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Posted on 03/16/2003 8:21:13 AM PST by Knuckle Sandwich Combo
American protester run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza and killed. Developing...
My bet is that she'll be referred to, in perpetuity, as a martyr, while the profs lurch forward untouched toward their retirement benefits.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a freep attack:
A Duty to Disobey All Unlawful Orders
By Lawrence Mosqueda, Ph.D.
The Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA 98505
mosqueda@evergreen.edu
The person killed was a 23 year old American girl. What she was doing may have been misguided and stupid in many peoples opinion here but her death is no reason for "rejoicing". Anyone that thinks so has a major malfunction.
She likely has a family and people that love her. A mom and dad. As a father I weep for her parents. As a follower of Christ I pray for her soul. And for those grieving for her.
And unlike you, I don't wish for anyones death. That is sick. A dumb kid like this did not "need killin" as we say here in Texas.
Your head is screwed on wrong here.
Apparently hers did too.
SOUTH AFRICA - The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission granted amnesty to Amy Biehl's murderers - four radical black youths - winding up months of hearings which dug up some truth about the worst crimes committed during the darkest days of apartheid. Reconciliation, however, has a long way to go yet.
The Commission, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace prize winner, came to a unanimous decision to free four South African youths from prison where they were serving 18-year sentences for the murder.
Amy Biehl, 26, a straight-A student from California, participating in the Fulbright exchange programme in Cape Town, was stoned to death by an angry mob of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) supporters in the black township of Guguletu, just days before her scheduled trip home. She was giving a lift to three women, black colleagues, on that fateful day of August 25, 1993, when her car was suddenly surrounded by a mob of black youths.
Rocks and bricks were thrown at her car and Amy Biehl, the only white person around, was dragged out. Her friends pleaded for Amy's life, trying to explain to the attackers that the white woman was a comrade who had come all the way from America to South Africa in order to support the struggle for democracy.
But all their cries and appeals fell on deaf ears. Mongezi Manqina, Easy Nofemela, Vusumzi Ntamo and Ntobeki Peni were just returning from a meeting where one of the local leaders of the PAC, a radical African liberation movement, had called on his black compatriots to cause widespread unrest.
They had just heard that "all whites were their enemy" and the slogan "One settler, one bullet" was chanted.
Amy's killers later apologised to her parents, Linda and Peter Biehl, acknowledging that the golden girl from California was an innocent victim.
All four convicts who were, at the time of the crime, between the ages of 18 and 22, insisted that the murder of Amy Biehl was politically motivated and an unfortunate accident. No one explained why Amy's personal belongings disappeared...
Desmond Tutu's Commission is authorised to approve amnesty for everyone who committed crimes during the apartheid era (1960 to 1994) provided that the accused fully admitted their culpability and proved that their actions were politically motivated.
The South African media published a survey, the result of interviews with 2 500 people from different race and income groups, questioning the usefulness of the truth and reconciliation process. Over 70 percent of whites and people of Asian origin believed that Tutu's Commission had led to a worsening of inter-race relations. Even most of the blacks shared this opinion.
Some South Africans apparently evaded the truth, including 82-year-old former president, Pieter Botha, the mastermind of a secret chemical and biological warfare program, Dr Wouter Basson, and some high-ranking black leaders who opted for collective forgiveness. Amy's assassins managed to succeed in hiding the brutal killing of an innocent American girl behind "appropriate" political motives. But it seems that Amy's parents are part of a minority in South Africa who believe that Tutu's Commission was a success.
"In the cases of the four amnesty applicants in Amy's murder, we hope they will receive the support necessary to live productive lives in a non-violent atmosphere," the South African media quoted Peter and Linda Biehl from California. "In fact," they added, "we hope the spirits of Amy and of those like her will be a force in their new lives."
I repeat.
In for a dime, in for a dollar.
Anti-war events Upcoming anti-war activities in South Sound include:
- Peace activist and political satirist Dave Lippman will perform 7:30 p.m. Friday at The Evergreen State College Longhouse. Cost is $10 for the general public and $5 for students, but no one will be turned away.
- A peace vigil for women and children is scheduled in Heritage Park in downtown Olympia at 3 p.m. Saturday on International Women's Day. Participants will attempt to spell out "No War" or "Peace" with their bodies.
- United for Peace Thurston County, a coalition of peace activists, is inviting the public to a potluck 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Traditions Cafe, 300 Fifth Ave. S.W., Olympia, to discuss anti-war strategies to pursue in the days and weeks ahead.
The Olympian Online
This speaks volumes. In other words, "because WE are here, you have to stop. We command you to stop. We are special, righteous, the annoited. You will therefore stop..."
People like this suffer from personality disorder, if not psychosis.
No, it should have given the protesters a clue that the dozer operators weren't going to stop for a human shield. The writer is a dope.
...The word bulldozer wandered through his mind for a moment in search of something to connect with.
The bulldozer outside the kitchen window was quite a big one.
He stared at it.
"Yellow," he thought and stomped off back to his bedroom to get dressed...He looked at himself in the wardrobe mirror. He stuck out his tongue. "Yellow," he thought. The word yellow wandered through his mind in search of something to connect with.
Fifteen seconds later he was out of the house and lying in front of a big yellow bulldozer that was advancing up his garden path...
Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human... He was by no means a great warrior: in fact he was a nervous worried man. Today he was particularly nervous and worried because something had gone seriously wrong with his job - which was to see that Arthur Dent's house got cleared out of the way before the day was out...
"Mr Dent," he said.
"Hello? Yes?" said Arthur.
"Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr Prosser...
They say that intentionally or not, the activists are assisting a dictator who wantonly has killed and tortured tens of thousands of his own people and rules with a vicious will.
Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of all U.S. forces in the gulf region, said at a recent news conference that allied forces would not be able to assure the safety of civilians, including Americans, who are human shields.
The U.S. and allied forces would do everything they could to avoid civilian deaths, Franks said, but he noted that wars inevitably result in such tragedies.
I consider these people to be giving aid and comfort to the enemy. If they are killed, they brought it upon themselves and I won't mourn for them. But I won't be laughing and dancing in their blood if and when some of them are killed when the bombs start falling. I don't think that makes me an apologist simply because I don't find it a joking matter (these comments are not aimed at you, mountaineer, just my thoughts).
Some mother and father ought to feel guilty for not educating their daughter properly, and allowing her to go over there in the first place.
HA! - Don't blame the weather! - Rain and beautiful surroundings does not do this without help! - I am from there too!
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