Rachel Corrie Cartoon Controversy

[juniorgrrl]

Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
While i think she was wrong in what she did, i've got to agree that the cartoon was pretty tasteless. Especially this soon after the accident.

After our Bonfire tragedy in 1999, the following cartoon appeared 2 days later in an Arizona newspaper:



Now, i don't need to tell y'all the uproar this caused not only in College Station but in Arizona, where thousands of emails and letters caused companies to remove advertising and even prompted the editor to offer a donation to Texas A&M (which was promptly refused )

So, that being said, yes, the artist is completely within his rights to say that, but i would never support the artist or the paper again.

Kitso
KS 361

The A&M Bonfire cartoon is WAY more offensive. What happened there was an accident. This girl knew what she was doing. She saw the bulldozer moving...

Had she done it in this country, she'd be nominated for a Darwin Award. Becasue she did it in the name of "peace" its "bad taste" to joke about it. *shrug* Natural selection is all I have to say about that...

[Kevin]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
So if all your life your are kicked around and you finally do something about it, its okay for the people who oppressed to go after your family?
Saudis are linked to al Queda. I have not been presented with any evidence linking them to the PLO.

I would not blow myself up on other innocent people.

[Hootie]

We have political cartoons that make fun of people all the time for their actions, so how is this any different.

I don't take offense to this and I do find it humorous. It's her right to do what she did and it's the artist's right to draw what he/she did.

Hell, just this week there was some farmer from South Carolina in a mini-bulldozer driving around in D.C. with a U.S. flag upside-down and a gun (I believe). That's an ironic way to protest war....violence with violence. I'd laugh if I saw a cartoon about that cuz its stupid. hmmmm. Maybe that guy's picture shoulda been in the cartoon instead.

[Optimist Prime]

Stupid people are funny.

[AngelPhiSig]

From what I remember hearing on the news, she didnt sit infront of the bulldozer, she tripped and fell.

[White_Chocolate]

we'll never hear the end of it
is she in people magaziine yet


by the way, americans can be considered terrorists. . .or accesories to murder. . .
every day, millions of unborn children are killed in the name of 'unfit mothers' and 'hindeing my career'. . .

what is the difference?
we're all evil in our own little way


p.s. i did snicker at the cartoon but only because of the pic. . .i didn't know the whole story yet. . .

[Lil' Hannah]

Originally posted by Hootie
Hell, just this week there was some farmer from South Carolina in a mini-bulldozer driving around in D.C. with a U.S. flag upside-down and a gun (I believe). That's an ironic way to protest war....violence with violence. I'd laugh if I saw a cartoon about that cuz its stupid. hmmmm. Maybe that guy's picture shoulda been in the cartoon instead.

He was actually protesting a lack of funds for tobacco farming.

[KSigkid]

Originally posted by White_Chocolate
we'll never hear the end of it
is she in people magaziine yet


by the way, americans can be considered terrorists. . .or accesories to murder. . .
every day, millions of unborn children are killed in the name of 'unfit mothers' and 'hindeing my career'. . .

what is the difference?
we're all evil in our own little way


p.s. i did snicker at the cartoon but only because of the pic. . .i didn't know the whole story yet. . .

Now that's just opening up a whole new can of worms...

[RUgreek]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
Palenstinians aren't terrorists. Israelis are. They bulldozed down some one's house.

I think you need to research this conflict a little more. You might discover something wrong regarding that statement.

P.S. This woman deserved her fate, she knew the risks of going into a situation like that. No sympathy from me, but I feel horrible about her family and loved ones that she chose to leave to do this and create a tragedy for them to mourn over.

I don't care who you are, you go to another country and try to be noble and stupid in a war that has nothing to do with you, you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. Hey, remember John Walker, he was helping the Taliban, same deal here, only he lived.

[Munchkin03]

Originally posted by RUgreek
I don't care who you are, you go to another country and try to be noble and stupid in a war that has nothing to do with you, you are responsible for the consequences of your actions.

Couldn't this same thing be said to American servicemen serving in Iraq right now?

[Hootie]

Originally posted by Lil' Hannah
He was actually protesting a lack of funds for tobacco farming.

Hmmm...good to know. I saw the American Flag upside down hanging from his little bulldozer dealy and assumed it was in protest of the war. A pretty radical statement for tobacco

Thanks for the info though

[RUgreek]

Originally posted by Munchkin03
Couldn't this same thing be said to American servicemen serving in Iraq right now?

No, not really. Volunteering to join the military is totally different from disobeying warnings and standing in front of a bulldozer. This country is responsible for sending troops to Iraq, the late Rachel Corrie is solely responsible for the tragic situation she put herself into.

[RUgreek]

http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl...sp?reg=MIDEAST

(AP)— Israel's military prosecutor has exonerated Israeli soldiers in the death of an American peace activist, who was crushed to death by an army bulldozer in the Gaza Strip, the army said Thursday.

Rachel Corrie, 23, of Olympia, Wash., died March 16 trying to block the demolition of the house of a doctor in the Rafah refugee camp by standing in front of the bulldozer. The army said the home was being destroyed in an effort to block arms smuggling.

Israel and the Palestinians have been locked in a bloody 33-month conflict. The Rafah camp, on the Egyptian border, has been one of the flashpoints.

Members of her pro-Palestinian group, International Solidarity Movement, claimed that Corrie was visible to the bulldozer driver and that her death was malicious.

''When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside, (Rachel) climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it ... to look directly at the driver, who kept on advancing,'' the group said in a statement.

Announcing the ruling, the army said the driver did not see her, claiming she was standing behind a mound of earth.

Military police investigating the Corrie case found that the soldiers operating the bulldozer had no intention of harming her, the army said in a statement.

''Rachel Corrie was injured as a result of earth and building material falling on her when she tried to climb on a pile of earth while work was being carried out by an armored Israel Defense Forces bulldozer,'' the statement said. ''The crew of the armored bulldozer did not see Miss Corrie, who was standing behind a pile of earth, nor could they have seen or heard her.''

International Solidarity Movement spokesman Ghassan Andoni said Thursday that he was not surprised by the army findings. ''We have received so many negative signals from them,'' he said. ''Their only concern is to protect their people and not arrive at the truth.''

The Corrie family in Charlotte, N.C., was not available for comment on the army findings.

Over the past two months Israeli authorities have adopted an increasingly tough attitude toward pro-Palestinian foreign activists, trying to deport as many as possible.

The International Solidarity Movement has acknowledged that two Britons visited its members before the Britons carried out an April 30 suicide bombing at a bar in Tel Aviv, killing three Israelis.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by RUgreek
''When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside, (Rachel) climbed up onto the mound of dirt and rubble being gathered in front of it ... to look directly at the driver, who kept on advancing,'' the group said in a statement.

When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside, what she
should have done was get the heck out of there. What a waste of a young life

[James]

Kind of Darwinian.

Originally posted by KillarneyRose
When the bulldozer refused to stop or turn aside, what she
should have done was get the heck out of there. What a waste of a young life