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| Kin of Woman Killed in Gaza Seeks Probe |
| 2003-03-19 |
| Don't blame her. She was probably busy burning a flag and didn't look up. The parents of American peace activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer are calling for an investigation of the incident by U.S. authorities. The parents of 23-year-old Rachel Corrie, joined by Rep. Brian Baird ,D-Wash., said it was important for the United States to hold Israel to the same standards it would hold a U.S. soldier to in similar circumstances. Brian, give Patty Murray a call. I think she'd like to cash in on this, too. "We do not allow our soldiers to fire on unarmed citizens," Baird said Wednesday. "I don't think you are a good friend if you don't look closely at mistakes." Her mistake (and it's a big one): Standing, sitting, or kneeling in front of a moving bulldozer. Baird accused the driver of bulldozer of intentionally running over Corrie as she stood in his path Sunday to try to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Rafah refugee camp. "It seems the bulldozer willingly pushed forward," Baird said, citing eyewitness accounts from peace activists. Oh, good. Unbiased accounts. "It doesn't seem to be an accident or a mistake." The Israeli military has said that Corrie's death was an accident.Lying Zionist pigs! It said small windows in the bulldozer's cab restricted the driver's vision as Corrie dropped to her knees to stop the demolition of a Palestinian home. Bet she won't do THAT again... Corrie, of Olympia, Wash., was a student at The Evergreen State College near Olympia and was active in Olympia's peace movement. She joined the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led group that uses nonviolent methods to challenge Israeli occupation. Corrie's parents, Craig and Cynthia Corrie of Charlotte, N.C., called on Israel to "cease harassment" of protesters such as their daughter, who oppose what they call illegal demolitions of Palestinian homes. Craig Corrie said he hopes the soldier who caused his daughter's death understands "as a human being" what he has done. "If he had understanding (of his actions) and a long life, that would be the worst thing for him," Corrie said. "I can't understand (what happened). I won't understand." Of course, dear Corrie is completely blameless here... The couple said no one from the Israeli government had contacted them, although they have heard from dozens of Israeli citizens since their daughter's death. "There are Israelis who feel devastated about what happened," said Cynthia Corrie. "There's been a great outpouring of sympathy." I'm really sorry...that your daughter was an idiot. Baird said he would introduce a resolution in Congress this week calling for the U.S. investigation, which would be in addition to any action by the Israeli government. Corrie's body is in Tel Aviv, where an autopsy is being conducted, Baird said. The body could be flown home as soon as Wednesday. The results: "I think she got run over by a bulldozer...." |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #15 I'm a dozer-operator and depending on the hieght of the blade or bucket(clam-shell,probably) your vision is limited. If she ran in front of blade at the last minute it is intirely possable the operator did not see her. When an operator is pushing most of the attention is focused on one corner of the blade. And even then he can't see the tip of the cutting edge,but operates by feel.Operator's call it "haveing a bubble in your butt". Now,haveing said all that.It's pretty stupid to run around in front of a 25-ton bulldozer.My sympathy is with the parents,I'm sorry they had such a dumb-ass for a child. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-03-20 06:12:33 |
| #14 Standing on the top edge of a blade on a bulldozer and falling off when the bulldozer hits a bump is committing suicide for sure, and that's what she was doing, not standing 'in the path of' the bulddozer. |
| Posted by: MommaBear 2003-03-19 19:28:39 |
| #13 Plenty of the young and silly grow older and their ideas change with time. She might very well have been a rantburg fan in 15 years, but now there is no chance for her to change her opinions or learn anything new. This really was a tragic incident despite being a direct result of her reckless behaviour. |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-03-19 18:51:44 |
| #12 There's something about a raving self-righteous idiot being killed by their own arrogant stupidity that just makes me smile. And I'm smiling now. Does that make me a bad person? Just wondering. -J |
| Posted by: Jason C 2003-03-19 17:26:28 |
| #11 "Check's in the mail." (Saddam) Maybe the last one that gets out? |
| Posted by: tcc 2003-03-19 16:51:43 |
