Welcome to "Corrie's Club"!
Posted on 04/24/2005 5:03:04 AM PDT by MisterRepublican
LAKEPORT, California (AP) -- An American activist who was killed by a car bomb in Iraq earlier this month was remembered Saturday for her dedication to humanitarian causes and her personal mission of counting civilian casualties of war.
Many of the more than 600 mourners, including friends, family, colleagues and journalists who traveled from around the world for her funeral, shared memories of Marla Ruzicka's boundless energy that helped her accomplish much in her 28 years.
Kevin Danaher, co-founder of San Francisco-based Global Exchange, a nonprofit international human rights organization, said Ruzicka's magic was understanding and showing unconditional love.
"That's why a 28-year-old woman from a small town in Northern California has so many people around the world grieving for her," Danaher said.
Ruzicka traveled to Iraq before the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion and later founded a group called CIVIC, the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, whose aim was to tally the number of Iraqi civilian deaths in the conflict. On April 16, she became one of those statistics herself when she was killed in a car bombing in Baghdad, along with her interpreter and another foreigner.
The Rev. Ted Oswald, who conducted the Mass at St. Mary's Catholic Church, said it was sad that it took a tragedy to bring to light all the good Ruzicka did. Oswald said she usually accomplished things in her own quiet way, though there were exceptions.
"There's no doubt in my mind that the good Lord has his hands full right now," he said, referring to Ruzicka's sometimes outspoken nature. "Not only does he have his hands full, but heaven will never be the same."
Oswald also recounted the time when an 8-year-old Ruzicka sold rocks door-to-door to buy carnations for her mother.
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"With passion for her cause and an unbridled capacity for having fun, she was remembered as a force of nature, a cross between Mother Teresa and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, said Quill Lawrence, a radio reporter for the British Broadcasting Corp."
Apparently she has been canonized by the liberal media as Saint Marla, patron of anti-American activists.
May she rest in pieces.
This is a joke comparing this women to Mother Theresa, If Mother Theresa had lived in Iraq under Saddam she would have been imprisoned and/or executed.
This USA hating hag would have and indeed probably did collaberate with the "Butcher of Baghdad".
egad! refrain from disparaging the name of buffy this way! is nothing sacred?
Sean Penn: Ruzicka was his hero
Tells me all I need to know about her.
Of course, now that she's been mentioned, there have to be pics. *blink*
Saint Pancake is gonna need to move over, there's a new martyr in the liberal pantheon. Think she's maybe in liberal "Heaven" getting no ethereal nookie from her 72 patchouli-wearing, sandal-clad, unemployed, long-haired smelly peace-activist environazi gay virgins right now?
}:-)4
It is obvious that, despite the proclaimed purpose of her "mission," she did not believe that Iraq would be overly dangerous for civilians, even while being invaded by American forces. Indeed, it wasn't our forces who killed her--it was those on whose behalf she was trying to generate propaganda.
LOL! My sentiments exactly!
I'm sorry she died. Somehow, I doubt she could see what a remarkable success the Iraq war has been in the area of civilian casualties. She must have read stories like this (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0107-09.htm )and never bothered to check the facts. The source is clearly Leftist, but the estimates themselves were leaked by the U.N.
Don't let the anti-Americans raise the bar of success. The world was expecting Armageddon, remember?
Burp
Yes and I hear she's a lock to win the "2005 Rachael Corrie give you life for stupidity Award"
>more than 600 mourners
Wow, a whole 600! There were at least that many here in town for a local cop that got shot in the line of duty and most of those were his family, the rest were friends and fellow officers. Sounds like most of the people at this activist's funeral were MSM types.
Welcome to "Corrie's Club"!
Presumably only those killed by Americans and the coalition. She certainly didn't seem to care much about those killed by Saddam, nor by the Jihadies since Saddam's fall. How ironic that she probably would not have counted her own death.
Maybe it's "You know, Buffy: sweet girl, not that bright" they're thinking of when they make the comparison to Marla Ruzicka.
It just has to gall the peaceniks that they can't pin this on Caterpillar.
Considering that Buffy the Vampire Slayer has got to be one of the most contemptible cesspools of crap ever put on television, they have a point.
(and given Joss Whedon's political views, they aren't far off politically either)
bitchiness in all areas gets tiresome.
after all, YOU are the SOFA KING...can't get much more contemptible than THAT, eh?
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