"Committed pacifist" "Peace Activist" who beat man into coma is sentenced

COMMITTED. PACIFIST. Right. He just has this thing about physically beating strangers into a coma. Other than that, he's really quite a peaceful pleasant fellow. This is the hidden face of the far left. Do as we say, or we'll beat you into a fucking coma.

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A smirking peace activist who left a rising rock star fighting for his life after a row over his girlfriend was jailed for eight months today.

Christiaan Briggs, 30, attacked 19-year-old singer Billy Leeson and left him in a coma,...

...After punching the teenager Briggs, who went to Iraq as a peace activist in 2003, walked away "smirking"...

...judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said: "It was obviously a miracle that he lived."...

...He had to be resuscitated in hospital, had to learn how to walk again, and must endure a fourth operation on his brain...

...New Zealand-born Briggs...had previously acted as a human shield in Iraq in 2003 in the hope of warding off a US attack...

...In mitigation Bartholomew Casella said Briggs was a "committed pacifist"...

...[judge] "You are a serious, intelligent, hard-working and utterly decent young man of talent and ability and you will undoubtedly bear a heavy burden of guilt and sorrow about what you have done...

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