Inconsistency

I had to chuckle over the inconsistency in thinking in this story:

"A New Zealand peace activist is facing serious assault charges after he allegedly punched a rock singer in London, leaving the man in a coma.
Christiaan Briggs, 30, who spent three weeks in Iraq with the Truth Justice Peace Human Shield Action Group in 2003, appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on Tuesday to face a charge of grievous bodily harm."

Here is a link to the website for TJPA.

" The action’s primary goal, instigated by Ken O’Keefe, was simple; get thousands of (mostly white) Westerners to Iraq to make the bombing and invasion of Iraq politically untenable."

Mr. Briggs is even quoted in this BBC story on the human shields:

"The aim was always a mass migration and if we had had five to ten thousand people here, there would never be a war."

Let me see if I have this straight....Mr. Briggs feels that war is bad and should be avoided at all costs, and yet he feels it is all right to beat a man nearly to death over a girl? Yeah - that's consistent.

To be fair, Mr. Briggs father says that there is more to the story:

"It just worries me what they're publishing over there is just one side of the story, not both, so you people should be wary of that."

Maybe Mr. Briggs should think about that - maybe there was more to the IRAQ story than the peace activists were privy to. Maybe, just maybe, he should have given the same consideration to the Bush and Blair administrations that he is now asking for. Just maybe.....

Gateway Pundit (from my collegiate home in St. Louis) is all over this story.