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Angel Of Death -The Rachel Corrie Incident
411 Mania ^ | 15, 29 December 2003 | Seth Monroe

Posted on 12/29/2003 3:50:43 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture

Angel Of Death -The Rachel Corrie Incident

Posted By Seth Monroe on 12.15.03

Part 1 of a 2 part series.

In the middle of March, 2003 I was at my computer going through my usual morning routine of posting at forums and reading news bites. A headline suddenly leapt out at me. Something along the lines of "peace activist crushed by Israeli bulldozer" or something of the like. Within the article a surreal picture of a pretty young woman yelling through a bullhorn while standing in front of an immense bulldozer appeared. The caption read "Rachel Corrie moments before her death" and I delved into the article hungry for more information and conscious I was reading from an anti-semitic, biased liberal source. The article stated that Corrie died while protecting Palestinian homes from destruction. That she had knowingly stepped in front of an advancing Israeli bulldozer and was trying to desperatley prevent it from destroying innocent Pallestenian homes.. She had lost her footing and was pulled under the massive machine as her comrades looked on in horror. The article quoted "witnesses" who said the driver clearly saw her yet did not stop and even backed over her now crushed body apparently for good measure. Such a small fragile, female body crushed by the evil Jews. She amazingly was concious when her cohorts arrived stating she could not feel her legs which was her last words. A short quote from the parents saying she was murdered by the Israelis along with a photo of them shaking hands with Yassar appeared and some others from her friends at Evergreen College followed and that was when I knew there was way more to this story and that it needed more investigation.

As a Conservative Activist I was well aware of Evergreen College, commonly known as one of the top five anti-American, Marxist colleges in the country and a haven for several anti-semitic/pro-P.L.O. organizations. The next day our local Leftist propaganda rag the Seattle Post Intelligencer had a huge write up on Corrie making her out to be a fallen hero and showing a picture of a memorial service at Evergreen College where they showed a picture of her dressed in an Angels costume with wings taken at a prior peace rally. The left had itself a bonafide martyr and across the country their press expressed outrage and called for intensive investigations of the evil Jews and penalties form the U.S. government! They repeated in their articles that she was only there to help! That she was protecting innocent Palestinians from having their homes destroyed! Then a small snippet of the truth, something liberals have no connection with, began to seep out. A picture of Corrie in the middle of some Palestinian children setting flame to a crude drawing of the American Flag surfaced. There was a look of sheer hatred and ugliness on her once pretty face. I remember seeing the image shown on Fox news and thinking to myself "this story is gone" and I was as usual correct. The leftist press quickly moved on to the next piece of propaganda knowing the cherished martyr they had tried to create was no more. Instead of investigating further like any true journalist they ditched the story. You see it didn't promote their anti-Jewish cause. It didn't help their terrorist brethren so as per the usual they killed the story hoping the lies they had put out would stick.

The liberal press failed you but I won't fail you. The Conservative Mastermind won't fail you. Now for what they didn't tell you. The truth.

Rachel Corrie was a terrorist. A murderer and a killer of babies. Are you shocked? Wait a minute you say I saw the picture! She was just protecting some innocent peoples houses and SHE was murdered by an Israeli soldier right? That's what my trusty paper told me. That's what CNN told me. That's what the BBC told me. That's what the Guardian told me.

I have a mission for this weekly column people. I'm not here to crack jokes about penis or vagina. I'm not here to talk Sports or American Idol or whatever they are throwing on the idiot box this week to keep the masses brains all mushy and submissive. I'm a conservative activist, a traditionalist out to thwart a fifth column takeover of this nation by the perverted left. A group that lauds wrong and despises right. A big brother organization set out to remove your individual rights while flooding your minds with newspeak and political correctness. This is serious business to me not a game or a hobby. So now that you know where I'm coming from let's go back to the Rachel Corrie incident and find out what really went down OK?

Rachel Corrie was a member of the "International Solidarity Movement" which is an anti-semitic organization that recruits, you guessed it, on College Campuses where eager brainwashed youngsters are ready and willing to accept their bogus literature as fact and to "fight for peace". The group works to protect terrorist groups like Hammas and Islamic Jihad. As an example On March 27th of this year, a counterguerilla squad of the IDF's Golani brigade was in close pursuit of a leading member of Islamic Jihad, Shadi Sukia, responsible for recruiting several suicide bombers, laying land mines, and sniping. They traced him to a building in Jenin holding an ISM office, but the coordinator, Susan Barcley, refused to let them in. They entered the office, found the hiding terrorist, and arrested both him and Barcley. Get the picture? In that raid they also found munitions and assault rifles. Some peace organization eh?

