The Abuse of a Minister of State

"They were trying to injure me sufficiently in order to humiliate me and force me out with a little bit of blood on my face," he says. "I was trying to push her off, but she's very strong. So the assailants were trying to hit me without hitting her, but they were failing." They felt embarrassed by his refusal to let them attack him at their own restaurant; so they withdrew. He then confronted about 60 people who had gathered outside for an abuse session that lasted 45 minutes. 'When you stop being minister, come back,' one man told him when he left office.