| #10 I'll make the same comment here as I did yesterday at blogs of war (God I love my right wing web sites): I now pause at my earlier conclusion that John Walker Lindh was The Dumbest Motherfucker Ever To Walk The Earth. This flattened harpie has won that honor cleanly by her stupendous lack of judgment in crouching before a bulldozer. I imagine the scene from Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me where Austin slowly runs over the Dr. Evil stooge with the steamroller. At least Johny Jihad figured out how to survive his idiocy. I feel sorry for the parents, but my God someone should get their email and send them the LGF pix of Jane Jihad burning the faux American flag that others mentioned. Text should say: shame on your America hating daughter, who died a needless, stupid death defending a bunch of God damned terrorists. |
| Posted by: Abu Hamza 2003-03-19 16:32:27 |
| #9 It's not impossible that an investigation would turn up Pali foul play here. Remember Mohammed al-Dura? |
| Posted by: someone 2003-03-19 16:13:15 |
| #8 Wanted to add some links to the Here's the page. Here's an MP3 of the lovely "World Anthem". "Throughout the world, We sing our praise to peace, Our bond of love, Will serve us true for, All as one for all." Catchy, ain't it? |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-19 14:51:31 |
| #7 Along those same lines: "World Citizen Rachel, meet Charles Darwin." |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-19 13:19:57 |
| #6 Seems the little lady was only an American when it suited her. Otherwise, she was an "international", whatever that might be. See the LGF links to pics of her hate-filled mug burning an American flag (well, sorta). Evolution respects no citizenship papers. Dumb = dead, regardless. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-03-19 13:08:41 |
| #5 Physics always wins. She wished and wished that the nice man in the big, loud, heavy bulldozer would see, hear, smell her and be able to stop on a dime. Rachel, meet Sir Isaac Newton. Obviously for the first time. She committed suicide. She, and her other cohorts in crime were actively supporting people who have publicly vowed to drive Israel into the see and kill all the Jews. She is the Vichy to the Paleo's Nazis. Not running the gas chambers, but loading the trains. The gene pool is cleaner today. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-03-19 13:02:56 |
| #4 There are pics at the relevant topic at LGF also, giving the design and relative size of the bulldozer in question. The window is very small, the forward scoop is very tall, so it seems to me that line-of-sight for close objects was blocked. I've been noticing labels on trucks asking passing cars to make sure that they see the driver-side mirror: If you can't see it, then how possibly could the driver see you? I believe the soldier involved believed that this dimbulb would "chicken out" and run off to the side at the last second, in the same way the other "human shields" in Iraq did in the immediate (to him) past. Finally, her dropping to her knees was a very bad move: it lowered her height and even more effectively blocked the driver's ability to see her. She should have carried a white flag on a LONG stick, and kept waving it over her head to let him know she was still there. I'm sure he would have stopped, radioed her presence, and the support troops would have come in, dragged her off, and threw her onto a plane back to Olympia. To make their case, the IDF should take a side photo of the bulldozer with a female soldier kneeling in front of the blade, with the window and top of the blade notated. This will more than prove that there was a visibility problem. Also, the "house" in question was not inhabited, but was located on the border with Egypt. News reports have it being one end of a splodedope smuggling tunnel to Egypt. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-03-19 12:15:07 |
| #3 Also from Lil' Green Footballs, read this posting and comments regarding Evergreen State College faculty member Steve Niva. |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-03-19 12:14:58 |
| #2 As a parent of a similarly aged child, I can't begin to know how her parents, as well as the parents of little "Johnny Taliban", feel to see their kids get caught up in these horrible irreversible situations, and not feel the least bit responsible, or at least total failures as parents. I'd bet a box of Kripy Kreams a common thread of their parenting skills included "no spanking" clauses... (I once got "slapped upside the head" by my parents for the crime of getting "slapped upside the head" earlier in the day by Sister Mary "Chokehold", and there was very little due process involved... a few more years of counselling and I should beableto work out my "unresolved conflicts with authority".) |
| Posted by: Capsu78 2003-03-19 12:14:26 |
| #1 Some good pix of her burning American flag mock-ups with her face completely contorted in anger at LGF. She must have really hated the mother country. When the Palestinians carried her body (in effigy) covered with another American flag mock-up, also pictured, I wonder how she'd have felt about that? |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-19 11:37:58 |