The boy that peace activist and "human shield" Christiaan Briggs punched into a coma is on his fourth brain operation.
Briggs has just received an eight-month sentence for the crime. With a little prison time, he'll be claiming spiritual kinship with Mandela:
A smirking peace activist who left a rising rock star fighting for his life after a row over his girlfriend was jailed for eight months today.Christiaan Briggs, 30, attacked 19-year-old singer Billy Leeson and left him in a coma, after Mr Leeson asked him to stop staring at his girlfriend on a late night number 29 bus.
After punching the teenager Briggs, who went to Iraq as a peace activist in 2003, walked away "smirking".
Mr Leeson fell into a coma when he hit his head in the pavement and the judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said: "It was obviously a miracle that he lived."
(Via Tim Blair.)
Posted by floridacracker at October 23, 2006 03:40 PMSo it was obviously a miracle the kid lived at all, but the criminal only gets 8 months in jail for it? Why didn't they charge him with attempted murder, I wonder? I won't even mention the irony of a "peace activist" assaulting someone...but really, what else could you expect?
Posted by: Candy at October 23, 2006 04:10 PMHippies?
I have a better name for the peace activists who were marching against the Iraq War in early 2003:
100% Correct
take a perfectly good post about an asshole that shows his true colors on the global stage, and use it to make snide comments about the war in Iraq..hrmph !
Which brings to mind the question; Why is it that a war has to be about 40 or more years old before all the nasty wears off, and people see the lives it saved and the enemy that was held off ??
I guess there are just a lot of folks who want to see for themselves if this enemy really will kill them in the streets of America. Not me. It's either me or them. Period. no shades of grey.
Hey, Did YOU hear that 44,000 people were killed in traffic accidents last year in America ???
44,000 dead. IN ONE YEAR !!!
So the same principle applies here as the PETA peeps picking on starlets for wearing furs, you know the ones that throw paint on the sables, etc.. Why don't those PETA bitches throw some paint on Boscoe's leather Harley jacket ???...or
sling some red paint on Warren Sapp's Escalade seats ???
So take your bitchin about the war and go down to the DMV and get a sign that says 'OUTLAW VEHICLES'
and 'BUSH's HIGHWAYS KILL'
how bout 'STOP THE TRAFFIC'
tell ya what, I think we should invade the entire middle east..with daisy-cutters.
But first, we should send an envoy of peace activists over to reason with Kim-Jong, Abmindidinjibjab...and whats left of OBL. I think this guy could be the role model for many to follow..the line up should include Maddona.
Posted by: csason at October 24, 2006 11:53 PM"Abmindidinjibjab"
Perfect. At least I'll be able to remember how to pronounce that one.
Posted by: Donnah at October 26, 2006 07:04 AM