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| Christopher Hitchens Attacked in Beirut |
| 2009-02-19 |
| Blogger Ace of Spades gives his account of this weird attack against British writer Christopher Hitchens. Hitch and two others were out on some or such errand. One guy was just telling Hitchens that the Syrian Nazi party had little support in the country but was paid by Syria to kill people, and that he'd been told they're the one party you don't fuck with. So five minutes later they come across the poster for the Syrian Nazi Party on an abandoned bagel shop -- abandoned, if I had this right, after Hezballah had attacked it last year due to the overly Jewish connotations of bagelry. So Hitchens immediately takes out a pen and writes "No, no, Fuck You" on the poster. I don't know if he'd digested the story and decided to fuck with them anyway, or else he was just reacting to the modified swastika on the poster. Now, the Syrian Nazis are not popular and neighborhoods have tried to get their posters taken down. But then they threaten people and cause problems. So the state leaves them up. To avoid getting their posters defaced or torn down, they post a paid Nazi watcher to keep an eye on their posters. Well, when this Syrian Nazi goon saw Hitch do this, he confronted him and kinda-sorta attacked him. I say kinda sorta attacked, because what his main intent was was to delay Hitchens from leaving -- until the ten Nazi goons he had just texted on his cell phone could arrive. There was some kicking and pulling and hitting. Hitch and the others attempted to get into a cab -- the Syrian Nazi goon got right in the cab with them, still hitting Hitchens. They could not force him out. Eventually they all exited, and attempted to get a fresh cab, but other cabbies were now hip to the fact the Syrian Nazis had been riled and wanted no business from them, so two cabs passed refusing their fare. Now at this point the ten Nazi goons showed up (about five minutes into this-- they came quickly) and Hitch and the other two were probably going to get the crap beaten out of them, at best. However, they finally managed to get a cabbie who was either brave or didn't know the trouble he was getting into and got in, this time without the goon, and left the other ten behind. Now, as far as the damage Hitch suffered, it wasn't much. He did get some lumps -- a knock on the leg, a scrape on the face. And also his writing hand had been stomped on. He'd been roughed up a bit, but didn't have "the shit beaten out of him." If I hadn't been told the story I wouldn't have known he'd been fucked with at all. Apart from a bit of pain walking and some more pain typing, he was fine. So, that's the story. I was holding off on it until we were out of the country, but some rat we ran into apparently began blabbing it to his rat-like kin. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #8 Hitchens is smart but he lacks inter-personal skills. |
| Posted by: Hupise Brown8031 2009-02-19 16:35 |
| #7 Robert Fisk will be so envious. |
| Posted by: JDB 2009-02-19 15:48 |
| #6 Are you learning who your friends really are yet Hitch? Why don't you visit London tomorrow? |
| Posted by: newc 2009-02-19 12:13 |
| #5 Obama approves. Takes notes. Establishes a domestic "militia". |
| Posted by: Iblis 2009-02-19 12:03 |
| #4 I wonder if Hitch ever started to "beg God to make them stop" even once? |
| Posted by: Jack is Back! 2009-02-19 11:15 |
| #3 He might have been born in Britain, but he is an American citizen. He still has to improve the "beat the other guy to bloody pulp" before being allowed to apply. |
| Posted by: JFM 2009-02-19 09:31 |
| #2 What's the frequency, INFIDEL! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-02-19 09:15 |
| #1 "Blogger Ace of Spades gives his account of this weird attack against British writer Christopher Hitchens." He might have been born in Britain, but he is an American citizen. |
| Posted by: Penguin 2009-02-19 09:09 |