[dennisw]

	Palestinian children light candles for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service held by school children in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo) - Mar 17 2:14 PM ET
	Palestinians carry placards read ' No Peace with settlements', and 'We ask the International committee to secure protection for the Palestinian unarmed people', while mourners carry a mock coffin of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 1:12 PM ET
	Palestinian medical workers carry a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in front of United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 12:15 PM ET
	Palestinian children carry a mock coffin covered by an American flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern of Gaza strip, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra). - Mar 17 11:41 AM ET
	Palestinian children carry a mock coffin covered by a American flag commemorating Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza strip (news - web sites), Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) - Mar 17 11:23 AM ET
	An uidentified Palestinian woman puts flower at a mock coffin of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services at the Unknown Soldier square in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 11:04 AM ET
	Palestinians put flowers at a mock coffin of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service at the Unknown Soldier square in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 11:04 AM ET
	Palestinian women carry a mock coffin covered by the Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 10:17 AM ET
	An unidentified Palestinian woman puts flowers at a mock coffin for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial services in front of the United Nations (news - web sites) headquarters in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 9:32 AM ET
	Palestinian medical workers carry the mock coffin, covered by a Palestinian flag, of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' while a women carries a placard reading ' No Peace with settlements' during a memorial service in Gaza city, Monday March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said.(AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 9:28 AM ET
	Palestinians carry a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag of Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' passes by a picture of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites) and the Dome of the Rock during a memorial services in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 9:30 AM ET
	A Palestinian medical worker carries a mock coffin covered by a Palestinian flag for Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Washington, a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement' during a memorial service in Gaza city, Monday, March 17, 2003. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003 while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) - Mar 17 9:01 AM ET
	Friends of Rachel Corrie grieve at a candlelight vigil in Olympia, Wash., Sunday evening, March 16, 2003. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, died Sunday in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff) - Mar 16 11:35 PM ET
	Holly Gwinn Graham, center, sings a ballad during a candlelight vigil in Olympia, Wash., Sunday evening, March 16, 2003, for Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Corrie died Sunday in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff) - Mar 16 11:17 PM ET
	Olympia, Wash. residents stand in silent vigil around a mock casket at a candlelight vigil Sunday evening, March 16, 2003, for Rachel Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia. Corrie, 23, died Sunday in Gaza while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Louie Balukoff) - Mar 16 11:01 PM ET
	Palestinian children light candles in front of a banner saying 'Rachel Corrie you are in our hearts' during a night vigil at Gaza city, March 17, 2003. An Israeli military bulldozer killed Corrie on Sunday as she was protesting the demolition of a house in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) on Sunday, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said. 'The bulldozer put sand on her and kept crushing her,' said Nicholas Dure, a fellow member of the International Solidarity Campaign to Protect the Palestinian People. REUTERS/Jose Manuel Ribeiro - Mar 16 10:04 PM ET
	Peace activist Rachel Corrie is shown at the Burning Man festival in a photo from September 2002, in Black Rock City, Nev. Corrie, 23, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in the Gaza Strip (news - web sites) city of Rafah while trying to stop a bulldozer from tearing down a Palestinian physician's home. She fell in front of the machine, which ran over her and then backed up, witnesses said. Israeli military spokesman Capt. Jacob Dallal called her death an accident. State Department spokesman Lou Fintor said the U.S. government had asked Israeli officials for a full investigation. (AP Photo/Denny Sternstein) - Mar 16 9:41 PM ET
	Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement,' burns a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah in this Feb. 15, 2003 file photo. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) - Mar 16 8:56 PM ET

[dennisw]

Sun Mar 16, 8:56 PM ET

Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., a member of the 'International Solidarity Movement,' burns a mock U.S. flag during a rally in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) town of Rafah in this Feb. 15, 2003 file photo. Corrie was run over and crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer Sunday, March 16, 2003, while she was trying to stop it from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

[mabelkitty]

I'm confused. Why are they under the impression that anybody but her family would care about her plight?

Are the news reports on American sentiment (war with Iraq) that f-d up?

[Centurion2000]

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Now why would they put an American flag on her mock coffin when she was burning one just the other day ????

[boothead]

Mess with the bull-you get the horns.

[pankot]

So she found out the 'dozer was more solid than her movement...

[freepy smurf]

Got any pictures of the bulldozer?

[tet68]

Interesting how those mock funerals seem to grow full blown
into the minds of all those folks at the same time.

Here is what happens when you mock.

Henry V.

tell the pleasant prince this mock of his
Hath turn'd his balls to gun-stones; and his soul
Shall stand sore-charged for the wasteful ven-
geance
That shall fly with them: for many a thousand
widows
Shall this his mock mock out of their dear hus-
bands;
Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles
down;
And some are yet ungotten and unborn
That shall have cause to curse the Dauphin's
scorn.
But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal; and in whose name
Tell you the Dauphin I am coming on,
To venge me as I may and to put forth
My rightful hand in a well-hallow'd cause.
So get you hence in peace; and tell the Dauphin
His jest will savour but of shallow wit
When thousands weep more than did laugh at
it.

[L.N. Smithee]

Folks in the San Francisco Bay Area may remember an incident some fifteen to twenty years ago in which a "peace" group named Nuremberg Actions led by Daniel "Pentagon Papers" Ellsberg attempted to block a train in Concord, CA (NE of San Francisco) supposedly carrying munitions headed for the Nicaraguan Contras, or some U.S.-supported armed troops in that region.

A guy named Brian Willson (no relation to either the singer or the talk-show host of the similar-sounding name) was seated along with a few others of the group on the railroad tracks, and as the train -- moving slowly and with whistle blaring -- approached the protestors in full view of everyone, they leaped off the tracks. Willson was a little too slow, and was slammed by the train, which dragged him for a good distance, shearing off his legs in the full view of his wife.

Of course, Willson and his family sued, saying that the train should have traveled slower knowing that there was a possibility that someone couldn't get away from the train, and paraplegic Willson got at least a million bucks.

The last I read about Willson, he was battling cancer. Alone. A few years after the incident, his wife left him.

For another woman.

I don't like to say "So what?" about anyone who dies (with the exception of perpetrators of honest-to-goodness mayhem), but it's really difficult for me to feel any sympathy for Corrie. I believe there is a way that people who really don't want to die live their lives, and those others who choose to reject common sense and the natural self-survival instinct have no one to blame but themselves. To clarify what I mean by that, consider this; I don't believe, for example, Amy Biehl fits this description, because she wasn't in South Africa to cause trouble -- on the other hand, lifelong bed-hopping scam artist/tramp Bonny Lee Bakley fits this definition perfectly. In the case of Corrie, she was in the region to join those whose support for suicide bombers and terrorists is unambiguous. Is her death supposed to make us stop and think about the actions of the Israelis when she died for the cause of defending those who virtually beatify Palestinians who slaughter innocent Jews?

I don't think so.

[gg188]

Peace activist Rachel Corrie is shown at the Burning Man festival

Burning man festival? She was wasting time there when she could have been out keeping the world safe for terrorist bombers?