[allrightythen]

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. Her politics were extreme alright...but how about yours?

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Speaking of "ghoulish delight":

[Piranha]

She was defending MURDERERS! She wasn't demonstrating on campus in San Francisco or at Evergreen. She was trying to stop Israeli soldiers from closing tunnels that were being used to smuggle weapons into Gaza to kill innocent Israelis.

Her death, and the deaths of a few other ISM people raised a cloud over that movement, and probably gave a lot of wannabe US martyrs pause before going to Israel to interfere with their self-defense.

I'm glad she got exactly what she deserved.

[Redcloak]

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

Original

...and "distressed".

[fire_eye]

Every time I hear about Rachel getting squashed, and her parents whining and Trying To Find Meaning, I'm reminded of Benjamin Linder. Same deal - he was just "Trying To Help The Poor Nicaraguan Peasants", building a dam or a generator or (more likely considering his leftist upbringing a g**dam degenerator...) (sorry, couldn't resist it) in Nicaragua.

Only problem was, he was *carrying a gun* (for which action an entire encyclopaedia of leftist excuses was subsequently proferred...), so the "Contras" abbreviated his (leftist) narrative.

Then, we were treated - for years on end, in fact - to the pathetic spectacle of his poor bereaved father demanding investigations and bewailing the injustice and. And, and and and and.

The point of fact is that in both cases, the permissive, "Progressive" *parents* were perfectly happy to sit there preening to their coffehouse-intellectual cohorts over what a magnificent example of socialist dedication they had raised... but then couldn't cope with the harsh reality that they'd raised a very naive little Junior or Missy who were off playing at being activists in a very big grownup world, about which their fruity parents had taught them nothing... *nothing*. (In defense of said fruitcakes, they probably didn't *know* anything of the realities of life, being in a similarly infantile state themselves, so they didn't have anything *to* communicate to their precious darling offspring...).

So now, all of a sudden, reality has bitten... and we're off to Israel, or into the press, trying to find a way - really - to pretend that it all didn't happen, or make it all go away, or salvage our own self-esteem...

Meanwhile, daddy-o... (Mommy-o?) - your precious little leftist "peace activist" ain't coming back... a mountain of Marxist dogma piled all the way to heaven ain't gonna bring him or her back... and you can't deal with it, can you? You play, you pay... and you can't stand it, can you?