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11.11.09 - 2:04 PM
Tire Iron to the Head: That's What They Do To You If You Look A Little Weird
A new Rasmussen poll has 57% of people concerned the Fort Hood shootings will prompt a backlash against Muslims. Good thing: The insanity has started. Approached by a bearded man in a robe, Florida Marine reservist and apparent beefcake Jasen Bruce attacked him with a tire iron, chased and pinned him, and told 911 he'd captured a terrorist - who was a Greek Orthodox priest asking for directions. Bruce said the guy yelled "Allahu Akbar"; clearly he should have yelled, "You are a racist idiot!"
"That's what they tell you right before they blow you up," Bruce told police.
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Show AllRepresetnative of the geniuses Obama is considering sending into Afghanistan . . .
Semper fi!
Our best and brightest.
Oh, Goody. Panicked soldiers taught to kill on sight, even in America. I fear for us all with such mentality on the loose.
Let's get some civilian teachers in their curriculum....instead of teaching them to treat civilians as the enemy.
This is also taught to local police these days, so we're all looked upon as enemies of the State.
Glad I was born a long time ago instead of today. Pitiful when one thinks of how wonderful life could really be - instead we're in a morass of going down the tubes in so many ways.
I highly doubt a Greek Othodox Catholic would be yelling "Allahu Akbar."
I probably asked for "Alan's Snack Bar"
If racist morons like Bruce are this vicious in the USA, just imagine how well they treat the Afgans and Iraqis
Hell, this guy looks like the bully that made school unbearable for me. Guys like this are just waiting to beat on someone--their wives or girlfriends, the queer walking along minding his business, the pinko who questions whatever war we are fighting at the time, the nigger who won't stay in his place, etc. A man in a robe with a beard is just too good to pass up. Allah Akbar indeed!
mujeriego:
Actually, he might have said it (Allahu Akbar), but in ENGLISH. Allahu Akbar means "God is Great", although a more accurate interpretation of the Arabic phrase would be, "There is nothing worthy of worship but God."
no. the accurate interpretation is God is Great....
Looks like a Stormtrooper to me. I wonder if his attack will cause him to be discharged from the Marines. Someone should point him at Goldman Sachs while telling him all his miseries are caused by that company.
karlof1 sez: "Someone should point him at Goldman Sachs while telling him all his miseries are caused by that company."
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Not sure that's a great idea. Gold in Sacks would probably hire him.
Ummmm, he is a Marine reservist, therefore he already works for Goldman Sachs, and all the other major players on Wall Street.
I wonder if he or his brethren truly understand that? Do they not read Gen. Butler? I suppose that's not encouraged...
The requirement of money for our very lives causes so much damage and carnage...
More likely a promotion. Huah!!
I hope the priest has health insurance.
(not reported here: the marine also accused the priest of grabbing his balls)
So he knew he was a priest. Bad admission there.
are you suggesting he knew he was a priest because he grabbed his balls - which he didn't.
No, I'm suggesting that he came up with the excuse because he knew he was a priest.
lol
What would a big strapping marine have to fear from a priest?
A man of God come to hold him to account for his sins, or a threat to his sexuality?
Which could he admit, and which could he claim?
Unlikely, because A) he was Greek Orthodox, not Roman Catholic, and B) the soldier was over ten years old.
The Few, The Proud, The Ignorant, The Racist, The Violent, The . . . Well, I think you get the picture.
Coming soon to a police force near you.
Hooray for the 'Roid, White, and Blue!
· Yr Obd't Servant
Our great education system and military training on display!
Shame on us.
Trained to kill, binary brain with blinkered belief and too much testosterone between the ears.
He saw and heard what he wanted to hear.
Hey, stop it, everyone. This Marine was protecting my freedom!!
Nudge nudge wink wink.
jarheadic pre-emptification.
So sad. The Israelis turn Palestinians into "German Jews," and we are turning Muslims into German Jews.
"Allahu Akbar" = "God is Great." Aren't Christians supposed to hold the same idea? Usually in English?
What a narrow minded, jingoistic, illiterate, small-minded country we've become.
If the Israelis are turning Palestinians into "German Jews," does that mean the Israelis are turning into Germans?
Goebbels You're a genius! when does this little nazi get out of jail?
I mean, come on, you need to be insane to join one of these death squads we call the military anyway.........
Ah, Tampa, how I miss thee.
So what do you expect in a nation where 69% (Latest Rasmussen poll) believe that joining the military is good for young people?
Yep, it looks like we are all going to go down bravely bravely fighting EACH OTHER.
There's an upside, folks. The gated and gilded rich pig havens won't be immune. The Blankfiens and Paulsons will probably "get it" from their wives or offspring. When they're offing the patriarch, they'll tell him they are just participating in free market competitive violence. It's not personal; just business.
Amazing, if you think about it: the attacker felt so confident he was in the right he called 911. Sad, too.
Such condemning remarks from you "dern Liberals".
