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Parents of woman killed by Israeli bulldozer join anti-Caterpillar rally [Rachel Corrie...]
Chicago Sun-Times ^
Posted on 04/05/2004 6:11:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Parents of woman killed by Israeli bulldozer join anti-Caterpillar rally
April 5, 2004
Parents of a young woman who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer spoke Sunday at a rally to build support for two protests against Caterpillar this month in Chicago and Peoria.
Craig and Cindy Corrie of Olympia, Wash., spoke at the rally at Chicago Temple, 77 W. Washington, about their daughter Rachel, 23. She was trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza when the bulldozer ran over her in March 2003.
An Israeli Defense Force investigation cleared the soldier, concluding he did not see Corrie. Activists on the scene disagreed and are calling for a U.S. investigation.
The rally was organized by the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led group of which Corrie was a member. Joe Carr of Kansas City, Mo., who worked with her, said homes were being demolished to make room for a wall being constructed around a Palestinian village.
"They're putting them in big prisons, basically," Carr said.
Activists will protest the use of Caterpillar bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes, at the company's annual stockholders meeting April 14 in Chicago. An "International Day of Action Against Caterpillar" demonstration will be staged April 23 at corporate headquarters in Peoria.
Caterpillar spokesman Benjamin Cordani said, "We don't have the legal right nor the means of policing the use of our equipment" in the Middle East.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: humanshield; wanker
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what nonsense..
To: Sub-Driver
Wonder how this is playing in Peoria.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:11:59 AM PDT
by
martin_fierro
(Fingers of Fury™)
To: martin_fierro
Cats 1 - Pals 0
To: Sub-Driver
The late Rachel Corrie teaching young children how to burn American flags.
Rachel Corrie's parents in the keep of the serial murderer of Americans and other
innocents including elderly, children, and their terrorist-loving daughter.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:13:41 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
To: Sub-Driver
The left is making less and less sense.
To: martin_fierro
When you outlaw bulldozers only outlaws will have bulldozers.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:14:31 AM PDT
by
MCRD
To: Sub-Driver
Oh, yeah, it was Caterpillar's fault. Just like all of those pesky SUV's driving around hitting people!!
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:14:54 AM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.- Sir Winston Churchill)
To: Sub-Driver
Well, it's apparent that Rachel Corrie's stupidity and her desire for misguided activism was genetic anyway.
To: Sub-Driver
Activists will protest the use of Caterpillar bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes, Maybe they own stock in a competing dozer company.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:16:28 AM PDT
by
fml
( You can twist perception, reality won't budge. -RUSH)
To: Diogenesis
Remember, "When Bulldozers are outlawed, only outlaws will have bulldozers."
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:16:28 AM PDT
by
SMDC/TLX
To: Sub-Driver; Alouette
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:17:40 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
To: Sub-Driver
This is surprising? Evidently commonsense and intelligence are genetically determined. If they are missing in the daughter, probably they are missing in her parents.
I mean, these people publically accepted a portrait of their daughter from Arafat, forchristssake.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:18:19 AM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: Sub-Driver
Self-indulgent stupidity runs in her family. Since the Human Genome Project, it is now becoming known as the "us" gene, useful idiot.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:21:11 AM PDT
by
SevenDaysInMay
(Federal judges and justices serve for periods of good behavior, not life. Article III sec. 1)
To: hellinahandcart
Just when you think their stupidity has maxed out, they find ways to sink deeper. What next, sue the steel companies?
Their daughter was mashed into a paste because she was an idiot, I guess it's hereditary.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:22:21 AM PDT
by
BadAndy
(Life-long Amerophile)
To: Sub-Driver
Rachel Corrie & family - The Darwin Award Winner who won't go away.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:23:05 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(Repeal CFR NOW!!)
To: MCRD; Petronski
That reminds me -- I must try breakfast at IHOP sometime soon.
To: MCRD
Parents of woman killed by Israeli bulldozerLittle Rachel's post-dozer, pick me up
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:26:29 AM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: Sub-Driver
Parents of woman killed by Israeli bulldozer join anti-Caterpillar rally
But he's so cute, in a menacing way.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:28:15 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(in memory of James Edward Peck, my grandfather, who passed on 3/23/04)
To: BadAndy
Protest the "yellow paint manufacturer" and the company that made the bolts that attached the wheels that rolled over her dumb butt...
To: DustyMoment
"Just when you think their stupidity has maxed out, they find ways to sink deeper. What next, sue the steel companies?
Their daughter was mashed into a paste because she was an idiot, I guess it's hereditary."
Next? Why they'll take their fight for justice all the way to the Department of Gravity as soon as they can figure out where it is.
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posted on
04/05/2004 6:29:44 AM PDT
by
ISonnet
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