Truth, too, buried at Wounded Knee

"...University of Colorado's embattled professor, Ward Churchill, exemplifies a career built on fraudulent research. Take his book, The COINTELPRO Papers (South End Press, 2001), a collection of outrageous assertions based on guesswork. University administrators who granted Churchill tenure may be surprised to learn that each mention of my name is in reference to complete fabrications."--Joseph H. Trimbach, former FBI Special Agent in Charge

One of the great letters that the Rocky Mountain News (4-17-06) published about the Ward Churchill scandal was written by the former FBI Special Agent in Charge, Joseph H. Trimbach, the author of American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story About Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM). Mr. Trimbach also has posted this article on his site (Scroll down).

Truth, too, buried at Wounded Knee

By Joseph H. Trimbach April 17, 2006

Recently, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that the war on terror was not faring well in the realm of public opinion. Speaking to the Council of Foreign Relations, Rumsfeld warned that terrorist networks were winning the propaganda war by using global communications. If the secretary was alluding to the way extreme media, unopposed by moderates, recently stirred up a murderous rampage over Danish cartoons, then perhaps he was on to something.

To paraphrase and mix a couple of well-known aphorisms, the pen is mightiest against the sword when good men do nothing. Silence is all that is required for the triumph of evil.

I have some experience dealing with media manipulation. In the 1970s, my employer, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, frequently employed a "no comment" policy when confronting propagandists. The unfortunate result was that many falsehoods concerning the FBI went unchallenged. Today, they survive in various publications where truth usually takes a back seat to ideology.

Nowhere do the myths die harder than with radical elements of the American Indian Movement. At its core, AIM was as violent a group of extremists as you'll find in recent history, though you'd never know it from reading the history books. AIM's legacy lives on as the story of beleaguered Indians who merely sought to improve indigenous lives. While there's historical room for altruism among its unassuming members, the sad reality of AIM's true heritage is one of destruction.

In 1973, AIM leaders Russell Means and Dennis Banks led a nighttime raid on the historic village of Wounded Knee in South Dakota. The invasion began with gunfire and looting and left the village in shambles 10 weeks later, having caused two deaths. Most historical accounts characterize the takeover as a "liberation" or as a "symbolic" protest meant to focus attention on the plight of reservation dwellers.

The latest rendition in the rewriting of Wounded Knee history is A Tattoo on My Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973. Regrettably, the Public Broadcasting System has opted to feature this low-budget documentary, thus bestowing legitimacy upon another shameless attempt to cast invading militants as heroes. What is not explained is how 67 families benefited from the systematic destruction of their homes.

In the world of academia, truth is likewise rendered homeless where AIM is concerned. For example, University of Colorado's embattled professor, Ward Churchill, exemplifies a career built on fraudulent research. Take his book, The COINTELPRO Papers (South End Press, 2001), a collection of outrageous assertions based on guesswork. University administrators who granted Churchill tenure may be surprised to learn that each mention of my name is in reference to complete fabrications.

In one of the more zany episodes, I assume the identity of an infiltrating postal inspector during the Wounded Knee crisis. In another, I am given responsibility for the death of a village occupier, at a time when I was hundreds of miles away. What I did do, as the chief FBI official on the scene, was to order the erection of manned roadblocks to cordon off the violence. Would-be historians have since contended that armed militants who opened fire on these roadblocks were not trying to harm anyone. The assertion is both inaccurate and absurd.

One of AIM's greatest heroes from that period of violence was convicted killer Leonard Peltier. Peltier participated in the shooting death of two FBI agents, one of whom sat pleading for his life while his partner lay unconscious, bleeding to death. Today, thanks to unscrupulous authors, Peltier has been transformed into a harmless, warm-and-fuzzy prisoner of conscience. Peltier still maintains his innocence, Tookey Williams-style, despite court testimony that has him bragging about the dastardly deed.

Students of history should take heart in knowing that truth eventually wins out. Rumsfeld apparently agrees. He ended his speech with the hopeful prediction that, despite our enemy's skill at manipulating media, the United States has an advantage in its standard of truth. "I believe . . . that free people, exposed to sufficient information, will, over time, find their way to right decisions."

Let's hope this includes exposing the false legacies of AIM.

Joseph H. Trimbach, the FBI special agent in charge at its Minneapolis division from 1973-1975, is writing a book due out next year about his experiences with the American Indian Movement.

John Trimbach and Richard Two Elk Criticize Wounded Knee Episode of Documentary Series on Native American History "We Shall Remain"

"The Wounded Knee segment of [the PBS series] 'We Shall Remain' is arguably the most massaged documentary in history, and far from being one of the best ever made. I know this because I was there, at Wounded Knee. At the age of 19, I backpacked weapons and supplies into the village with my AIM brothers. I remember it was near Easter, because that's when our leader, Dennis Banks, ordered us to 'take care' of a young white guy, suspected of being an informant. We knew what that meant. We strung him up on a cross in a mock crucifixion, and beat him. After we took him down, they led him away and I don't think he was ever heard from again. This story is one of too many dirty little secrets that producer Stanley Nelson certainly was told about, but decided not to use in this sugar-coated tribute to AIM thugs. I am sorry to say I once followed AIM leadership. But now I spend a lot of time exposing them."--Wounded Knee Veteran Richard Two Elk

American Indian Mafia, by Joe and John Trimbach, tells the true story about how the criminal leadership of the American Indian Movement (AIM) victimized Indian people. [See Trimbachs' press releases.] Richard Two Elk wrote the book's foreward.

