Update: the attack occurred not in downtown Ottawa, but just on the other side of the Ottawa river in Ottawa’s twin city, the Gatineau, PQ. This area is still within sight (and walking distance) of both the Supreme Court of Canada and the Parliament buildings. BCF has the Michael Coren interview with Nick Bergamini.
Nick Bergamini is a student at Carleton University and active in student government.
According to his facebook page:
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“Quickly, we both responded that yes we were Zionists. All of a sudden we were surrounded by 10-15 men who began to shout at us in Arabic. We tried to back out and run away. All of a sudden, I was struck in the back of the head. I’m not sure if it was a fist, a rock or a pipe but it left me dazed and bleeding.
We quickly ran back to the bar and stood beside the bouncers. The crowd of anti-Israel thugs dispersed.
About 10 minutes later, assuming that it was safe, we began to walk home. We were walking through a parking lot when a car pulled up next to us. The driver shouted “I fucking hit you, you Jew.”
We stood our ground. Quickly we had three guys around us. We were able to push them away. As the cowards that they were, they retreated. Then I heard, shouts of “Open the trunk!” One of them opened the trunk and I saw glistening in the street light the reflection of a 12-inch machete. “Fucking Jew,” he shouted. I began to run for my life as he was only 5 or 6 feet away.
I ran, and as I looked back, I saw the long shiny blade slicing through the air about 12 inches from my neck. I ran as fast I could and, thanks to my grade 9 track and field training, got away.
People who were around the scene said the blade came within inches of my neck.
Read his whole post here!
Is this really happening here, in Canada?
Here, in Ottawa, Canada’s Capital?
Here, right downtown Ottawa – just blocks from our Parliament and the Supreme Court of Canada?
Now?
Yes, that would indeed appear to be true!
Question: This happened in the club district, downtown Ottawa. At 1:45 in the morning, this is hardly an abandoned or ‘quiet’ part of town – being so close to the University of Ottawa campus, there are usually quite a few people about! The Ottawa Police usually have a ‘presence’. It’s their job!
So, I am curious to hear their side of the story: how come these guys are not arrested yet?
OK – so Nick Bergamini and Mark Klibanov got themselves beaten up and bloodied.
OK – so some guys with a machete chased them, trying hard to decapitate them.
Goodness knows, we all loose our tempers, some times!
A much more dangerous crime occurred in Ottawa that night!
They were engaging in hate speech – right in the middle of a crowd!
Do you realize just how many people might have had their feelings hurt?
How many might have been traumatized: by hearing there were 2 Zionists in our midst?
How do the police expect us to be able to sleep tonight? We are a city – nay, a community – traumatized!
After all, we ran that Zionist Ann Coulter right out of town (yes, she may be an anti-Semite, but she is still a Zionist!)! Yeah, the Ottawa Police made sure she was not permitted to speak!
We thought we could relax a little…..
But no! Now these two Zionists crop up! Right in the middle of the City!
They even freely and openly admit they are Zionists – and through the admission of their very existence, they traumatize a whole crowd!
Just think of those poor thugs – they must really have had their feelings hurt! They were so traumatized, they got their machete out and went after the Zionists!
This is really, really terrible! These two Zionists have provoked these poor guys so much, they might never calm down from it and suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder for the rest of their lives.
Yet, Nick is obviously still free to write this up for his facebook page! Writing down all this self-incriminating evidence – how he admitted openly that he was indeed a Zionist!
So – how long do YOU think it’ll take the Ottawa Police to arrest Nick Bergamini and Mark Klibanov for their hateful speech!?!?!
And the Ottawa Police have still not arrested them… Sheeeeesh!!!
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
April 6, 2010 at 04:03
I think of this as the usual act of a jihadi, based clearly on the
Ahadith from Bukhari, “The final day [i.e. the Islamic Apocalypse] will not come till the stones and the trees say: “There is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.” And, straight from the Qur’an, “When the sacred months are over, smite the necks of the infidels, and cut off their fingertips.”
I’m paraphrasing, but the facts are clear to any who care to find them. Muslims are required to wage jihad against any and all who are either not converted or who do not pay jizya, i.e. extortion tax to Muslims. The men who attacked the Carleton students are acting according to solid Islamic orthodoxy. Not only not wrong, according to the religion of peace, but right to behead innocents.
April 6, 2010 at 20:36
Xanthippa:
Zionists and Islamists (as distinct from Jews and Muslims) are going to clash like this whenever they get within spitting distance of each other. It’s a Holy War to both sides.
There is only one answer, and that is, do not let them get within spitting distance of each other!
Not in Canada. This is not Canada’s fight.
It’s just plain wrong to allow either side to bring their fight to Canada.
And it’s just plain stupid. Canada can’t protect its citizens, and doesn’t allow them to defend themselves, so there is only one possible outcome:
Before long, we will be forced to let US troops into the country to restore order.
And on that day, Canada will cease to exist as an independent nation.
If that’s what we want, then let’s keep the borders open and let the combatants flow in.
Otherwise, we must close the borders. Now.
April 6, 2010 at 20:48
Xanthippa:
As you point out, this happened in a lively part of town where the police maintain a visible presence. Yet they couldn’t protect Nick Bergamini and his friend from attack.
Of course they couldn’t, because it’s impossible!
Unless you restrict the freedom of the “protected” to the point where safety loses all value.
This proves how dangerously false is the claim that the police can keep citizens safe.
It’s silly to blame the police for this. If they were to escalate their presence to the point where this kind of incident literally could not happen, the result would be a police state so oppressive as to make Stalin and Mao look like innocent babes!
So, unless that’s the Canada you want, stop blaming the police for not doing the impossible!
This proves also that present day Canada is not a place where people can afford to neglect their responsibility to defend themselves. And, if present day Canada is not such a place, then there never was and never will be such a place – because such a place cannot exist.
If Canada hadn’t infringed Nick Bergamini’s right to bear arms, Nick might have been in a position to give this blade-swinging Jihadi thug exactly what he deserved: a .45 calibre hollow point slug right between the eyes. Problem solved. Permanently.
Instead, Nick was left with no choice but to ignominiously run for his life, and his unidentified attacker remains at large, waiting for another chance to strike. Maybe at Nick, maybe at someone else.
Maybe next time Nick, or whoever, won’t be so lucky.
We must restore Canadians’ right and means of self defence. Now!
Xanthippa says:
Yes, CodeSlinger – exactly!
I was clumsily attempting to write ‘tongue-in-cheek’……and my ‘outrage’ at police being unable to protect the 2 students was meant as a ‘breadcrumb’ leading towards the conclusion that we MUST take back the right to self-protection.
That followed from my earlier Ann Coulter write-up: I attempted to use the City of Ottawa bylaws to demonstrate clearly and unequivocally that the event’s organizers did not have the right to police the protest outside – and the police were unable or unwilling to. As a result, the fundamental right to freedom of speech was breeched!
Here, we have similar situation: the students were equally forbidden by law to have the means to protect themselves. And, the police were unable to protect them from a situation which developed quickly, devolved into vicious violence in moments and was over long before it would be in the power of any police to intervene and protect them…
In both cases, our vulnerability is exposed: relying on police to protect us is unrealistic – for practical reasons of ‘speed’ as well as political ones (any organization can be corrupted – even the police….I’m not stating they ARE – but that they CAN BE). And, in both cases, words and political opinions on one side were responded to by violence from the other side.
Yet, we have permitted our laws to strip us of the very means to protect ourselves!
It reminds me of something Dogbert once said about everyone needing to disarm and become pacifists…..so that he, Dogbert, could then conquer the whole World with nothing more than a butter-knife….
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