Recently at DU, there was much fretting when Swiss leftists rioted against the far-right Swiss People's Party.
Here is one of the
incidents that inspired them to act:
ZURICH -- At 1:30 a.m., Antonio da Costa heard a knock at the back entrance of the McDonald's restaurant where he worked as a janitor after-hours.
He opened the door, he recalled in an interview. There stood two men, each gripping a chain saw. One yanked the cord on his saw, stepped toward da Costa and shouted above the roaring machine: "We don't need Africans in our country. We're here to kill you!"
The two masked assailants cornered da Costa and began raking him with the whirring chain-saw blades. They slashed one arm to the bone, nearly sliced off his left thumb and hacked his face, neck and chest, the 37-year-old Angolan said, his voice quavering as he recounted the May 1 attack.
Fucking nazi savages!
"I couldn't defend myself against two chain saws," he said. As they slashed at him with the buzzing blades, da Costa said, he tried in vain to protect his face with his arms. "I couldn't feel my fingers. I was on my knees. I tried to tell them I didn't want trouble, I just came here to work. They were treating me like I was an animal.
"One put the chain saw on top of my head and said, 'We're going to cut you in half.' "
He closed his eyes at the memory. "I tried to hide my eyes. I didn't want to see the way they were going to kill me," he continued, in French. "I was praying. In my head I'd already died. I'd lost all hope of living.
"Then it was a miracle. He saved me," da Costa said, referring to God. "I found the courage inside. I got up and pushed open the door with my chest because I couldn't use my arms, and ran." He fell, breaking his teeth; the men stood over him and tried to restart the saws, but could not, he said. He sprang up and jumped a fence, eluding them.
That night he underwent six hours of surgery to stitch the cuts on his face, chest and arms and reattach his left thumb. Five months after the attack, half of his face is slathered in a white salve, his left arm remains in a red cast, 16 purple slashes are outlined on his right arm and damaged teeth continue to fall out.
"My own children are afraid of me -- my own children," said da Costa, his eyes welling with tears. "They want to know, 'Why did somebody cut up my daddy?' "
When the far-right Swiss People's Party was asked about the attack on DaCosta, their spokesman would only say this:
"Sometimes a mistake can happen. I don't say all Swiss men and women are the most ideal human beings in the world."
You heard the man: it was a mistake. Sometimes you get carried away and cut up a kaffir with a chainsaw -- nobody's perfect, not even us. But gawd forbid those lefties break the friggin china. That's just wrong.
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If it came down to an either-or, I'd rather be soft on antiracist rioters, than soft on neo-nazis.