While I bear no animus toward Daniel Pearl and his family, this strikes me of an abuse of the original purpose of the 9/11 fund. While Daniel was certainly a victim in every sense of the word, his job and life’s decisions did also certainly put him in harms way. To me this opens the door to a free terrorist insurance program. By free I mean funded out of my pocket, as a tax payer.
NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is seeking compensation from the September 11 victims’ fund, saying her husband, like the victims of the attacks, was a U.S. citizen targeted by Islamic extremists.
Why stop at only Islamic terrorists or at innocent victims. Why not compensate the the family of Rachel Corrie a US activist (and Darwin Award candidate) who jumped around like a chicken on the front of an Israeli bulldozer until it ran over her.
The IDF also killed Rachel Correy, a U.S. activist for the group. She was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in March 2003, when she tried to prevent the demolition of a Palestinian house in Rafah
Israel at the time was demolishing houses and tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists.
Aaron has some further comments concerning Rachel Corrie.
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I think she just wants to be mocked by Ted Rall like the others.
All of which demonstrates why the 9/11 fund was a mistake in the first place. An understandable mistake, to be sure, but a mistake nonetheless.
As horrible as it was… (yeah, I’ve seen the footage of them severing his head with a knife and proudly holding it up for the camera), it’s really not 9/11 related.
corrie not correy.
The animated graphics at that link was by yours truly and, if I must say, quite prescient.
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