The Day After The Death Of Rachel Corrie Day
There's a sort of poo flinging contest going on between rightwingers trying to see who can mock Rachel Corrie's death the most while leftwingers point out that they're mocking a young woman who bravely stood her ground fighting for a cause in which she believed passionately (there was even a Pancake Day joke making the rounds - I hate it when somebody says something funny when I'm being outraged...). Out of this came the contention that rightwingers want to be able to say anything (I'm on their side here) but without consequence - in the sense that they don't want others to call them on what they're saying (hm...).
While I abhor people who pretend to be so aggrieved by what other people say that they turn it into a crusade on behalf of society (those people are usually at the top of the hypocrite heap in punditry, I've noticed) - I think it's funny that the instigators get mad when the instigated do just that.
So, not to be left out, it struck me on the OC Transpo bus on the way to work (the company that allows Catholic advertising galore on its buses but nothing that even hints at the possibility of there being no God) that Rachel Corrie may have been The Second Coming. I mean, look at the similarities between her martyrdom and the martyrdom of Jesus Christ. Seriously.
Rachel Corrie may well have been The Second Coming of Jesus Christ.
And wouldn't that just be ironic to the max? So, on behalf of Jesus Christ, let me just say to the poo flingers, "Forgive them Lord, they know not what they do".
Gee, I love the sound of heads popping in the morning.
