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Guess what? By virtue of being American, you are not innocent.

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Ward Churchill
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: October 2
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Urbana
Illinois
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Tailoring the facts to fit one's theory constitutes neither good science nor good journalism. Rather, it is intellectually dishonest and, when published for consumption by a mass audience, adds up to propaganda.
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My comments are reserved for reputable journalists.
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I consider PirateBallerina to be the most credible news source in the Denver area.
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One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary.
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Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice?
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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Would you render the same level of support to someone who hadn't conscientiously objected, but rather instead rolled a grenade under their line officer in order to neutralize the combat capacity of their unit? Conscientious objection removes a given piece of the cannon fodder from the fray fragging an officer has a much more impactful effect.
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People have a bad habit of blaming the victims. Damn Jews! If hadn't been for them the Nazis wouldn't have exterminated 'em all!
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Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?
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I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.
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There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
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I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, too sexy it hurts.
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A random group of homeless people under a bridge would be far more intellectually sound and principled than anything I've encountered at the university so far.
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Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.
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Truth is the best defense.
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Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.
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The American people are free to do exactly what they are told.
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I have never said that people “should” engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction is returned.
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