Ex-Code Pink Activist Killed in Iraq
Yesterday, while conducting a door-to-door count of civilian deaths in Iraq, Marla Ruzicka, a former Code Pink member, was killed by a car bomber. She was 28 years old.
After having worked for Code Pink for a number of years, Ruzicka started her own organization, CIVIC, which acted primarily as a liason between the U.S. military and Iraqi and Afghani civilian victims of terrorist activity and mistakes made by the U.S. military.
Ruzicka cultivated contacts within the U.S. military and within the Occupation Administration. Those contacts expedited her efforts to secure aid and compensation for Iraqi and Afghani civilians who suffered losses in either war.
Ruzicka said that this approach raised the hackles of her old Code Pink allies who accused her of "just helping clean up the mess", thereby making it easier for the U.S. to wage war. Ruzicka ignored their warped admonitions, formed her own organization and got on with her humanitarian work.
In 2003, Ruzicka was in Baghdad for the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom with Code Pink members, most of whom fled back to the U.S. when the invasion began. Unlike them, Ruzicka stayed in Iraq, helping to alleviate some of the inevitable suffering caused by the war.
She was of an exceedingly rare breed among left-wing activists, most of whom "talk the talk" but never actually "walk the walk" of risking their necks to help those truly in need.
Marla Ruzicka, R.I.P.
6 Comments:
This is a loss as she was apparently doing good work despite her odd political leanings.
Her C.I.V.I.C. organization is part of the many Soros-funded coalitions aligned for the advancement and preservation of dangerous stupidity. I'll await the public mourning of other civilians who have died doing charity work in Iraq, some even beheaded by terrorist captors, before I get around to wailing for allegedly reformed "useful idiots."
To be fair, for years I described David Horowitz's transformation from leftist radical to right-wing conservative as a sort of Dr. Frankenstein yelling "stop!" at the monster he created 30+ years ago. It took a while for me to warm up to Horowitz (where once I was skeptical, I'm now a convert) It will probably take even longer for me to warm up similarly to an "Ex-Code Pink Activist." I'm too unforgiving, I suppose.
Her death as a "human shield" is a sad loss, but no where near as tragic as say, Star Trek: Enterprise being cancelled.
Ruzicka was far from being a reformed leftist. But unlike most of her fellow leftist activists, who are driven primarily by hatred of someone or something (the U.S., Bush, capitalism etc.) she appeared to be motivated by a genuine concern for her fellow man, many of whom she actually helped.
A loss of a person doing genuine
good work is tragic. Her politcal beliefs may have been from Giligans
Island but it is the work that counts. Her left wing views are of no use to her now.
Without knowing her heart, I can't judge her by anything but her history and associations. It could well be she was an "exceeding rare breed" of left-wing activist and I couldn't hear her lone voice among the cacophony of leftists who went to Iraq to praise Saddam Hussein, vilify America, and stand as a "human shield" to protect Iraqi military positions from bombing.
I'm just wondering if any of the "contacts" she cultivated were among those predisposed to park car bombs near Iraqis working with Americans.
This site has a ridiculous tendency to welcome with open arms any leftist that deviates ever slightly from the left/liberal orthodoxy.
Ruzicka is dead because of her views which is a beautiful instance of natural justice. She was among those who gave hope to the terrorists in Iraq. That hope caused the deaths of thousands just as the anti-war movements of the 60's resulted in the deaths of millions in Cambodia and Vietnam.
In a very real sense, she died by her own hand. She deserved it.
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