[Huber]

Corrie is, of course, the young American supporter of the Palestinian anti-US/anti-Israel movement who was allegedly run over by a bulldozer last year. I can admire Patnaik's desire to defend his cousin, and both Shattan's and Taranto's articles might reasonably be deemed "insensitive" to Corrie's friends and loved ones, but it is disappointing that he makes no acknowledgement that aiding and comforting the enemy or generally hanging out with terrorists might be morally wrong, harmful to society and downright dumb from a personal risk standpoint. Until these people begin to realize their mistakes, they will never move forward, "Up from Liberalism"!

[swilhelm73]

Where is the barf alert?

As for Corrie - run in front of a moving, armored, bulldozer and just expect the driver can see you and will stop in time and you deserve no sympathy if he does not.

Ideology doesn't trump physics, no matter how much liberals wish it did.

[Thinkin' Gal]

Rachel Corrie was angry, frustrated and saddened by the conditions of the Middle East, but she refused to blind herself to them.

Uh, hello? She was obviously blind to the hazards of slipping in the mud while screeching at a bulldozer driver who can't even see her. Mr. Pancake er Mr. Patnaik, is there never any end to the Corrie family of 15-minute famers? No wonder the girl was so screwed up. Bet she's cursing the whole clan from her new digs. She surely wouldn't be blaming herself for her terminal stupidity.

[prion]

Rachel repeatedly and unequivocally condemned the violent acts of both Palestinians and Israelis

That would be this Rachel Corrie?

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

BRIJ PATNAIK,

Better move along, before someone drops a bulldozer on you.

[First_Salute]

Rachel was not killed by an Israeli bulldozer.

She committed suicide by bulldozer, by ignoring her responsiblities to her self, such that she educated herself on "soil mechanics."

Soil mechanics --- she failed to study that at university, where she would have learned how the earth moves.

She placed herself too close to the bulldozer, and when it moved, the earth around it was displaced, as earth around bulldozers usually is.

When the ground sank around Rachel's footing, she lost her footing --- she had placed herself in a position where she would lose her footing.

She placed herself in harm's way.

When the bulldozer backed up, Rachel, without sufficient footing, slipped rapidly down under the front of the bulldozer. As she passed under the blade are and its supporting mechanisms, she banged her head against the bulldozer.

It was a mortal blow.

The bulldozer did not kill her.

The bulldozer did not run over her.

The bulldozer did not "crush" her.

The bulldozer did not attack her.

She, knocked her noggin' against it, but she did not survive her impact.

Her body had no signs of high-pressure displacement of human fluids that always result from severe mechanical displacement.

She was not in the tread path of the bulldozer.

Even given the soil mechanics that provide some elasticity, in contrast to a bulldozer clanking down a paved road, the pressures are so great, in the region of the tread path, that living, and even dead, tissues "give up" their fluids.

That did not happen to Rachel Corrie.

She had a head injury and bleeding from the nose; all signs indicating an unhappy shock to the brain.

[angkor]

The photo sequence is out on the Web, and it's an absolute lie that she was "crushed" by the bulldozer. Close up photos show her body being embraced by her cohorts, there is no visual evidence of broken bones or blood or dirt on her clothes or anything else.

What seems clear from the sequence is that she was struck in the head by a piece of concrete rebar, as in the beginning photos she's shown standing on a pile of broken concrete with many long exposed rebar pieces sticking up from the rubble, several at the height of her head. Presumably one of these snapped under pressure (yes, from the bulldozer she was confronting) and unfortunately hit her fatally in the head.

Next her body is shown lying in the dirt path of the dozer, but clearly not in the track left by the bulldozer. She was not "crushed".

And again, the only visible wound throughout all of the photos is a large gash across her head, presumably the one and only fatal wound she suffered. Certainly the graphic photos in the hospital do not show the doctors working on anything more than this facial/head wound.

Corrie's was the kind of construction accident that happens in America on a regular basis, when people act without care around heavy machinery (indeed I witnessed a similar accident while working construction in my college years).

That her supporters can take obvious photographic evidence and convince themselves she was "deliberately crushed" speaks only of their ability to indulge in massive self-delusion fueled by hate.

[LibKill]

Corrie celebrated her ethnicity by burning a (poorly drawn) U.S. flag in the filthy streets of some palestinian slum.

I won't miss her.

[guitfiddlist]

F=MA. But what are laws to liberals?

