I posted many months ago that the Greens had peaked & would never attain the percentage they did at the last election. It is now showing by News poll ( even though they regularly publish wildly inacurate rogue polls) that the Labor gain has been at the Greens expense.
IT is bad enough that a young eco-lout resorts to deliberate fraud and market manipulation to further his anti-capitalist, anti-coalmining dreams.
It is even more repugnant that a mature-aged senator representing Australian voters and drawing a taxpayer-funded salary condones this kind of flagrant illegality and economic vandalism.
While regulators ought to pursue Jonathan Moylan using the full force of the law, voters don't need rules and regulations to sanction the Greens. They only require a pencil, a ballot paper and a looming election.
Let us then be grateful that Christine Milne has kicked off an election year with a dose of honesty about the Greens' radical political agenda.
These people are not harmless idealists. They are not even genuine environmentalists. They are dangerous ideologues driven not by reason or intellectual debate, but by zealotry.
If your moral code is askew, it must be fun being Green. It means never having to say you're sorry no matter how destructive the outcome of your actions. Moylan's view of capitalism - "my main concern is not for the people who won't be able to buy their next Rolls Royce" - reflects the Greens' warped view.
Quite apart from being a snub to those Green-voting doctors' wives who travel in these Rolls Royces, it is an insult to the mum and dad investors who lost money thanks to Moylan. Most importantly, it ignores the fact that free markets, not Green policies, have lifted billions of people out of poverty. Being Green means never having to think rationally about such issues.
In short, being Green means decoupling responsibility from power. This is what happens when better dressed, but equally reckless adult versions of Moylan reach Canberra.
Being Green should also mean you will, inevitably, get punished at the ballot box by sensible Australian voters when the moral bankruptcy of Green politics is exposed. In fact this week's Newspoll hints at a declining Green vote.
The last time this newspaper suggested that voters hold the Greens to account, then Greens leader Bob Brown launched a hysterical campaign against the "hate media".
Akin to Orwellian Doublespeak, this was Greenspeak for any media that dared to analyse and criticise Green policies.
Brown's dismay is unsurprising. For a long time, the Greens succeeded in skating under the media radar, presenting themselves as just a bunch of happy tree-huggers.
So let us thank Milne for her honest outburst. Her statement last week that Moylan's fraud was "part of a long and proud history of civil disobedience, potentially breaking the law, to highlight something wrong" revealed utter contempt for those mainstream voters who would never condone Moylan's law-breaking vandalism.
We only have ourselves to blame for the fact that such a party has enjoyed great influence in the minority Gillard government. Not enough of us paid attention to warnings from those who better understood the true motivations of the wider Green movement. Boylan and Milne. both deserve our contempt. And both deserve to be sanctioned by decent-minded folk who understand why, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell one way and not the other.
For full article look for Janet Albrechtson.
