Peace activist and Green Party candidate assaults romantic rival, puts him in coma

New Zealander Christiaan Briggs sounds like a dedicated peace activist. He served as one of Saddam's human shields in Iraq. He ran for office in England under the Green Party.
But the 30-year-old pacifist wasn't very peaceful to 19-year-old rock singer Billy Leeson when the punched the teenager to the ground and put him in a coma after hassling the young man's girlfriend on the bus. And running off laughing.
I will point out that Briggs turned himself in after police broadcast an appeal, to his credit. But I will add several thoughts:
Obviously, for a pacifist to resort to violence is hypocritical.
You can find his blog by googling his name (he's verbose and all over the internet). His blog expresses a lot of hatred for America and Israel, for the CIA and Homeland Security. He seems to hate power, powerful institutions, winners. Yet he doesn't mind winning in a personal encounter by using force. He seemed to think it was funny.
And then he turns around and shows his respect for institutions after all by going ahead and turning himself in to the police. His blog calls the CIA cowards, but he has respect for the law after all, as long as he gets to whine about it. Wonder if Saddam would have let him do that.