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."
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How utterly stupid.
Let the Rachel Corrie jokes start now....
oh PLEASE let this get thrown out. I will lose total hope for all legal authority if it's not.
Well, that part of the suit makes it pretty clear what this is all about, and it surely ain't justice.
Of course it never occurs to these morons that Corrie might have been responsible for her own death.
What a joke... My explorer is specially equiped to run over people! I should sue Ford!
The Caterpillar Attorneys need to immediately file a motion to squash...
ROTFLMAO!
Peaceful co-existence with these freaks is getting more difficult by the minute.
And I thought she was happy with the pancake plaque!
BTW: Caterpillar's stock has been up substantially since the incident occurred. Coincidence? ;-)
Must've been the D9 "Kill Dozer" (anybody besides me remember that lame old movie?)
someone should tell them a bulldozer is NOT an SUV
LOL
This is just flat silly.
What's next? Outlaw "assault Caterpillers"?
You're bad.
Should come with a warning sticker. "Objects you're looking at appear as close as they really are."
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