The ‘Greenslide’ is a backslide into paganism

Friday, 3rd September 2010

The far-left so-called environment party represents a serious threat to our way of life, warns Jim Wallace

In recent weeks, Bob Brown has triumphantly announced a ‘Greenslide’. But it is yet another reflection of how our democracy has become determined by the highest bidder, rather than the most deserving.

The Senate race was so unequally framed that Brown was able to present the Greens, without doubt the hard left of Australian politics, as a genuine alternative to the two major parties, and to continue the deception that this party is about what is natural and is above our tainted mainstream politics.

It was an attractive argument for an electorate presented with such a negative campaign by the major parties. But even a cursory glance at the Greens, their ideology and record in politics, makes a complete mockery of any claim to genuine third party status in Australian politics.

The Senate competition between the minor parties was unequal because only the Greens could amass the cash to promote their cause via a TV campaign. Together with the abandonment of the environment as an issue by the major parties and the political football status given to refugees by the Coalition and the ALP, this made for quite an opportunity. An incredible number of people voted Green as an alternative, without any real idea of what they stand for and almost certainly little empathy for many of their incoherent policies.

This is, after all, a party that simultaneously holds policies supporting pornography and prostitution that fuel the sex trade, while all the time feigning support for women and the most vulnerable.

To provide an insight into the effects of the sex trade, in just one year 40,000 mainly economically vulnerable Eastern European women were trafficked into prostitution in Greece alone. Not just attracted into it, but sold into sexual slavery after having been duped into travelling to the West with promises of work, only to be met off the plane by criminals who then ‘break’ them for the work, and keep them imprisoned in fear of their lives while earning them money by servicing up to 20 men a day.

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