On April 23, 2009, John Trimbach and Richard Two Elk issued a press release which criticized Part 5 of the documentary "We Shall Remain" for promoting a falsified account of AIM's destructive and deadly 1973 attack on the Indian village of Wounded Knee. Ironically, part 5 is titled "We Shall Remain," even though nothing remains of the village of Wounded Knee, thanks to AIM gangsters. Part 5 airs on May 11, 2009. PBS is using government funds to spread the lies of criminals who rob, murder and terrorize Indians.

News Alert: THEPHOENIX.COM Censors Debate on PBS’s “We Shall Remain” Native American History Series

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April 23, 2009 - In a recent on-line review, thephoenix.com author Clif Garboden opined about the much heralded five-part series on Native American history entitled "We Shall Remain" now appearing on PBS affiliates. The series was produced by Firelight Media, headquartered in Berkeley, California. (See http://thephoenix.com/Boston/RecRoom/79614-Lost-tribes-found.) Garboden led with the caption: "NO BULL: The 'Wounded Knee' episode of We Shall Remain ranks among the best television documentaries ever made."

Garboden concluded by stating that "…true glory lies in the honest history of people, not the manipulated histories of governments." Wounded Knee veteran Richard Two Elk and American Indian Mafia author John Trimbach challenged Garboden's assessment of the series with commentary, after which the web site's administers shut down all discussion on the matter. Why would thephoenix.com, which prides itself on incisive reporting and spirited debate, cut off all comments on this topic? What was it about Two Elk's and Trimbach's response that led on-line editors to censor their remarks and all others? For possible answers, read what the challengers wrote:

Plenty Of Bull - Richard Two Elk and John Trimbach Sound Off on Episode V, Wounded Knee

The Wounded Knee segment of "We Shall Remain" is arguably the most massaged documentary in history, and far from being one of the best ever made. I know this because I was there, at Wounded Knee. At the age of 19, I backpacked weapons and supplies into the village with my AIM brothers. I remember it was near Easter, because that's when our leader, Dennis Banks, ordered us to "take care" of a young white guy, suspected of being an informant. We knew what that meant. We strung him up on a cross in a mock crucifixion, and beat him. After we took him down, they led him away and I don't think he was ever heard from again. This story is one of too many dirty little secrets that producer Stanley Nelson certainly was told about, but decided not to use in this sugar-coated tribute to AIM thugs. I am sorry to say I once followed AIM leadership. But now I spend a lot of time exposing them. Other stories you will not hear in this very one-sided production:

1. How AIM leaders and followers pillaged the town, looted the museum, stole family heirlooms, fire-bombed homes, set trip wire explosives in the ravines, slaughtered cattle in bedrooms, and drove the town's few automobiles dry before setting them on fire. Most of the victims were of course Indians. Victoria Little Moon came home to find her plumbing ripped out, her fixtures smashed, and her furniture destroyed. Elmer Too Too found his trailer looted and wrecked beyond repair. Agnes Gildersleeve, owner of the trading post that was burned to the ground, lost her life savings. Agnes, by the way, was enrolled in the same tribe as Dennis Banks.

2. How Raymond Robinson, the only black man seen inside the village during the occupation, was shot during an argument by AIM leaders (a shooting I witnessed) and then carted off to our infirmary where he disappeared. He's probably still there, near the village ruins, along with other secret murder victims.

3. How, in early March, AIM leaders donned war paint, loaded their rifles, and fanned out from the village in stolen cars. They converged on Roadblock no. 3, where they opened fire on a small group of FBI agents and U.S. Marshalls. Had it not been for a five-car team of lawmen who responded to distress calls, the brave warriors of AIM might have succeeded in gunning down the FBI's first female agent.

I could tell you a lot more stories about what really happened at Wounded Knee, stories you won't hear about in this latest excuse for terror and violence. What you will see in Stanley Nelson's version is predictable and redundant, especially considering his use of the same old lies and distortions from AIM leaders who love to talk about themselves on camera, but have a lot to hide in person. I'm not saying don't watch this film. Watch the perpetrators implicate themselves, but take the time to educate yourself on the whole story. Read American Indian Mafia, a book I strongly endorse. The producers of Episode V do not want you to read it, which is exactly why you should. Yes, true glory lies within honest history. But when the truth is buried at Wounded Knee, those who help keep it buried dishonor true Native tradition and history.

Richard Two Elk twoelkenterprise.com

Like a recurring nightmare, the real victims of Wounded Knee have been swept aside and the real story of what happened has once again been papered over, in this case to protect AIM criminals and preserve the "theme" of Firelight Media's version of history and politics. Too bad. Part V could have concluded an otherwise useful study in American Indian heritage, and brought us to a crossroads of understanding mutually beneficial to both Indians and non-Indians. Instead, we are fed the same old line of bull, in what has become a stinking corpse of destruction and murder cover-up. How telling is it that, even after the producers were made aware of Wounded Knee's ugly secrets, they chose to ignore them. I guess the truth didn't fit the script. In fact, the producers engaged in some cover-up of their own. Rather than acknowledge the dark underbelly of behind-the-barriers violence and murder in the village, they took the unprecedented step of omitting American Indian Mafia from their web site's bibliography. Could it be because Mafia exposes the sham history books featured in the same list, books such as the highly falsified, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse?

