AMERICAN PROTESTER KILLED

FOX NEWS | 3-16-03 | SELF

[Knuckle Sandwich Combo]

American protester run over by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza and killed. Developing...

[Cobra64]

... and the driver was charged with "hit and RUN"

[JavaTheHutt]

When I was in an armored cav battalion, we called the ground pounders who got too close to our tanks "crunchies", for reasons that should be obvious.

I think this useful idiot qualifies as a crunchy.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

OF COURSE! My town. 100% certainty that she was from TESC: The college that has taught for over 30 years that America is behind every evil in the world. Others out there think the colleges by them are bad...but they haven't seen anything until they see The Evergreen State College (it's the college that had cop-killer Mumia as a commencement speaker, to jog some memories).

Those bulldozers need to come here and bulldoze that place to the ground -- there's a high proportion of terrorist sympathizers at TESC than in the Gaza Strip.

[Welsh Rabbit]

I wonder if any of the profs at Evergreen will ever feel even a stab of guilt at having successfully brainwashed a young idiot right into the grave?

That's what I was just thinking. I'm guessing she probably took a lot of poly sci from some Israel hating professors. Isn't Evergreen the school that had that copkiller Mumia Abu Whatever give a graduation speech?

[TomServo]

Well I'll say this. It's rare a pesron actually dies for what they believe. I'll give her that much - the poor dupe.

[veronica]

Welcome to the new and bloodthirsty Free Republic!

Oh please. This is very unfortunate, but human shields and the like take their chances when they go into war zones, and stand in front of bulldozers, in an attempt to protect terrorists and their lairs. Not a good idea.

[July 4th]

I bet she never thought something like that could happen. It's not like anyone who likes to play the "human shield" game actually thinks it through. She was probably on spring break.

[Knuckle Sandwich Combo]

LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL ILLNESS.

Liberals are all suicidal in nature. It's why they prefer a form of government (socialism) that murdered 100 million of their own citizens in the past century alone. It's why they hate guns (they can't trust themselves around them). It's why they prefer Sad-um over Bush (or anything that remotely resembles the conscience they run from). It's why they would rather lie down in front of bulldozers than ask themselves why Yassir Arafat is one of the richest men in the world while his people live in squalor.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[ez]

It's why they would rather lie down in front of bulldozers than ask themselves why Yassir Arafat is one of the richest men in the world while his people live in squalor.

Bump. (love your nick...)

[CheneyChick]

See this?

http://www.omjp.org/SustMove.html

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Olympia Washington...sad, yes, but it figures - home to much of the leftcoast anti-America drugged-out, body-pierced, homosexual grunge "music" crowd

Actually, you're going easy on this crowd -- they're also violently anarchist (to the point of "capitalist" property destruction, well not property to them...they don't believe in the concept of "property"), support the killers of police, actually have students that go out and kill police, and are actively supporting terrorists and anyone who is anti-America (they hope that Kim Jong Il carries through on his threats).

[veronica]

And further, if the "witnesses" are Palestinians, the veracity of the report, and/or the initial version of the story hitting the wires, is always suspect. There exists a track record of fudging the facts.

[UncleSamUSA]

Best news we've had all morning (so far) -- an anti-Israeli, anti-Western, anti-US "activist" bites the dust. EX-CELLENT.

[MindBender26]

Never bring just a knife to a gunfight.

Never bring just skin, bone and leftist ideology to a bulldozer fight.

(and never play cards for money with a man named "Doc" or take a girl named "Frenchy" home to meet your parents.)

[EYEWatchin]

They say one's born every day!

[Rebelbase]

My first thought on college courses also!

[TheConservator]

From Ha'aretz:

American woman peace activist killed by IDF
bulldozer in Gaza

By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent, and Agencies

An American woman peace protester was killed Sunday by an IDF bulldozer, which ran her over during the demolition of a house at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.

Another activist was wounded in the incident.

Rachel Corey, 23, from Olympia, Washington, was killed when she ran in front of the bulldozer to try to prevent it from destroying a house, doctors in Gaza said.

"Corey was killed in the al-Salam neighbourhood when an
Israeli bulldozer covered her with sand as she stood in front of a bulldozer," said Dr Ali Musa, a doctor from the al-Najar hospital in the southern Gaza Strip.

He said she died from skull and chest fractures.

The IDF said it was checking the report.

Greg Schnabel, 28, from Chicago, said the protesters were in the house of Dr. Samir Masri.

"Rachel was alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them to stop," he said. "She waved for bulldozer to stop and waved. She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled 'stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran back over her."

Since the start of the Intifada, groups of international protesters have gathered in several locations in territories, setting themselves up as "human shields" to try to stop IDF operations.

Corey was the first member of the groups, called "International Solidarity Movement," to be killed in the conflict. Schnabel said Corey was a student at Evergreen College and was to graduate this year.

He said there were eight protesters at the site, four from the United States and four from Great Britain. "We stay with families whose house is to be demolished," he told the Associated Press by telephone from Rafah after the incident.

[BenLurkin]

>Civility is much more desirable than frothing rants, I agree.
> The problem though is that we are succumbing to a seething anger against people like the terrorists themselves, and this "protester", who are the enemies of all we hold dear, including the very civility we cherish.
>There is an increasing tension between our natural civil deportment, and the post 9-11 urge to take direct action agsint the foes of America.
>Yes, it is unconscionable to cheer on the death of ANYONE, and I for one would not wish to be perceived as having done so.

>We are typing, some of us, on tear stained keyboards, others are pounding the keys with the ferocity born of frustration at our nation's current circumstance.
>Please continue to give your guidance for your words hold weight.
>Please also forgive those of us who might, in a moment of passion, step over the line into uncivil discourse.

[Stopislamnow]

Yep, these protestors only care about thier own self-loathing and guilt and finding ways to assuage it. Amazing.
To die protecting terrorists. And thats the kicker, IDF demolishes homes of terrorists. She was protecting terrorists. Karmic retribution Ms. Crow?

On the bright side, this might give the whackjobs here in the US a up close and personal vision of what happens when you get in front of large moving objects. Since they plan to try to disrupt life here when war starts.