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I’m just here for the Rachel Corrie pancake pictures. |
Posted on 01/05/2011 1:40:39 PM PST by Winged Hussar
Craig and Cindy Corrie's quest for media attention and globe-trotting instead of justice for daughter Rachel
"There's not a lot of money in revenge." --Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride
...The death of Rachel Corrie has certainly given her parents the opportunity for worldwide travel to places like Argentina, as well as to Israel and many American cities where they are the center of media attention. If they sought genuine justice against those who were most directly responsible for their daughter's death, as any person of honor would do, these travel and media opportunities would dry up pretty quickly.
The media has little interest in reckless, irresponsible, and relatively nameless drifters and activists. To put this statement in perspective, suppose a nameless thug or gang member murders somebody in a back alley. It is unlikely that newspapers outside the city in which the crime took place will give the investigation or trial more than passing coverage. When the suspect's name is O.J. Simpson or (in the case of animal abuse) Michael Vick, the case gets national attention. A drunk driving arrest or conviction similarly gets maybe one or two paragraphs in the local paper unless the accused is somebody like Paris Hilton, Mel Gibson, or Lindsay Lohan; then the whole country if not the entire world knows about it.
The purported "murder" of an American peace activist by an advanced and civilized democracy* like Israel similarly gets worldwide media attention, and those who knowingly, willfully, and recklessly put Rachel Corrie's life at risk said as much.
(Excerpt) Read more at israpundit.com ...
http://web.archive.org/web/20030417080621/http://www.freepalestinecampaign.org/Stranger+article.htm
Joseph Smith, who was present when Rachel Corrie died and whose highest priority seemed to be to take pictures instead of, for example, trying to get her out of the bulldozer's path, said, “The spirit that she died for is worth a life. This idea of resistance, this spirit of resisting this brutal occupying force, is worth anything. And many, many, many Palestinians give their lives for it all the time. So the life of one international, I feel, is more than worth the spirit of resisting oppression.”
Let’s see, travel to a foreign country - stand in front of an EMPTY house of a suicide bomber, and challenge a bulldozer from Israel to a game of chicken.
She was simply too stupid to be allowed to reproduce.
Thank goodness her parents have ceased reproductive activites, for they failed her, as badly as her common sense failed.
During their travels. do they get to eat for free at IHOP?
One cannot lose what what didn’t have to begin with.
Why did they allow their daughter in a war zone? they are the guilty party in this case!
Ha. Who is more oppressive? Followers of a death-cult hell-bent on destruction of those who don't (and even do) agree with them, or the country out to protect itself from said death-cultists?
Thank you Israel.
“Have Craig and Cindy Corrie Lost their Honor?”
How can people lose that which they never possessed?
Forgive me for going off topic, but in a totally unrelated matter, did you know IHOP just brought back its all you can eat pancake special, starting at only $4.99!
http://www.easyir.com/easyir/prssrel.do?easyirid=4004912BBDCCAE2C&version=live&prid=703907
Pretty nuch sums up what I was thinking.
I’m just here for the Rachel Corrie pancake pictures.
Craig and Cindy Corrie give Cindy She-hag a run for her money.
Nobody could trample their dead kid’s memory like the bitch in the ditch did. But gosh darn it - Craig and Cindy are trying.
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I’m just here for the Rachel Corrie pancake pictures. |
More air for me to breathe. They were bad parents.
More air for me to breathe. They were bad parents.
She was not “crushed” by a bulldozer, rather she was struck in the head by concrete debris and, as I understand it, died in a Palestinian hospital. I always felt that had she been taken to an Israeli hospital she might well have lived, with no more treatment than a couple of asprins and some bed rest.
I never celebrated the death of that girl, but I have no sympathy for her or her parents. She was a dum-bass who put herself into the situation that took her life.
Now her parents take the low-road toward martyrdom for their idiot offspring and I have to ask...what “honor”?!
“If they sought genuine justice against those who were most directly responsible for their daughter’s death, as any person of honor would do, these travel and media opportunities would dry up pretty quickly.”
Gee, ya think? What a crushing discovery....
Your play on words left me a little flat.
My apologies...I was distracted because I was thinking about eating some squash....
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