Posted by: McQ on Thursday, July 12, 2007 I'm sure most of you, being the sorts who follow stories like hers, know who Rachel Corrie is. Apparently her parents, not satisfied with the explanation that Corrie put herself in a position in which the accident which killed her was bound to happen, are again attempting to cash in on her death by blaming the instrument of her death and the company who manufactured it: The family of a woman killed trying to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian home in 2003 asked a federal appeals court panel to reinstate its lawsuit against Caterpillar Inc., saying the company knew bulldozers it sold to the Israeli government were being used to commit human rights violations.Hmmm ... I guess it isn't possible that a single road in Israel has been graded by a bulldozer. Or a building site prepared? Or any of a hundred different things which bulldozers normally do. If your case is anchored in the premise that the bulldozer was sold specifically to flatten Palestinian houses from which attacks on Israel were launched, well that seems a bit weak. So it comes as no surprise to me that a judge said, outta here when it was filed. And this reasoning: "Caterpillar sold this product knowing — or it should have known — it would cause exactly this harm,"Uh huh. And when General Electric's Electro Motive Division builds a diesel locomotive, they should know that some nut-case may try to share track space with one barreling through the night at 60 mph, right? And because of that, they shouldn't sell the locomotive, correct? But if they do, then it is their fault for not anticipating the nut-case's plan? You see, normal people don't put themselves in the way of 60 ton moving machines, especially when the operator of the machine can't see them. The negligence in such cases doesn't rest with the operator or the machine, and that's essentially what the court has tried to get across to the Corries once. This is just another, in a long line of examples, of the sad propensity of some to refuse to recognize individual responsibility. It is an attempt at blame shifting by the Corries as a salve for their refusal to accept the fact that Rachel Corrie's death was her own fault. Hopefully (we are talking about the 9th Circus) the court will tell them, very nicely of course, to pack sand. |
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