So why was Corrie standing in front of that Bulldozer yelling into that bullhorn? She was not protecting innocent citizens. She was protecting tunnels used by Hammas to smuggle arms and munitions in from Egypt. The bulldozer in question wasn't even near a home it was attempting to clear brush away that was hiding one of the tunnels entrances. The town she was in Rafah is well known to have extensive tunnels running underneath it and it is a haven for Hammas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. You see folks, the left had you believe this was an angel in white. An innocent dove crushed under the weight of a Zionist bulldozer. Some of you probably were 'left' with that impression. Now you know thanks to yours truly, the Conservative Mastermind, that Rachel Corrie was indeed an angel, an angel of death. She and her ISM comrades were aiding murderers who seek out Jewish mothers and children to blow up in the street. A fact that hit hard on this journalist when I woke up and turned on the news one morning not long ago to see chaos on my television screen. Another bus full of innocent Jews had been blown up by the barbarians that this group supports. Orthodox Jews who devote their life to giving immediate aid to the victims of homicide bombers were seen rushing up to two very young children lying lifeless on the street. Tears streamed down my eyes as the video was looped over and over of the rescuers performing C.P.R. on the murdered babies. They looked so precious in their little dresses and white stockings. It was something I'll take with me for the remainder of my life. Pure innocence and beauty mixed with the frantic actions of the heroic Jewish rescuers and the look of horror on their faces. I at some point during the video pondered whether the explosives used in that bombing had been brought in using the very tunnels that Rachel Corrie was protecting. I then asked myself how the Soldier driving the bulldozer, who KNEW what those tunnels were used for and the consequences of their existence, I wondered how he could have done anything else other then to run over Rachel Corrie. To run over the enemy which is what she represented by protecting and siding with the murderers. Just as a police officer has the right to shoot you if you attempt to stop them from saving lives this soldier had every right to remove any obstacle put in his way. There is no difference people.

The official word from the Israelis is that Rachel and her fellow terrorists were acting in a dangerous and provocative way and that she slipped and fell under the tracks of the bulldozer. That's simply diplomatic speak, a way to appease the U.S. and our hypocritical tactic of using every resource to destroy terrorism on our front but wanting the Israelis to fight their war with terrorism with one hand tied behind their backs on their end. I for one applaud the fact that Israel will not relent on their efforts to stop the murdering thugs from Hammas and Islamic Jihad. Even if it means killing an American traitor along the way.

Those little girls lying lifeless in the street were the true angels along with the response team. Rachel Corrie and the rest of her evil horde from ISM are also angels.

Angels of death.

This is Seth Monroe "The Conservative Mastermind". Look for part 2 next week where we explore what created a monster like Rachel Corrie and how we can stop it from happening again.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel; US: Washington; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisemite; hatemonger; palestine; paleswine; pancake; rachelcorrie; squish; terrorist
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1 posted on 12/29/2003 3:50:44 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Saint Pancake bump

2 posted on 12/29/2003 3:52:16 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Death before dhimmi.)
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Angel of Death: The Rachel Corrie Incident PART II

On Sunday, March 16, 2003 Rachel Corrie was either purposely or accidentally ran over by an Israeli Soldier in a bulldozer. Miss Corrie, a member of a radical anti-semitic group called the International Solidarity Movement, knowingly placed herself in front of the advancing bulldozer in an attempt to defend munitions tunnels. The very tunnels used by numerous Terrorist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad to bring explosives into the region from Egypt and other areas. Explosives used by the enemies of the United States and Israel to blow up innocent men, women and children via homicide bombers.

Last week I gave my opinion on Miss Corrie which some of you found disturbing, even disgusting. I stated that the now deceased Rachel Corrie was a terrorist and a murderer of babies. I will tell you right off the bat that I'm an Old Testament kind of guy. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. I would imagine that the readers that expressed anger or disgust over my comments are coming from more of a New Testament view of the World or turn the other cheek. Or maybe you are just an extremist liberal who doesn't believe in personal responsibility. That's just fine by me. I thrive on debate and diverse opinion and I recieved plenty in my E-mail box. However, after reading all the opposing views brought by my readers I found none that could sway my thoughts on Rachel Corrie. To me if you aid in a First Degree murder you are guilty of First Degree murder whether you physically perform the deed or not. I believe that is even the standing law in the States. Miss Corrie without a doubt aided Terrorist murderers by defending those tunnels. Her organization as reported by Frontpage has active militant members who take up arms against Democratic Israel. To me the organization then is a terrorist one itself. Let's not split hairs here or be so naive as to think Corrie was oblivious to the anti-semitic vein running through the I.S.M. They are a group that considers mass murderers to be "freedom fighters". Regardless of the fact that even if the group they sanction were victorious and every Jew was ran into the sea the State of Palastine would be in no way Democratic but a land ran by Islamo Fascists. Like we need another Syria or Iran on our hands.

