[bluester]

I guess humanity and the lives of civilians mean a bit more to me then some others.. Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

Not by MY human standards, sorry

[Sloth]

VROOOOOM VROOOOOM

[johnb838]

How do you feel about bombs in Pizza Parlors and Busses? How about if someone walked into your Thanksgiving dinner and blew the whole thing sky high? How about if somebody blew up a border crossing? What would you, as a government, do then? Shut it down? Oh no, you mustn't, that would be occupation. This poisonous little byotch thought she would be coddled by the Israelis just like she would have in Seattle. She wasn't. Cry me a river.

[SouthernFreebird]

Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

She was killed because her ideas told her she could stop a bulldozer. She was an idiot and if the bulldozer didn't get her she would have made sure something else would have. A real superthinker that one.

[geedee]

I guess humanity and the lives of civilians mean a bit more to me then some others.. Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

For the record, she wasn't purposefully "bulldozed." Even her peacenik cohorts-in-crime say the bulldozer driver didn't kill her on purpose.

Now . . . using your logic, it's okay for a demonstrator, any demonstrator -- regardless of their cause or beliefs -- to protest with impunity. Have I got that about right?

Okay, let's say protestors don't like taxis. So they can block every taxi in New York City while society is to treat them like pampered, endangered creatures?

Airplanes? No problem, the anti-airplane goons can stand in front of every prop in the U.S. and the pilots are expected to turn their engines off and sit idly by.

Civil protests carries responsibilities and costs. If you're not willing to pay the price for your actions, especially when the slightest of accidents might kill you, then perhaps you'd be better served writing a Letter to the Editor instead of playing chicken with a bulldozer.

[American in Israel]

Silly guy, she was not killed for her ideological background, she was killed by stepping in front of an armored bulldozer in a blind spot.

Most bulldozer drivers assume that you step out of the way, not into the way. Human wheel chock does not work for cars, why would it work for bulldozers?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

"Deserve's got nothin' to do with it." - William Munny

Unforgiven (1992)

[skip2myloo]

You know, we all take up causes that are important to us.

There are many different levels of commitment.

I really don't want to question either this girl's rationale or level of commitment, but when a young girl from Washington State, heads into a region torn apart by war, she has to be willing to accept the risk, irrespective which side she chose to take.

Perhaps she felt personally her sacrifice was worth the risk, we don't know because now all we hear is others speaking in her memory, on her behalf.

It seems her parents now feel the cause was not worth the sacrifice. I don't know if they tried to discourage her from going. If they did, maybe they should have tried harder.

If they had, maybe now they wouldn't have to be asking the U.S. government to do "something more" in her behalf. Besides, its really too late anyway to do any good for Rachel.

Instead of blaming the Israelis and the U.S. government, I think Rachel's parents could better spend their time assessing whose fault is it really that their 22-Y-O daughter is dead.

Instead, it appears her parents, and this writer, are blaming everybody but Rachel herself.

[FITZ]

Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

If you hurl your own body into the path of a moving bulldozer --- whether it's for political reasons or a Jackass stunt then you sort of deserve to be bulldozed.

[FITZ]

The other thing you have to wonder is why her fellow protesters were more interested in getting a poster child than in saving her life ---- someone could have stopped her or pulled her out of the way. Not such nice people.

[Born Conservative]

She wasn't killed because of her ideological background; she was killed because she sat down in the path of a bulldozer.

[thoughtomator]

What's your human standard then? Free pass for anyone who kills a Jew? Any behavior justified to that end? 'Cause that's what little Miss Corrie got killed doing, defending the home of a murderer, advocating the cause of Islamic genocidal expansionism.

[wizardoz]

Apparently if someone of a different ideological background is killed just for his ideas (opposing occupation, house demolishment) he/she deserves to be bulldozed?

Wow, I've never heard volunteering to be a human shield for people who've dedicated themselves to completing the Nazi dream of a Jew-free world referred to as merely a "different ideological background" before. Cool! Is teaching your teenager to blow himself up, taking as many Jewish civilians with him as possible, just another shade of blue on your color spectrum? That's so open-minded of you! In fact, you're so open-minded, your brains might just fall right out! And you may trip on them! And land in front of the bulldozer you were trying to block! And then I'm supposed to feel bad for you! Alrighty then!