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Posted on 10/21/2010 4:08:53 PM PDT by KingofZion
The bulldozer driver who crushed to death American activist Rachel Corrie seven years ago struggled Thursday just to recall her name.
"It's Rachel-something," he testified in a Haifa courtroom. "Carrie?"
The former Israeli reservist's courtroom appearance, his first public comments since the college student's 2003 death, was expected to be the dramatic climax of the Corrie family's long-running civil lawsuit against the Israeli government. But during more than four hours of testimony, the 38-year-old Russian immigrant, speaking from behind a screen to hide his identity, said he remembered little about that day and the young woman he ran over.
*** The driver insisted that he never saw the 23-year-old Washington state resident until her friends rushed over to dig her body out of the dirt. He said he couldn't remember the time of day when his bulldozer rolled over Corrie and then backed up over her a second time.
*** Corrie's parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, said his vague, sometimes flippant responses were hard for them to take.
"He sounds like he has not given much thought to this in the past seven years," said Cindy Corrie, her voice cracking slightly and tears welling up in her eyes. "That's hard to hear, since for us, Rachel is in every day, every hour, every moment. How could you not remember the time of day? If I killed somebody, I would surely know when it happened."
It's not that the family expected the driver's testimony would bring comfort or solace, Corrie said. But for years the family has anticipated — and simultaneously dreaded — the day when they would finally hear directly from the man who ran over their youngest child.
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Carrie? Carrie? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
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The parents expected some tearful expression of remorse with a heartfelt plea for forgiveness and all they got was Rachel something.
The Corrie family is a bunch of leftist shits. Their daughter was a soldier in the International Solidarity Movement, an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist group who is aiding the enemies of Israel.
Rachel Corrie got stupid and got turned into a human marxist pancake. Sorry, that’s life. Remember 9/11!
I don't obsess over the squirrel I hit a couple years ago either.
KingofZion
did this naive fool stand in front of or lay in its path?
I’ve heard it both ways,
Driver’s testimony falls flat with Corrie family.
Man, that’s just flat-out sad.
Sounds like he had NO IDEA she was under his machine. I’m sure he’s going through his own hell once he found out.
Not his fault. I feel more bad for him than I do her or her family.
One less leftist in the world. We didn’t care then, why would we care now?
May she rot in Hell.
The first, voluntary, the second, involuntary and resultant of the first.
The evidence supplied by Corrie’s lawyers was quite thin.
I think the Corrie family’s attorney will probably move to have his testimony squashed ;-)
LOL! I just knew the bulldozer driver was Russian. I never heard the fact about it before today though.
Man, until you meet the 'rough' version of Russians, especially Russian Jews, you haven't met a Russian. The furniture movers who came to move me from one state to another were all Russians and they were hulking Cossacks who were dead grim serious. Like they were born tough. As in, think of the toughest guy you've ever met in your life and these Russians would have been tougher than him at fifteen years old. Out of central casting tough. The kind of Russian mobsters who are now taking over South Brooklyn and scaring away the original mobsters who lived there comfortably.
I can just imagine a Russian just like these guys not stopping his armored bulldozer for no hippie American girl from Seattle if he was ordered to mash a Palestinian terrorist's home flat with his Caterpillar.
LMAO
“Oh, you mean terrorist sympathizer pancake #67? Yeah, I remembered her...double thump and a bump which is far different from the ka-bump thump I feel when driving over a Palestinian with a rocket”
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