In today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Robert L. Jamieson Jr. celebrates Rachel Corrie, who was killed in a self-inflicted accident while trying to protect a terrorist weapons smuggling tunnel. "Rachel's story needs to be told, now" If I may paraphrase Jamieson, the main point of his column is to criticize what he implies is a Jewish conspiracy to suppress the real story of Rachel Corrie and to mischaracterize her as a suporter of terrorism instead of the activist for social justice which Jamieson believes her to be. Okay, that's just plain sick. But let's also give Jamieson some credit. The money graf belies the rest of his column and tells Rachel's story as faithfully and effectively as it has been told at, say, Little Green Footballs. Jamieson:
When I spoke with Craig and Cindy Corrie a few weeks ago, they'd just come back home to the Seattle area after a rattling episode. In the Middle East, Palestinian activists had tried to kidnap them. The activists had a change of heart when they were told the couple's last name. If that is not a powerful testament to Rachel's legacy, I don't know what is.So a gang of hostage-taking terrorists do Rachel Corrie's parents a favor because they viewed Rachel as one of their own. This is indeed a powerful testament to Rachel's legacy as an advocate for terrorism. Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 16, 2006 10:41 AM | Email This
Rachel Corrie: Beacon of hope that terrorist murderers around the world can find their own brand of useful idiot in the States.
Posted by: Steve_dog on March 16, 2006 10:49 AMRiiiiight. Those guys wouldn't have hurt a fly :)
Posted by: Steve_dog on March 16, 2006 10:58 AMWhere as Bush only does as he is told from big business and God. He has no passion in the Middle East. That is the action of a terrorist!
Time to get back to the bong, its starting to go out....
Posted by: Fred on March 16, 2006 11:04 AMhttp://newjersey.indymedia.org/usermedia/image/10/rachel-corrie-flag-burner1.jpg
Posted by: Huey on March 16, 2006 11:11 AMBy saying that its courageous to be a terrorist hunted down because they'd who, oh, I don't know walk into a religious celebration or into a pizza shop and detonate a suicide bomb without warning... its courageous to steal a Boeing 767 and I dunno slam it into the World Trade Center. Murder is murder and as long as I have a relative working in downtown Seattle and best friends who work at a community college with a new performing hall that is the tallest building in the county, my blood will boil at such talk. Maybe the fine people at Evergreen State College need to read Dr. Adams' 15 March column... or about Mohammad Taheri-Azar, the UNC-CH terrorist (Tuesday rant HERE, Michelle Malkin's latest HERE).
Ultimately, for the Seattle P-I to not blast Rachel "Collaborator" Corrie for her actions & rhetoric in the name of Palestinian terrorism shows they just don't appreciate freedom, that's all.
Posted by: A Watchdog on March 16, 2006 11:27 AMBack here in the real world, Rachel Corrie is either a fool for not making very clear eye contact with a bulldozer operator while placing herself in its path, or a traitor bent on defending terrorists. Either way, there's not much good you can say.
And just to be fair, what kind of crappy parents let their newly mind-numbed college grad go off to a war zone filled with the fresh idealism of youth. I suppose that her parents didn't scold her when she reached for the hot burner as a kid either.
Hey, they got what their relativism, pacifism, progressivism and hippie liberal ideas proscibed; another casualty in the unwillingness to confront Islamic hatred, fanaticism and terror.
Posted by: Jeff B. on March 16, 2006 12:35 PMUmmm... when they are considered suffienctly liberal/leftist. In that situation, not only is she to be considered a hero, anyone who DOESN'T consider her a hero is automatically a hateful Sexist/Racist/Bigot/whatever...
Thats how it seems to work. I could be wrong though ;0)
Posted by: CSantaw on March 16, 2006 01:12 PMSure, the state leans to the Left... but Seattle, on the other hand, has damn near capsized ;0)
Posted by: CSantaw on March 16, 2006 03:15 PMThe folks that led this gal into believing she could go overseas and behave as if she was in America without consequences are as much to fault as either Rachel herself or(perhaps)the bulldozer operator.
Not only did they teach(indoctrinate)her fatally incorrect BS ... they stayed here in the comfort of the Evergreen College Campus.
Posted by: Jack Burton on March 16, 2006 03:19 PMThat's what you get for letting her hold your hammer......
Posted by: alphabet soup on March 16, 2006 05:06 PMDo I detect a smidgeon of hometown protectiveness here Stefan?? Madison had a Mayor Sue Baumann, who used to hurl herself on the ground and scream "personal attack" everytime someone disagreed with her. They are a breeding ground of LEFTIST PINHEADEDISM!! Fortunately some of us escaped with brains intacted....learning from the idiotic behavior of the grotesque LEFT.
Posted by: Mr. Cynical on March 16, 2006 07:09 PMYikes! What if they would have killed them? OMG! I'm sure that thought was running through Corries parents heads while they were violently scooped up by the PA! Can you imagine the spin the liberal left would have to try to explain that one?......DUH.
If they still want to support their dead daughters "mission" after this - they are complete fools and deserve whatever the PA gives them next time....
Posted by: Deborah on March 16, 2006 07:16 PMJust listen to what Democrat former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark had to say at the funeral of Slobodan Milosevic, the deposed Serbian dictator. Milosevic is known as "The Butcher of the Balkans" for waging three genocidal wars against Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo. Over 250,000 people, mainly Muslims, died in these wars. Milosevic was on trial before the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, when he died of a heart attack last week.
Ramsey Clark, a former U.S. attorney general and longtime Milosevic supporter who is now on Saddam Hussein's defense team, drew cheers by telling the crowd: "History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right."
But some drivers passing by the square honked car horns and made obscene gestures at the Milosevic supporters, underscoring the disgust many Serbs feel toward the late autocratic leader.
"All of Belgrade's squares would be too small for all the victims of Milosevic and his rule," said Foreign Minister Vuk Draskovic, who was twice targeted for assassination by the Milosevic regime. "A murderer and his crimes were glorified today."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060318/ap_on_re_eu/milosevic;_ylt=AnMNdhgoOlzwzPOMZDrxz5Ws0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--
Where is the OUTRAGE from Democrat leaders about the atrocious comments by their former Attorney General Ramsey Clark? Saying that "History will prove that Slobodan Milosevic was right", is equivalent to saying that history will prove Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, or Pol Pot right.
But what do you expect from a party headed by the likes of Howard Dean and Dwight Pelz, who believe that history will prove Fidel Castro right?
Posted by: Richard Pope on March 18, 2006 03:00 PM