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Remembering Rachel Corrie
Woodrow:
And you think that Bulldozer was just taking down Innocent peoples houses? ::)
This Girl was STUPID. You are smart enough to realize this...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A35126-2003Mar16¬Found=true
Notice how the FOUNDER of her wack ass organization say that they (The protestors) fucked up, and also see how that article states that the windows of the BULLETPROOF bulldozer limit the visibility severly. Also note that the article says she was kneeling between some rubble While the rest of her moronic protestor friends stayed back.
It was an accident.
King Tech Quadafi:
Man, i seen the pictures, she was standing well in front of the bulldozer, with a yellow shirt, the bulldozer probably tried to scare her and ended up fuckin shit up. How you fail to condemn brutal practices of collective punishment is beyond me. That is a huge human rights violation. Houses are knocked over with the occupants given like 3 minutes to leave. Where would u go engle if the israeli army knocked your house down?
Woodrow:
Oh Boy!
You've Seen pictures?!!
That must be true then!
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Rachel_Corrie3_Continued.asp
Rachel Corrie, Continued
In the wake of a fatal bulldozer incident, irresponsible photo captions and disparate editorial cartoons
The circumstances of American college student Rachel Corrie's March 16 death beneath an IDF bulldozer in Gaza remain unclear. The key unanswered question: Was Corrie visible and/or audible to the IDF driver just before the accident?
The consumer public got a huge dose of misleading information when Associated Press distributed a photo showing Corrie, standing in (apparently) direct view of the bulldozer driver, dressed in orange and speaking into a megaphone in the direction of the oncoming vehicle.
The AP caption reads: "Rachel was run over Sunday by the bulldozer that she was trying to stop from tearing down a building in the Rafah refugee camp, witnesses said."
See the AP photo at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030316/168/3j4y0.html
The problem with the AP photo caption is that readers are led to believe that this photo depicts the very scene and moment of the accident. The implication is criminal recklessness on the part of the IDF driver.
In fact, however, this photo was NOT taken in the moments before Corrie's death. Joseph Smith, of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement, was the photographer and wrote a chronological account of the incident (published on pro-Palestinian websites).
Smith says that the photo of Corrie "standing with megaphone" is ascribed to the time period 2pm-4pm. In addition, during this period, Smith notes that the bulldozer "always stopped in time to avoid injuring them."
At the time of Corrie's death (5pm), Smith describes Corrie as "sitting, with arms waving" (no megaphone), and another colleague holding the megaphone from a distance.
Additionally, one key point that Smith does not mention is that the bulldozers shown in the two photos are different types. The later photo is a bulldozer with much smaller windows, and hence reduced visibility.
Read Smith's account at:
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1284.shtml
Thus, the AP photo and caption fails to note the two most essential factors in determining visibility or lack thereof: 1) Corrie was no longer standing, but had changed to a sitting position, and 2) she was no longer in possession of attention-grabbing megaphone.
When publishing such a photo, AP is obligated to explain details of chronology; in the absence of any information, readers presume that since the bulldozer appears 8-10 feet away from Corrie, the photographer must have snapped the picture moments before the bulldozer hit her.
This photo was published by many of the 15,000 media outlets that AP services. And though the accompanying articles may provide clarifying information, a picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, by not providing a caption that clearly counterbalances the easy "misread," AP has misrepresented Corrie's death and contributed to a worldwide slander of the IDF.
ETC... ETC...
You've been brainwashed!
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on March 13, 2004, 07:36:42 PM ---This is my beef with America, you guys will put the Israeli cause over your own citizens. The power of a dollar.
--- End quote ---
If Israel attacks us, we'll bomb the shit out of them too. We put nobody above our own citizens.
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: King Tech Quadafi on March 15, 2004, 10:24:29 PM --- How you fail to condemn brutal practices of collective punishment is beyond me. That is a huge human rights violation.
--- End quote ---
The same way you don't condemn what's going on in the countries we invade, so deep is your hatred for our country.
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