Hello, everyone.
I found message #666 by Mike worth responding to. Sorry, but the
Rachel Corrie jokes posted earlier were in poor taste; nor I did not
find them especially funny.
I think there is a similarity between Rachel Corrie and John Walker
Lindh: Both were young people from affluent backgrounds, idealists
thinking they have figured out what's wrong with the World and wanting
to fix it. Imagine how driven they were - they left the comfort of
their homes to struggle aloung with others in troubled Third World
countries...
I would say that being young, at least they have an excuse for such
behavior! I think Mike's point of view is too harsh. Rachel would
probably have changed her views on things if she had lived long enough.
I have met people who joined organizations to help people in Africa,
and lived there a few years. Sometimes even longer than that. They
went over very excited and idealistic with a desire to help out
oppressed peoples, and returned with a more realistic view of things:
It's not as simple as they had thought.
John
--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, "Mikal" <mikalm_at_i...>
wrote:
> 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 2003-03-27 14:30:55
