Proof that bigoted and stupid usually go together:
A Marine reservist is facing charges after police said he attacked a priest visiting from Greece who he believed was a terrorist.
Police said that Lance Cpl. Jasen D. Bruce, 28, hit 29-year-old Alexios Marakis in the head with a tire iron, then chased him for three blocks.
According to reports, the incident happened when Marakis, who was visiting from Crete and speaks only limited English, got lost near a Channelside apartment complex after performing the blessing of another priest.
Police said Marakis drove into a garage and tried to ask Bruce for help, but that he was instead attacked. Bruce then called 911 during the ordeal and told the operator an Arabic man was trying to rob him, the report said.
Bruce said he was going to take the priest into custody, police said. When officers arrived, they said Bruce told them the priest was a terrorist.
Dumbass.
H/T: Rod Dreher
November 11th, 2009 at 8:27 am
The lance corporal should not be allowed to hold a lance, a fire arm, or a tire iron ever again.
November 11th, 2009 at 8:42 am
Assault with a deadly weapon is grounds for dishonorable discharge from the Corps.
Let’s hope the Marines do the right thing and shit-can Jasen Bruce. He is unfit to wear the uniform.
This is a good example of how hysteria can incite violent acts among the most ignorant among our citizens.
What the citizens are signaling is that they have had enough of all the, “diversity” being foisted upon them.
I have had enough “diversity.”
Have you had enough “diversity” yet?
November 11th, 2009 at 9:19 am
So J.T., this corporals lack of acceptance of diversity, assuming the priest was a Muslim terrorist based on appearance or lack of ability to speak English, is an example of why diversity is bad?
Can someone please explain the logic there because I must be missing it.
December 4th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
My neighbor is a Greek Priest. Nicest, most gentle man in the world.
My guess is if this Lance Corporal were to simply apologize and ask for forgiveness the Priest in question could b the first to ask the charges be dropped an that the Marines forgive the Corporal!
December 4th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
“What the citizens are signaling is that they have had enough of all the, “diversity” being foisted upon them.
I have had enough “diversity.”
Have you had enough “diversity” yet?”
@JTyler: WT Heck!
Greeks and Greek Orthodox priests have been here for 100 years