Shame on Stanley Nelson for reneging on his agreement to interview Two Elk for this film and for promoting false history at the expense of Native Americans everywhere. Episode V makes it more difficult for Cheryl Robinson to seek justice for her husband, Raymond, a civil rights activist under Martin Luther King. Furthermore, this final installment of "We Shall Remain" makes a mockery of genuine Indian sacrifice and heroism. It cheapens the true history revealed in previous episodes, as if their purpose was merely to set up a long line of false premises in the final hour. Firelight Media and PBS should be held accountable for the damage they have done to the true legacy of Wounded Knee and for the justice denied the true victims. Americans of all colors deserve better from our publicly funded media outlets.

John Trimbach americanindianmafia.com

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Mexico City Is the Epicenter of a New Strain of Swine Flu

"Avian flu, which has killed 250 people since 2003 and sparked the last pandemic threat, is caused by influenza viruses adapted to infect birds. Swine flu is caused by viruses adapted to pigs. Big problems arise when human and animal flu viruses mix and mutate into new organisms that can spread through the population. [Search Google News for swine flu.]

The fact that most of the Mexican dead were aged between 25 and 45 rather than being elderly or very young is seen as a particularly worrying sign. The first victims of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 were also healthy young adults.[See Wikipedia on the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic.]

The symptoms of swine flu in people include fever, fatigue, lack of appetite, coughing and sore throat.

Michael Osterholm [search Google News], a pandemic flu expert at the University of Minnesota, said new cases were probably already incubating around the world.

Tamiflu, an antiviral drug used against bird flu, is said to be effective against the new strain."--The Times (4-26-09)

A new strain of swine flu--influenza strain A subtype H1N1--has appeared in Mexico City. Over 22 million people live in the greater metropolitan area of Mexico City. It is the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere and the second largest metropolitan area in the world. The Mexico City flu is reportedly a new combination of two strains of swine flu, a strain of human flu, and a strain of bird flu. These four strains of influenza viruses seem to have recombined in pigs to create a new virus.

In its entry on swine flu, Wikipedia comments:

Pigs can harbor influenza viruses adapted to humans and others that are adapted to birds, allowing the viruses to exchange genes and create a pandemic strain.

Pigs can transmit many diseases to humans and may even have been responsible for an epidemic that destroyed Indian civilizations in North America. Indian people did not live in close contact with farm animals and had no immunity to diseases that Old World people contracted from animals.

In his March 2002 Atlantic Monthly article "1491," Charles C. Mann writes [mirrored here]:

[T]he worst thing the Spaniards did, some researchers say, was entirely without malice—bring the pigs.

According to Charles Hudson, an anthropologist at the University of Georgia who spent fifteen years reconstructing the path of the expedition, Soto crossed the Mississippi a few miles downstream from the present site of Memphis. It was a nervous passage: the Spaniards were watched by several thousand Indian warriors. Utterly without fear, Soto brushed past the Indian force into what is now eastern Arkansas, through thickly settled land—"very well peopled with large towns," one of his men later recalled, "two or three of which were to be seen from one town." Eventually the Spaniards approached a cluster of small cities, each protected by earthen walls, sizeable moats, and deadeye archers. In his usual fashion, Soto brazenly marched in, stole food, and marched out.

After Soto left, no Europeans visited this part of the Mississippi Valley for more than a century. Early in 1682 whites appeared again, this time Frenchmen in canoes. One of them was Réné-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle. The French passed through the area where Soto had found cities cheek by jowl. It was deserted—La Salle didn't see an Indian village for 200 miles. About fifty settlements existed in this strip of the Mississippi when Soto showed up, according to Anne Ramenofsky, an anthropologist at the University of New Mexico. By La Salle's time the number had shrunk to perhaps ten, some probably inhabited by recent immigrants. Soto "had a privileged glimpse" of an Indian world, Hudson says. "The window opened and slammed shut. When the French came in and the record opened up again, it was a transformed reality. A civilization crumbled. The question is, how did this happen?"

The question is even more complex than it may seem. Disaster of this magnitude suggests epidemic disease. In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of the contagion was very likely not Soto's army but its ambulatory meat locker: his 300 pigs. Soto's force itself was too small to be an effective biological weapon. Sicknesses like measles and smallpox would have burned through his 600 soldiers long before they reached the Mississippi. But the same would not have held true for the pigs, which multiplied rapidly and were able to transmit their diseases to wildlife in the surrounding forest. When human beings and domesticated animals live close together, they trade microbes with abandon. Over time mutation spawns new diseases: avian influenza becomes human influenza, bovine rinderpest becomes measles. Unlike Europeans, Indians did not live in close quarters with animals—they domesticated only the dog, the llama, the alpaca, the guinea pig, and, here and there, the turkey and the Muscovy duck. In some ways this is not surprising: the New World had fewer animal candidates for taming than the Old. Moreover, few Indians carry the gene that permits adults to digest lactose, a form of sugar abundant in milk. Non-milk-drinkers, one imagines, would be less likely to work at domesticating milk-giving animals. But this is guesswork. The fact is that what scientists call zoonotic disease was little known in the Americas. Swine alone can disseminate anthrax, brucellosis, leptospirosis, taeniasis, trichinosis, and tuberculosis. Pigs breed exuberantly and can transmit diseases to deer and turkeys. Only a few of Soto's pigs would have had to wander off to infect the forest.

