Rachel's story needs to be told, now

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | 3/16/06 | P-I Columnist ROBERT L. JAMIESON Jr.

[SaveTheChief]

If Rachel's story were told in a truthful way, it would be a story of an America-hating leftist, terrorist sympathizer who didn't understand the laws of physics.

The left wants to make a martyr out of her, but to me she will always be an idiot who didn't get out of the way of a bulldozer. Even animals have more sense than that.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I'm not going to read this Leftist BS from the Seattle P-Iss.

But from the opening lines, it looks like another poorly researched article. There is a play making the rounds about this anti-American idiot who committed involuntary suicide.

[Paul_Denton]

LOL, well it is worth repeating so go ahead and post it too :-)

[satchmodog9]

[TeddyCon]

[Quick Shot]

This is painful, in a hysterical kind of way. The humor may be a little flat, but... She'll be remembered as one of the not-so-speedy bumps in the middle east.

[Paul_Denton]

nm you did LOL

[small voice in the wilderness]

Just another speed bump on the road to "WTH was I thinking" infamy.

[Slings and Arrows]

RACHEL'S STORY
by Slings and Arrows

See Dick and Rachel.

See the oncoming bulldozer.

See Dick run away from the bulldozer. Run Dick run!

See Rachel sit in front of the bulldozer. Sit Rachel sit!

See Dick live.

See Rachel die.

MORAL: Sometimes a Rachel is the bigger Dick.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Faux-Intellectual Ipecac Alert

[jazusamo]

[Maybe the young student from The Evergreen State College was a tad naive,]

Maybe she was but she's more than a tad dead.

[TASMANIANRED]

Terrible when pictures of reality get in the way of fantasy.

[hunter112]

When I spoke with Craig and Cindy Corrie a few weeks ago, they'd just come back home to the Seattle area after a rattling episode. In the Middle East, Palestinian activists had tried to kidnap them. The activists had a change of heart when they were told the couple's last name. If that is not a powerful testament to Rachel's legacy, I don't know what is.

No, that's a powerful testament to the evil of the subhuman scum that their daughter wasted her life trying to defend. Decent people don't attempt random kidnappings to make political points. Even Rachel Corrie's incredibly stupid stand in front of a bulldozer had more moral value than anything the Palis do on a daily basis. Including trying to kidnap her incredibly stupid parents just because they were Americans.

[TASMANIANRED]

Tragic when such a beautiful innocent dies.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

her white skin and U.S. passport could bring vital attention to ignored people in subhuman and desperate conditions.

What this story is actually protesting is the fact that the Israeli soldier did not allow "her white skin and U.S. passport" to protect terrorists from reprisal.

Which, in fact, also took courage in its own way.

[Shermy]

"In both instances, the message was clear: Don't mess with us."

When "THE JOOS" express an opinion, it's an aggression. LOL

[umgud]

If fear of offending Israel -- a country in blind lockstep with the United States on foreign policy -- drives this second silencing of Rachel, then her story is needed now more than ever.

This is all you have to read to know where the writer stands.

[vladimir998]

I'm honestly not trying to be flippant, but....can you imagine what it was like for her to know (for those few seconds when she could still think) that she had made a horribly stupid decision? It must have been horrible for her to have not only realized she was going to die, but that she had chosen poorly in what she had done. How pathetic. How sad. What a waste.

[sheik yerbouty]

A posthumous Darwin Award..

[TASMANIANRED]

Bull dozer was looking for tunnels not tearing down a house.