On Monday June 14, 2010, Brendon O'Connell was arrested and held in police cells overnight after being refused bail. He pled guilty at Perth Magistrates Court to a disorderly conduct offense, and was given an Adult Community Release Order.
The incident occurred around 2pm, Western Australian local time, when Maylands man O'Connell turned up with his video camera at the home of his local arch-enemy James Linton, the Perth anti-Zionist activist and internet poster known as Infensus Mentis and Crimes of Zion. It started out as a rerun of the time from nearly three years ago when O'Connell made his video Goodbye Mr Lyntonstein, which was an attempt to smear Linton with unsubstantiated allegations. However, this time it turned violent. O'Connell was screaming at the top of his lungs when he arrived, so Linton went out to confront him whilst remaining inside his property line. For defensive purposes, Linton was carrying a baseball bat. O'Connell lists nightclub bouncer as one of his previous jobs. After a few minutes of what O'Connell might euphemistically class as an "all friendly like" discussion, O'Connell boiled over, put his video camera down and charged at Linton. It led to a violent struggle / wrestle along the driveway to the front door.
At one point O'Connell threw a right hook that connected with Linton's face, but it did no damage at all. He also headbutted Linton from the side in an attempt to free himself when Linton had him in a position he couldn't get out of. Linton ended up with a scratch under his right eye, and the eye became a bit bloodshot. This was sustained when O'Connell clawed and scratched at his eye as if trying to gouge it out. Linton also had an "egg" (bump) on the right side of his head from where he'd been headbutted, although this had gone down by the next day. However, O'Connell had blood on his head and shirt, and a gash on his forehead about an inch above his left eye, most likely sustained when he headbutted Linton, who threw him against the fence. (Linton recalls that the injury was on the wrong side to have been consistent with O'Connell's impact with the fence.) It took O'Connell, who is about 20kg heavier than Linton, some 30-40 seconds to gain control of the bat, whereupon Linton managed to push him away and move back towards his front door. O'Connell then hurled the bat at him and walked away exhausted, and Linton picked it up and followed him back out with it to ensure he left Linton's property. Thankfully, neither of them sustained serious injury.
This really makes a mockery of O'Connell's claim to have single-handedly beaten up six South African boxers in the street outside a Perth nightclub, not that the claim ever had any credibility to start with. The same can be said for about 99% of O'Connell's other claims. He failed to come off better in his fight with Linton, whom O'Connell had previously described as having a "skinny little Meth physique" and despite the fact that Brendon "Tubby" O'Connell frequently boasts about his own physical prowess, e.g. "I'm now 108kg and looking good" and "all 110kg reasonably lean kilo's (sic) of me". As Linton says, O'Connell was "punching like a sissy and scratching like a bitch". Linton's injuries were so minor, barely beyond that expected from "being savaged by a dead sheep", that he decided against pressing an assault charge.
O'Connell has no one but himself to blame for any injuries such as his split head and his bruised ego, since Linton issued a public warning to O'Connell in June 2009 that if he ever set foot again on Linton's property, he would be "physically removed" and would "not leave without injury".
As he walked away, O'Connell yelled something at Linton's neighbor, who did not see the incident but was two houses along with his neighbors in their front yard. Linton went to apologize for the disturbance. When O'Connell was arrested, he babbled to the police about "five people dead", a reference to one of his numerous delusions.
Linton's mobile phone was wrecked; presumably from where he fell on it during the struggle as it was in his leg pocket. O'Connell's silver and red sunglasses also got broken, and Linton handed these to the police to return to O'Connell along with a pen he dropped on the footpath just outside Linton's driveway. Linton obtained a Violence Restraining Order against O'Connell, which was approved by a magistrate on June 16.
Apart from O'Connell's claim to have single-handedly beaten up the six boxers, further evidence that O'Connell fancies himself as a "street fighter" is evidenced by a statement he posted at the 911oz forum. O'Connell posted there under the handles QuoTodt and QuoVeritas, and also operated the sock puppet davidstevens in order to pose as one of his supporters. He wrote: "Quo was a hurricane with zero finesse. He is like a street fighter when what is needed is some restraint and patience."
The day before the incident, O'Connell had sent Linton a threatening message via his MrBrendonoconnell33 YouTube account. In this message O'Connell repeats a number of ludicrous, false allegations that he's already made, such as Linton knows "the contents of [O'Connell's] private phone conversations", Linton is a "criminal informant" for the police, a "jew" and an "I.V. meth user" / a "Tweaker". O'Connell repeats his highly suspect claims about his sister, friends' friends, friends' relatives, etc, having been murdered by the Jews because he supposedly exposed a "Mossad" spy (his "five people dead" allegation). In that message, O'Connell introduces a bizarre new claim in which he was himself "poisoned" and suffered a "stroke" on January 18th whilst he was staying at Fred Toben's house.
On that day (January 16th) I flew out to Dr Fredrick Tobens house to stay a while. On January the 18th I got in the early morning to go to the toilet and felt immediately nausea's. I wanted to vomit and my head began to throb. I made it to the toilet and then collapsed - waking flat on my back on the floor with a gash to my forehead. I know a stroke when I have one - I worked on a stroke unit and have worked in I.C.U and C.C.U's and E.D's.
