Ward Churchill, punch kicker??
Mark Goldberg
And continuing with our theme of highlighting punchers in pizza parlors,
etc- here's the never ending story of that phony baloney Chompsky hate
freak, the fake Indian himself, who last week said- it didn't matter
that he wasn't really an Indian.
This week it turns out- he copied a serigraph from another person, and
claimed it was his own.
What a giant Ward Churchill, what scope, what breadth..... What a
stinkbomb and hatefreak, and coward, he really, really is.
Mark
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43054
February 26, 2005
Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece
Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Professor Ward Churchill
Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of
Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law
by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own.
Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier
last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an
Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150
copies.
But one of the buyers, Duke Prentup, told Denver's CBS affiliate KCNC-TV
of a stunning discovery he made last month while flipping through a book
of illustrations by the late artist Thomas E. Mails.
The work signed by Churchill virtually is a mirror image of Mails' 1972
pen and ink sketch, "The Mystic Warriors of the Plains."
KCNC reporter Raj Chohan took a cameraman to Churchill's office Thursday
to confront him with the revelation and received an angry response.
Artwork signed by Ward Churchill (KCNC-TV, Denver)
"Get that camera out of my face," Churchill said.
Chohan followed the professor down the hallway to his office, trying to
show him Mails' piece and asking to explain why it "looks like you
ripped it off."
Original artwork by Thomas Mails(KCNC-TV, Denver)
That prompted Churchill to take a swing at Chohan.
The reporter said: "Sir, that's assault, you can't do that. Can I ask
you about this? It looks like you copied it."
Churchill: "I was just grabbed by the arm. And that [camera] gets out of
my face."
Chohan: "Sir, we're allowed to take these pictures, this is a public space."
Churchill: "You're not allowed to grab me by the arm."
Chohan: "He didn't touch you sir, we've got it all on tape. Sir, this is
called Winter Attack. It's a serigraph by you. It looks like it was
copied from Thomas Mails artwork. Can we talk to you about that please?"
Churchill came out of his office several minutes later and agreed to
talk, acknowledging his artwork is based on the Mails piece.
He insisted, however, he disclosed that during its initial release.
"It is an original art work by me, after Thomas Mails," Churchill said.
"The fact that the purchaser was ignorant of the reality of what was
perfectly publicly stated at the time the edition was printed is not my
responsibility."
However, no credit was given to Mails on the artwork, and Churchill
refused to provide documentation to back his claims.
Intellectual property attorney Jim Hubbell told the Denver station such
documentation, if it exists, still would not protect Churchill from
copyright infringement unless he had consent from Mails.
The son of the late Thomas Mails told KCNC the family retains the copyright.
"My father invested a great deal of himself in his work, and from that
he developed a great fierceness in defending his work," Ryan Mails said.
"I cannot imagine he would ever grant permission to anyone to copy one
of his pieces."
Controversy erupted around Churchill last month, when one of his essays
made it into the national spotlight.
Written shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, it describes the thousands
of American victims who died in the World Trade Center inferno as
"little Eichmanns" – a reference to notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf
Eichmann – who were perpetuating America's "mighty engine of profit."
They were destroyed, he added, thanks to the "gallant sacrifices" of
"combat teams" that successfully targeted the World Trade Center towers
and the Pentagon.
Churchill resigned his position as head of the Colorado University
ethnic studies program but kept his $96,000 per year teaching post. He
steadfastly has refused to apologize for his comments.
He's also come under fire for claiming an American Indian heritage,
training terrorists, and meeting with Libya's Moammar Gadhafi in the
1980s when the U.S. had banned travel there.
In addition, he's accused of writing essays with passages "almost
identical" to those of other authors.
The University of Colorado Regents is probing whether Churchill has
violated tenure and expects to announce a decision in March.