1#Road Kill
I thought
if they've taken a bus to the Hague
let's take a Caterpillar
I mean I know it couldn't be
the really exspensive kind
that they use to ride over the olive trees
and over people's homes
and over Rachel Corrie
and back again
But it could be the basic model
a symbol of how crushing
oppression is
a symbol of how crushing
taxes are
and what those taxes pay for
in foreign aid abroad
and I would paint it black
and tour around any country
to warn about non violent resistance
and what happens in a militarized state
that overrides international laws
and after they still do not
take responsibility for rachel's death and tom's
and countless others
I shall paint it again in pink
for that color between
blood's red stain and hope
and I shall empower the Machine
and redefine it as Art, Roadmap Art!
a Sculpture a Monument a Memorial
and I shall engrave and scratch and sign
all the names of those whose lives
have been thus crushed.
and when we are done
depicting depravities
there could be a museum for the bus
and for the bulldozer
and all the other scrap metal in peoples lives
ripped apart by bullets and bombs
and we can visit there
whenever we need to mourn
or be reminded
of what we have allowed to transpire.
Mary La Rosa 3.16.04
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Rachel Corrie and the Boy Bomb<\/b> Here's a sample of the Post-Intelligencer's tribute, written by one Molly McClain, \r\n who works for an outfit called the Palestine Solidarity Committee:<\/p>\r\n Some people blamed Rachel, a student at Evergreen State College, for her \r\n own murder; they accused her of everything from being an impressionable, idealistic \r\n kid who had been brainwashed to a defender of terrorists. <\/p>\r\n It is hard to imagine what life is like for people in Palestine, and I cling \r\n to the hope that it is this lack of imagination that leads so many to believe \r\n that all Palestinians are terrorists or that Rachel was either brainless or \r\n evil.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Well, a picture is worth a thousand words, so check out this photo \r\n of Corrie burning the American flag<\/a> a month before her death. A look of \r\n utter hatred is on her face, as a crowd of Palestinian children look on.<\/p>\r\n Here's an example of what this culture of hate produces: "Fatah Tanzim \r\n activists in Nablus attempted to use an 11-year-old boy to smuggle a bomb through \r\n an IDF roadblock on Monday, and tried to detonate the bomb when soldiers stopped \r\n him," the Jerusalem \r\n Post<\/a> reports:<\/p>\r\n The men gave the boy a bag containing a seven-to-10 kilogram bomb stuffed \r\n with bolts. They promised him a large sum of money if he would carry it through \r\n the roadblock and hand it to a woman waiting on the other side.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n Israeli soldiers rescued the boy, whom Yasser Arafat's men were preparing to \r\n murder. Ha'aretz<\/a>, \r\n meanwhile, reports that Arafat yesterday "refused his cabinet's call to \r\n use the Palestinian security forces against terror organizations."<\/p>\r\n Arafat won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1994.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n A year ago today, terror advocate Rachel Corrie of Olympia, Wash., died in a \r\n bulldozer accident while trying to obstruct an Israeli operation against Palestinian \r\n weapons-smuggling tunnels. Corrie didn't deserve to die any more than any other \r\n accident victim does, but neither does she deserve to be lionized as a martyr \r\n for peace--as she is, predictably, in her home state's two big papers, the Seattle \r\n Times<\/a> and the Seattle \r\n Post-Intelligencer<\/a> ("Intelligent as a post!"). In contrast, Ruhama \r\n Shattan<\/a> has a clearheaded tribute to Corrie, which our friends at the Jerusalem \r\n Post generously allowed us to reprint.<\/p>\r\n \r\n
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