[See Charles Mann's excellent March 2002 Atlantic Monthly article "1491" and read his book, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.]

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) site has updates about this new strain of swine flu. Here is the CDC's Human Swine Flu Investigation site. Here is the Word Health Organization (WHO) site with updates about the swine influenza.

The CDC has a film that shows you how to wash your hands properly. Clean hands save lives! Perhaps 80% of infections are transmitted by our hands.

Cheney Warns That Terrorists May Attempt a Catastrophic Nuclear or Biological Attack

Cheney said “the ultimate threat to the country” is “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter – a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” that is deployed in the middle of an American city.

“That’s the one that would involve the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and the one you have to spend a hell of a lot of time guarding against,” he said.

“I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.”--Vice President Cheney

In February, Politico (2-4/5-09) published an interview with Dick Cheney who defended the CIA interrogation techniques:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.

Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”

... Cheney called Guantanamo a “first-class program,” and “a necessary facility” that is operated legally and with better food and treatment than the jails in inmates' native countries. [Full text]

Easter Thoughts 2009: Ward Churchill's Courtroom Blood Libel

[If you make a] "practice of killing other peoples' babies for your own personal gain... eventually, they are going to give you a taste of the same thing."--Ward Churchill in Federal Court (3-23-09)

Good Friday is almost upon us. On this day Christians remember how the totally innocent Jesus was slowly strangled to death by crucifixion while lawyers and teachers mocked and denigrated Him. Jesus' friends and relatives were downcast, and his enemies celebrated their victory; but not for long.

In his 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back" and probably in the quote above, the discredited ex-professor Ward Churchill accuses America of slowly starving Iraqi babies even though the Oil-for-Food investigation showed that the evil dictator Saddam Hussein corrupted the Oil-for Food program and smuggled oil outside the Oil-for-Food Program to enrich himself instead of buying enough food and other humanitarian goods with his oil wealth. Finally, the killer Saddam was hanged. [Full Oil-for-Food Report]

Of course, Ward Churchill doesn't really care about the suffering of innocent children. The discredited ex-Professor Ward Churchill complains in his 2003 book Perversions of Justice (p. 402):

There are currently no fewer than 24 books in print concerning the JonBenet Ramsey case.

It seems that Ward Churchill counted the number of JonBenet Ramsey books.

Ward Churchill also "jokes" in three of his "scholarly" books that children should be "snuffed" to "do the planet a real favor" since they use too many natural resources, so it's no surprise that Ward Churchill considers JonBenet books to be a waste of resources, too.

Never-the-less, Ward Churchill's books were stacked up in Federal Court in Denver to impress a jury in his March 2009 lawsuit against the University of Colorado. I think even one of Ward Churchill's books is a total waste of resources because his books are all filled with lies that spread racial hatred. I think Ward Churchill has probably wasted millions of tax dollars trying to protect himself from the consequences of his disgraceful historical lies.

Professor Thomas Brown writes in History News Network (4-6-09) that ex-professor Ward Churchill's canard about the U.S. Army deliberately giving the Mandan Indians infected smallpox blankets has been exposed (Hat Tip PirateBallerina, 4-6-09):

None of Churchill’s sources corroborate his story, and no historian who has studied this episode has ever even mentioned an Army presence within eight hundred miles of Fort Clark – which was a fur trading depot, not a military installation.

-Churchill has since abandoned all of the fabricated aspects of his story, while simultaneously claming that he did not fabricate it, because he still feels in his gut that the story is correct.

-Churchill now says that when he indicted “Army officers” for passing out smallpox blankets to the Mandans, he meant to refer to the local Indian agent instead.

-Churchill now admits that he has no evidence that any blankets came from an Army smallpox infirmary in St. Louis. His new story is that genocidal blankets were brought from Baltimore by a disgruntled fur trader.

-Churchill now says that when he indicted “Army doctors” at Fort Clark for violating quarantine in order to deliberately infect more Indians, he meant to refer to fur traders doing so.

-Churchill now holds that when he said that the Mandan tribe had been deliberately infected, he used the word “Mandan” not to refer to the actual Mandan tribe, but instead to refer to all Indian tribes in the Northern Plains, extending across the border into Canada.

In other words, Churchill no longer defends his original indictment of the Army, given that there is absolutely no evidence of Army presence anywhere in the vicinity for hundreds of miles. But he still refuses to concede that his tale of Army genocide is fabricated. Churchill holds that because he had heard stories about the Army giving smallpox blankets to Indians, he is justified in holding the Army accountable for this specific outbreak, and justified in inventing details of blanket distribution by the Army – details that he now admits he cannot substantiate. Churchill’s story still feels right to him, even though he has no evidence whatsoever of Army presence, much less Army involvement. [Full text]

Forced to abandon his smallpox canard, Ward Churchill moved right on to blood libel.

The Daily Camera (3-23-09) reports that on March 23, 2009, the Boulder, Colorado ex-professor stated:

[If you make a] "practice of killing other peoples' babies for your own personal gain... eventually, they are going to give you a taste of the same thing."

