MORE ON THE GREENIE RELIGION

A letter from Leonard Colquhoun of Invermay, Tasmania, printed in "The Weekend Australian on Sept., 4th, 2004

Greg Sheridan's article ("Opinion", 2 Sept.) has done us all a service: the Greens have undergone a dangerous metamorphosis. Once an ecological movement worried about misuse of nature, Bob Brown's party has begun to develop the kinds of fascist attitudes that characterised the European totalitarians of the 20th century and which are now to be found in Islamist fundamentalism.

Two features stand out.

One is a gnostic approach to just about everything: we Greens are the ones who have the knowledge, we know what's good for the world, and you will do as we say because the truth is with us, and only us. It is a Gaiaist version of the Roman Catholic Church's dictum: extra ecclesiam nulla salvatio.

The second is that maxim followed by the medieval popes, 17th-century Puritans, French revolutionary fanatics, by the respective commissars of Nazism and Soviet communism, and now by al-Qa'ida and other fundamentalists: the end justifies the means. The actions of the chosen are above the law and beyond conventional morality.

Granted, Brown is yet to preside over an auto-da-fe or issue a fatwa, but his party is yet to demonstrate it actually knows what is meant by compromise, an attitude without which a civil, secular liberal society is impossible, and without which parliamentary government cannot function.

Voters need to be aware that when the Greens claim they are not just another political party, that claim has to be taken seriously.




MERCURY PARANOIA

"What's actually going on is that the EPA has announced a proposed regulation -- due to go into effect next spring that would require power generators to reduce mercury emissions from smokestacks for the first time. The power generators have agreed to shoot for a 70 percent reduction. Environmental extremists are insisting that should be upped to more than a 90 percent reduction, no matter what it costs. Wait, it gets better: How much would mercury in your body -- or your kids' bodies -- be reduced if we shut down every coal-fired power plant in America forever, reducing our electrical output by 50 percent and throwing us back into a new Dark Age? Less than 1 percent."

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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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