Yeah, non-practicing lawyer gets points and a half:

Mayhem, at common law, is chopping off a limb.

I will accept one signed original of yours for winning the contest.

The fact that I remember obscure historical trivia like that--and not relevant stuff like the hearsay exceptions--partially explains the "non-practicing" part above.

I will accept as a reward ten buffalo pelts, or a signed "original" of Pale Princess.

I believe mayhem is a euphenism for removing nose or ears , like brigindage is a euphenism for raping and burning villages.

You guy's beat me to it. I knew this guy that had a mayhem charge on him for cutting someone's finger off while robbing a drug dealer back in the late 70's. Of course I didn't know him until afterwards. Outside prison. Not inside prison or any other kind of government controlled environment.

Really.

Okay, he seemed like a nice guy.

I painted this bad-boy up when I was tripping my face off on mescaline on a sacred vision quest that landed me in Tijuana jail for three weeks on a trumped-up charge of light mayhem.

Gosh there I was thinking "light mayhem" sounded kinda cool -- the kinda charge I'd be proud to have associated with my name. Now, I'm just not so sure. The body parts thing ... uhhhhhhh ....

I *am* however interested in getting in on the Native American thing, what with all the cool art, interesting names, and excellent fashion ... If Indian folks can be named Churchill. surely they can be named Flanagan too?

Count on Ace to be hanging with the cool kids ...

Main Entry: may·hem
Pronunciation: 'mA-"hem, -&m
Function: noun
Etymology: Anglo-French mahaim mahain, literally, mutilation, from Old French mahain, from mahaignier to injure, mutilate
: willful and permanent crippling, mutilation, or disfigurement of any part of another's body; also : the crime of engaging in mayhem
NOTE: Under the Model Penal Code and the codes of the states that follow it, mayhem is encompassed by assault and aggravated assault.

Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.

MM - The UCC has already said that Ward Churchill's statements are protected and that the allegations of misconduct are too old, and that his false claim of being an Indian has been looked at and warrants no action. Furthermore, they have chosen to "inverstigate" the plagurism alllegations for the next nine months. Clrearly, they are hoping it'll all just go away.

If we do nothing, he will only get worse, and the Left will be encouraged to propagandize violence against the US and our troop.

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IF WE DO NOTHING WE DESERVE WHAT WE GET!

The UC has already ruled in its report on page 7 that:

"The EEOC took the position that observation and self identification are the most reliable indicators of of ethnicity. The Chancellor declined to persue the matter. The question about Professor Churchill' employment must be considered closed as a result of this ten-year old review."

Email the above addresses at UC, or this monster will continue to draw gov't paychecks and poison more minds. Nothing will happen to Ward Churchill unless we make it happen!

Why do they keeping trying to bury this? Apparently they:

1) sympathize with Ward Chruchill

2) are afraid of litigation if they fire him

3) fear the bad publicity and trouble that firing him would trigger

4) fear investigation of themselves, i.e., their credentials, applications, writings and record

72VIRGINS is right, this won't happen unless we make it happen. Send 'em all an email, I did!

At last, Tawny Kitaen in all her glory! Man, that takes me back.

Steve L. beat me on the definition, but it's worth noting that the same Old French verb (mahaignier) gave rise to "maim" and "mangle." In the Middle Ages, you just couldn't have enough words for grievous bodily harm.

Warning: for those who choose to remember fair Tawny in her prime don't click this link! She's a sassy one!

Anyone remember this fake headline from the Onion in the December 15, 1999 Edition?

"Indian Casino Uses Every Part Of The Dollar"

SteveL,

Whoops! Loose shit. Never bothered to look the word up in a regular dictionary.

I guess its common meaning is the same as its legal meaning.

I always assumed -- wrongly, I guess -- that mayhem commonly just meant chaos, pandemonium, random violence.

Obviously, everyone's right about the maiming/disfiguring/loss of limb or digit legal definition.

Cheesh! Ward Churchill is gonna walk and all ya'll can talk about is Tawny? No wonder the Left just keeps steaming rolling right over us! And we deserve it too if we don't do something about it.

And when it happens ya'll have no right to whine about it either!

Ooooh! Tawny Kitaen! Shiny object! Pretty!

You're right, I just spent 45 minutes over at TSG looking at mugshots.

What were we talking about?

We need some Conservatice Dialysis to Remove Liberal Toxic from the American Bloodstream!

The way to do it is to send emails to UC above as per post by 72VIRGINS.

FIRE WARD CHURCHILL!

If "observation" and "self-identification" are enough to validate someone's claims of ethnicity as far as the University of Colorado-Boulder is concerned, then a field trip to either the NFL's Arrowhead Stadium (Kansas City Chiefs) or RFK Stadium (Washington Redskins) during football season would turn up 80,000 people who, by CU's own standards, would be qualified to teach Indian Studies at CU-Boulder...

...and for that matter, the average Chiefs or Redskins fan probably has better academic credentials than Ward Churchill. And is much better behaved, even while intoxicated, than Churchill is sober.

Hmmm. Does anyone in KC have a phone number for Arrowman or Belly Boy? CU may be hiring soon...

If we look at the record of what it was that Ward Churchill actually said, he's clearly advocating violence against the US Governmet, against this country and the Pentagon (that means you Dave). Exerpted from the UC's own prliminary report:

In an interview published in the April 2004 edition of Satya magazine, Professor Churchill tries to be cute and have it both ways when speaking of the elimination of the United States government:

If I defined the state as being the problem, just what happens to the state. I've never fashioned myself to be a revolutionary, but it's part and parcel of what I'm talking about. You can create through consciousness a situation of flux, perhaps, in which something better can replace it. In instability there's potential. That's about as far as I go with revolutionary consciousness. I'm actually de-evolutionary. I don't want other people in charge of the apparatus of the state as the outcome of a socially transformative process that replicates oppression. I want the state gone: transform the situation to U.S out of North America. U.S. off the planet. Out of existence altogether.

(I don't want other people in charge of the apparatus of the state as the outcome of a socially transformative process that replicates oppression. For speaking this kind of turgid horeshit alone he ought to be fired!)

In an essay written in 2001, Professor Churchill stated: "Those committed to achieving fundamental change rather than cosmetic tweakings of the existing system are thus left with no viable alternative but to include the realities of state violence as an integral part of our political calculus."

On a February 12, 2005 segment on "At Large w/ Geraldo Rivera," Professor Churchill said: "I've even had people argue that those in the Pentagon were innocent bystanders, as well. I mean, my God, if you can't hit the Pentagon, what can you hit?"; and "[b]ut as it stands, it was absolutely necessary, and it was absolutely empowering even if they get beat, that they actually drew blood where it counted."

In a lecture given by Professor Churchill in Seattle on August 10, 2003, in response to an audience member's question as to "why shouldn't we do something and how could we move so they don't see us coming," Professor Churchill responded, in pertinent part:
You carry the weapon. That's how they don't see it coming. You're the one - [inaudible]. They talk about colorblind; they're blind to your color. You said it yourself. Okay?

You don't send the black liberation army into Wall Street to conduct an action. You don't send the American Indian movement into downtown Seattle to conduct an action. Who do you send? You. With your beard shaved, your hair cut close and wearing a banker's suit.

The UC Chancellor is hoping this will go away by "investigating" it to death for the next nine months.

Send him an email today at:

chanchat@spot.colorado.edu

The picture of Tawny isn't showing because I disabled domains other than my own from directly linking to images on my server.

Use your own bandwidth, please.