Parents Seek Probe in Activist's Death

Seattle Times ^ | 03-19-03 | florangela davila

[Dr.Deth]

Probe? They don't need a probe, they need a spatula.

[ScholarWarrior]

1. bigunreal has been banned.

2. Look at the pictures of the parents. They look like siblings.

[Dr.Deth]

Some of that came from attending an alternative elementary school the Corries helped found in the 1980s. The school's core curriculum focuses on the environment, social justice and peace.

Damn, that's the first pang of sympathy I've felt for the pancake. She's been brainwashed by the looniest of the loony left for her entire life. It could only ever end thus.

[LisaAnne]

The whole thing is just pathetic.

[Dr.Deth]

it also is very legitimate to question whether the Israelis have an unbelieveable policy of running over protesters

Why unbelievable? Seems like good sound policy to me.

[pepsionice]

This kid...and I hate using the term for a 22-year old person...was totally naive about the ways of the world. She was indoctrinated by parents, sucked up even more indoctrination at college, and simply walked out into the world with no brains. I see no need to waste the time of the US government in probing this death. The facts, the pictures, the interviews...all point to someone who was on a death march. If she hadn't died there, she would have died in the American northwest saving trees, or in the Phillipines standing up against American troops. She was a 'dead-man walking'.

[Tall_Texan]

I wonder how her loved ones would feel if they visited here.

Maybe it would provide a dose of reality - a realization that their daughter's life was cut short because she dared to assume that those involved in violent conflict would be sure to keep her out of harm's way.

I would hope her parents feel the same way a father felt after his son died trying to immitate a stunt he saw on the MTV show "Jackass". A hollow feeling of a wasted life spent tempting fate and losing.

I do have sympathy for the parents because they've lost someone dear to them but that doesn't change the reality that she needlessly dared a military vehicle to a game of "chicken" (or possibly "Jackass") and lost.

Reality can be a cruel thing and liberals who live in their self-created fairy-lands are likely victims when they have to confront reality.

Did you ask yourself what purpose is served by burning a replica of an American flag before Palestinian children? If the alleged goal of her trip was to find a peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (as the article purports), she found a very strange way of advocating peace. It would seem the only purpose of her flag-burning was to teach Palestinians to hate America, which is something they really don't lack without us sending "peaceniks" like this one. They're already taught a lot of home-grown hate without us exporting it to them.

[Tall_Texan]

...and defend the memory of a young idealistic American citizen....THAT BURNS AN AMERICAN FLAG IN A FOREIGN LAND AMONGST CHILDREN.

Nope. Sorry. You defend her. I can't.

[Wondervixen]

Here's your probe...

Your daughter went to a place she had no good business being and like a fricking retarded oppossum, stepped in front of a bulldozer & let it run her over.

You have so much to be proud of...She was such a "bright" girl.