Reply #36: No tunnels under that home. And a US citizen was killed.

[Tom Joad]

A US citizen was killed, and for some, that does not matter, because her politics were different than theirs, she had no allegiance to the military that had destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Gaza. Certainly George Bush does not give a shit. Certainly a poster here (see #13 above) does not give a damn. Seems like for some humans just don't count. No real investigation took place as promised. The State Dept was not satisfied with the investigation. Neither am i. But unlike the State Dept, i still insist that action be taken to fully investigate, to really make fully public this matter.

Why some choose to slander Rachel Corrie now, with this baloney about her being a pawn of Palestinian terrorists, is beyond me. She cared about a family. A family other than her own. And not of the same ethnic background. I know that in some places it is popular to celebrate her death, i've seen the websites like Little Green Goofballs or whatever. I don't know why people can be so cruel. Why do people support the military terror that crushes homes and human beings... and any hope for peace?

Rachel Corrie was about the same age as Michael Schwerner & Andrew Goodman, who died in Mississippi because they saw that even though they lived comfortable lives hundreds of miles away, they knew their lives and the lives of people in Mississippi were somehow intertwined, that they could not be silent when others are being oppressed.

Rachel went to Palestine knowing what was happening was being done in her name, with US tax dollars.
Rachel wanted to say no, to say that this is not to be done in her name.

I know that after the death of Schwerner and Goodman, others said "they had no business coming to Mississippi". "They should have just minded their own business." That the civil rights movement "used them" to spread their "communist ideology". They probably made fun of how they died too. The same foolishness and sickness we hear and see coming from the fools you quote.

If i believed in an afterlife, maybe i could believe that Corrie and Schwerner and Goodman and Chaney and Tom Hurndall are together now, maybe they are part of that gentle spirit that inspires others to work in solidarity with others (which is not new, by any means), to look beyond false barriers of ethnicity or arbitrary borders or anything else.... inspiring people to say my allegience is to people and justice and for people to live freely and children playing on open fields and we will not tolerate looking away when children are being killed by military snipers and we will not look away when homes are being demolished and we will not look away when people are being denied political and basic rights as was the case in the South (and much of the USA, even today), we will not look away when our country attacks another country merely because we don't know anyone who is in the military... and we will take risks and we will care for our human family, that goes beyond our little communities. Some of those risks mean even physical violence and even death and the risks of being accused of disloyalty or support for terrorism or communism or whatever.

"People in Third World countries think and laugh and smile, just like us. We have got to understand that we are them; they are us." Rachel Corrie, Age 10 She understood then what many don't understand if they turn 90. Maybe i should feel more sorry for the older ones who live so long and just don't get it. Their lives are wasted. They go through life not giving a damn.