AMERICAN PROTESTER KILLED

FOX NEWS | 3-16-03 | SELF

[Porterville]

I agree; she was too young; We should only be feeling pity for her. We should all pray for her soul and her family. She was too young.

[Goetz_von_Berlichingen]

"Welcome to the new and bloodthirsty Free Republic!"

This is a long thread, and I'm not going to wade through to the end of it, since the level of homicidal rage is disturbing. When I first heard of this incident, I recalled the famous image from Tienamin Square so many years ago: the student standing in front of a halted tank. Apparently the ChiCom tank commander was more humane than this IDF operator.

Standard procedure in all civilised nations is to have police on hand to physically remove the protesters. That way, they get to make their point, the government gets to carry out its intended action, and nobody gets killed.

But since the IDF is never held to account for "irregularities", I guess they figure one more dead foreigner won't make headlines.

[Justa]

"I reckon it never occured to you to inquire about why the house was being destroyed."

Yes it did. Check fire.

The houses being bulldozed are along the southern border of the Gaza strip near Egypt. Israel is apparently creating a buffer zone and is bulldozing houses. There is no indication of terrorist activity by the victims.

To believe her account:

"The homes here are not targeted because of any connection with suicide bombings, but because of their existence along an area which the Israeli army finds strategically useful."

[CindyDawg]

Looks like two different bulldozers to me.

[Knuckle Sandwich Combo]

From the ISM site:

Lately our messages to you from the Occupied Palestinian Territories have reported increased violence from Israeli soldiers against international civilians – Caiohme was shot in the leg in Jenin, soldier aimed an M16 rifle at Susan’s head and fired right through her hair, Annie threatened with rape and violence, internationals pushed, beaten, shot at….

Natural Selection

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[MarMema]

Actually we are out between Black Diamond/Enumclaw and Covington/Auburn. Guess it is more like an hour north of you.

[Porterville]

Look dude, this was a little girl caught in something bigger than even she understood. She is dead man, she is a women-child, she had a ton of potential and died at 23 years for a cause we agree is mislead, but she is not the lightening-rod; it is the liberals that encourage children to put their lives in compromising positions around the world, based upon a narcissistic-baby boomer era ideology, that is revived by the sick liberal leaders in this nation who long for their early-twenties when drugs and sex were easy.

These older liberals live are so deplete of anything substantive that they live vicariously throughout the young of the nation and they even get them killed, be it drugs, AIDS, or stupid protest like this one. We should not be happy about this child dying, we should be infuriated with the left for destroying the young minds of this nation with their nostalgic perversions, which is simply the mental molestation of this nations youth!!!

Pray for her lost life, and morn for her lost potential.

[MarMema]

Will we get a chance to meet you next weekend at Fort Lewis, perhaps? We are really hoping to make it on Saturday.

[MarMema]

It really doesn't matter why.
When you go to a foreign country you need to deprogram yourself as being so important. I spent some time on the chechen border in pretty much of a war zone. I kept my head down and my English to a minimum on the street, and I didn't expect anyone to like me because I was American. If I had stood in front of a Russian tank, I would have expected them to run me over if they felt like it that day.