Being a Mastermind however one has to go beyond this one specific case and look deeper. I ask myself just how did a Rachel Corrie come about? She and her comrades obviously were not born with a deep hatred for the United States or the Jews in Israel. So ruling out nature we only have one broad category left to explain what went wrong.

Nurture.

Corrie and other leftist radicals were taught to hate. Now an even more important question pops up and that is exactly who were the teachers? The brainwashers who are taking bright young human beings and turning them into operatives for evil. Thinking long and hard on this I came up with a root cause and three seperate branches that sprouted from it that are clearly responsible.

The Evil Seed is Planted

Sometime around 1919 the communists started organizing and plotting strategy inside the United States becoming fully legal and recognized in Dec. 1921. From the very beginning the American Communists goal was to destroy the United States from within. In Ted Morgan's new book entitled Reds: McCarthyism in 20th-Century America the author speaks about the American communists working hand in hand with Lenin . While he pulled troops out of France in the first World War leaving American forces to fend for themselves his minions inside the U.S. according to Morgan were running a Terrorist bombing campaign. Surprised? Terrorist bombing back in 1919?? An exerpt from the book explains.

The wife and maid of Sen. Thomas Hardwick unwrapped a postal parcel which exploded, blowing off maid Ethel Williams' hands and blasting shrapnel into Mrs. Hardwick's face. An alert postal clerk read about the mail bomb and remembered similar packages had been set aside because of insufficient postage. All the packages contained bombs and alerts to other post offices turned up more bombs prior to delivery.

Altogether, radicals had mailed 30 bombs to congressmen, judges and other public figures. Only the postage error and the alert clerk had saved dozens from maiming and murder. A few weeks later, a radical planting his bomb accidentally set it off prematurely, killing himself, blowing the porch off the U.S. attorney general's house, and showering Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer with glass fragments. Not surprisingly, the public and government reacted with fury and some panic.

The Communist initially used militant actions against the U.S. while it was weakend after the war effort. When that failed and was met with harsh repercussions they decided to go another route. Infiltration of key areas via the use of deception. Namely the education system, mass media and political positions under the umbrella of the labor Unions and their Democratic Party. A brilliant strategy of using the freedoms provided in our own Constitution. Not to destroy said Constitution outright but to slowly and methodically morph it into a form of Marx's Communist Manifesto In other words.

The evil seed was planted.

Now that I have set a historical base or root cause let us look at what I consider to be the three most dangerous results of this infiltration that continues to this day as it pertains to our youth.

The Parents

One logically has to start with the childhood of these activists and to take a long hard look at their custodians. When you do so many times you will find that they were themselves leftist radicals during the period of the Vietnam War. One has to realize the importance of that war and that it was a turning point for the Communists inside the United States. Not surprisingly as the U.S. was actively fighting the spread of Communism into that country members inside the United States began actively opposing the War. Having infiltrated the key areas of education, media and politics they began a three pronged assault using free sex, drugs and anti-war music to fuel activism on campuses across the nation. Added to this was the now left leaning presses continual footage of negative scenes such as soldiers killed or injured along with stressing war losses while ignoring war victory's or other positive results in the theater of operations. Sound familiar? The dates can change but the tactics haven't. Communist organizations backed by money from the Soviet Union and Cuba had succesfully defended Vietnam for the Reds. They also used their newly created foothold on the media to crush troop morale and their sedition cost the United States the war and Vietnam it's freedom.

Those students in turn, who were useful idiots for the Soviet cause, then went on to teaching professions, important positions in the media and on Capital Hill. You see only the first wave had to deceive. Once rooted in place and after brushing McCarthy aside they ensured only people of their political orientation would excell to the best spots within their chosen profession. While all this was occuring those same useful idiots began having children. Children like Rachel Corrie.

The Indoctrination System (Public School System)

Many arguments I've heard from the left ask why the United States is invading a Country like Iraq when the real schools of terrorism are located inside Saudi Arabia. Schools named Madrassas which teach children from Kindergarten up to hate all things Western. Especially the United States and Israel. While I agree that is a very important problem I always have to ask them to tell me exactly why they are so against Madrassas in a foriegn country when we have them right here on our own soil? The only difference is we call them "Universities", we call them Primary schools or Middle Schools or High Schools. We call it Public Education.

