A 23-year-old American activist stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death. These are the facts.
Yep, those are the facts. They aren't all the facts, but it's a start.
Rachel Corrie, along with colleagues from the International Solidarity Movement, was trying to prevent Israel from bulldozing homes in Rafah, close to the Egyptian border. Her activism cost her her life in March 2003.
A colleague said at the time, "Many times the bulldozer came up to us and buried us with dirt, but they always stopped."
These are also relevant facts, as they address why she was where she was, and what she was doing in the way of the bulldozer.
Corrie's parents want to know the truth about their daughter's death, whether the killing was intentional and who is accountable.
Lemme tell you who is accountable - the person who didn't move out of the way of the fucking bulldozer that was about to run her over! It's not like the choice was "run over by bulldozer or jump off cliff". Her choice was "run over by bulldozer or move the fuck out of the way". At some point you expect self-preservation instincts to kick in and you move and if you don't, well, then you're a "NO-GO" at this station.
Her mother, Cindy Corrie, told CNN, "She deserves the attention that she's receiving in this case. Every human being who is assaulted and whose life is taken in this way deserves some accountability, some explanation for why this happened, particularly when it's done by a military and particularly when it's a military supported by me and my tax dollars."
She wasn't assaulted. No one targeted her. No one singled her out for bulldozing. No one wanted to make her suffer. But they had a job to do and dammit they were doing it. And if she was a "NO-GO" at the self-preservation station in the CTT of life, then that was her problem, not theirs.
The explanation of why this happened:
"American idealist snuck up on by bulldozer; crushed because she didn't bother to move."
By: Brant
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I remember discussing back when it happened and my buddy and I reached the same conclusion: hippy chick with no regard to the real world politics and life-or-death consequences.
Yep - I *do* feel bad for the parents. They're left with no daughter and don't want to believe she's dead because she did something idiotic. No parent wants to believe their child is dead through stupidity b/c they all want to believe they taught their kids better than that.
The truth is - they probably *did* teach them better than that. Unfortunately, the kids don't always listen.
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