From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 05:57:49 MST
--- alexboko@umich.edu wrote:
> First of all let me put my political cards on the table:
>
> 1. Rachel Corey was most likely my political opposite. I'm sure we'll
> learn as this story develops that she subscribed to some sort of
> collectivist, statist
> ideology, and that she had a history of anti-American sentiment that
> some on this list would doubtless describe as knee-jerk.
She is, after all, from Olympia, Washington. I'll be she is a graduate
of Evergreen State College, pot-head and left-wingnut HQ for the entire
Northwestern US.
>
> 2. She deliberately put herself in harm's way, and became a contender
> for 2003's Darwin Awards result.
>
>
> That being said, it is still an undisputed fact that an Israeli Army
> bulldozer crushed to death an American citizen engaged in
> nonviolent, unarmed, political protest. When someone like Saddam
> Hussein does that to "his own" citizens, we
> add that to the long list of reasons justifying his ouster.
What she did was make herself an enemy combatant by acting as a human
shield for illegal combatant members of a terrorist guerrilla
insurgency. What SHE did is a war crime, and her Palestinian hosts are
similarly and specifically war criminals for allowing her to do it.
> What do we about a
> foreign government killing one of "our own" citizens?
When she decided to be party to a war crime, she placed herself outside
the bounds of our protection. Under the Geneva Conventions, her
Palestinian hosts can be summarily executed for allowing her to engage
in the activities which got her killed. The Israeli soldier driving the
bulldozer cannot be held at fault whatsoever. THIS is how the Geneva
Conventions work.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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