Sharose (and everyone else),
I have zero regard for this waste of space and oxygen, who has now made
herself the woman to beat in the 2003 Darwin Awards.
Why?
* Rachel Corrie was not some Palestinian toddler who wandered into the path
of an earthmover and got mowed down. She was an allegedly educated adult
who traveled halfway across the world, into a war zone, with the sole intent
of inflaming an already insane and deadly situation. The group she worked
there with has a stated goal of "armed liberation" of the Palestinian
region. Maybe I'm a little slow, but "armed liberation" seems to imply
shooting, war, violence, that sort of thing. Is it any wonder she met a
violent end under their tutelage?
* She tried to agitate a mob of Palestinians against the U.S. and Israel by
burning an improvised American Flag in their midst. Don't believe me?
Check out these two pics, and then wonder why you haven't seen them in the
mainstream media:
http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flagburner.jpg
http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/.Pictures/rachel-corrie-flag-02.jpg
Does this look like the face of a loving, tolerant, nurturing person? Or
does it look like someone with serious anger problems, who chose political
violence rather than therapy as a way to deal with personal demons?
* The bulldozer was a huge, armored ('dozer drivers get sniped at regularly
in these areas) vehicle with virtually zero visibility except at
straight-ahead 12-o'clock. I've know people who've worked on construction
sites and road crews, and they've all said to NEVER get near a mobile
earthmover for this reason...and they were talking about garden-variety ones
half the size of this behemoth.
* As I said earlier, she was in a war zone -- the bulldozing was an IDF
operation, and was accompanied by a troop detail. Anyone not a trained,
armed combatant who enters such an area is taking an unimaginably stupid
risk with their life, and should be prepared to die in an ugly manner.
* According to more than one eyewitness, she wasn't even standing in front
of the 'dozer. Those pics of her standing were taken earlier in the day, at
different sites (note that the shadows, light, and even the machine seem to
be different). The witnesses said that in but sitting on a mound of earth
well out of the sight range of the driver. It is quite possible that she
was killed not by being run over, but by the collapse of the earth mound as
the 'dozer caved it in from the side.
* Whatever the scenario or exact cause of death, did she really think she
could get away with playing chicken with a moving 40-ton vehicle whose
driver couldn't see her clearly? Maybe my folks were a bit strict, but from
an early age I was taught not to run in front of cars for this reason. I
guess all that edumacation at Evergreen State University, and all those
activist circle-jerks, convinced her that the laws of physics and common
sense didn't apply to such an enlightened and progressive womyn as herself.
* If she was so much against war and killing, then why did she waste her
time protecting ABANDONED BUILDINGS? Why didn't she, say, try to stop one
of the suicide bombings that claims Israeli lives on a weekly basis? The
answer: she was a moral coward who went up against Israel and America
because they were CIVILIZED DEMOCRACIES UNDER THE RULE OF LAW, who allow
idiots like this huge amounts of latitude to interfere with government and
private activities in the name of free speech. The very reason this case is
so publicized -- unlike, say, the ones about slave-freeing missionaries
being murdered in the Sudan -- is that it's an ANOMALY in Israel. Losers
like Corrie are looking for cheap and painless ways of making themselves
moral authorities and martyrs, since they can't advance themselves through
careers, relationships or other productive means of finding one's identity.
A REAL radical humanitarian -- one who was GENUINELY concerned about REAL
oppression and murder -- would have gone to Iraq, North Korea, the PA, or
any kleptocratic Third World toilet, and fought the epic brutality and
bloodlettings in such places. And of course, would have been whacked the
second they opened their mouth.
Rachel Corrie has now joined the Idealistic Idiot Sisterhood, alongside Amy
Biehl, Lori Berenson, and Rosebud DeNovo -- disturbed, deluded women who
thought that their personal convictions justified their stupid politics, and
would protect them from the consequences of their suicidal antics. I know,
I know...it's their FEEEEEELINGS that are important. Well, I'm sure that
Road-Pizza Rachel had strong FEEEEELINGS. But because those strong
FEEELINGS weren't balanced by personal responsibility or common sense, she's
now not FEEEELING anything at all.
In closing, I would say that my sympathy for some poor Iraqi draftee eating
sand and dodging bullets on behalf of a monster like Saddam, is about
100,000 times that of mine for a deranged, self-hating terrorist enabler
like Rachel Corrie. The political culture and gene pool is healthier in her
absence.
Mikal, the Heartless Reactionary Warmonger Zionist
Received on 2003-03-26 23:30:59
