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| Decorated Soldier Reportedly Attacked At Columbus, OH Concert |
| 2004-09-22 |
| A local soldier back from the war in Iraq said he was beaten at an area concert because of what was printed on his T-shirt...Foster Barton, 19, of Grove City, received a Purple Heart for his military service in Iraq. He almost lost his leg last month after a Humvee he was riding in ran over a landmine. Barton said he was injured again Friday night in a crowded parking lot as he was leaving the Toby Keith concert at Germain Amphitheatre. The solider was injured so badly that he can't go back to Iraq as scheduled. "I don't remember getting hit at all, really," said Barton, a member of the 1st Calvary Division. "He hit me in the back of the head. I fell and hit the ground. I was knocked unconscious and he continued to punch and kick me on the ground." Barton and his family said he was beat up because he was wearing an Iraqi freedom T-shirt... |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #9 According to a Columbus police report, six witnesses who didn't know Barton said the person who beat him up was screaming profanities and making crude remarks about U.S. soldiers, Burton reported. Police said ... the six [] witnesses said Barton was hit from behind. Barton's mother said she has a message for her son's alleged attacker, who police said ran into the crowd after the incident and was not arrested. "He needs our prayers, just like the insurgents, because he's a coward," Cindy Barton said. Seems a leftie must have gotten himself so riled up by hate and Toby Keith's pro-American lyrics that he may have just lost it. The left gets very violent when cognitive dissonance gets to a point where they cannot escape. Its almost a psychosis: they lash out at us because if they turned the hate inward to its source, their core of lies and hatred, they'd kill themselves |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-22 12:40:17 AM |
| #8 I think a lot of Bush supporters don't have bumper stickers and/or yard sign for fear of vandalism as the left engages in their 'free speech' Remember, the left are carefully trained that vandalism and assault and battery counts as free speech. Remember several years ago "freedom loving" leftists at a university vandalized newspapers of conservative students, and the Weasel-Assed Totalitarian University President said there was no problem because the students were expressing "free speech". A judge disagreed, and ordered the students involved in the destruction to pay restitution for the damages. I believe this happened somewhere in Pennsylvania. |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-09-22 2:15:26 PM |
| #7 Hmm.... I guess Kerry really was in a 'fighting mood'..... didn't think it was 'contagious'. Just think this guy almost lost his leg so these idiots can attend a concert without fear of being blown up or taken hostage. Around here (Seattle WA) I think a lot of Bush supporters don't have bumper stickers and/or yard sign for fear of vandalism as the left engages in their 'free speech'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-22 9:16:50 AM |
| #6 At a Tobi Kieth Concert????????????? |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2004-09-22 6:22:56 AM |
| #5 The LLL's peace rhetoric is a smoke screen. Everything always comes down to an issue of force or violence with them, the violence of the media-licensed mob, the violence of their terrorist allies and totalitarian heroes, and the violence of the criminal scum they so ardently defend. Payback is needed, in the language they understand. One hundred dope-smoking anarchist fuckheads should get the shit kicked out of them for each incident like this, at a bare minimum. Fascistic, the appeasement mob will say? Bullshit, we aren't talking about shooting hostages here, or cutting their heads off for that matter, just housebreaking some doper punks who have earned every bruise and scratch. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-09-22 4:10:32 AM |
| #4 Let's re-institute the Greek custom of exiling those profoundly obnoxious to the polis. Better still, trade a US lefty for a frustrated European scientist or techie entrepreneur. US idiot drain/EU brain drain. Deal? |
| Posted by: lex 2004-09-22 12:59:37 AM |
| #3 Anymouse, you just insulted felines everywere. |
| Posted by: Korora 2004-09-22 12:47:55 AM |
| #2 OS...Lefties are pussies. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2004-09-22 12:42:58 AM |
| #1 I've been to alot of concerts, and saw altercations in the parking lot at all of them. I wouldn't expect too many anti-war types at a Toby Keith concert. For all that is said, in the article, there are other explanations that could be told. Mr. Barton could have crossed a drunk guy the wrong way, and was sucker punched. The T-shirt could have had nothing to do with it. I've been trampled in mosh pits, and you just have to expect anything when alcohol is sold in an arena. I hope this kid recovers soon. |
| Posted by: Destro 2004-09-22 12:24:07 AM |