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Family of protester killed by bulldozer suing Caterpillar
Seattle PI ^ | 03-15-05 | ELIZABETH M. GILLESPIE

Posted on 03/15/2005 4:10:04 PM PST by NavyCanDo

SEATTLE -- The parents of a 23-year-old activist killed while trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home is suing Caterpillar Inc., the company that made the bulldozer that ran over her.

The federal lawsuit, which lawyers said would be filed here Tuesday, alleges that Caterpillar violated international and state law by providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people.

Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, was standing in front of a home in a refugee camp in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, on March 16, 2003, when a bulldozer plowed over her.

"The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case. "We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack."

(Excerpt) Read more at seattlepi.nwsource.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anarchists; caterpillar; clueless; communists; darwinaward; dogooders; frivolouslawsuits; lawsuit; limousineliberals; pancake; rachelcorrie; radicalleftists; roadkill; socialists
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As if the World could not get any crazier.
1 posted on 03/15/2005 4:10:04 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

How utterly stupid.


2 posted on 03/15/2005 4:10:44 PM PST by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Pajama Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: NavyCanDo

Let the Rachel Corrie jokes start now....


3 posted on 03/15/2005 4:11:05 PM PST by Drango (All my ideas, good or bad, are stolen from other FReepers)
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To: NavyCanDo

oh PLEASE let this get thrown out. I will lose total hope for all legal authority if it's not.


4 posted on 03/15/2005 4:11:28 PM PST by lawgirl (Please support me as I walk 60 miles in 3 days to support breast cancer research! (see my profile!))
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To: NavyCanDo

Well, that part of the suit makes it pretty clear what this is all about, and it surely ain't justice.


5 posted on 03/15/2005 4:12:19 PM PST by microgood
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To: NavyCanDo

Of course it never occurs to these morons that Corrie might have been responsible for her own death.


6 posted on 03/15/2005 4:12:38 PM PST by WestVirginiaRebel (Carnac: A siren, a baby and a liberal. Answer: Name three things that whine.)
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To: NavyCanDo

What a joke... My explorer is specially equiped to run over people! I should sue Ford!


7 posted on 03/15/2005 4:12:53 PM PST by smith288 (The GOP, Ditech of politics... "lost another one to GOP" - Howard dean)
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To: Drango

The Caterpillar Attorneys need to immediately file a motion to squash...


8 posted on 03/15/2005 4:13:06 PM PST by Joe 6-pack ("It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.")
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To: Joe 6-pack

ROTFLMAO!


9 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:11 PM PST by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: NavyCanDo

Peaceful co-existence with these freaks is getting more difficult by the minute.


10 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:18 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: NavyCanDo

And I thought she was happy with the pancake plaque!


11 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:22 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham; rmlew; Cacique; firebrand
Rachel Corrie's parents are SO F-CKIN' TYPICAL of the a-sholes who live here. I swear, Seattle makes New York look like Lubbock...

BTW: Caterpillar's stock has been up substantially since the incident occurred. Coincidence? ;-)

12 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:34 PM PST by Clemenza (Alcohol Tobacco & Firearms: The Other Holy Trinity)
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To: NavyCanDo

Must've been the D9 "Kill Dozer" (anybody besides me remember that lame old movie?)


13 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:36 PM PST by planekT
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To: NavyCanDo

someone should tell them a bulldozer is NOT an SUV


14 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:45 PM PST by Republicus2001 (C)
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To: NavyCanDo
Attack of the k-k-killer c-c-caterpillars!!!


15 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:47 PM PST by xcamel (Deep Red, stuck in a "bleu" state.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL


16 posted on 03/15/2005 4:14:57 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: NavyCanDo

This is just flat silly.


17 posted on 03/15/2005 4:15:01 PM PST by glock rocks (WYGIWYG)
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To: NavyCanDo

What's next? Outlaw "assault Caterpillers"?


18 posted on 03/15/2005 4:15:20 PM PST by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: Joe 6-pack

You're bad.


19 posted on 03/15/2005 4:15:22 PM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: NavyCanDo

Should come with a warning sticker. "Objects you're looking at appear as close as they really are."


20 posted on 03/15/2005 4:15:54 PM PST by delacoert (imperat animus corpori, et paretur statim: imperat animus sibi, et resistitur. -AUGUSTINI)
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