I certainly agree that people who kill other people's babies to make a profit should be punished, but Ward Churchill doesn't love the little children of the world. Remember, he "jokes" in three "scholarly" books that mothers should "snuff" their babies and kill themselves to "do the planet a real favor" because our babies use too many natural resources.

No doubt those three "scholarly" books were in the huge pile of books stacked up in court to impress the jury. It's too bad that this jury didn't get to read the Wardo's "jokes." It's too bad the jury didn't get to read how the Wardo constantly fantasizes about hanging politicians he doesn't like. It's too bad the jury didn't read how the Wardo lies and threatens in his 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back."

In his book Perversions of Justice (2003), Ward Churchill writes about JonBenet Ramsey in the same paragraph as he writes that former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright should be tried in the shadow of a gallows because she is supposedly responsible for starving 500,000 Iraqi children to death.

In "Some People Push Back," Churchill mocks American families and their children as materialists who don't care about the humanitarian suffering in Iraq. Churchill also targets Albright as a baby-killer in his dishonest and error-filled essay 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back." Churchill attacks Madeleine Albright for being a "baby-killer" in his 9-11 essay because of the trade sanctions imposed on Iraq.

Churchill never mentions in his 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back" that these trade sanctions were imposed after Saddam invaded Kuwait. The sanctions were imposed to keep Saddam from being able to attack his neighbor Kuwait again, killing their people, and setting fire to their oil fields. Churchill never mentions that by 1996 Saddam could by oil for food.

[It is notable that Osama Bin Laden's propagandistic February 23, 1998 fatwa, "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders," also criticizes the trade sanctions on Iraq while failing to mention the reason for the sanctions (the invasion of Kuwait) or the fact that by 1996 Saddam was permitted to sell oil to buy food, had he chosen to do so.]

NBC News (1-6-2006) explains:

The oil-for-food program ran from 1996 to 2003. It was created to help Iraqis cope with U.N. sanctions imposed after Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It let the Iraqi government sell limited — and eventually unlimited — amounts of oil primarily to buy humanitarian goods.

I think Ward Churchill writes pro-Saddam propaganda about the reasons people were hungry in Iraq under the sanctions. Perhaps it is no accident that the source of Ward Churchill's apocryphal New York Times "quote" for charges of genocide in Iraq is allegedly none other than U.N. Assistant Secretary General Denis Halliday who worked on the U.N. Oil for Food Program.

The Wall Street Journal (9-9-05) reports that when Paul Volcker found out that this program had been corrupted by Saddam and the U.N., Halliday stated:

The [oil for food] scandal, quote, unquote, is, in my view, nonsense.---Denis Halliday, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, November 2004

Yet according to Wikipedia:

Throughout its existence, the [Oil for Food] programme was dogged by accusations that some of its profits were unlawfully diverted to the government of Iraq and to UN officials. These accusations were made in many countries, including the US and Norway [3].

The Volcker investigation proved that Saddam evaded the trade sanctions that would have allowed him to buy food for oil so his people could be fed. Instead, Saddam paid-off U.N. officials, businessmen, and politicians who helped him get rich and buy what he wanted to buy, and it wasn't food.

According to Volcker (10-27-05), Saddam Hussein's manipulation of the Oil-for-Food Program diverted almost two billion dollars from the humanitarian purposes of the program. More than 2000 companies were involved in the illicit payments. Saddam made even more money smuggling oil outside the sanctions. According to Volcker, Saddam made an estimated 11 billion dollars by smuggling oil outside of the Oil-for-Food Program.

Certainly Ward Churchill knows that Saddam doles out money to his foreign supporters because the Denver/Boulder chapter of the Colorado American "Indian" Movement post on its own site:

Through the IITC [International Indian Treaty Council, an arm of the AIM], cordial diplomatic relations were developed by 1979 with the Baath Socialist Party of Iraq. Through this relationship, substantial contributions were made to AIM...

I think that Ward Churchill's error-filled 9-11 essay is nothing but deceptive pro-Saddam propaganda. Ironically, Saddam, who made his people go hungry was hanged; but look who the Wardo dreams of hanging:

[R]everies of malignant toads like Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Jesse Helms squatting in the shadows of the gallows are simply too pleasant to be suppressed. [2003 Introduction to Churchill's book Acts of Rebellion, xiii]

I have these delightful visions which is what puts me to sleep at night of Madeleine Albright, Jesse Helms, and Henry Kissinger all in a nice neat little row with nooses around their necks and...And the current crop is amply entitled to the same destiny as far as I'm concerned. Do I think anybody's going to do it? Well, that's an interesting question. Who would be doing it? There's only one possible answer: you. We. Us... [audio]---Ward Churchill 3-25-05

Were the opportunity acted upon in some reasonably good faith fashion – a sufficiently large number of Americans rising up and doing whatever is necessary to force an immediate lifting of the sanctions on Iraq, for instance, or maybe hanging a few of America's abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline [sic]Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) – there is every reason to expect that military operations against the US on its domestic front would be immediately suspended. [Ward Churchill, "Some People Push Back."]

Ward Churchill "Quotes" Denis Halliday (But the Wardo Can't Spell Halliday!)

