Piers Akerman lifts the lid on the Communist Greens garbage tin and describes the smelly rotting contents.
Toxic legacy is all Brown leaves behind Piers Akerman The Sunday Telegraph April 15, 2012 12:00AM
THERE have been acres of newsprint and hours of air time given to Greens leader Bob Brown's exit from the Senate, but not much attention to his party's policies.
Reading the eulogistic panegyrics emitted since Brown announced his June departure, a stranger might think a saintly guru had ascended to heaven, leaving his people better for his time among them.
The reality is vastly different.While the younger Brown might have been responsible for some environmental victories, the older Brown has been a disaster for the futures of those most likely to have been brought up on the Green brand of snake oil.
Brown's movement wants to halt the march of civilisation and demolish the foundations of our liberal democracy, starting by outlawing the use of the cheap fossil fuels which empowered the masses, liberating them from the tiresome toil of cottage crafts.
It has been able to achieve a far greater influence on the nation than its numbers warrant because of the continuing decline of the Labor Party. A strong ALP would never have tolerated the Greens manifesto but straitened times make for strange bedfellows and Labor is now wedded to a party that, like a female praying mantis, will ultimately destroy it.
The recent Queensland state election delivered a message to Labor that its leaders seem determined to ignore: the Greens are poison to the young, more aspirational voters.
Young tradies, who would normally have voted Labor, would not have a bar of their preferred party because of its alliance with the Greens, and while Labor's vote plummeted, the Greens' vote also went backward or stagnated at best.
Only in inner urban areas where tradies are regarded as exotic creatures and bicycles are the preferred mode of transport, did the Greens poll well.
Young Australians, with an eye on their future welfare, know that Labor has been pushed by the Greens to accommodate the unpalatable carbon dioxide tax based on pricing carbon at an outlandish $23 a tonne, more than double the global price.
They know, too, that Labor's weakened border security policy, which has seen more than 590 asylum seekers arrive in the past two weeks (and more than 60 almost lose their lives attempting to make the passage) is a sop to the Greens.
The young Green voters, far from the mining fields where the wealth of the nation is being won from the earth, are either on the dole or in jobs safe from destructive Green policies.
The Greens are not in Canberra bringing honesty to politics, they are practising their own brand of politics, blackmailing Labor into accepting policies which have caused Labor voters to turn away from their party.
To the Greens, voters are just a source of funds for improbable schemes. While Brown and his acolytes project a touchy-feely image, gushingly regurgitated in the homages paid to Brown in the past 36 hours, the Greens are working as assiduously as any saboteur to destroy the Australian economy.
Explore, if you will, the Green fantasy that green jobs can provide Australia with the economic muscle to survive the next wave of economic stability. It is totally implausible.
Green jobs have not sustained an economy anywhere. Green power is unnecessarily expensive power.
The carbon dioxide tax _ which was marketed to well-meaning fools through a ferocious and fallacious scare campaign as a means of reducing the global temperature - will do nothing of the kind.
It will have no impact on global weather but it will sound a death knell for thousands of small businesses around Australia and further crash confidence inthe economy. It doesn't take much imagination to see what would happen if the Greens ever succeeded in closing all existing coal mines and coal-fired power stations, as they hope to, according to their policy manifesto.
Their desire to ban all exploration, mining and export of uranium would also kill off attempts by other nations to switch to a cleaner fuel source.
Their position on national security is just as ridiculous. Recall Brown's hysterical outburst when US President George Bush Jr visited Parliament in 2003, and his support of former jihadi David Hicks?
The Greens want to scrap our alliance with the US entirely if it cannot be bent to the prescriptive UN's treaty obligations and they want to cut defence spending and restrict or prohibit naval visits.
Domestically, they would like to see a new level of personal income tax set at 50 per cent and they want the vote given to 16-year-olds.
This is not a grown-up political party, this is a sandpit full of two-year-olds whining for gratification.
Brown may have quit the party now because of concerns about the level of internal rancour.
It is no secret that under Lee Rhiannon, nee Brown and formerly O'Gorman, who used to edit the Soviet-sponsored Stalinist newspaper Survey, the NSW Greens have become a radical anti-Semitic band at odds with Bob Brown's direction.
Leaving his deputy Christine Milne to try to bring the NSW Trotskyites under control is an easy out for Brown, who no doubt wished to step down while his party was still enjoying its greatest period of influence since it started in the late '80s. The polls would indicate that after holding its numbers, it is beginning to slide.
Brown's own rambling speech about one-world parliaments and intergalactic conversations may seem a joke, but it is indicative of the loopy other-worldliness that infects Green supporters _ the aged activists attempting to hide their decline with thinning ponytails, the middle-aged housewives nodding to the mantra of the ABC's committed Leftists, the inner urbane activists and the dread-locked extremists. The challenge is for Labor to exact something from Brown's exit that might convince its wandering voters it stands for something and is not just a vehicle to serve the Greens' insane agenda.
Comments on this storyPhil of Castle Hill Posted at 2:52 PM April 15, 2012 agreed Piers. The Greens are the biggest threat to the Australian way of live since WW2. The biggest lie peddled by both Green and Labor is the cornucopia of green jobs that will mythically arise once the evil, rotten jobs in industry are gotten rid of. We keep hearing about these jobs, but they are never decribed as to what they actually are. We do, I must admit, occassionally hear about jobs installing solar panels and wind farms, but it is never explained as to where the subsidies will come from to make this employment sustainable. I am also worried about the Greens dream of the one world governement where Australia must handover our sovereign rights to this global governement where as they say, there is one vote per person. So on this basis we will be handing over our right to self-determination to China and India. At best, the Greens intellectually are junior high-school standard.
John Morgan Posted at 2:13 PM April 15, 2012 Never did a thing for battlers or working families!
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/piers-akerman-toxic-legacy-is-all-...Hey Skippy another bucket of manure.
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