Thread:Comments:MV Rachel Corrie seized by Israeli Naval Forces/Comments from feedback form - ""This comes after the death of..."/reply (8)

In a hectic situation like that I don't know one person who wouldn't pick up whatever weapon they had available. It's natural instinct. Fight or flight response. You can choose to run away or fight back, even very basic organisms have it. When you're on a boat, fleeing is not a really good option, so fighting is. It's all very simple. You people act as if you'd do something different on that boat. They were shooting from the helicopters before they even got down to the ship, ask any of the reporters there. Even if you don't buy that, maybe coming with live weapons loaded was a bad idea. They could have used tear gas, ACTUAL rubber bullets (not steel bullets with 1mm rubber coating), signal flares, blank rounds, etc.

Yet, you still take the side of the assault rifle clad commandos with helicopters and claim that the guy fighting for his life at 4:30am at sea with a baseball bat or wooden stick is the oppressor.