“Youths” Kick Man to Death on Crowded Antwerp Bus

The Brussels Journal ^ | June 26, 2006 | Paul Belien

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Demoor asked the “youths” to calm down, whereupon they turned on him, savagely beating and kicking the man. At the next stop thirty passengers fled the bus. The thugs kept beating Demoor.

whose the bigger coward...the youths or the 30 passengers who just watched?

[pgkdan]

Demoor asked the “youths” to calm down, whereupon they turned on him, savagely beating and kicking the man. At the next stop thirty passengers fled the bus.

Thirty people fled and left this man to be killed? What, were they all hunched over little old ladies? This is unconscionable...the man intervened on their behalf and they just watch while he's murdered? And then run away the first chance they get? What a gaggle of cowards.

[tonycavanagh]

re :I feel a deep and powerful anger towards the 30 cowards who ran away.

What race were they, what gender what age, as someone who has traveled on buses in Europe, most passengers are what we term immigrants, there is a good chance that those who ran were also Muslim

[VoiceOfBruck]

The Belgian state is no longer able to guarantee the security of its citizens.

That's a joke, like any "state" has ever guaranteed the security of its citizens.

[D1X1E]

However there was an incident just last weekend where a bus passenger intervened in a beating and got the holy heck beat out of him

There were 30 passengers. That amount could have intervened successfully but not one lifted a finger to help. Their cowardice may be brought to mind one day should they be in the same predicament with only those of their own kind to call on for help.

[pgyanke]

Our yoots tend to do their beating in private. Why? In public, they would get the stuffing beaten out of them instead.

[CORedneck]

Many people cheered him at the time but I remembered the media crucified him for daring to defend himself versus being a victim.

This guy knows how to handle himself while using public transit...........

[ Picture of Bernard Goetz ]

[tonycavanagh]

re :Yeah, Britain is so safe, the law wants people to hide under their beds or lock their bedroom doors when they have a burglar in their home.

Actually I brained mine with a golf club. You can defend your self as along as you can prove you needed to

And I have had a go at youths starting trouble.

[steadfastconservative]

Yes, sometimes gangs of youths do beat up individuals. But at least it isn't a crime for people to carry weapons for self-defense. And at least the youths here aren't Muslim goons who attack non-Muslims.

If you Europeans don't wake up soon and stand up to the Islamo-fascists, there won't be any Europeans left to look down on us stupid Americans.

[tonycavanagh]

I would bet that those who ran were also of the Muslim faith, it being a inner city bus.

[Petronski]

I agree with your post completely. I don't want to be smug about this either. Be well.

[Lion in Winter]

I do not believe tony boy either, EVER!!

[ashamedtobefromparkridge]

My other thought would the 30 child rapiist terror lovers on the bus that fled any of them have a cellphone to call police if they weren't too flamingly gay to actually help?

[palmer]

Take names on this thread and ping them to your thread. I think people here will be inspired by examples of courage from across the water.

[pgkdan]

It's pretty obvious which country is more dangerous.

No it's not. Most violent crime...especially murder by a criminal wielding a handgun takes place within a very well defined demographic. If you remove black on black crime (usually a black teenager shooting another black teen) our violent crime rate shrinks considerably. Where I live it all but disappears.

[D1X1E]

Who has intervened when witnessing someone else being endangered or harmed by another?

I threw my purse at a guy, hitting him in the head when I saw him cursing, dragging,and whipping a toddler across the parking lot. Does that count?

[dljordan]

"So, 30 passengers ran away knowing full well the man was being beaten. He was the only one who stood up for them but when the tables were turned, no one stood up for him. Sad, very sad. And disgusting. They are just as guilty as the "youths". May they all carry this on their conscience forever."

I only wish I'd been there. Then again, I would probably be in jail for making Morrocan hamburger without a license. That sort of cowardice just isn't right.

[pgyanke]

I don't recall anyone saying we don't have crime or assaults. I do recall FReepers pointing out that 30 people running away from six thugs who were beating a man to death for coming to their defense are cowards.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"And yet there's some indefinable difference, something I can't put my finger on, about how we would react versus how the Belgians are reacting in this article."

You can see the difference in the response of FReepers as opposed to the response of the Belgians quoted in the article.

We may be keyboard commandos at the moment, but we are angry and making no bones about it.

The Belgians talk about keeping their mouths shut and their eyes averted.

Incidents like this do happen in the USA but not in the way they do in Eurabia, and we are less likely to stand by looking at the ground.

A few years ago two citizens jumped a man who had just gutted a woman on our main drive. The murderer was waving the knife around, but these two men still did what they had to do. Would Europeans have done so? Brits??

Michael Frazier

[oyez]

The Independent Union of Train Personnel (OVS), however, has asked its members not to strike. “Laying down our work would only harm the passengers and make them the victims of incidents for which they are not to blame,

How moronic. I'd lay down my work before I would lay down my life. That's a poor memorial to Mr. Demoor.

I don't usually support unions and their strikes, but this is a special case.