"[T]he oil-for-food program... ultimately proved to be a cash cow masquerading as a humanitarian aid program."---Mark J. Mershon, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York office (NBC News 1-6-06)

"The [oil for food] scandal, quote, unquote, is, in my view, nonsense."---Denis Halliday, former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, November 2004

Who is Denis Halliday?

Denis Halliday is a former U.N. Assistant Secretary General who worked on the U.N. Oil-for Food Program.

Halliday was very briefly (September 1997-September 1998) the U.N.'s Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq and was involved with what turned out to be the corrupt Oil-for-Food Program.

NBC News (1-6-2006) explains:

The oil-for-food program ran from 1996 to 2003. It was created to help Iraqis cope with U.N. sanctions imposed after Saddam Hussein’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It let the Iraqi government sell limited — and eventually unlimited — amounts of oil primarily to buy humanitarian goods.

I have some details about the program here.

When it came to light that Saddam was paying-off U.N. officials, government officials, and businessmen to evade the sanctions, The Wall Street Journal (9-9-05) reported that Denis Halliday mocked the Volcker investigation:

"The scandal, quote, unquote, is, in my view, nonsense." Thus did Denis Halliday, a former United Nations Assistant Secretary General, opine in November 2004 on the U.N.'s Oil for Food program. With the release Wednesday of Paul Volcker's fourth report on Oil for Food, we have the clearest account yet of what this quote-unquote scandal is really about.

In his 9-11 essay, the propagandist Ward Churchill cites the Denis Halliday as a reliable source and claims:

[F]ormer U.N. Assistant Secretary General Denis Halladay [sic--Halliday], repeatedly denounced what was happening [under the U.N. sanctions imposed on Iraq after Saddam's army invaded Kuwait, killed their people, and set their oil fields afire] as "a systematic program...of deliberate genocide." His statements appeared in the New York Times and other papers during the fall of 1998 [no cite], so it can hardly be contended that the American public was "unaware" of them. Shortly thereafter, Secretary of State Madeline [sic--U.N. Ambassador/Madeleine] Albright openly confirmed Halladay's [sic] assessment. Asked during the widely-viewed TV program Meet the Press [sic--60 Minutes, May 12, 1996] to respond to his "allegations," she calmly announced that she'd decided it was "worth the price" to see that U.S. objectives were achieved. [My comments and emphasis in red.]

In fact, as I have noted in my analysis of Churchill's dishonest 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back," Albright was responding clumsily to a loaded question Lesley Stahl asked on 60 Minutes (May 12, 1996). She wasn't confirming Halliday's alleged claim of genocide in the NYT in fall of 1998.

I have not been able to find Denis Halliday saying that what was happening in Iraq was "a systematic program...of deliberate genocide." Ward Churchill puts quotes around this and claims this is a quote from the New York Times in the fall of 1998.

He's Baaack!

"I have these delightful visions which is what puts me to sleep at night of Madeleine Albright, Jesse Helms, and Henry Kissinger all in a nice neat little row with nooses around their necks."---[audio]---Ward Churchill 3-25-05

"Tell 'em you'll put the butt out when they snuff the kid and not a moment before. Better yet, tell 'em they should snuff themselves, as well as the kid, and do the planet a real favor. Just 'kidding' (heh-heh)."--Ward Churchill "joking" in three books

The Boulder propagandist Ward Churchill won a victory in federal court on 4-2-09 and says he wants his teaching job back.

Churchill is always writing about who should be hanged, snuffed, fragged, incinerated, dismembered, and shot. He even "jokes" in three of his "scholarly" books that mothers should "snuff" their babies and kill themselves to "do the planet a real favor." Ward Churchill thinks that mothers and babies use too many natural resources.

Nobody at the University of Colorado thought there was anything particularly strange about that. Nobody thought it was strange that he published an anti-FBI article in a KGB mouthpiece. Churchill claimed in the KGB-sponsored "Covert Action Information Bulletin" that the FBI sponsored death-squads that killed 342 Indian on Pine Ridge Indian reservation during the 1970s.

Ward Churchill especially hates former U.N. Ambassador and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In his essay "Some People Push Back," Churchill falsifies the historical record in order to blame Albright instead of Saddam and his corrupt business partners in the U.N. Oil-for-Food Program for the suffering of Iraqi children. The Wardo never even mentions that the U.N. put sanctions on Iraq so they would not invade and annex Kuwait again.

Churchill pens incredibly rich, detailed, elaborate, and violent fantasies which climax in the act of murder. Here is Ward Churchill, telling us his fantasies:

"[R]everies of malignant toads like Henry Kissinger, Madeleine Albright and Jesse Helms squatting in the shadows of the gallows are simply too pleasant to be suppressed." [2003 Introduction to Churchill's book Acts of Rebellion; cited by Bruce Fein, "Professorship not a License" 2-15-05]

"I have these delightful visions which is what puts me to sleep at night of Madeleine Albright, Jesse Helms, and Henry Kissinger all in a nice neat little row with nooses around their necks and [audience applause]... And the current crop is amply entitled to the same destiny as far as I'm concerned. Do I think anybody's going to do it? Well, that's an interesting question. Who would be doing it? There's only one possible answer: you. We. Us."..." [audio]---Ward Churchill 3-25-05

"Were the opportunity acted upon in some reasonably good faith fashion – a sufficiently large number of Americans rising up and doing whatever is necessary to force an immediate lifting of the sanctions on Iraq, for instance, or maybe hanging a few of America's abundant supply of major war criminals (Henry Kissinger comes quickly to mind, as do Madeline [sic, Madeleine] Albright, Colin Powell, Bill Clinton and George the Elder) – there is every reason to expect that military operations against the US on its domestic front would be immediately suspended." [Ward Churchill, "Some People Push Back."]

