From Carl Densing at the California Patriot Blog, here is some reporting on Churchill's appearance at Berkeley in Thoughts on Ward Churchill and the Panel. Hat tip: Instapundit.
Interesting reading. Very interesting reading.
UPDATE: I'm going to flesh out this post a little bit. I found the reading at Cal Patriot interesting in a lot of ways. Obviously people who reside in different areas of the political spectrum have different agendas and understandings of the issues. The questioner, Ms. Eskenas, is a member of the Berkeley College Republicans. So she obviously has a different worldview than Ward Churchill.
What was interesting was how little regard Churchill had for the questions she posed. These are legitimate questions. If you consider the deaths on 9-11 deserved, then would you have considered yourself, or someone close to you, deserving of death had they, by chance, found themselves on the plane? Churchill chose not to answer, and based on my reading of the information provided at CPB, seemed to think the question not worth answering.
This is one of the things that drives me crazy. Just because the question comes from the opposite pole of the political spectrum does not mean that it is a bad question. Churchill, with his politics, would never find himself working at a financial firm in the World Trade Center, but he should be easily able to imagine himself on a hijacked plane. That simple mental exercise should lead one to a slightly more thoughtful approach in discussing the events of 9-11. That it doesn't for Churchill is evidence that his ranting is borne of an irrational hatred of America and Americans, and not out of logic.
By the way, my brother found himself, by chance, on a plane that terrorists had targeted. He was most certainly not deserving of death.
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