Posted on 07/07/2007 12:44:06 PM PDT by Enchante
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear arguments Monday whether there is merit to a lawsuit by the family of Rachel Corrie, the 23-year-old activist from Olympia killed by a bulldozer in the Gaza Strip in 2003.
The defendant in the case is Caterpillar, which made the D9 bulldozer involved in her death.
The case, Corrie et al. v. Caterpillar, was filed in Seattle in 2005, but a district court dismissed it. After this hearing, the appeals court will rule whether the suit should be dismissed or sent back to the lower court.
Cindy and Craig Corrie, the woman's parents, allege Caterpillar violated human rights and committed war crimes by knowingly selling its equipment to the Israeli army, which used the bulldozers to raze Palestinian homes and endanger people. Rachel Corrie was run over by a bulldozer driven by an Israeli soldier as she tried to block a home from demolition.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
A pancake supper will follow the proceedings.
Saint Pancake wasn’t even run over - a wall collapsed on her.
The home was being demolished because it either belonged to a terrorist, or was used to shoot from.
Ms.Rachel Corrie was flat wrong!
And by the by, the play stinks as well.
Rickman should know better.
Seriously, this really is the definition of a no brainer. ANY attorney associated with this garbage should be permanently disbarred. WHEN are we going to get meaningful reform for our demonic, disgusting legal system??
Obviously the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7117
Published: 05/10/07, 12:38 AM
An Open Letter to the Parents of Rachel Corrie
by Prof. Steven Plaut
Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Corrie,
You are continuing with your campaign of demonization and delegitimization against Israel, a campaign that now manifests itself in a shallow anti-Israel propaganda play being staged in Seattle. All this, of course, came after your earlier open letter to the world, “A Call to Action; Rachel’s Words Live,” which was reprinted in many different media outfits, including the viciously anti-Semitic Counterpunch magazine, and the Guardian of the UK.
Your daughter conscripted herself as an aid for those seeking to murder my children.
In that letter, you begin by recalling that your daughter was “killed by an Israeli bulldozer,” but you neglect to mention the circumstances under which she was so killed (and the fact that she died from her injuries while under Palestinian medical care). You then add, “She had been working in Rafah with a nonviolent resistance organization, the International Solidarity Movement, trying to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes and wells.”
No, she was not. She was trying to prevent the demolition of tunnels used to smuggle weapons for Palestinian terrorists seeking to murder Jewish civilians. The International Solidarity Movement, or ISM, to which she belonged openly endorses Palestinian “armed struggle” against Jewish children and civilians and openly collaborates with terrorists . It has hidden wanted terrorists and their weapons in its offices. It is an accomplice in murder. Two Arabs who entered Israel under ISM auspices blew up a Tel Aviv pub and murdered Jews. Lying is not the best way to drum up sympathy for your dead daughter.
Your daughter was in Rafiah in the Gaza Strip to serve as a human shield to defend and promote Palestinian terrorism. When you yourselves were nearly kidnapped in Gaza last year, you were there for the same reason. You pretend that your daughter died trying to protect an “innocent house.” You are lying again. That “innocent house” she was protecting was camouflage for a not-so-innocent terrorist smuggling tunnel, and the residents of that “innocent house” knew all about the tunnel. Explosives and arms were being smuggled by terrorists through that tunnel to commit mass murder.
Your daughter was in a war zone as a belligerent, as one who had - perhaps wittingly and perhaps not - recruited herself on behalf of a genocidal movement of Arab fascists seeking to destroy Israel and murder as many Jews as possible. Your daughter died while interfering with an anti-terror operation carried out by an army in a land in which she had no business being at all. You demand that we in Israel feel your pain at the loss of your daughter, yet your daughter conscripted herself as an aid for those seeking to murder my children.
No harm would have fallen her had she not decided to “play chicken” with the machine.
The raison d’etre of the ISM is to assist Palestinian terrorists murder Jewish children, and to prevent all Israeli efforts to fight that campaign of murder. Your daughter foolishly put herself in harm’s way by challenging a large bulldozer and placing herself in a position where the operator could not see her. You know quite well that the bulldozer operator was not seeking to harm your daughter. And you know very well that no harm would have fallen her had she not decided to “play chicken” with the machine - about as responsible a form of behavior as running across unlit segments of LA freeways at midnight.
In that earlier open letter of yours you write, “We had not understood the devastating nature of the Palestinians’ situation.” Of course, you have never expressed any interest in the devastating nature of the Jews’ situation. The Jews have been battling Arab fascism and terrorism for a hundred years, before, during, and after the Nazi Holocaust of six million Jews. Your daughter was allied with those seeking to continue the perpetration of Nazi-like atrocities against randomly selected Jews. You smugly praise the propaganda play about your daughter in London, which ignored all the other Rachels, the Jewish women victims of terror in Israel, who were murdered by the genocidal terrorists with whom your daughter’s ISM friends collaborate.
Your daughter, and apparently you as well, never had any understanding of the Middle East conflict. The Middle East conflict is not about the right of self-determination of Palestinian Arabs, but rather, it is about the right to self-determination of Israeli Jews. For a century, the Arabs have attempted to block any expression of Jewish self-determination, using violence, armed aggression and terrorism. The Arabs today control 22 countries and territory nearly twice the size of the United States. They refuse to share even a fraction of one percent of the Middle East with Jews, even in a territory smaller than New Jersey.
You do not have a single word of sympathy for the families of the thousands of innocent victims.