However, instead of Islamic extremism in American schools what we have is radical Liberalism. Both are dangerous to Democracy, both teach to hate America and Israel, and sadly both are funded by the State. Don't believe me? In 2002 the American Council of Trustees and Alumi, a bipartisan group ran by Lynn Cheney and Democrat Joseph Lieberman put forth a brilliant study entitled Defending Civilization: How Our Universities Are Failing America And What Can Be Done About It.. In it they discuss the vastly different opinions of the country at large versus college campuses across the country. Citing over 90 percent approval for invading Afghanistan (NY Times/CBS Poll Sep 25, 01) even if casualties would occur. However on Campus when the same question was asked a meager 28 percent approved. The report cites well over 100 anti-American type comments from Professors and Students, some even taking up for the Terrorists (our enemy) while blaming their own country. I will not go into detail as there is to much info to relay here. I urge you to take a look at this PDF file from the goacta website however. It pacts a lot of unbiased info into such a short report and should please both sides of the fence considering it is ran by Republicans and Democrats who simply want our heritage protected. I will cite one more disturbing stat from the document which references another article on goacta. That being that of the top 55 schools in the nation only three of them require a course in the History of Western Civilization to graduate. What's worse is that out of those 55 schools 78 percent do not require any history at all!! LINK TO REPORT

Do I need to repeat that? Nothing else has to be said on leftist bias in the colleges other then it needs to be stopped dead in it's tracks. Keep the dissent, keep the lawful and peaceful protests yes but for the love of God practice what you preach. Allow both sides of the issue to be presented. Allow a student to publicly disagree with a leftist Professors views without being penalized with poor grades. Allow Conservative Professors to gain tenure once in a blue moon.. What is our Educational system, which you and I fund,worth if it can't even hold true to it's fundamental principle of a broad and diverse education? Nothing. to freedom loving Americans but everything to our enemy. One of the principles of Fifth Column tactics is to reach the youth of your enemy at the earliest age possible. Then flood them with your propaganda. Rachel Corries fate was already set in motion after being born to leftist parents. Raised in Ohio where there are numerous highly sought after schools her parents instead purposely picked out one of the most radical anti-American colleges in the Country. Probably in the top five in the nation. A school so warped and left leaning that they named the school center, a place where students congregate "Red Square". A place so radical and anti-establishment they even invited Convicted Cop Killer Mumia Abu-Jamal to give their commencement speech at graduation. See how all this is coming together now? The Parents start the process and then send their child off to an anti-American indoctrination camp. Once there the majority leftist faculty and radical upper classmen take full advantage of the highly impressionable youthful minds. Kids trying to adjust to life far from home and desperately willing to do anything to fit in and be accepted among their peers.

So we've gone over the early beginnings of Communism which was the root to this nasty weed. We've gone over the Parents role and then the biased, leftist dominated Universities who are totally out of touch with mainstream America. What's the final piece of the puzzle that works to produce Terrorists like Rachel Corrie? Why no revolution would be complete without it. I'm talking about the....

Propaganda machine

Yes once we leave the leftist controlled Campuses we should be back out in mainstream America right? I mean 92 percent was for kicking butt in Afghanistan. Go U.S.A. all the way right? Well yes and no. You see the PEOPLE of America outside of the very powerful and very small elitist left are freedom loving people who cherish Democracy. Why then is our media, namely our so called free press, radically leftist then? Shouldn't the media REFLECT the nation or should it ignore the popular opinion of the people and try to warp said opinion through the saturation of anti-American propaganda? We all saw it with our own eyes as we started the Invasion of Iraq. Papers around the country like the New York Times, Washington Post and L.A. Times filled their editorials with anti-war sentiments bashing President Bush as the very troops that he commanded were in harms way. Calling it another Vietnam (irony of ironies) and using the word "quagmire" hundreds of times. Every set back was on the front page no matter how minor while every victory was ignored. Seems I remember talking about a similar situation somewhere else in this column. See if you can remember. Image after image of mutilated Soldiers or crying Iraqi women and children were plastered up front for all to see. Meanwhile we swept through the front dominating every battle along the way taking the entire country with the least amount of casualties civilian or military in recorded history. Not two weeks after I read an article from Helen Thomas a radical editorialist stating that the outcome was always known. Everyone knew now apparantly that it would be a cakewalk.

