The World-Wide Problem of The Greens;
The Australian Chapter.
By @StaunchA
It has to be said that The Australian Greens simply love all things Muslim; so much in fact, that their animal welfare policy contradicts their multicultural policy. There’s nothing the Greens won’t do for the Muslims, to the point where senators have taken on a distinctly anti Semitic tone of late. One senator has gone so far as to completely reverse the definition of terrorism so that it is now the opposite of that set out in Australia’s criminal code. I won’t bore you with biographies of the senators in question. All I ask is that for the select few topics I raise keep in mind that these lunatics actually have a vote in our parliament. The only mentioned Green, who does not hold a seat, is none other than Rachel Jacobs, the woman who told the lie which sparked #Illridewithyou. If I believed in God, I’d be shouting, ‘Praise the Lord for that!’ right about now. But since this issue has raised her profile substantially, I hope I haven’t spoken too soon.
In their efforts to be a party of opposition, The Greens are fast becoming a party of negativity. They oppose everything Australian and their policies are so fettered with contradiction that the cognitive dissonance must be heart wrenching. So, we are expected not to blink an eyelid when MP Ellen Sandell tweets in the morning she is saving the ducks from the redneck shooters and then tweets that she’s celebrating cruel animal slaughter in the afternoon (Eid). At the same time we can hear the Greens shrieking, ‘Ban live animal exports’. How do they sleep at night?
In between whipping up anti-Semitic sentiment and vituperative pro-jihadi rage, Senator Milne asserts that we have ‘invaded’ Iraq with no stated military plan. I gather she would prefer it publicized so Murdoch can splash it on the front page of every newspaper from here to Timbuktu. No mention of the Iraqi President’s desperate plea for help. From the Greens' perspective, there is no difference between this engagement and the 2003 one, in search of WMDs. They argue that this action and counter-terrorism laws simply ‘fan the flames of fear’ and make us more unsafe in Australia.
No doubt the game has become a little tit-for-tat to some extent. And the Islamic Revolution was surely
a rejection of Western ideals. But if we are to sink to the level of ‘who started it’ then we need to trace back to our first terrorist attack in 1915 – long before the ANZUS treaty. Still, the Greens like to blame the US for all our woes. To say that we bring these attacks on ourselves shows an ignorance of history and draws a rather long bow. Strictly chronologically speaking, the first Muslim terrorist attack in the US was in 1920, but hey, maybe it’s as Maxwell Smart says, ‘It’s the old following from in-front trick’.
The Greens' policy document says we should embrace cultural diversity, which sounds just dandy when taken on face value. But when you examine how this appeal to tradition works in practice you see a political party which is ignoring children being sent to the Middle East to marry, turning a blind eye to backyard FGM and stirring up real hatred between Muslims and Jews in our country. Essentially the Greens are teaming up with the Muslims, aided by a common anti-US and anti capitalist stance, and hypocrisy is rife amongst them. Senator Hanson-Young wrote on her blog that she was ‘disgusted’ and ‘stunned’ at the ‘extremist’ conservatives for finding themselves addressing a rally in front of a sign saying ‘Bob Brown’s bitch’ but sees no problem in her and senator Rhiannon addressing rallies with signs emblazoned with slogans such as ‘Jews haven’t learn (sic) they need (swastika) more than ever before’.
Similarly, their calls to ‘boycott Israel’ are equally ignorant because a blanket boycott of Israel inevitably would have a flow-on effect for Palestine