Quote:But then the judge entered judgment nov, so he ultimately lost. Although he may eventually win again on appeal. Or not.
That is what I understood.
Quote:There's free speech and then there's yelling "fire" in a crowded theater. I don't know where the line is exactly, but clearly (to me, and apparently, to the judge too) this Churchill asshole crossed it.
I disagree.
He didn't direct a Muslim mob to kill people.
As for 'big pictures', did YOU loose any sleep over Iraqi children dying as a result of the embargo? I didn't, but I cannot pretend they didn't exist...so much for the Twin Towers.
What is interesting in the Churchill case -much as it is with the Williamson, Hayward and similar cases- is that he wrote the article but polemics erupted several years later (6 in the Joel Hayward case).
Now Churchill (much as Hayward and Williamson ) was a cherished pet of the establishment...but at some point big brother realized that Churchill's books that had been out for DECADES were a plagiarized jumble...Hmm...
I once realized I had inverted the attribution of two quotations in a postgraduate paper. I attributed XYZ to mr. Jones while it was mr. Smith & viceversa. It is clearly a mistake that went unnoticed and I corrected before submission...but if your name happens to be in the Irving zone, that alone warrants the termination of your career...
It's just sordid politics and I have a cogent example...
Esther Delisle is a Canadian student who submitted a controversial Ph.D thesis (published in 1992) basically accusing Lionel Groulx (Quebec nationalist clergyman of the 1930s) of being a crypto Nazi, antisemite etc.
Delisle's work was subsequently found by many to have taken liberties with sources, manipulating quotes etc; I haven't read it so I can't say.
Her case was spotlighted for quite a while...
On the B'NAI BRITH CANADA website one could read:
Quote:He gave three examples of this complacency, two in Canada and one worldwide. The first
Canadian example involves Esther Delisle, a Quebec non-Jewish academic who wrote a
series of books proving the existence of antisemitism as a major element throughout the
history of Quebec. Senator Grafstein told The Tribune that Delisle has, as a result of these
writings, been unable to find a job in Quebec. He berated the Quebec (including Montreal)
Jewish community for failing to publicly champion Esther Delisle.
http://www.bnaibrith.ca/article.php?id=205
Many Jewish celebrities and advocacy groups, including acclaimed writer Mordecai Richler (now deceased), rushed to Delisle's rescue...
but isn't 'sloppy scholarship'...sloppy scholarship in all cases?
Apparently not.
Delisle took self-important Groulx, who had written things in the 1930s that was fashionable to write in the 1930s, and ran away with what she could to the delight and on the service of a political cause...the color of her armband made all the difference between people cast out as bigots who (ab)use academia to serve disreputable causes and proud researchers in shining armor who do us a favor standing up for the truth...