Posted on 09/01/2012 11:45:31 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A former congressman who represented Rachel Corrie's district said on Thursday he was unsurprised by an Israeli court verdict to dismiss a civil suit filed by the family.
Speaking to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, Democrat Brian Baird of Washington said the trial was undermined by Israel's failure to conduct a transparent investigation into Corrie’s death in 2003.
“The verdict was not a great surprise” because the outcome resulted from “a process that seemed designed to obfuscate the facts rather than clarify,” the ex-lawmaker said.
“Sadly, as I've come to understand, this is standard operating procedure” for many complaints alleging Israeli military misconduct, he said. “The case was dismissed without proper consideration.”
On Tuesday, a Haifa court ruled that Corrie caused her own death by intentionally remaining in front of an IDF bulldozer.
Judge Oded Gershon supported the IDF claim that the driver of the bulldozer could not see Corrie, who was protesting the 2003 demolitions of structure in Rafiah, Gaza.
The court noted that the case of Corrie is sad but that the young woman, who was 23 years old, was fully aware that she was in danger and that she could have prevented her own death by moving out of the path of the bulldozer.
Judge Gershon found the IDF free of blame and said it did not act recklessly. .....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
Dang. “son-of-a-gun” though maybe “sin” works there...
I didn’t say they wouldn’t trouble THEMSELVES. But they will be too stoned to make war.
Can guns sin? If guns murder, then spoons made Rosie O’Donnell overweight.
The court noted that the case of Corrie is sad but that the young woman, who was 23 years old, was fully aware that she was in danger and that she could have prevented her own death by moving out of the path of the bulldozer.
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Amen .
“Imagine what it must have felt like to get run over and totally squashed by a giant bulldozer.”
Probably no different than getting run over by a medium, or
small sized bulldozer, I think. Ha!
RedNeck: “Can guns sin?”
*chuckle* No, I am the sinner. Among other things for mis-spelling “son of a gun” ;-)
And the rest of the US would be too relieved to try to take them back by force of arms;-) Mexico won’t want them, either, nor Canada.
All this talk of pancakes and me with no breakfast yet! IHOP here I come! Or maybe it ought to be Denny’s.
What police? She was in a war zone.
Well, the war zone had been a residential area until a house got slated to be bulldozed.
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