Mikal (and everyone else),
Regardless of how noble or idiotic the woman's
intentions were, tasteless jokes about someone's death
are always, as you put it, "a waste of space and
oxygen."
'Nuf said.
--Debbie
--- Mikal <mikalm_at_ix.netcom.com> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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