Elie Wiesel roughed up at peace conference... this liberal is seeing red

[expatriot]

I am sure everyone else who has read _Night_, upon reading this story, has the same sickening reaction to this story. I am not as strong as the great adherents of non-violence and pacificism... I am weak: give me a fricking baseball bat... there is a pair of kneecaps out there I wish like hell to shatter.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/09/wiesel.accosted.ap/index.html
SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up during a peace conference at a San Francisco hotel last week, police said Friday. The author was not injured.

The assailant approached Wiesel in an elevator February 1 at the Argent Hotel and requested an interview, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.

When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the sixth floor, Gittens said.

The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the lobby and called police.

Gittens said police are investigating the incident as a crime. He said investigators were aware of a posting at an anti-Semitic Web site in which a man claimed responsibility for the attack, but declined to comment further.

Wiesel couldn't be immediately reached for comment at Boston University, where he teaches, or through his institute in New York.

Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during World War II, has worked for human rights in many parts of the world and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

[Nikki Stone1]

1. Was this just some punk or was it politically motivated?

?

[expatriot]

5. It seems to be politically motivated.... the attacker took credit for it on a neo-nazi website nt

[Nikki Stone1]

9. Damn! What a sad commentary on our times, eh?

:(

[pitohui]

2. i was flabbergasted by the story

i really wonder about people sometimes, i mean, crap, a man of 78 who has walked thru hell?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

3. it takes a big man to beat up on a 78 year old

:sarcasm:


:mad:

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. Turns the stomach, doesn't it? Yet, I wonder about the "anti-Semitic"

website.

What sort of "rules" are going to be implemented, to investigate the alleged perpetrator?

BTW, attacking this man was the epitome of quivering cowardice. :mad: MKJ

[JerseygirlCT]

6. I'm trying hard to see the

sick fuck who did this with compassionate eyes -- truly, he has to be a sick individual, in need of help.

But, damn, it's hard!

[MedleyMisty]

7. horrible

When I saw the headline last night on Yahoo, I was like, "Damn, now that's low."

Humans really really really really really suck.

[regnaD kciN]

8. What does the "peace conference" have to do with it...?

It sounds like it was an attack by a single neo-Nazi who had nothing to do with the conference. The headline, on the other hand, makes it sound like Wiesel was attacked by the peace conference's paricipants.

:wtf: