Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Irony Lost (reprint)
International Solidarity Movement member Rachel Corrie was flattened by an Israeli bulldozer several years ago. To commemorate this, friends are invited to a Pancake Breakfast at Denny's.
You can't make this sort of thing up.
Comments on the post are priceless:
The comments also led me to this very interesting page which suggests the ISM were complicit in her death and asks some very hard questions. It also makes the simple point that "When you are more useful to your friends dead than alive, it is time to find new friends-- quickly." Too true! Read it all.
Update: Comments on the Indymedia page suggest I am part of the Grand Conspiracy
Note: This whole post was re-entered from memory.The earlier version appears to have disappeared without a trace. I certainly didn't delete it and will assume Blogger had an error. Can anyone shed some light? (Update: Found it).
You can't make this sort of thing up.
Comments on the post are priceless:
Honestly, someone squashed flatter than a pancake is memorialized by a breakfast of... huh?Others lack a sense of humour:
The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns. Note the Klingons were created by TV scriptwriters 1966-67 as the alien nemesis to the Starship Enterprise, a full TV season before scriptwriters at the Kremlin invented the equally fictitious "Palestinians" right after the 1967 Israeli victory.
Regardless of the politics, I would find a Pancake Breakfast to be rather insulting given the way that she died, more over, a pancake breakfast is way way way too cheary to the solomness of the event.Uh, becuase the Jews weren't turned into Champagne and Orange juice?
Why not have a Chapeign and Orange Juice breakfast to commemorate the horrors of the Holocaust?
The comments also led me to this very interesting page which suggests the ISM were complicit in her death and asks some very hard questions. It also makes the simple point that "When you are more useful to your friends dead than alive, it is time to find new friends-- quickly." Too true! Read it all.
Update: Comments on the Indymedia page suggest I am part of the Grand Conspiracy
This is a hoax, straight out fo COINTELPROWhatever.
by heard it before
See:
http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2004/07/1698659_comment.php#1699411
See also, this:
http://indymediawatch.blogspot.com/2006/03/irony-lost.html
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Editor's note: I am reprinting this comment which was posted to the original version of this post and subsequently recovered
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From TH:
My favourite bit:
The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns. Note the Klingons were created by TV scriptwriters 1966-67 as the alien nemesis to the Starship Enterprise, a full TV season before scriptwriters at the Kremlin invented the equally fictitious "Palestinians" right after the 1967 Israeli victory.
Just wondering-- will Corrie's memorial stone cairn be lifted into place by a Catepillar? At least the stone won't know it's supposed to get out of the way of a slow-moving bulldozer, and won't be used to plug a hole full of terrorist weapons smuggled in by Corrie's fellow Nazis and other comrade scum.
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From TH:
My favourite bit:
The Palestinians are a people with far less claim to historical legitimacy than the Klingons. Idiots like Rachel Corrie are like geeks who go to summer camp to learn to speak Klingon, but wind up playing with live phaser guns. Note the Klingons were created by TV scriptwriters 1966-67 as the alien nemesis to the Starship Enterprise, a full TV season before scriptwriters at the Kremlin invented the equally fictitious "Palestinians" right after the 1967 Israeli victory.
Just wondering-- will Corrie's memorial stone cairn be lifted into place by a Catepillar? At least the stone won't know it's supposed to get out of the way of a slow-moving bulldozer, and won't be used to plug a hole full of terrorist weapons smuggled in by Corrie's fellow Nazis and other comrade scum.
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