Posted on 10/21/2010 3:14:45 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
JERUSALEM – The parents of an American protester crushed to death seven years ago by an Israeli bulldozer are getting their first chance to confront the man who drove the vehicle that killed her. But the contact in an Israeli courtroom is indirect: The unidentified bulldozer driver is being shielded behind a wood-and-plastic partition, his voice floating into the hall over a microphone. Rachel Corrie's parents were seated about 15 feet (five meters) away as he testified publicly for the first time Thursday in their civil lawsuit against the Israeli government.
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Bookmarking for the soon-to-come Crunchel Corrie gif animations during the day.
He best be careful... Rachel could slip though the cracks and git him!
“But the contact in an Israeli courtroom is indirect: The unidentified bulldozer driver is being shielded behind a wood-and-plastic partition, his voice floating into the hall over a microphone.”
Not being able to see him must have left them feeling a bit...Flat.
Please note that Israel must go to great lengthes to keep this driver anonymous, or the ever-so-peaceful and trustworthy Muslims would kill him on the spot.
Of of the Corries’ objectives of this phony-baloney lawsuit was to get the driver’s name and address into the public record, so their, ahem, “peace activist collegues” could take matters into their own hands.
Pancakes for breakfast! Yum!!!
THE DEATH OF THE FLAT RACHAEL CORRIE
(to the tune of The Edmund Fitzgerald)
Oh the legend lives on from Palestinians on down
Of the big thing they call a ‘bulldozer’
The dozer, it’s said, always flattens its dead
When the left wing protesters turn looney.
With a carbon steel frame sixty-two metric tons more
Than the flat Rachael Corrie weighed empty.
The blade it is true is a thing to be feared
When the treads of the dozer start rolling.
The Cat’ was the pride of the Israeli side
Coming back from some hill in the Gaza
As the big dozers go, it was bigger than most
With a diesel of four hundred horses.
Concluding some berms with a couple of quick turns
Then they left fully fueled up for Rafah
When later that day her megaphone sang
Could it be that dumb witch they was hearin’?
The dirt in the treads made a tattle-tale sound
As the mud broke over the blading
And every man knew, as miss Corrie did too,
T’was a big Caterpillar come dozin’.
The blade came down and the dumb twit stood her ground
When the D9 bulldozer came plowin’.
Devoid of good sense and ignoring all risk
She turned her back on the oncoming dozer.
When it finally came, the dumb witch kept her place, sayin’
Surely, they’ll stop what they’re doing.
Under the tread her air pathway caved in, she said
Dammit, this shouldn’t have happened!
Her friends called in that the blonde witch was down,
And the bomb storage house was in peril.
And later that day when her lights went outta sight
Came the death of the flat Rachael Corrie.
Does any one know where the sense of libs go
When the blade turns the minutes to hours?
The soldiers all say she’d have got out okay
If she’d put fifteen more feet behind her.
She might have been crushed or she might have split wide;
May have broke ribs and her bladder.
And all that remains is the traces and the stains
Of her imprint, the tread tracks and splatter.
Arafat stews, Hizbollah spews
From the rooms of their compounds in Gaza.
The ISM screams like a spoiled preteen
They voice their support for the terror.
And don’t we all know, when the buses explode
They’ll march out their apologists willing,
Now activists go as the drivers all know
With the big caterpillars remembered.
In a musty old room in Ramallah they prayed,
In the ISM office of terror.
The door bell chimed till it rang seventy-two times
For each cleat on the big Caterpiller.
The legend lives on from Palestinians on down
Of the big thing they call a ’bulldozer’.
The dozer, they said, always flattens its dead
When left wing protestors turn looney!
Stolen From: http://armor.typepad.com/bastardsword/2004/01/the_death_of_th.html
You weaken your case when your opening premise is based on a falsehood. These are the routine lies that Israel has to contend with. Rachel Corrie was NOT NOT NOT "crushed" by a bulldozer. She was perched on a mound of debris, lost her footing and toppled into its blade, suffering a (probably minor) injury to her head. She was taken to a PALESTINIAN hospital where she cooperatively soon died. I contend that had she been taken to an Israeli hospital she would probably be alive today. Who had the most to gain from her death?
If these nitwits want to "confront" their daughter's killer, they need to visit a Palestinian hospital.
Somewhere in Hell, Joeseph Goebbels is chuckling.
Just Shut Up!
If I were the driver, I’d kick their @$$es. Then I’d get nasty.
Thanks for that. FReepers need to see that the pancake jokes are just counterproductive. Corrie fell and hit her head.
From the pictures I’ve seen it looked pretty clearly that her chest was crushed. I’ve worked around dozers all my life and I stay clear. They jerk around, turn on a dime, and make so much noise that very close to them there is no Doppler effect.
She was an idiot. Especially being around escavation machines. But, like high voltage, grizzles, heights, it only takes one bad experince.
By and large it’s been my observations that other than holding protest signs, liberals should stay away from anything having to do with the laws of physics. You can’t hustle reality.
I am afraid this limited confrontation won’t give the Corries the closure they need. I suggest the family and the driver get together and discuss the matter informally, perhaps over a meal. Are there any IHOPs in Israel?
Compress their DNA too!
LLS
Nothing said here will have any effect anywhere, except a few of us get to start our day with a laugh.
LLS
When will they face the fact that they were lousy parents, raising a daughter with terrible judgment who was naive? Parent FAIL!
I really should be able to work up some sympathy for the Corries on the loss of their daughter, but I can’t. God help me, I can’t.
Go play around with terrorists and try to block armored bulldozers, and you may end up Saint Pancake.
}:-)4
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