The Arab countries invented the imaginary Palestinian “people” and their imaginary “plight” after 1967 as a propaganda ploy, in imitation of the German campaign on behalf of Sudeten self-determination in the 1930s. Just as the struggle for “Sudeten liberation” was nothing more than a fig leaf for the German aggression aimed at annihilating Czechoslovakia, so the struggle for “Palestinian liberation” is nothing more than a jihad to destroy Israel and its population. And it is in support of that goal that the ISM operates, even taking its operational orders from terror leaders.
You write, “Clearly, our daughter has become a positive symbol for people.” I am afraid you are mistaken. Your daughter has become a symbol for dangerous foolhardiness. She committed suicide as an empty gesture meant to assist murderers and terrorists.
You want the world to mourn for your daughter, who died as part of her efforts to assist those trying to murder my children. You demand, on the pages of anti-Semitic propaganda web magazines, that the world mourn your daughter, but you do not have a single word of sympathy for the families of the thousands of innocent victims of the terrorists with whom your daughter chose to ally herself.
Rachel Roadkill’s parents would be better off filing suit against Evergreen State College’s Physics Department.
Lol!
Wow! Thanks for posting that. I hadn’t read it before. Good for Prof. Plaut!
not the ninth circuit !!
If ever there was a case where “loser pays” would be good, this is it.
I believe Rachel Corrie came by her delusional and moronic leftist beliefs honestly, she inherited them from her parents. Even the judges of the 9th Circuit aren’t crazy enough to let this suit go forward.
*BUMP*
The parents should sue themselves. They are beyond despicable.
The parents go to the top of the list of People I’d Like to Smack.
Wow! Thanks for posting that letter. That was a great read.
Maybe she should sue the estate of Sir Isaac Newton since things fell on her and if it wasn’t for Old Newton we would have no idea what caused them to fall.
LOL the rhetoric used to be she died “protecting innocent civilians” now its “she died protecting an arab’s empty house.” LOL
If this case goes to trial and comes out in Corrie's favor ... the precedent set would open up a Pandora's box of litigation to every whack job that stubs a toe saving trees, or whales, or black rights, or illegal 'rights', or ... well ... you get the picture.
Hell, at my age .. I might even stand in front of an on-coming class 5 hurricane .. like Moses .. trying to save the Gulf.
My kids and grandkids could use the money.
Unwisely, of course .. but hey .. I'll be dead anyway.
As I recall from my days in Olympia, they were the world leader in bong technology. Of course, none for Jesus...
Ah, the 9th Circus, bulldozing their way into the fray.
She seemed to be extremely extremely egotistical - I really think she had some sort of narcissistic disorder. She acted as though she were an angel for the palestinian “people”, she acted very arrogant and elitist in every video I’ve seen her interviewed in. She had some weird mental motivations going on in that bizarre mind of hers.
Figures. Only the Ninth Circus would have time to waste on this kind of idiocy.
Caterpillar should countersue for the damage this human brainwashed termite did to their equipment.
This lawsuit is flat, it will be squashed. The lawyers for Catepiller will crush it. Right from the very start you can tell this claim will collapse, the squeeze is in.
“...should be laughed out of court...Remember this is the 9th circus court we are talking about here.”
So laugh the 9th circus out too.
I always loved that pic because if you look at the kids, it looks like they are saying “What the hell is this crazy white woman doing?”
Can a judge order the plantiff to pay the court costs of the defense in frivolous lawsuits such as this?
I recall seeing the video and she was run over. The front end(scoop, shovel,etc) seemed to be almost ground level and it scraped over her head. Then I belive the driver backed up and hit her again.
She was surely at fault as anyone knows that playing chicken with industrial machinery is a no-no in every culture.
She was aiding and abetting terrorists and should be remembered as someone implicit in killing innocent people.
UC Santa Cruz would object strongly. (Although, with Antioch College closing, their status can only go up.)
I’d just like to say to the Corries “you better put some syrup on that”
LOL
Here are pictures of a very dead Saint Pancake
She was not run over - she doesn’t look crushed at all and her clothes are dirty, not torn as they’d be from Caterpillar tracks!
The treads did not run her over, merely the front blade.
Here is a good video that replays the scene.
I have seen the actual footage which is why I am so sure of how she died.
I am trying to find it again.
“...order the plantiff to pay the court costs of the defense in frivolous lawsuits...”
This should always be the case - plantiff should have to post bond, to be held in escrow, to pay for defense when plantiff looses.
college kids are often like that, overimpressed with their own importance & intelligence. They are insulated by academia and haven’t been beaten up by the real world yet. Ms. corre got weeded out, and good riddance.
Pinging you to the thread, just because it involves heavy equipment operation. Also, the replied-to post is excellent.
I think that some relatives of terror victims in Israel ought to sue Mr. and Mrs. Corrie for producing a thing that aided others is killing and maiming their loved ones.
From those photos, I think its more likely she arrived at the hospital with a concussion and was killed by palistinain doctors.
Thanks for the ping, and I really recommend everyone read that excellent response here:
As they say, "Read the whole thing," it's all salient, but standing out:
In that letter, you begin by recalling that your daughter was “killed by an Israeli bulldozer,” but you neglect to mention the circumstances under which she was so killed...
It is worth reminding people that the area ahead of a dozer is masked by the huge blade- it's a blind spot the operator cannot see.
A prudent person would avoid getting anywhere near such a spot in the first place.
Who is bankrolling the Corrie’s legal fees? Getting a case up to a Circuit Court isn’t exactly free.
Screw them. Maybe ESU can name a physical plant metal prefab dozer shed after her.
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