He looks to me like the owner of a "Fair and Balanced" Christian Faux News Mind. In case you aren't familiar with it, it's a highly developed red-neck, racist outlook on life, whereby you shoot-from-the-hip instead of using language skills and tolerance to serve you when you encounter someone from a different culture. Assume everybody who isn't in a jacked up 4X4 with mud flaps like you drive is out to get you. A safe red-state rule of thumb, is that if they don't speak your specific brand of hillbilly paranoid hate-speech, kill em!
Well, we all know what we have to do now: We have to register everybody with a tire iron! Better yet, let's not fix this mentally-impaired society, let's just ban all metal objects for citizens (just to be safe).
What a nut house. Glad I left.
TJ
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent." - Thomas Jefferson
Recall that after 9/11, there were several reports of mobs attacking and killing Shikhs in the USA....I guess assuming that all people in turbans with beards were Muslims and therefore terrorists.
USA, Land of the Free Range Idiots
I am actually surprised that more Hadasic Jews have not been attacked as Muslim Terrorists
The Hasadic don't wear turbans - fortunately for them.
Neither do Greek Orthodox.....apperantly a beard is enough for these morons...ZZ Top better watch out!
Perhaps they will be better disguised in their "Cheap Sunglasses".
My son actually had a co-worker brag about cursing a turban wearing Arab after 9/11. My son controlled his urge to curse the idiot for his stupidy, because the man wearing the turban was a Sikh, which is a group from India. As part of their religion, the adult men wear turbans.
Arabs don't wear turbans. They wear kafiyas to protect from the sun. Big difference. As for Muslims I don't know if there is a required head garment.
When I read about this story the other night, I was reminded of that Monty Python skit about the altered Bulgarian-to-English phrasebook. That's how absurd this story is.
Obviously the Greek Orthodox priest was saying "I am lost, can you help me find my way?" but the marine was hearing "We will attack your infrastructure and bring the Great Satan to its knees, you infidel dog."
The most unfortunate aspect of this story is that it will play well overseas and it will drive home the view that ALL Americans are just goddam crazy.
It's actually a Hungarian phrasebook. And it's one of my favorite sketches by them!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6D1YI-41ao
FUCKING MORON.
This is what the folks running the show want. They don't have to kill us~we'll do it ourselves. It's amazing that people like this STILL exist!
what is the difference between a young fool and an old fool??
someday a young fool may become wise
looking at jason bruces face he does not seem evil
a wise judge would request that mr bruce meet man he attacked
I am certain that a greek orthodox priest would find it in his heart to forgive him, and they both may leave this incident as better people for it
Please tell me that was sarcasm.
"looking at jason bruces face he does not seem evil"
I agree. He looks just as dumb and stupid and mean as the bullies that used to beat up kids at my high school 42 years ago.
Cicero: "Freedom is participation in power."
The GI-rine looks like a dumb numb-nuts grunt. This is what 30 years of dumbed-down public education, corporate media consolidation, and right-wing think-tank propaganda everywhere gets us. The Oligarchy loves these unquestioning sacrificial pigs: All to decrease the surplus population here and over there.
The problem will start when these 'sacrificial pigs' figure out that they are canon fodder for corporate greed and a foreign entity...That is when the real fun begins in this country.
Good luck with this one though. He seems to be the kind of soldier that Henry Kissinger is quoted saying to the writer of the unofficial biography on him, who says this book is based on truth, not fiction. What did Kissinger say, according to this book, when asked what he thought or thinks of soldiers? "Dumb animals" only useful for serving the interests of the "elites", who Kissinger clearly counts himself among.
That's a falsehood for many soldiers, as IVAW, Courage to Resist, f.e., have been illustrating; in addition to the apparently tens of thousands more dissenting soldiers who just have chosen to stay out of public view, fearing what would happen to them if they came out of AWOL hiding. They foolishly, sadly accepted to follow the orders of war making at first, but came to realise that it had been a wrong decision, to obey.
Seems like Jason Bruce is truly the "dumb animal" kind; so dumb that he lied in three absurd ways about the incident with the Greek priest, and so additionally dumb that he refuses to apologize for what he violently did. And I think enough U.S. Marines will be embarrassed by the actions of this ... idiot, say.
It's good to read in the Tampa Bay article that another U.S. Marine said Jason Bruce is a jerk, or whatever the precise term used is.
Now that's [awfully] dumb of a person to do.
And then we need to consider Bruce's lawyer, this sick s.o.b. A lawyer who blantantly lies as he did should be immediately listed for disbarrment! He seems to think that he could profit for his client, and himself, by exploiting the anger in perhaps many people in the U.S. about church paedophiles. Thankfully, both he and his client are proven to be outright LIARS.
Or did the lawyer only repeat the claims of his client without conducting any verifications, first? If that's what he did, then he should not be disbarred, perhaps, but should definitely be seriously reprimanded for his serious incompetence and negligence.
Bruce is a dishonourable member of the military and his lawyer is a dishonourable member of the lawyers association, or whatever organisation or body he's member of as a lawyer.