So if he fell backwards, how did he injure the front of his head? If he fell forwards, are we supposed to believe that the Mossad assassin(s) - or even Dr Toben!! - turned him over rather than finish him off? And he's supposed to have suffered a "stroke", yet it did not affect his memory, speech, motor skills or writing style one iota. In fact, his writing actually improved: the number of typos significantly decreased. There is no evidence of brain damage beyond that which was already self-evident.
O'Connell's YouTube message included a threat to Linton that he was going to make him "pay" and he would be "seeing" him "soon".
Now I am going to stay here and make every single person pay. Every one. Every one who has threatened me, slandered me, mocked me, stalked me, harassed me. Every single person.And you are top of that list.
This I sware - till my dying breath, I am going to hunt you down and make you pay. You took part in a co-ordinated harassment campaign against me and the poster known as "america" in the U.S. You are a jew who lives in the heart of the jewish community. You are an A.F.P criminal informant and drug addict and drug dealer.
I will be seeing you. Soon.
After O'Connell was arrested, he admitted that he showed up with the intent to provoke a conflict with Linton. The video footage did not include the fight, but it did reveal O'Connell's maniacal screaming and rabid verbal provocations. So he had little choice but to plead guilty to disorderly conduct. This is consistent with his showing up with his video camera at the Friends of Palestine WA protest with intent to provoke confrontation. He would have hoped to have found a pretext for slapping a Jew, i.e., he had intent to produce a "happy slapping" video.
He's supposedly "beaten up six South African boxers" yet he can't even beat up Linton, he claims to have suffered a "stroke" but there is no evidence to support the claim, he alleges his sister was murdered but there is zero evidence, he supposedly knows "agents in Serbian intelligence" that are "willing to give interviews" but he's never done any interviews with them, he spams the internet with claims that he's exposed a "Mossad" agent but provides zero evidence of that even though he tries to trick gullible mugs into sending him money, he claims his friends' friends and friends' relatives have been killed because he's such an important enemy of Israel, etc. Yet just because O'Connell poses as an "anti-Judaic warrior", a few people swoon all over him.
Some of Israel's agents speak little or no English. The "panel truck with a painting of a plane flying into the World Trade Center" that "was stopped near the temporary command post" on 9/11 "proved to be rented to a group of ethnic Middle Eastern people" (i.e., Israelis) "who did not speak English". However, compare the writing of O'Connell's so-called "Mossad" agent - Leon Wende - with that of O'Connell himself. Wende's English is faultless, whereas O'Connell's is riddled with errors.
O'Connell used to be on friendly terms with Linton, and had indicated a desire to "work with him". Here's an excerpt from Linton's account of their third meeting, at which O'Connell said he was lonely, unhappy with his life, and glad to have met Linton.
The third time I met O'Connell I took him to lunch at a cafe in Maylands near his home after he'd called or texted before coming to my house. O'Connell was unemployed and broke so I paid for lunch, which wasn't expensive. He was getting over what he told me was a caffeine addiction and stayed strong by resisting the urge to have a coffee. He told me that he was lethargic, unhappy with his life, lonely and lacking direction which is, he told me, 'why I'm glad I met you'. It was that meeting and that particular statement that caused me to stop and look a bit closer at the O'Connell thing and what I might be dealing with, and the potential hassle built into the nascent relationship. I felt a bit sorry for O'Connell and empathised with him; I know what it's like to be lonely and kind of lost, but I wasn't the right person for him at that time for all sorts of reasons, one of which is just the simple fact that I like my own time and space, so I made up my mind then to gently wind down my contact with him. I still had no reason to think he was overly unreasonable, a loose cannon or a nutjob even at that point, after meeting with him for a third time, but I did have a pretty good idea that he was a bullshitter and not the kind of person I could ever be close mates with. It was clear by then that he was a staunch and sometimes defensive Christian, which isn't my thing, not that I recall him trying to force-feed me his beliefs. There was no real religious discussion that I recall besides his telling me that he'd had some sort of religious or spiritual epiphany earlier in life that he refused to elaborate on, which I did push for because I'm interested in that kind of thing.
Note how Linton rejected O'Connell's wishes to be mates with him, and afterwards O'Connell turned against Linton and called him a "Jew", a "drug addict", a "criminal informant", etc. A similar phenomenon occurred in the case of the narcissistic nutcase Jim Kerr of FugaziQuo.com and formerly of PlanetQuo.com, who was friendly with Linton, Suzette the Whippette and the writer (Poseidon), each at various times in 2007, until each of the three saw him for what he was and broke off the association. After being rejected, Kerr proceeded for the next three years to write page after page of utter drivel supposedly "exposing" each of the three (along with some other people) as "Jews", "shills", "liars", "Judas goats", etc. Narcissists don't exactly take kindly to rejection. Narcissism plus social rejection equals aggression. So isn't it quite probable that O'Connell's motivation for spewing his venom against Leon Wende - which dates back at least to November 2005 - is similarly derived from the highly educated Wende's decision against being friends with the semi-literate unemployed bum O'Connell?
It's an open question as to whether or not O'Connell actually believes his various claims such as "five people dead", he suffered a "stroke" after having been "poisoned", his marijuana plants were poisoned by the Jews, he exposed a "Mossad" agent, etc. If he believes his claims in their entirety, it is doubtful that he would even be capable of connecting to the internet. But if he is a pathological liar and troublemaker acting the part of a delusional nutcase, he surely deserves an accolade for his acting.
