“Pro-Palestine environmental activist accused of ramming Australian MP”, reports the Telegraph:
The man accused of repeatedly ramming a car into an Australian MP has been identified as a pro-Palestine and anti-logging activist who was known to police.
Brendan Nugent, 43, allegedly drove his Toyota Landcruiser into Helen Haines on Monday afternoon, pinning her against a car outside her electorate office in the northern Victorian town of Wangaratta.
Dr Haines, 65, underwent a leg amputation on Tuesday after being critically wounded in the attack. Doctors at The Alfred hospital in Melbourne were working to save her other leg.
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Mr Nugent and Dr Haines, an independent MP in the seat of Indi, were known to each other – and he had previously praised her publicly on social media for her pro-environmental stance.
But his online history charts his shift from environmental campaigner to outspoken critic of Israel. Both he and Dr Haines have regularly publicly condemned the Australian government’s response to the war in Gaza.
One News Australia has a detailed account of the suspect’s posts on social media over several years: “Suspect Brendan Nugent named as police investigate radical activist history in alleged attack of MP Helen Haines”.
By 2024 Nugent’s posting had changed from being overwhelmingly concerned with environmentalism to including posts like this one supporting the Houthi attacks on shipping:
"Unjustifiable attacks"? They are trying to stop more mass murder of innocent people, mass murder that you are assisting with. You know they are only targeting ships that are supplying the genocide. pic.twitter.com/s8tav8BMXd
— Brendan Nugent (@NotLaoTzu) January 12, 2024
If that link disappears, it consists of the words ‘”Unjustifiable attacks”? They are trying to stop more mass murder of innocent people, mass murder that you are assisting with. You know they are only targeting ships that are supplying the genocide.’ followed by a bizarre AI-generated picture of a turban-wearing giant rising out of the sea cradling a container ship under one arm. A bit Orientalist, I thought. And biceps don’t work that way.
I was surprised that Nugent’s posts under the username “@NotLaoTzu” still appear to be visible on Twitter. Perhaps it was because, as the One News Australia report says, that ‘At 1:12am on Tuesday, Drew Pavlou posted that the car “appears to be owned by Brendan Nugent”, about eight hours before The Australian named him.’ Drew Pavlou describes himself as a “Western civilisation enjoyer” on Twitter. I had come across his name before. He is getting a lot of stick for having released Nugent’s name before the Australian authorities did. I am usually a stickler for due process, but given that Pavlou’s identification of Nugent was correct, and that Nugent was arrested seconds after the crime – he was pulled out of his car and detained by a brave bystander, local barber Ricky Jeffries – I’m really not that worried that an innocent man might be being defamed.
And Haines is one of those terribly nice, well-meaning females, usually with large teeth, who have found a route into the Commonwealth’s lower house in the last decade or so. Sweet, not very reasonable, and dangerous. Nevertheless, sympathies.
The driver has a higher degree from the university of Melbounre, a poisonous and massivel self-regarding institution and incubator of leftist lunacy which could usefully be razed to the ground and the earth of its Parkville campus sown with salt.
Why do you hate foreign students on visas flooding universities like Melbourne?
How about an eye for an eye, a leg for a leg.
That might help him control his intemperate outbursts.
The various television news stations I have seen today mentioned the attack – but not that the attacker was a pro “Palestine” activist.
Like most leftists, Mr Nugent reverses the truth – for it is not the Jews who wish to commit “genicide”, it is the forces of Islam who wish to commit genocide against the Jews – and they do not love infidels like Mr Nugent either.
After watching people go along with the Covid madness, the lockdowns and so on, I thought I was beyond being shocked – but the reaction to the October 7th attack went beyond that, the public (not just Muslims – many non Muslims as well) in various Western countries went out to CELEBRATE the attack before the bodies of the raped, mutilated and murdered victims were even cold. And the “demonstrations” or “protests” were very much a celebration of the attack (an attack by thousands of Islamic warriors – with the active support of much of the population of Gaza – who delighted in having bodies, both living and dead, to play with) as they started before Israel had reacted at all – indeed whilst Israel was still acting like a duck that had been hit over the head.
As for Mr Nugent being an enviromentalist – well of course he is. Green to his rotting core.
Should his “friends” win, in the world (including Australia – which they claim just as much as they claim Israel), whether they be the Shia Houthis or the Sunni Hamas, they would torture him to death – as he would no longer be of any use to them.
Just as an addendum:
I like Drew Pavlou. Here’s his latest tweet about the subject:
https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/2112509731462127997
I’m really not that worried that an innocent man might be being defamed.
But it is ok for the authorities to defame a man presumed innocent? I mean I don’t care about this moron, I think he should be tossed in a pit with some of Australia’s more delightful reptilian species. What I am thinking of is seven young men in Cornell University who’s lives are being destroyed because some girl got buzzed and wanted to take a trip on the wild side and then, after she was comprehensively slut shamed by the whole community, decided to retroactively withdraw her consent, play the victim and throw these (admittedly slightly sleazy) dudes into the fires of hell. It used to be that no meant no, then it was yes means yes, apparently now it is yes means no.
It is something I often think about in these cases: I understand why the victim’s name is shielded but it seems only fair that the accused names are also shielded until they are determined guilty. I certainly understand the horrendous trauma rape victims go through, but it is also true that those unjustly accused of rape are victims too and go through a whole different type of trauma. Nobody refuses to hire a woman because she was raped, these seven guys? Will probably never work again if they survive prison that is.
But of course, just like Derek Chauvin these men will be criminally lynched irrespective of the facts of the case, especially so when the case is run by that most appalling of prosecutors Letitia James. A woman for whom evidence, guilt and the written criminal law seem to be no barrier to her vehement prosecution of the politically unpopular.
@Frazer Orr
I’m reminded of Humpty Dumpty from Through the Looking Glass:
‘When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.’
‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master – that’s all.
Or, in this case, the Mistress, even after a long period has elapsed.
Dust off the Tumbrels?
Perhaps he’s one of those Arabists who fantasises about getting the TE Lawrence treatment….
An “electric” Land-Cruiser, of course!
Non?
Quelle Sur-F752LWQ-prise!
Fraser Orr – yes indeed Sir.
bobby b – me too brother.