Rachel Corrie Returns (Barf Alert)

AP ^ | September 30, 2003 | Lara Sukhtian

[PeaceCorpsGuy]

Corries Reject Israeli Claims about Rachel's Death --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Tuesday, September 30 2003 @ 02:41 PM EDT

Cindy Corrie, left, and Craig Corrie, the parents of American International Solidarity Movement activist Rachel Corrie answer questions at a news conference in Jerusalem Monday, Sept. 29, 2003. "The Israeli military conducted an 'internal investigation' and said the bulldozer driver could not see Corrie because of the size of the bulldozer and its limited view .."

By Lara Sukhtian

JERUSALEM (AP) - Parents of an American activist killed earlier this year in Gaza by an Israeli army bulldozer called Monday for an independent U.S. investigation of her death.

Rachel Corrie, 23, from Olympia, Wash., was crushed to death March 16 while trying to block a huge army bulldozer destroying a row of Palestinian homes in a refugee camp near the Gaza-Egypt border.

The Israeli military conducted an internal investigation and said the bulldozer driver could not see Corrie because of the size of the bulldozer and its limited view due to heavy armor plating. Peace activists have disputed that.

Corrie belonged to a pro-Palestinian group called International Solidarity Movement, whose members often place themselves between Israeli forces and Palestinians to try to block Israeli military activity.

At a news conference in Jerusalem, Corrie's parents said they were not satisfied with the Israeli explanation.

"Having read the report, we still have a lot of questions," said Cindy Corrie, Rachel's mother.

Nearly 50 members of the 435-seat U.S. House of Representatives have signed a bill calling for an independent investigation, she said.

"I need to know if Rachel's death was intentional or accidental," she said, her voice breaking. "I just want to know the truth."

Two other International Solidarity volunteers were shot shortly after Corrie was killed.

On April 5, Brian Avery, 24, of Albuquerque, N.M., was shot in the face during fighting in the West Bank town of Jenin.

On April 11, Thomas Hurndall, 21, of Britain, was shot in the head by Israeli troops as he helped children to safety in the Gaza Strip. He remains brain dead in England.

The Israeli army has said they are investigating the incidents.

Corrie's parents are concluding a three-week tour of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They said they came to try to understand the conflict and come to terms with their daughter's death

[Calvin Locke]

I bet she was a real pain to be around.

Centuries ago, Dante Alighieri had her number, or rather the number of the like groups that go around chasing whatever
banners are popular.

IIRC, Niven/Pournelle's update portrayed them as the ones getting all the products banned, like cyclamates.(sticks in my mind).

Now, Rachel Corrie doesn't have to worry about putting on any weight. Or being blown up. Or perishing from worry
about "global warming". Or worrying that taxes on other people are not high enough for her to feel good. Or...

I can't stand the arrogance of "do gooders" and other ilk that think that they are so morally superior, the laws
of societies and nature do not apply to them.

[Slings and Arrows]

I distinctly remember reading that she was Jewish by ancestry (probably not practicing), but for the life of me I cannot find a reference. It's possible I was wrong. I'll keep looking.

[allrightythen]

Speaking of "ghoulish delight":

Thats right...get the armored D10 and grind this girl in the dirt too....then poke fun at her grieving mom.

[KC_Conspirator]

That picture of Rachel Corrie teaching hatred needs to posted over and over again.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Homer J. Simpson:
"Call Mr. Plow, that's my name/That name again is Mr. Plow!"

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

It's hard to imagine how you war-whooping yahoos can take such ghoulish delight in the crushing death of a kid in her 20's.

Account only two days old, according to its profile... and: no other postings anywhere on this board, as of this writing, accept for this very thread.

Another DU troll, then. Boy... color me shocked, huh...?

It's okay, iddy-widdle trollsikins. I, for one, genuinely Feel Your Pain, re: the sudden (but still timely) passing of your beloved martyr: the infamously hatchet-faced, self-loathing Jew known, now and forevermore, as "Saint Flapjack."

So very much so, in fact, that I'm even going to share with you a snapshot of the very last thing Saint Flapjack ever ever saw, during her intolerable final seconds on this earth:

(You know, gang... every time I see ol' Bob here, nowadays: I just can't help but grinning a wide, satisfied smile, really and truly. Go figure, huh...?)

Oh... and, trollsy...? Final note: a "girl in her 20s" -- even one so genetically lackluster and academically incapable as to have to settle for the notoriously bonehead-and-burnout-friendly Evergreen -- should, really and truly know enough NOT to aid and abet terrorist murderers; NOT to self-adoringly swan and sashay her pinheaded way about a foreign country, flagrantly attempting to meddle in its rightful interior affairs; and (most importantly; pay attention, now) NOT to stand directly before forward-moving bulldozers.

Or maybe they just make 20-year-olds a whole hell of a lot dumber, wherever it is you hail from.

That actually wouldn't surprise me much, in all naked honesty.

[Slings and Arrows]

Found a mention from some far-left idiot named Andy Martin.

[fire_eye]

This same article was posted yesterday as
"Peace Activists' Parents Seek U.S. Probe"
- and it got pulled... Why? It hardly
seems worth pulling...

[Slings and Arrows]

Ping!

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Thats right...get the armored D10 and grind this girl in the dirt too

Don't you recognize her?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Absolutely.

[ppaul]

[Redcloak]

Act now and you too can be the proud owner of a Rachel Corrie commemorative wristwatch. Available in two styles...

Original

...and "distressed".

[VxH]

>>Thats right...get the armored D10 and grind this girl in the dirt too

"this girl" is Rachel Corrie - burning an American flag and teaching children to hate Americans.

Don't you recognize her?

[mrustow]

Their terrorist, adventuress daughter goes abroad, gets herself killed, and now the taxpayers should subsidize an investigation into her death? Her parents can hire their own damned inverstigators!

[Criminal Number 18F]

This little idiot broke a law.....the law of physics.

Uh-huh. As we say in aviation:

Gravity. It's not just a good idea, it's The Law.

The comments in this thread are crude and tasteless. I have tears in my eyes from laughing.

I guess she was just trying to get a leg up on S. Brian Willson. Anybody remember him?

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[fire_eye]

So how long is this one going to last?

Hmmm... Maybe we should start a "Pull Pool"...
(Or maybe just a "Pull Puddle"?)