The Green Party without Bob Brown have belatedly made the decision to move towards being a more traditional political animal. There is a real desire in some quarters of the party to soften the general stance taken by the vegan lobby ‘that anything with eyes should not be eaten or anything stolen from anything with eyes or anything made from anything stolen from anything with eyes’. In other words you cannot eat anything that belonged to something else. If that were the case all vegans, hopefully, would starve to death. Have they forgotten that God made everything so to eat anything is stealing from God? Lets not get into the area of talking to plants in this story.
Anyway there are a few sensible greens that don’t do un-natural things with knotholes in trees who believe that to be a political force they must act like politicians and not like radical loonies. They should move away from the specific of whether trees should wear jumpers in winter or whether animal rights should be enshrined in our Constitution.
The Greens should move away from wanting a democratic election of animals for parliament or even the United Nations for that matter. Note that humans cannot, should not nor believe they know what animals want, that’s up to P.E.T.A and the ‘whisperers’ who believe they are somewhere in between animal, vegetable and mineral. I believe we should challenge the idea that P.E.T.A knows what a prawn is thinking.
We believe the Greens should have a serious and meaningful connection to and dialogue with farmers and growers about what both sides believe is best for the country, not just listen to the screaming ‘Greenies’ whose only claim to fame is that they grow tomato’s on the balcony of their home unit in Lygon Street.
Growers are unlikely to do anything that would compromise the integrity of the land on which their livlihood depends as farmers are highly unlikely to abuse the animals they breed and feed and care for either for their fleece or their meat or their companionship. It would be in the best interest of the Greens ‘who oppose corporate greed’ just as vehemently as most people who work the land to use this as a common starting point. It is not farmers or growers but beancounters and ccorporate leaders that are raping the country, blame the banks not the bush. If you think there is a problem prying kiddy fiddlers away from children just try seperating management from their pay bonus.
The Greens should move towards more general policies like mining taxes to restore the earth after mining and sustainable agriculture to ease the demand on the need for more water and not just insist we lock it all up in the ground to lay fallow for at least the next two centuries.
The Greens have in the last few years managed very effectively to be the tail that wags the dog. Not even the Independents, ‘the Cracked Centre’, can make a dint in their popularity. Now we might add the disenchanted Liberals and Labor electorate to swing their vote to the Greens as they move to the centre-left of politics where traditionally the Labor Party used to hold the vote.
But the Greens will never be government unless they can capture that middle ground where the majority of sensible Australians are to be found. Where common sense and not a Nanny State becomes the law where, like Germany, the individual has ultimate responsibility for their own lives and the State, except for providing essential services that the electors ask for should just stuff off and leave us alone.
GREENS MIGHT BE VESUVIANS FOR ALL I CARE BUT IF AUSTRALIA BECOMES A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF THEM THEN THEY HAVE MY VOTE.
Anyway there are a few sensible greens that don’t do un-natural things with knotholes in trees who believe that to be a political force they must act like politicians and not like radical loonies. They should move away from the specific of whether trees should wear jumpers in winter or whether animal rights should be enshrined in our Constitution.
The Greens should move away from wanting a democratic election of animals for parliament or even the United Nations for that matter. Note that humans cannot, should not nor believe they know what animals want, that’s up to P.E.T.A and the ‘whisperers’ who believe they are somewhere in between animal, vegetable and mineral. I believe we should challenge the idea that P.E.T.A knows what a prawn is thinking.
We believe the Greens should have a serious and meaningful connection to and dialogue with farmers and growers about what both sides believe is best for the country, not just listen to the screaming ‘Greenies’ whose only claim to fame is that they grow tomato’s on the balcony of their home unit in Lygon Street.
Growers are unlikely to do anything that would compromise the integrity of the land on which their livlihood depends as farmers are highly unlikely to abuse the animals they breed and feed and care for either for their fleece or their meat or their companionship. It would be in the best interest of the Greens ‘who oppose corporate greed’ just as vehemently as most people who work the land to use this as a common starting point. It is not farmers or growers but beancounters and ccorporate leaders that are raping the country, blame the banks not the bush. If you think there is a problem prying kiddy fiddlers away from children just try seperating management from their pay bonus.
The Greens should move towards more general policies like mining taxes to restore the earth after mining and sustainable agriculture to ease the demand on the need for more water and not just insist we lock it all up in the ground to lay fallow for at least the next two centuries.
The Greens have in the last few years managed very effectively to be the tail that wags the dog. Not even the Independents, ‘the Cracked Centre’, can make a dint in their popularity. Now we might add the disenchanted Liberals and Labor electorate to swing their vote to the Greens as they move to the centre-left of politics where traditionally the Labor Party used to hold the vote.
But the Greens will never be government unless they can capture that middle ground where the majority of sensible Australians are to be found. Where common sense and not a Nanny State becomes the law where, like Germany, the individual has ultimate responsibility for their own lives and the State, except for providing essential services that the electors ask for should just stuff off and leave us alone.
GREENS MIGHT BE VESUVIANS FOR ALL I CARE BUT IF AUSTRALIA BECOMES A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF THEM THEN THEY HAVE MY VOTE.