These are the people Rachel Corrie read on a daily basis. This was the machine feeding her hate and rage. Apologists for Terrorist, dictators and cop killers. Check out the BBC lately? The publicly funded news outlet for Great Britain? They seemingly are very angry at the U.S. airing those pictures of Saddam being checked for lice. How humiliating treat that man with respect! Their editors warned their reporters to refer to this man who murdered hundreds of thousands of people as "the leader of Iraq" and not a dictator. See folks the machine rolls on. Rachel Corries death pleased them. If it bleeds it leads in their business and especially if it's America or Israels fault. However, the pic of her burning the flag leaked out to their dismay. The useful idiot they had made out to be a martyr was no longer so useful. So she fell off the radar and they continued their mission. We are talking about complete saturation by the leftist using their winning combination of meaningless sex, drugs and music from the sixties but blowing it up a million fold via the use of new existing technologies. The point being on the entertainment end to degrade our culture with lewdness and irresponsibility catering to human kinds more animalistic tendencies. Then on the information end to flood these young,doped out, lunatic minds with message after message promoting anti-American sentiment and pushing any agenda possible that goes against what made this Country the strongest and most envied place on Earth.

The result?

See for yourself.

~ Seth Monroe

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3 posted on 12/29/2003 3:54:25 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (America works best without union pests --- UNION NO!)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
... pretty young woman yelling ...

Hm? I guess I could continue reading the article, but that phrase stopped me and has me questioning this author's discernment. All I remember is a nasty girl yelling "f'ers" as she burns an American flag....

5 posted on 12/29/2003 3:56:30 PM PST by Theo
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Ach! I forgot to ping you to #4.
6 posted on 12/29/2003 3:56:32 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
X ring!
7 posted on 12/29/2003 3:59:45 PM PST by tet68
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To: Petronski
Hate to quibble, but that can't be Rachel Corrie. Rachel wouldn't be smiling. :-)


Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat receives a framed portrait of American peace activist Rachel Corrie from her parents Cindy and Craig Corrie at Arafat's office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Thursday Sept. 25, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer on March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Hussein Hussein, HO, touched up by some Freeper)

8 posted on 12/29/2003 4:01:29 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: Theo
Naw, read on...he's against Rachel The Terrorist Corrie.
9 posted on 12/29/2003 4:02:19 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture
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To: CounterCounterCulture
... Rachel Corrie was indeed an angel, an angel of death ...

Okay, after reading the rest of that article and the next, it seems the author does have some accurate insights.... I find photos of the living "Miss Corrie" not that pretty, for what it's worth....

10 posted on 12/29/2003 4:03:12 PM PST by Theo
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To: Tijeras_Slim

11 posted on 12/29/2003 4:03:39 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (Rage - 0, The Machine - 1)
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To: Theo
It's worth finishing. The writer addresses just that:

Then a small snippet of the truth, something liberals have no connection with, began to seep out. A picture of Corrie in the middle of some Palestinian children setting flame to a crude drawing of the American Flag surfaced. There was a look of sheer hatred and ugliness on her once pretty face.
12 posted on 12/29/2003 4:03:45 PM PST by Welsh Rabbit
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To: tet68

The face of "peace"
13 posted on 12/29/2003 4:04:50 PM PST by CounterCounterCulture (Rage - 0, The Machine - 1)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Atleast in your post she's right twice a day.
14 posted on 12/29/2003 4:05:13 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Death before dhimmi.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Her parents had better start thinking about suing a certain bullhorn manufacturer, methinks.
15 posted on 12/29/2003 4:06:39 PM PST by baltodog (When you're hanging from a hook, you gotta' get a bigger boat, or something like that.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
LOL That's great stuff.
16 posted on 12/29/2003 4:06:40 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: Theo
Read the article - it's a really good read, by an excellent Conservative writer. Could use some help in the editing departing, but other than that, it's good.
17 posted on 12/29/2003 4:07:32 PM PST by dware (ingredients include mechanically separated chicken and beef parts)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Rachel wouldn't be smiling. :-)

Perhaps she's transfixed by her pending 'immortality,' or perhaps she's pining for the fjords.

18 posted on 12/29/2003 4:08:33 PM PST by Petronski (I'm not always cranky.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
BWAHAHAHAAA!

You have a wicked sense of humor.

Thanks for the laugh!

19 posted on 12/29/2003 4:09:39 PM PST by Lizavetta (Savage is right. Extreme liberalness is a mental disorder.)
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To: CounterCounterCulture
Spitting image... viewed from the side...

20 posted on 12/29/2003 4:09:51 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Death before dhimmi.)
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