Rita Panahi: Hitting the Prime Minister with an egg is idiotic, not heroic
The alleged egging attack on Scott Morrison has showed how little importance we place on the safety of our nation’s leader. Can you imagine what would have happened if someone with ill intentions got that close to the US President, asks Rita Panahi.
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Why was a Leftist activist who had just allegedly assaulted the Prime Minister allowed to walk away and speak to the media instead of being put immediately under arrest, preferably in handcuffs, and taken to a police station for questioning?
That was the first thought that came to mind watching the smug 24-year-old casually walk down the street seemingly proud of her 15 minutes of fame.
The second thought was just how fortunate it was that her spectacularly stupid stunt involved an egg — an apparently unbreakable egg that managed to roll over Scott Morrison’s head and land without cracking — rather than a knife, rock or some other weapon that could do real harm.
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The young woman, who calls herself Amber Paige but has been identified by media outlets as Amber Holt, didn’t just throw the egg from across the room, but walked up behind the PM and raised her arm to bring it down on top of his head as he chatted with Country Women’s Association members in Albury. After she was removed from the venue, she waved the six-pack of eggs for the cameras and scoffed when a journalist suggested that “it would be better to do a protest in a peaceful way”.
To give her credit that she doesn’t deserve, the activist did say that she was sorry that an older woman fell to the ground thanks to her actions.
“That was not my intent,” she said.
But “Ms Paige”, as she calls herself on Facebook, defended her behaviour by blaming Morrison’s Twitter feed, telling journalists to go check the PM’s Twitter as it “f---ing speaks for itself” and also said, “He deserves it, he deserves a lot worse actually”.
Really? What exactly does that mean? Perhaps that’s a question a prosecutor or magistrate will ask “Ms Paige”.
Just what does she think the PM deserves for being a conservative who challenges her far-Leftist-Greens view of the world?
Early Tuesday afternoon, NSW police were unable to explain why “Ms Paige” was allowed to bask in the media spotlight after the incident instead of sitting in the back of a police car under the custody of officers.
Can you imagine what would have happened if someone with ill intentions got that close to the US President?
Do we really place so little importance on the safety of our nation’s leader? The alleged attack on Tuesday was with an egg but it shows just how close a protester can get to the PM.
“Ms Paige” did eventually make her way to the police station where she was charged with common assault and possession of cannabis.
Yes, not only did this genius activist fail to break an egg but she allegedly assaulted the Prime Minister of Australia while in possession of an illegal substance. One can only hope that reports that she’s studying education at Charles Sturt University prove to be inaccurate.
There has been a toxic atmosphere around the current election campaign, with activists resorting to ugly antics including anti-Semitic graffiti, obscene threats, sending faeces to a former prime minister and now attempting to smash an egg on the current Prime Minister’s head.
Almost every instance of bastardry has been committed by Leftist activists who preach love, compassion and tolerance but show nothing but endless reserves of bile.
That is why the term virtue signaller is in frequent use: it sums of the hypocritical, hate-filled impostors of the Left perfectly.
That’s the sort of imbecile who leaves a hollowed-out book filled with poo at Tony Abbott’s Manly office or scrawls anti-Semitic imagery on posters of Australia’s highest profile Jewish politician, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
Meanwhile, we have schoolkids skipping school to protest about a climate catastrophe and yelling threats against the Prime Minister, including, “We just want to kill ScoMo.”
Don’t expect the situation to get much better after the poll on May 18.
A Labor victory will only embolden these miscreants, who believe conservatives are fair game for all manner of abuse.
Sadly, we have become inured to such mindless acts of idiocy. Indeed some celebrate this sort of activism as humorous and even heroic. Remember Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s praising “eggboy” for smashing an egg on fellow Senator Fraser Anning’s head?
She tweeted that teenager Will Connolly was a hero.
“This kid’s Australia’s newest hero,” she posted along with a video of the assault.
Anning is a figure so universally loathed that some were willing to overlook the recklessness of the attack because they were happy he was humiliated.
But in elevating a foolish kid to hero status, they made Tuesday’s incident almost inevitable.
The Greens have a long history of endorsing the feral behaviour of far-Left activists.
It’ll surprise no one that “Ms Paige” is an activist whose Facebook page is littered with Greens inanity.
She posted Richard Di Natale’s unhinged rant on The Bolt Report and shared posts from Greens MP Mehreen Faruqi and The Project’s Waleed Aly.
Hopefully both Hanson-Young and Anning will be voted out of the Senate this election. It would raise the quality of the upper house enormously.
— Rita Panahi is a Herald Sun columnist
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