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March 15, 2005
Child Proofing The World……………
According to the AP….
“Rachel Corrie, a student at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, was standing in front of a home in a refugee camp in Rafah, near the Egyptian border, on March 16, 2003, when a bulldozer plowed over her.”
It is such a sad story. And it just keeps getting worse, because now her parents are suing the Caterpillar Company for their daughter’s death.
This has nothing to do with the Caterpillar Company and everything to do with her parents and the sense of guilt they feel. When your daughter goes into what is, for all practical purposes, a war zone , can you with any honesty blame anyone other than her when something bad happens? People are killed everyday. And a lawsuit has never brought even one of them back to life.
So who is responsible?
Rachel was. She chose to put herself into that situation and she should have known the risks .It was her responsibility to learn what the risks were before going……..that’s what you do as an adult. This isn’t a silly demonstration at Evergreen State…this is the real world.
They make the statement that Caterpillar “…….providing specially designed bulldozers to Israeli Defense Forces that it knew would be used to demolish homes and endanger people.”
Bulldozers that are designed to demolish buildings? Who knew?
Everyone.
This whole story is sadly ludicrous.
We all make mistakes especially when young and idealistic, and most of us live to tell the tales. There are those like Rachel that do not, however.
It is always sad and always a loss, especially for the family and friends and my heart goes out to them. But, do they have the right to flail around now blaming everyone else? No.
In the end the responsibility lay with Rachel, not her parents, not the Caterpillar Company, but Rachel who chose to put herself in that situation for something she believed in.
"The brutal death of my daughter should never have happened," Corrie's mother, Cindy Corrie, said in a statement released by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a law firm handling the case.
"We believe Caterpillar and the (Israeli Defense Forces) must be held accountable for their role in the attack."
Brutal deaths should never happen to anyone….but they do.
It is a fact of life.
I think the real story here is that we have heartbroken parents who feel that if it’s the Caterpillar Company’s fault it can’t be theirs, right?
Wrong.
We cannot child-proof the world. In theory it sounds good but what would it really produce in the end? It would produce a lot of helpless, non thinkers.
And what will a lawsuit accomplish? It may put a lot of hardworking people out of work and all because we had a young woman that didn’t get out of the way of a bulldozer.
Whatever happened to taking responsibility for your own actions? When did we all become finger pointing, lawsuit happy blamers?
This was a tragic accident……..that happened in a part of the world where even more tragic things happen every day.
She wasn’t even a blip on the screen, unfortunately…….
Posted by ChristmasGhost at March 15, 2005 06:15 PM
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Comments
Bogtrotter.....uphill battle is an understatement!
Hopeless case is more like it...sadly.....
Posted by: christmasghost at March 22, 2005 09:01 PM
Can't think of a better reason for tort reform. I would LOVE to see a system where the person bringing the lawsuit must pay legal costs for the other side.
Nicely put pbird. Her parents, who shaped,molded and influenced her bear the ultimate responsibility for her death.
And to the group. Though I lived in Belltown for a year in the early 90's, I now live in Arizona so will not advise you good people on how to run your elections. But keep fighting the good fight....and in King County it is definatly an uphill battle.
Posted by: Bogtrotter at March 22, 2005 08:20 AM
SHE’S DEAD AND WHERE GLAD, ONE MORE LEFTY IN THE SAND.
Posted by: IFORGOT at March 22, 2005 08:08 AM
I read on the rachel corrie web site, she was crushed by a large concrete slab.
Posted by: chardonnay at March 21, 2005 03:18 PM
NO ONE is questioning whether this woman is actually dead except me, apparently. Has ANYONE seen ANYWHERE a notice about the time, date and location of her burial place?
I've searched pro-Rachel Websites - nothing. Searched Internet news - nothing.
Searched North Carolina newspaper where her parents live - nothing.
Was this "crushing" just a publicity stunt that benefits the left AND the Israelis, who have 'admitted' that a bulldozer 'crushed' her - thus probably scaring off any other Lefties who might want to make trouble in Israel? How easy is that? But now that the Corries are attacking a legitimate American company, I'm getting mad.
Can anyone out here in the blogosphere find the info I'm looking for? Time, date, location of burialplace.
Posted by: mac at March 20, 2005 08:42 PM
The parents are not victims. They are cynical bastards that sent their foolish daughter out with a headful of stupid ideas and they are ultimately responsible for her death. She for her part, was part of a group called ISM who sends people to Israel to obstruct the nation of Israel in its efforts to defend itself from terrorists and bombers and so forth. Rachel was so full of hubris that she thought her precious little white lefty self should be able to stop a cat driven by a soldier who wasn't sure where she was by the sheer glory of her presence.
Posted by: pbird at March 20, 2005 08:01 AM
After hearing about this, I think I will sue the Ticonderoga Pencil Company for my failing Finite Math in College. It was the pencil afterall, that was responsible for me writing down the wrong answers.
Posted by: Scooter Mcgavin at March 20, 2005 01:37 AM
Fireguy...what about the dirt that 'made' her slip or the mother of the soldier driving the cat? How about the airline that flew her to Israel?
Isn't it interesting that it is "cool" now on college[and in the case of Evergreen College I use that term oh, so loosely]campuses to be anti-semitic? Because that's what Rachel was. She wasn't too hot on America either as she proved time and again by burning American flags in front of Palestinian kids...........
Posted by: christmasghost at March 18, 2005 10:04 AM
This is an easy one to figure out. The Oil Refinery that produced the diesel fuel that powered the "Cat" engine is the one that they should be going after.
Posted by: fireguy 1303 at March 18, 2005 09:55 AM
I have just gone through a lawsuit brought by a former employee and I was named in the lawsuit. The Company I work for is very large and after a year of depositions and mediations even though the company I work for thought we had a very good chance of winning they settled because they figured it was cheaper.
It is sorry that anybody dies in the way this young person did and can not imagine what her parents are going through but you are right do we blame others for your own actions .
Posted by: rightwingbob at March 16, 2005 09:58 AM
in fact visit this web site www.rachelcorrie.org click the link for who supports their cause, which takes you here, www.catdestroyshomes and there you will see the laundry list of groups behind this. I think the mourning Corrie family is indeed the victim of exploitation. This movement is out to destroy the CAT company.
Posted by: chardonnay at March 15, 2005 09:20 PM
Tragic she had to die. Why was she there, do you know if she was tied to any specific group?
What do you think the chances are that the Attorney approached the parents? He will make 30-40% of any awards, and gets attention for his firm, even if Caterpillar settles, which is one of many defendants named for sure. I wonder if this suit falls under the new tort reform law. I don't know how large a firm The Center for Constitutional Rights is, but I'll bet the Cat company has some pretty big guns themselves. There may be more to this story than we know. For one thing, is CCR a left wing group that is anti biz? It just seems that many large conservative companies are under attack by the radical left for one thing or another. You know, big evil corporations. The parents may now be victims as well.
Posted by: chardonnay at March 15, 2005 09:11 PM
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