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You don’t really have the right to leave one alone

To mark the death of Adonis Nasr, the Lebanese fascist who famously attacked Christopher Hitchens in Beirut, and who was recently killed fighting for Assad in Syria, Michael Totten reprints his first-hand account, from 2009. The Man who Punched Christopher Hitchens:

I later sat down with Christopher over coffee in the hotel lobby and asked him to reflect on the recent unpleasantness.

“When I told you that I should have warned you,” I said, “that I take partial responsibility, you said. . .”

“It wouldn’t have made any difference,” he said. “Thank you, though, for giving me a protective arm. I think a swastika poster is partly fair game and partly an obligation. You don’t really have the right to leave one alone.

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    sackcloth and ashes

    The confrontation between Hitchens and Nasr over the SSNP poster is something I remember, and I remember the former’s ballsiness during the whole episode.
    I also the fact that there were several cunts on the regressive left who sided with Hitchens’ attacker. There was a charmer called ‘skidmarx’ (a SWP activist) who compared it to a hypothetical attack on the Wailing Wall.
    Anyway, I do miss the Hitch more and more as time goes by. And I do hope that Nasr died shitting his pants, and weeping with fear and pain over a prolonged period as he gradually realised that he wasn’t the warrior he thought he was.

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