Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (879)	3/21/2003 1:36:12 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

It's funny that you would say that, since witnesses described her as lying down. You have already stated your opinion: " Looking at her face I wonder if she didn't decide to martyr herself for the cause. " Message 18713891 Tom

To: Brumar89 who wrote (879)	3/21/2003 1:43:58 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 21614

Your reaction to the death of an American who doesn't serve your political purposes is certainly different to your reaction to other American deaths. Also, no mention that these Israeli bulldozers are the primary cause of anti-American sentiment throughout the Middle East. Without a doubt, Bin Laden would have had a much more difficult time recruiting volunteers for his 9/11 mission were it not for this policy of brutally dispossessing the Palestinians from their land. Here is what the American witness said: <<< Many of you will of heard varying accounts of the death of Rachel Corrie, maybe others will have heard nothing of it. Regardless, I was 10 metres away when it happened 2 days ago, and this is the way it went. We'd been monitoring and occasionally obstructing the 2 bulldozers for about 2 hours when 1 of them turned toward a house we knew to be threatened with demolition. Rachel knelt down in its way. She was 10-20 metres in front of the bulldozer, clearly visible, the only object for many metres, directly in its view. They were in radio contact with a tank that had a profile view of the situation. There is no way she could not have been seen by them in their elevated cabin. They knew where she was, there is no doubt. The bulldozer drove toward Rachel slowly, gathering earth in its scoop as it went. She knelt there, she did not move. The bulldozer reached her and she began to stand up, climbing onto the mound of earth. She appeared to be looking into the cockpit. The bulldozer continued to push Rachel, so she slipped down the mound of earth, turning as she went. Her faced showed she was panicking and it was clear she was in danger of being overwhelmed. All the activists were screaming at the bulldozer to stop and gesturing to the crew about Rachel's presence. We were in clear view as Rachel had been, they continued. They pushed Rachel, first beneath the scoop, then beneath the blade, then continued till her body was beneath the cockpit. They waited over her for a few seconds, before reversing. They reversed with the blade pressed down, so it scraped over her body a second time. Every second I believed they would stop but they never did. I ran for an ambulance, she was gasping and her face was covered in blood from a gash cutting her face from lip to cheek. She was showing signs of brain hemorrhaging. She died in the ambulance a few minutes later of massive internal injuries. >>> And 3 more eyewitness accounts: electronicintifada.net