"There are currently no fewer than 24 books in print concerning the Jonbenet Ramsey case."--Discredited ex-Professor and American Indian Movement (AIM) Activist Ward Churchill (Perversions of Justice, p. 402).

Ironically, Ward Churchill piled all his books up in federal court so he could impress the jury. I think even one of Ward Churchill's books is a total waste of natural resources because each book is full of lies. The Wardo even writes about the garrotted JonBenet Ramsey in the same paragraph as he writes that the object of his hatred, Madeleine Albright, deserves to be tried as a baby-killer and hanged.

"Every wide-eyed little waif starving to death in Iraq and the reservations of Native North America is of a value identical to that with which a Jonbenet Ramsey or Danielle van Dam is currently imbued. From this realization, had it occurred, one could hope that certain conclusions might accrue, conclusions resulting not just in an American "regime change," but in an alteration of public sensibility that left the likes of Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright sitting where by rights they belong: in a defendants' dock overshadowed by the gallows.

At the very least, it was reasonable to expect that it might at last dawn on average folk that, to quote Georgia State University law professor Natsu Saito, 'if Americans want their own kids to be safe again, the way to make it happen is really not very complicated---stop killing other people's babies.'" (Perversions of Justice, p. 370; Note: Natsu Saito is Churchill's current wife.)

Ward Churchill Complains That There Are Too Many Books About JonBenet Ramsey!

"There are currently no fewer than 24 books in print concerning the Jonbenet Ramsey case."--Discredited ex-Professor and American Indian Movement (AIM) Activist Ward Churchill (Perversions of Justice, p. 402).

He counted them.

Yet Ward Churchill displayed a huge stack of his worthless books to impress the jury in his lawsuit against the University of Colorado. I think that even one of Ward Churchill's books is a total waste of resources because it is nothing but a pack of lies.

Ward Churchill expresses compassion for starving Iraqi children in his 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back," but he "jokes" in three of those so-called "scholarly" books displayed in the courtroom that American mothers should "snuff" their babies and kill themselves to "do the planet a real favor." According to Ward Churchill, mothers and babies use too many natural resources.

Ward Churchill writes in Perversions of Justice about the garrotted Jonbenet Ramsey in the same paragraph as he writes that the special object of his hatred, the "babykiller" Madeleine Albright, should be in a defendants' dock overshadowed by the gallows.

Ward Churchill cries crockodile tears for suffering Iraqi children, but the Wardo does not love the little children of the world. Did he ever object when Saddam gassed the Kurds or invaded Kuwait? Did he ever "speak truth to power" when Saddam evaded the oil-for-food requirements so that he could buy what he wanted instead of food? Give me a break!

Ward Churchill is the one who wastes resources. Millions of taxpayers' dollars are being spent to clean up his toxic spills that pollute the stream of our American History. That's more money than I spent to raise my babies. That's more than was spent on the wealthy JonBenet Ramsey. That's certainly more than is spent on an impoverished Iraqi child or an American Indian child on a reservation.

CU maintained that Ward Churchill's terroristic 9-11 essay "Some People Push Back" is protected free speech, so this essay was not studied as evidence of research misconduct. In that protected speech, the tenured politician Ward Churchill called for Americans to "rise up" and lynch politicians such as Madeleine Albright. This essay is no different than Ward Churchill's so-called "scholarship." "Some People Push Back" is like all of Churchill's work; it is full of errors, distortions, falsehoods, omissions, and vicious calls for violence.

The CU scholars did not even study the anti-FBI screed Churchill published in a KGB mouthpiece called "The Covert Action Information Bulletin." Ward Churchill claimed that the FBI backed death-squads that murdered 342 Indians on Pine Ridge. Why didn't CU study that? Maybe CU should worry a little less about FOX News and a little more about the KGB peer-reviewing their "scholars."

Ward Churchill is not a scholar. He is a white man who pretends to be an Indian so that he can speak as an Indian. He denigrates Indians he doesn't like as "Vichy Indians" and "puppets" with "Quisling impulses." For Churchill, the only good Indian is a Ward Indian. Ward Churchill calls some Indians "stooges," but Ward Churchill is a stooge for the KGB and Saddam Hussein.

Ward Churchill's canard about the U.S. Army deliberately distributing blankets infected with smallpox is no different than the KGB canard that the U.S. Army made AIDS to kill black people. His own cited sources do not support his claim, and he keeps changing his story when confronted with his lies.

In "Some People Push Back," the Wardo can't even spell Madeleine Albright or the name of the U.N. oil-for-food official Denis Halliday. Churchill claims that Albright "responded" in 1996 to Halliday's 1998 allegations of "genocide." Ward Churchill claims that Halliday called the sanctions "genocide" in the New York Times in fall, 1998. I can't find that quote in the Times. Besides, Denis Halliday was a high U.N. official in the oil for food program, not a reliable source.

