Two Years in Hell: Happy Deathday, Rachel Corrie

Well, it looks like it's time once more to recall the story of the traitor Rachel Corrie, who has now been burning in hell for exactly two years. Frankly, I find her story very comforting: I take it as a sort of reassurance that, though the Lord cannot answer all of our prayers, at least he will occasionally take the time to remind us that, at the very least, he still has a sense of humor.

Now, I'm sure, some (even some who claim to be on the right) will send me e-mails insisting that there's nothing funny about some woman being crushed to death by a Bulldozer. But, then again, I'm a fan of the Darwin Awards and, verily, if someone ever deserved one, it's Rachel Corrie.

Some of you might not remember what the hell I'm talking about, so I'll take a moment to refresh your memory. Rachel Corrie was an "American" college student from Washington State who traveled to Greater Israel as a member of the "International Solidarity Movement" (which is ostensibly a protest group of some sort, but which reportedly functions as a sort of terrorist auxiliary movement) for the purpose of defending Palestinian terrorists from the justice which is surely due to them.

This is the ISM's game. So far as I can tell, their general policy is to run unarmed into combat zones and then cry when bad things happen to them as a result. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the ISM has a history of meeting with suicide bombers and shielding terrorists in their offices. As well, they've gotten into the habit of attempting to pull down sections of Israel's security fence. That Israel doesn't have a shoot-to-kill policy with regards to these morons is simply another lamentable example of that country's excessive moderation.

The exact story goes something like this: on March 16, 2003, Ms. Corrie was protesting the demolition of a terrorist's home (or perhaps it was a terrorist's family's home, I don't really remember). During the course of this, she made the unwise decision to lie down in front of a bulldozer, with predictable results. Thereafter she became a martyr of sorts.

The revelation of pictures taken the day before her timely demise showing Ms. Corrie burning a mock American flag led to her beatification within a matter of days. The process of full Canonization will, I'm sure, be completed within a matter of years. Young leftists across the country will, I'm certain, soon be walking around with "Saint Pancake" medals around their necks. If we're real lucky, they'll, in tribute to this great hero, decide to follow in her great tradition and find other Israeli bulldozers to be crushed to death by.

A quick look around Google News finds reports of a few dozen memorials held around the United States for that woman. Undoubtedly, there were actually many more than that. I'm sure that many leftists out there (including her parents, who are now apparently suing Caterpillar, the maker of that instrument of the Lord) will take a moment to actually mourn the traitor.

Is "traitor" too strong a word? I don't believe that it is. Ms. Corrie was indisputably disloyal to the United States. She spent the day before her last on Earth symbolically burning the American flag amid a crowd of Islamic fanatics. Her final act was to risk (and lose) her life in defense of terrorist-affiliated property. To say that these were not the actions of a patriot is a lot like saying that Liberace was slightly something other than straight.

What is standing alongside the enemies of the United States and burning a representation of the American flag if it is not treason? Joining with America's foes to burn the American flag strikes me as a textbook example of what the Founders meant when they put the words "aid and comfort" into the Constitution.

That this "lady" is now honored by so many on the left is simply a sign of their utter depravity and immorality. If the left had even a single patriotic bone left in its body, they'd be as fierce in denouncing this sack of trash as the rest of us are.