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2003-05-22 Fifth Column

On rescuing Private Lynch and forgetting Rachel Corrie

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Posted by tu3031 2003-05-22 10:18 am|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 on LGF - they've been referring to the Amerika-hating snarling she-bitch as "Saint Pancake" lol

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-22 11:12:29|| 2003-05-22 11:12:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Rachel Corrie died defending the rights of gun smugglers, drug dealers, and pimps. Wow! Now that's something to be proud of.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-22 11:15:14|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-22 11:15:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Here she is, the Angel of Peace(tm), teaching Paleo schoolchildren how to properly burn an American flag.
[Hat tip to LGF]

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-05-22 11:21:24|| 2003-05-22 11:21:24|| Front Page Top

#4 What the hell is/who "LGF"?

BTW, this post-mortem lionization of Corrie reminds me of Arthur Schlesinger and Company's fabrication of Camelot.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-22 11:51:37|| 2003-05-22 11:51:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Hey ru, Frank G, Chuck, Scooter, just a question. If you were conscious, who were you rooting for back in Tiananmen, the tanks or protesters? I don't agree with Corrie's stand or her methods. But I damn sure don't agree with soul-less idiots who rejoice over someone being run over by a bulldozer.

Posted by Scott 2003-05-22 11:57:48|| 2003-05-22 11:57:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Rachel lied down in front of an armored bulldozer (which all acknowledge couldn't see her through the tiny windows)to protect a house with a Paleo terrorist arms-smuggling tunnel access in it. I think she's better dead, and if you think that equates to smashing democracy activists in China, you need to get your moral equivalence meter adjusted Scott.
CC: LGF is Little Green Footballs, another excellent weblog

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-22 12:04:59|| 2003-05-22 12:04:59|| Front Page Top

#7 CC - a place where you'd be happier posting :)

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-05-22 12:05:03|| 2003-05-22 12:05:03|| Front Page Top

#8 CoCon: LGF = Little Green Footballs. A fine site up there with Rantburg, InstaPundit, etc.

Scott: I don't rejoice, but I don't shed any tears over this moron. Count me among the soulless idiots if the shoe fits.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-22 12:06:27|| 2003-05-22 12:06:27|| Front Page Top

#9 SCOTT:
I do not speak for the others but to me the question seems to be this: the left has given birth to a monster, a culture in which the word responsibility is unknown and forgotten. To go in-between two parts at war means you do risk your life, and it is in itself a stupid thing. They try to make an hero of a person that does stupid things.
Then there is the problem of values: being killed in defending the paleostinian terrorists is not exactly the same than fighting in TienAnMen square against one of the bigger dictatorships in the world.
I don't think that on this forum anyone really rejoices about the death of any human being (even if, me the first, sometimes someone is really angry about the attacks against America from inside America), but it is really time to reset the values and call stupid a stupid, terrorist helper a terrorist helper.

Posted by Poitiers 2003-05-22 12:11:36|| 2003-05-22 12:11:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Here's an excellent link debunking the beatification of Corrie - I didn't find LGF that helpful:

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO RACHEL CORRIE?

http://www.btnhboard.com/~scrub/corrie.htm

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-22 12:18:23|| 2003-05-22 12:18:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Alright. The name calling was juvenile. I apologize. But certainly no more juvenile than what prompted it. If my name calling was ad hominem, and it certainly was, then trashing a dead protester is epitome of ad hominem. Why can't people just speak to her stance? At least she took one.

A terrorist, Poitiers? Would to God all terrorists spoke in her fashion, eh?

Posted by Scott 2003-05-22 12:20:55|| 2003-05-22 12:20:55|| Front Page Top

#12 One more excellent link: http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Bulldozer_Accident.asp

"The Washington Post (http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35126-2003Mar16.html) notes two important points:

1) soldiers driving an armored bulldozer have limited visibility because of the narrow window.

2) One of the ISM founders admits the protesters might not have been as disciplined in their protest as they should have been.

Most media reports failed to mention that the IDF bulldozer was looking for smuggling tunnels. Instead, reports described the house sympathetically as "the home of a Gazan doctor."