[Petronski]

[Tax-chick]

What kind of a name is "Brij Patnaik"? I think you're making this up, Huber!

[fishtank]

Ping

Sorry for posting the copyrighted Gettys.

Innocent mistake.

More than happy to continue discussing the intifada gang member Rachel Corrie.

[William Terrell]

Hatred--the emotion Mr. Taranto and M. Shattan are so eager to attribute to Rachel--can arise from frustration and repression, but far more frequently, I think, it comes from thoughtlessness.

I have to differ, here. I think hatred, and anger, come from fear. Rachel's actions brough aid and comfort to people who are killing others, and those others have a rightly legitimate reason to hate her, her because she and her actions were one.

[wjcsux]

It appears that being delusional runs through this entire family tree.

[End Times Sentinel]

Where's that insider troll when you need it?  Oh well, here goes...

 

How insensitive you all are!  I knew Rachel Corrie and she was a wonderful, kind warm loving person. 

She was a typical teenager, spending weekends at the mall, looking at cute boys, roller blading and playing with her beloved collie, Sparky (known as Yasser in later years).

Sometime in the second half of her sophomore year, she became seriously ill after eating some bad falafel.  After a slow, rocky recovery in the hospital, some of us who were closer to her noticed a slight change in her behavior.  She'd taken to wearing a muslim headscarf and was fond of yelling "THE AIR STINKS OF JEWS!" during periods between classes.

Then there was the labyrinth of tunnels she dug under the school to get her from one class to another and to her locker.  Unusual indeed, but certainly not making her worthy of the ridicule she's received here.

By the time she was a senior, she was well known for lying down in the school driveway and blocking the paths of school busses on muslim holidays.  In fact in our yearbook there's a full page spread of her hilarious antics during Ramadan and a truly memorable photo of her slicing her face open for Ashura.

 

To us, she seemed like a normal, well adjusted teenager, with parents who fully supported her self expression.

 

When I saw her flattened like a bag of pudding in the mud of Gaza, I was stunned.  "Certainly this can't be the 'Rabid' Rachel Corrie I knew from highschool!" I yelled.

 

You should all be ashamed of the comments you've made surrounding the death of this promising individual.

Owl_Eagle

" WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
DIVERSITY IS STRENGTH"

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Brij???

[LibWhacker]

There were no tunnels under the house . . .

Nor any claim that I can remember that there ever was. Israeli forces bulldoze homes of known terrorists -- whether there are illegal tunnels under them or not -- buildings in which terrorist activities are believed to have taken place, buildings under which there ARE illegal tunnels, and nowadays, buildings along the border which MIGHT CONCEAL illegal tunnels. Regarding this latter category, Israel has knocked down row after row of buildings along its border, both before and after Corrie's death.

Israel has a right to secure its borders. If this incident had happened here, we'd all be talking about imminent domain.

So Corrie's cousin is lying. And he knows he's lying. "Oh, those evil Jews killed my sweet little cousin FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, because there were no tunnels under that house . . . " It's this kind of deception we've come to expect from leftists, and because of it we can be confident Patnaik hates America and her allies just as much as Rachel ever did.

[John Lenin]

These threads remind me of the Palys who jumped for joy after 9/11. The girl was a dolt, used by the Palys, don't fall to their level. These threads are repulsive.

[F16Fighter]

MEMO TO BRIJ PATNAIK:

After you have some genetic testing done, HOPE your 'lunacy gene' isn't in the upper range.

[MplsSteve]

The Left's attempted deification of Rachel Corrie is unfortunate.

Hopefully, their "campaign" to give martyr status to her will never reach the level of given to Benjamin Linder, an American citizen who was killed in Nicaragua in 1987 while working with the Sandinista govt.

Linder placed himself (or allowed himself to be placed) in an area where combat operations were on-going between the Contras and Sandinistas. He was also armed at the time of his death.

His choice to arm himself (though it was claimed for self-protection) made him a combatant and not an innocent by-stander. Rachel Corrie also does not appear to be an innocent by-stander either.

Rachel Corrie and Benjamin Linder both bear direct responsibility for their own deaths.

[dougherty]

Rachel was killed by an Israeli bulldozer which intended to destroy the home of a Palestinian civilian,

HUH?? She was killed because she was stupid enough to stand in front a moving bulldozer. It appears the gene pool for the entire Corrie family is tainted with stupidity.