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February 07, 2005

Farah's Faucet of Fascism

Joe Farah's at it yet again.

He now suggests that University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill be investigated for treason and executed if found guilty.

What really gets Farah's goat is that Churchill had the temerity to declare that U.S. government policies brought on 9/11. Why, only a left-wing, fringe, Marxist, anti-American traitor could make such an outrageous claim! (Obviously Farah doesn't read Pat Buchanan's columns, which also run on WND.)

Now it's true that Churchill went too far in claiming that the victims of 9/11 deserved their fate, but so what? Apparently freedom of speech, in Farah's opinion, only extends as far as the polite bounds of liberal/neocon doublespeak.

Farah is correct that the First Amendment has nothing to say about whether or not Churchill can be fired from a state-run school. Nevertheless, to say that Churchill "should be thoroughly investigated for aiding and abetting the enemy in wartime"--for his "outrageous, seditious, contemptuous, evil blood libels against America"--is clearly to misunderstand (willfully, I think) the basis of freedom. Farah also points out that treason is "a capital offense," the obvious implication being that he thinks Churchill should be executed merely for stating an opinion with which Farah disagrees vehemently. So much for "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Do you suppose it's treason to argue that American soldiers' lives be expended in a bloody and futile war on a foreign country that never threatened us--a war certain to play into the hands of the enemy, thus putting us in even greater peril? If so, then Farah's neck ought to be first on the chopping block.

Posted by Mike Tennant at February 7, 2005 10:23 AM

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