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Parents pick up banner of slain activist daughter
The Olympian ^
| June 14, 2003
| GREG BARRETT
Posted on 06/14/2003 11:45:18 AM PDT by OriginalV
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To: SJackson; Yehuda; Nachum; adam_az; LarryM; American in Israel; ReligionofMassDestruction; ...
The story of terrorist-supporting Corrie continues...
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:15:53 PM PDT
by
yonif
To: OriginalV
Craig Corrie, 56, was a cavalry sergeant responsible for clearing trees and bamboo for Army bases in Cambodia. His soldiers used military bulldozers similar to the U.S.-made Caterpillar involved in Rachel's death.
Ironic.
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:17:07 PM PDT
by
rwfok
To: OriginalV
...said Phan Nguyen, a friend from the International Solidarity Movement. "She wouldn't have wanted to become like that. ... She would've been like, 'Why am I getting all of this attention and the Palestinians don't?Really, Phan? Is that really what she would've been like? Are you sure she wouldn't have been like something else?
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:18:53 PM PDT
by
judgeandjury
(The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the state.)
To: PoisedWoman
Expect to see them on the streets of Seattle soon throwing bricks through Starbuck's windows for Peace. Come to think of it, isn't Starbuck's owned by a Jewish fellow? (Schultz? Schwartz?) Is that why the anarchists target them all the time? That is similar to what I thought as I read this article of the Corrie parents: their anti-semitism is not well-hidden. The Corries would have been good Nazis in the 30's and early 40's (or good Frenchmen of today)---by that I mean easily led and easily influenced to join a crusade to exterminate Jews.
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:19:31 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com
Yeah did they have bulldozers carry the coffin?
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:21:48 PM PDT
by
pitinkie
To: Liberal Classic
Please post the pics with the bulldozer too!!
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:22:37 PM PDT
by
pitinkie
To: judgeandjury
You'd think someone named Phan Ng-something would understand "killing fields"---the Palis would make Isreal what Pol Pot made Cambodia if they could.
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:22:57 PM PDT
by
gg188
To: OriginalV
Parents pick up banner of slain activist daughter
Insanity is genetic; you get it from your kids.
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:23:37 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: Ole Okie
And I would at least scratch my head and wonder where I had gone wrong in her education.Well there would be the problem. At no point should you ever question whether or not you messed her up, because the minute you accept any blame for helping to turn her into a raving activist - who dumbed herself into an early death by espousing the cause of some of the most intractable people on the planet - you would have to stop blaming the rest of the world.
Personal feelings aside, any real introspection would be negative public relations for the cause. After all, as a dead "victim," she's of inestimably greater value than a live "protestor" to whatever group can successfully prop her corpse up for the cameras (metaphorically speaking). The ends justify the means, the ends justify the means, the ends justify the means...
To: OriginalV
Has she become a Darwin award winner, or is that to UN PC?
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:39:27 PM PDT
by
dts32041
("The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.")
To: hellinahandcart
Preach it!
To: OriginalV
The deeper issue here is something that I call "the alienation of altruism" which is endemic to modern western cultures. In any culture, considerable social status is given to members who sacrifice their own well-being for the sake of "the tribe". This behavior has obvious beneficial effects for the culture in question as it encourages the best and brightest to perform heroic acts to insure in-group survival in a harsh and competitive world.
Notice that Rachel did not go to Eastern Europe to help the recently freed peoples there to build their nations. She didn't go to Appalachia to help impoverished Southerners. She didn't go to Zimbabwe to rescue white farmers who are victims of a pogrom at the hands of Mugabe.
She went to Gaza. She went to help a non-Western people fight a tribal war...losing her life in the process.
For several decades now, Western civilization has been in the grips of intense self-doubt and self-hatred (which have given rise to political correctness, multi-culturalism, etc). One of the manifestations of this behavior is that altruistic efforts only receive social status when they are performed for out-group, non-Western recipients (hence the messiah complex that american white liberals have towards blacks). As someone who is proud of my Western culture and heritage, I find this behavior to be incomprehensible and somewhat repugnant.
To: Liberal Classic
a poster child for peace?
She doesn't look so peaceful to me
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posted on
06/14/2003 12:49:39 PM PDT
by
eXe
(The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war)
To: OriginalV
"a poster child for peace"
Error, error, bleep, bleep, bleep! She was a POSTER CHILD FOR TERRORISM! Specifically, the murderering terrorists--Hamas.
To: eXe
That picture always get me...look at the dumbfounded looks on the kids and adult faces. They seem to be saying, "What the heck is she doing and why?"
To: PoisedWoman
Old saying an a**hole does not fall far from the tree. Or was that apple, no they are just a**holes.
To: Liberal Classic
"And the papers print her picture,
Nearly everywhere she goes.
Rachel Corrie at the Opera,
Rachel Corrie at the Show.
So my mind was filled with wonder
When the evning headlines read:
'Rachel Corrie went home last night
And got her skanky, hate-filled Anarchist, America-hating, Jew-bashing, smart-a$$, Holier-than-Thou self run over by a tank because she thought that if you only cared enough, you could change thousands of years of pointless ethnic hatred." -------------Sorta Simon and Garfunkel
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posted on
06/14/2003 1:31:49 PM PDT
by
50sDad
(The only thing worse than Smurfs is CLOWNS!)
To: OriginalV
a martyr for Middle East injustices, a hero in Arab countriesNice words. The reality is she has been used by the Jew-murdering propagandists of the Gaza City ghetto. Big deal. Considering the anti-war and anti-American sentiments of her father, her parents sending her to an ultraliberal school, and their encouragement of her activism, it's no wonder she ended up dead for a really stupid cause. I wonder how much guilt they are trying to make up for by pushing this "our daughter is a martyr" crap; they are just trying to atone for the parenting disaster that they are.
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posted on
06/14/2003 2:50:48 PM PDT
by
PLK
To: Paul Atreides
Pauk, that is SO stolen...LOL
To: 50sDad
Warning: graphic image below.
Christine Bustany, Amnesty Internation USA's Advocacy Director for the Middle East. ``US-made bulldozers have been 'weaponized' and their transfer to Israel must be suspended.''
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posted on
06/14/2003 6:00:13 PM PDT
by
Liberal Classic
(Quemadmoeum gladis nemeinum occidit, occidentis telum est.)
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