If you study "Some People Push Back," you will see that it is no different than the Wardo's "scholarship." It is full of vicious lies, terroristic threats, and sick "jokes."

I don't know if the young jury will be able to see through Ward Churchill, but I see what he is.

Former FBI Chief Joseph H. Trimbach Presents Overlooked Evidence of Research Fraud Against Professor Ward Churchill

"The Trimbachs claim that much of what [ex-professor Ward Churchill] writes about AIM [American Indian Movement] is intended to insulate his friend [Russell Means] from being implicated in serious crime, such as the 1975 pre-mediated murder of AIM member Anna Mae Aquash. As stated in the Trimbachs’ book [American Indian Mafia], Means was involved in the cover-up, if not the planning and execution of the crime itself. 'Aquash’s death was ordered by AIM leaders because they thought she was one of our informants,' said the former FBI SAC. Churchill has claimed that the FBI was responsible for the murder. Said the younger Trimbach, 'This charge from Churchill shows that not only is he a liar, he is also a party to covering up a murder involving his associate. Why would any University want to have someone like that on their payroll?'"

Today, Ward Churchill's lawsuit against the University of Colorado is expected to go to a Federal jury in Denver. The nutty professor sued CU after he was fired in 2007 for research misconduct. A statement was released today (4-1-09) on behalf of FBI Special Agent Joseph H. Trimbach and his son John.

April Fools' Day is an appropriate occasion to recognize the chain-smoking Wardo for his incredible fraud, deception, and research misconduct. The Trimbachs explain that Churchill's deceptions protect vicious criminals who prey on Indians:

April 1, 2009 – In public appearances near Atlanta, Georgia, Former FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Joseph H. Trimbach presented what he said was clear evidence of research fraud and deception on the part of Ward Churchill, the embattled ex-professor fired from his teaching job at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Churchill has recently testified in a Denver courtroom in a legal suit to get his job back after the University terminated him for what they found to be plagiarism and falsified research.

Trimbach and his son are authors of American Indian Mafia, a book billed as a needed correction to the historical record of the Pine Ridge reservation and the American Indian Movement (AIM). Known as “The History Book They Do Not Want You To Read,” Mafia takes issue with other historical references of the same period, some of which appear to be politically motivated distortions. In their presentations of March 24th and 25th, the Trimbachs displayed photographs to show that Churchill employs deception and dishonesty when writing about AIM leaders of the 1970s. One passage analyzed by the Trimbachs was from Churchill’s book, The Cointelpro Papers. The photograph in question shows a young militant from the 1973 AIM-led occupation of Wounded Knee village. Trimbach pointed out five separate falsehoods in the caption which describes the death of Frank Clearwater, one of two occupier casualties during the 10-week standoff. Along with four false allegations against the FBI, the most obvious mistake was that the young militant pictured was not Frank Clearwater.

“Churchill shows that he really doesn’t care about honest research,” said co-author John Trimbach, “because he has a political agenda that supersedes any genuine interest in educating his students.” Trimbach defended this assertion by showing photographs of dynamite transported by AIM leaders, evidence Churchill claimed didn’t exist. Trimbach explained, “We can draw three conclusions from his dishonesty. First, the deception of suggesting that there was no evidence of dynamite. Second, Churchill’s knowledge of the truth in order to craft the deception.” Trimbach said that Churchill intentionally falsified the location of where the dynamite was found in order to make a false statement sound true. “He uses this tactic when he wants to distract or misinform his readers,” said the younger Trimbach, who did much of the research for Mafia. “And third, Churchill expects his readers to accept his version of history without question or challenge. Unfortunately, many of his colleagues and students have done just that.” Trimbach concluded by saying that the issue is not about academic freedom, but rather academic fraud.

The Trimbachs also said that none of the examples they showed were considered or even known to the investigating committee that fired Churchill. “Had they read our book, they would have had a lot more evidence,” said Joe Trimbach. The most serious allegation against the former professor has to do with his close relationship to AIM leader Russell Means. The Trimbachs claim that much of what the professor writes about AIM is intended to insulate his friend from being implicated in serious crime, such as the 1975 pre-mediated murder of AIM member Anna Mae Aquash. As stated in the Trimbachs’ book, Means was involved in the cover-up, if not the planning and execution of the crime itself. “Aquash’s death was ordered by AIM leaders because they thought she was one of our informants,” said the former FBI SAC. Churchill has claimed that the FBI was responsible for the murder. Said the younger Trimbach, “This charge from Churchill shows that not only is he a liar, he is also a party to covering up a murder involving his associate. Why would any University want to have someone like that on their payroll?”

The Trimbachs reminded attendees that the alleged triggerman, AIM member John Graham, will stand trial for the murder of Aquash on May 12. Also on trial is Russell Means’ former bodyguard, Richard Marshall, accused of providing the gun used to shoot Aquash in the head. Marshall has already served time as the admitted murderer of Martin Mountileaux in 1975. Means was with Marshall when he shot Mountileaux in a bar in Scenic, South Dakota.

Joseph Trimbach presents other evidence against Peltier in his book, American Indian Mafia, An FBI Agent’s True Story About Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (AIM). He may be reached through his public relations service found at ExpertClick.com (keywords: AIM Myth Busters) and his web site, americanindianmafia.com. For a book summary, see outskirtspress.com/americanindianmafia. [See full text and contact information.]