2009-02-18 What Happened With Hitchens

2009-02-18  Ace of Spades HQ \Christopher Hitchens\Nazis\Syria\freedom of speech http://minx.cc/?post=283102 What Happened With Hitchens What Happened With 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. The author apparently heard the story from Hitchens himself and from "the immediate after-action report", presumably an in-person verbal briefing.

Other articles on same story:
 * 2009-02-17 Hitchens is in Beirut
 * 2009-02-17 Hitchens Beaten by the SSNP?
 * 2009-02-18 Hitchens assaulted

Commentary:
 * 2009-02-19 I hate Syrian Nazis. (by ERV)

&ldquo;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.&rdquo;   