THE GREENIE ANSWER TO BARBARISM: STUFFED TOYS

Cloud cuckoo land is where they live

"Australia should send 400 personalised stuffed koalas to the grieving families of the Beslan school massacre, Greens leader Bob Brown has proposed. He has also argued that the Russian Government should bow to Chechen demands for independence - a suggestion that prompted an angry reaction from the Government and concern from Russian representatives.

In a radio discussion aired in Sydney on Monday night, Senator Brown startled his co-panellists, Tourism Minister Joe Hockey and shadow employment spokesman Anthony Albanese, by proposing that stuffed koalas might cheer the families of the Beslan dead. "We could send 400 koalas over there, you know, the fluffy toy koalas, with the name of each (victim), and deliver it to each of those open doors where the families are," he said.

Mr Hockey said last night that the comments were "just bizarre - grossly insensitive, bizarre and beyond belief". Senator Brown also said he believed Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should begin moves to give the Chechen people their independence, the outcome the terrorists are seeking. While the attacks were "disgusting and inhuman", he said, the Chechen people could not be blamed for the terrorist activities of a minority, and the Russian Government should ask the United Nations to assist with a transition to independence. "He (Mr Putin) has to look seriously at them (Chechens) taking a form of their own government," Senator Brown said.

A Russian embassy spokesman said giving Chechens independence was "not a good idea". He said the region was given de facto independence 10 years ago but it did not work. "Soon they were attacking neighbours and producing drugs; they had this chance."

The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in Australia, Archbishop Hilarion, agreed that providing limited independence had been unsuccessful and rejected the suggestion of a new deal.......

Mr Hockey accused Senator Brown of advocating a surrender to terrorists. "Giving in to these terrorists is offensive and unacceptable," he said. "This illustrates everything that the Greens are: totally divorced from reality. They do not understand the consequences of their actions.""

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