GREENIE WIERDNESS -- Part 1

David Icke was the national spokesman for the UK Greens from 1988 to 1991. The guy is as mad as a cut snake and believes the world is secretly run by 9 ft alien reptilians who control the show from deep inside the hollow earth. There is an amazing amount on Icke here. Most of it is harmless New Age silliness, but the same kind of loony tunes ideas propelled some well known Germans, now mainly seen on The History Channel.




GREENIE WIERDNESS -- Part 2

Andrew Bolt writes:

"Thankfully, a few Greens supporters are now waking up to the extremism hidden in the Greens philosophy. Some are shocked to realise their party increasingly rejects civilisation and freedom and embraces the tyranny of tribalism -- the purity of the noble savage. See the results -- the Greens heckling George Bush, but demanding more aid for Saddam Hussein; vilifying Israel, but largely ignoring the Islamist terrorists trying to wipe it out.

This appalled singer Deborah Conway, who this month declared: "Usually I'm very passionate and sympathetic to the Greens, who actually asked me to stand for them in Victoria." But Conway is Jewish, and the Greens, she says, "have stunned me".

"I've always been considered Left. It's who I've been. Suddenly some of these people from the Left want to put me up against the wall and shoot me because I'm Jewish." She's not talking of the Greens' leaders, of course, but of fans of their policies....

Perhaps the man who is best able to tell us what the Greens' vision means for us is Peter Singer, philosopher, former Greens Senate candidate and co-author with Brown of The Greens. It is Singer who developed the key Greens belief -- that man is not at the pinnacle of creation, as Christians and Jews believe, but is just one of the animals, with no more rights than any other.

Human life is no longer sacred, but should be judged in a utilitarian way. Is that life a burden to someone? Is that being conscious enough to let live? And Singer judges with a merciless eye: "If the fetus does not have the same claim to life as a person, it appears that the newborn baby does not either, and the life of a newborn baby is of less value to it than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee . . .

"If we can put aside these emotionally moving but strictly irrelevant aspects of the killing of a baby we can see that the grounds for not killing persons do not apply to newborn infants." Or even much older ones: "A three-year-old is a grey case," says Singer, author of Should the Baby Live?"

More here.

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Many people would like to be kind to others so Leftists exploit that with their nonsense about equality. Most people want a clean, green environment so Greenies exploit that by inventing all sorts of far-fetched threats to the environment. But for both, the real motive is to promote themselves as wiser and better than everyone else, truth regardless.

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