From Raelianews:
Rael to bestow Honorary Priest title to Ward Churchill
Miami, Feb 10, 2005. Rael, leader of the International Raelian Movement (http://www.rael.org) has just given the “Honorary Priest” title to Ward Churchill (University of Colorado professor) for his essay which most of the US is decrying as insensitive or unpatriotic.
Ricky Roehr (leader of the US Raelian Movement) is quoted: “Mr. Churchill is exactly right in what he wrote! If we are to have peace, we must take responsibility for our part in the violence and stop handing out blame as if we have done nothing. Quite the contrary, we have done terrible things to countless people.
Churchill addressed the cause of the 9-11 attacks and people want to shoot the messenger. Fox news and the right wing would have him thrown out of the US for being unpatriotic and insensitive to the innocent people killed in the 9-11 attacks. It is precisely Churchill’s compassion for loss of innocent life that prompted his essay – his words so easily twisted by the right-wing who dare not think anything which conficts with the what the Bush administration is spoon feeding a public blinded by the rhetoric of fear and intolerance. Blind patriotism is precisely what created Nazi Germany by instilling the same “culture of fear” which allows the normally peace loving public to justify attacking countries who never attacked them. The current air in America is eerily like that of pre-Nazi Germany.
…Unless of course, you’re sane, in which case the air is just, y’know—air.
On the plus side, just for having been named Honorary Raelian chief, Professor Churchill will receive “The X-Files” Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, along with a really cool white robe with metallic piping that “won’t wrinkle under even the most intense light-beam directed molecular transport.”
Which, that sounds pretty cool, you have to admit.
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h/t Lars
“The current air in America is eerily like that of pre-Nazi Germany.”
Written by someone who was not alive then.
Meanwhile, all the old Jewish people are saying the opposite: “finally you are taking care of these genocidal maniacs. It only took you 60 years.”
THE SPACE-BASED MIND-CONTROL BEAM IS MY MASTER!
Huh? Did I just type something? Where am I?
Everyone knows that the Raelians are another front for that arch puppet master, Karl Rove. This move is simply another transparent attempt to discredit the good name of Prof. Churchill and advance a sinister far-right wing agenda.
As if Ward would ever be associated with those nuts. Everyone knows Ward’s a member in good standing of the Branch Davidians.
A chill wind is blowing, kids.
… And up above, the aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home.
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits, drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets.
They’re all…
Uptight… Uptight.. Uptight.. Uptight …
(Radiohead)
The Raelians give everybody ‘Honorary’ Priesthoods. Check out Eminem.
He’s a Raelian Priest too. Everytime they give one out some news source reports it.. Cheap publicity..
But didn’t I read somewhere that Churchill claims to have a great uncle many times removed that was the Raelian that created all life on earth ? I think he says that makes him like 1/64th Raelian on his mother’s side… Does the University of Colorado have a Extraterrestrial Ethnic Studies department? If they’re ever to become truly inclusive I’d think it’s pretty much a must have.
-BPP
Can we get clones of other people?
Like .. the Bush twins?
The air IS just like it was in Nazi Germany, and thank your lucky stars for it!!!!!
Because if the air in America were to be radically different, like say the air on Jupiter or Mars, we’d all be gasping like fish on a dock. Except less wet.
Ward Churchill would only become a Raelian if he learned that they were matrilineal like the … uh, indian tribe that he said were matrilinean but weren’t … or something like that.
I’m pretty sure that the Raelians each have both male & female reproductive organs and genitalia and can pretty much switch hit.. (Weren’t they the ones on the sex planet that Number 2 was so fond of in Star Trek: Next Generation ?) So does that mean they’re matrilinean ? Maybe yes.. Maybe no.. Probably close enough for Ward’s purposes. Certainly close enough to warrant a few million in grant money to start an ethnic studies department..
-BPP
Six-lane highway running up to my back door
But it won’t take me where I want to be
I took the i-95 down to pensacola
All I found was a bunch of holyrollers
The don’t know nothing ’bout saving me
I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, maybe angels, maybe angels
Down here I feel like a citizen of nowhere
My bag’s all packed in case they ever come for me
Got a hundred stories and tabloid lies
Got witnesses to what the goverment denies
So I’m headed down to roswell to wait and see
I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, maybe angels, maybe angels
Oh what a mystery
Oh, I believe, I believe, I could leave
My sister, she says she knows elvis
She knows jesus, john lennon, and cobain personally
Well, but I’m too wise to believe my eyes
Cause all I’ve seen just terrifies me
But I believe they’re coming back for me
I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, I swear they’re out there,
I swear, maybe angels, maybe angels
Craig–
Took your car
Drove to Texas
Sorry, honey
But I suspected we were through
And I can’t cry anymore
Most excellent lyrics.
I just had a horrifying thought. What if the Raelians really DID produce a baby clone in 2002 as they claimed?
With DNA from Ward Churchill?
Think WC would fly to Germany and perform a marriage ceremony for those penguins? He’s a priest ya know.
Ana, don’t get me started on my love for Sheryl, or I’ll be subjected to endless ridicule from the cool kids.
Not to mention ridicule from me.
Craig, I won’t ridicule you. Wait. You said the cool kids. Never mind.
Where the hell is everyone? Do they have a life or something?
I was watching a few minutes of Churchill’s recent speech on CSPAN ( because I’m so nauseated by this fraud that is all I could take ) and I noticed that he likes to use the word “rubric” a lot but doesn’t actually know what the word means.
And to think he was first hired in the Communications dept.