[lilburne.livejournal.com]

It seems there's actually an American who says the victims of the Twin Towers attack deserved to die, and he got a job as a professor. I would have thought that a case like this would have arisen in a law-school hypothetical on the Limits of the First Amendment ("Say a professor at a public university endorses the September 11 attacks. Can he be fired?"). But it's come up in real life! Where do they find these people?

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Not exactly, but close enough. He was already entrenched in the ivory tower, to mix a metaphor quite badly, when he wrote his essay, in which he said that the CIA office in the WTC was a legitimate target. Frankly, I had no idea they were even there, and I was across the street. I doubt the hijackers knew either.

Can he be fired? Probably not for that essay. There's a good chance they will find something else. For example, his status as a spokesman for the American Indian is based on his claim to belong to a tribe in which he is not enrolled. (He admits he is one sixteenth Cherokee. One great great grandparent! I only know the names of two of mine, and then only because the Mormons have a microfilm of an Irish parish register.)

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Unless Churchill is somehow behind it, asserting illegal use of his copyrighted works.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Do they? Or is WC blaming the American war against Iraq, as I seem to recall the hijackers did?

[bael.livejournal.com]

I just made an account out there, as I've been meaning too for some time, and it accepted the link perfectly. *shrug*.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Well I tried again and it worked for me too, and appears to have for ten other people, one of whom must be you.

It may be something wrong with my computer. Like the nut in front of the monitor.

Shrugs back.

[arisbe.livejournal.com]

Or, as seems to be the case, I merely made a mistake looking at the screen. (Yes, the floater is still in my right eyeball, and it does make computer work more difficult.)