The Debster Has Spoken!
Okay, I promise -- no more Rachel Corrie jokes will appear here.
Mike
> 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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Received on 2003-03-27 20:18:25