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-22 12:26:06|| 2003-05-22 12:26:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Scott,
There was absolutely nothing in my post celebrating Corries death. And Poiters wrote "terrorist helper", not "terrorist". Please learn to read. And learning to think might be a good idea too.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-05-22 12:35:46|| 2003-05-22 12:35:46|| Front Page Top

#14 This is nothing new for Klein:

"The true faces of modern activism belong to people like the late Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old American "human shield" whose young body was crushed by a bulldozer in Gaza last month. Corrie wasn't in the occupied territories to give comfort to suicide bombers; she was standing with the nonviolent International Solidarity Movement trying to keep a Palestinian family home from being demolished."

Sorry, Namoi. That hair just won't split.

And from the Guerilla News Network:

"ISM members say they won't give up their operations in Rafah.

"We are going to continue," ISM activist Joe told GNN. "Now they know we are hardcore, and we won't move. It [Rachel's death] will either make the Israelis more careful, or they will continue to injure and kill more activists, and we will be useless as human shields."

You said it, Joe! But I don't suspect we'll see you putting your life on the line any time soon.

"Thirty-two Americans, many with dual citizenship, have been killed by Palestinian suicide bombers, and 50 have been injured, since the second Palestinian uprising began in September 2000."

A remarkable confession.

[www.guerrillanews.com/human_rights/doc1176.html]

Fuck you, Klein.

[from www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15737]

The skewed vision of the left is a wonder to encounter.

Posted by FormerLiberal 2003-05-22 12:38:05|| 2003-05-22 12:38:05|| Front Page Top

#15 This Klein chick is one leftist dudette. Check out her web site - lots of revolutionary red in the color scheme: http://www.nologo.org/

Quite a glimpse into the hate-filled mind of the radical left.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-05-22 12:43:34|| 2003-05-22 12:43:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Someone on LGF noted that her feastday should be Shrove Tuesday and celebrated at an IHOP.

Posted by Shipman 2003-05-22 13:10:05|| 2003-05-22 13:10:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Scott,
Screw her. She went over there to play some leftist kumbaya game and got between people who DON'T play games. She probably thought she was immune to any possible consequences. She was wrong. DEAD wrong. For being naive and stupid, she paid with her life.
Do I "rejoice" in that? No. But I don't lose any sleep over it either. If that makes me a "soul-less idiot", so be it.

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-22 13:37:15|| 2003-05-22 13:37:15|| Front Page Top

#18 Exactamundo, tu - "They can't shoot ME, I'm an amurrican (sometimes)!"

Guessed wrong, she did. Stupidity is it's own punishment.

Posted by mojo 2003-05-22 13:56:30|| 2003-05-22 13:56:30|| Front Page Top

#19 Scott, she got EXACTLY what a thinking-person would expect to get were they to venture into a war-torn area between the combatants. She was aiding and abetting a point used to smuggle arms and terrorist militants. Combine those actions with her Anti-American rhetoric and you end up with a less-than-sympathetic character.

Posted by Flaming Sword 2003-05-22 14:28:52|| 2003-05-22 14:28:52|| Front Page Top

#20 Note how Corrie "slept beside wells". Of course. Right out of the Protocols of Zion. Jews poison water supplies. Naomi Klein, I've only heard of self-hating Jews. I guess I've just read the works of one. How sad.

Posted by michael 2003-05-22 15:49:14|| 2003-05-22 15:49:14|| Front Page Top

#21 Rachel Corrie was ignorant, naive and stupid. The worst thing we can do is read any significance into her death.

My reaction is to nominate her for a Darwin Award. http://www.darwinawards.com/

Posted by Phil B 2003-05-22 19:18:57|| 2003-05-22 19:18:57|| Front Page Top

#22 It was here I read someone ask did Corrie get 72 buff dudes for her jihadi death.

Posted by badanov 2003-05-22 20:03:08|| [www.rkka.org] 2003-05-22 20:03:08|| Front Page Top

#23 Human Shields...a good way to thin the herd.

Posted by debbie 2003-05-22 21:56:51|| 2003-05-22 21:56:51|| Front Page Top

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