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GREENS IN SCARE MODE, AS USUAL
Environmentalists have issues with workers and immigrants, as Greg Barns reports:
A pulp mill in Tasmania will bring HIV, melt the skifields in New Zealand, cause international diplomatic incidents and, to cap it all off, create a crisis in the Australian economy.
That’s according to the submission to the Resource Development and Planning Commission made by two Green MPs, Peg Putt and Christine Milne ...
[The Greens] claim that because there will be men working on the mill’s construction who are without partners, prostitution and fights over women will be the order of the day. Those workers will maraud around the community, seeking “entertainment opportunities, including female companionship in the local community. This may result in conflict with local men,” the submission opines.
And sex workers from Melbourne will be flown in to help alleviate the sex drive of workers. There may even be child prostitution if the pulp mill is built, claim the Greens.
Well, naturally. They’re hideous predatory workers. Some of them probably don’t even own a Prius.
Of course, there will be unhealthy foreign workers coming into the state to work on the pulp mill. According to the Greens, HIV and diseases like TB will increase in Tasmania “if large numbers of international workers are required”.
This outrageous claim is simply a variation on the old xenophobic Australian view that foreign workers are somehow unclean and undesirable.
And in another demonstration of just how mean-spirited the Greens really are on migration issues, they claim in their submission that workers from overseas will be used on the project and those workers will send money back home to their families ...
Then, the icing on the cake. There is a risk, according to the Greens’ submission, that interest rates will increase, inflation will rise and Australia will default on its foreign debt if the pulp mill is built.
These people are insane. Barns concludes: “The Greens have missed an opportunity here to be seen as sensible and moderate.” Question: when have they ever taken such an opportunity?
(Via Andrew Landeryou)
UPDATE. PW writes: “So, basically, leftists will welcome foreigners with open arms when they come as ‘refugees’ with questionable status, but not if they’re coming to Australia in order to work?”
Sloppy journalism on the part of the Mercury hack as well- not a mention of the clear conflict of interest in an adverse submission from the defendants in an ongoing civil action, tipping a bucket on the plaintiffs. There’s something basically corrupt in an oganisation using its elected position to undermine the position of another party who is involved in ongoing litigation with the former; BTW, how’s that going? I for one would snicker quietly over a few snifters to see the bailiffs evicting Bob Brown from his Pixie Dell and seize his superannuation to pay a voracious woodchipper, leaving Bob to really commune with nature in a deep and close manner.
These people believe that lying is justified to further their cause. Not unlike the Nazi’s, Commies, and all the other “ies” throughout history. They will fail in their desire to see mankind returned to the stone age. Long may they itch and scratch.
Posted by Phatso Phil on 2006 10 10 at 01:09 AM • permalinkThose workers will maraud around the community, seeking “entertainment opportunities, including female companionship in the local community. This may result in conflict with local men,”
Hot damn! Friday night at The Imperial Arms is gunna be the swingenest night ever!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 10 at 01:44 AM • permalinkYes, the Greens are xenophobes yet preach multiculturalism, support for illegal immigrants, close the detention centres, but xenophobes none the less.
Xenophobic hypocritical bastards.
I think they need to write and publish a great big, thick pulp-laden book about all this. A big fat, massive book full of woodchip and old growth forest, that’s what they should do.This could all be a diversionary tactic from Bob Brown to convince the pulp mill owners to only hire homosexuals.
Of course there would be no prostitution and fights over women.
That’d be right up Bob Browns, umm, alley!Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 10 at 02:33 AM • permalinkPeg Putt? Peg Putt? I thought, Ill bet she’s a rug muncher. Sure enough she’s got a set of choppers that would make Bucky the Beaver weep for. She must be Chad Morgan’s long lost daughter.
I’m expecting this next:
because there will be men working on the mill’s construction who are without partners these workers require prostitutes, who,hopefully will maraud around the community, seeking “entertainment opportunities, including companionship in the local community.
Sex workers from Melbourne will be flown in to help alleviate the sex drive of workers. There may even be child prostitution if the pulp mill is built, hopefully claimed the Greens.
Pity Victorians,
As if they have not got enough of this green slime influence in the Bracks government. The greens could end up controling the Upper House. Then, it will be tree worship, worthy of a Nuremberg rally. The Vic, economy, is not that good, despite all the crap, just think what it will be like after November.Mind you, Greg Barnes can bee pretty loopy when he sets his mind to it (I think he was booted off the Libs ticket and later became a Democrats candidate?) - but fortunately seems to have taken his pills when he wrote that piece.
Honestly, the Greens just LOVE the proposed pulp mill. Without it, they would be left to mope around damp forests with no-one to villify & keep their ‘brand’ alive.
With Gunns (the pulp mill developer), they have an ideal nasty ‘big corporate’ who will obviously be raping & pillaging all & sundry, so “keep those donations rolling in to help us fight…. etc etc” (we all know the score).
Its wonderful seeing a few thousand of the moonbats & basket weavers march around the town demanding that the government hear their might, blissfully unaware (or ignoring) the fact that there has been both a Federal and State election in the recent past where forestry was a major, major issue in Tasmania and the Greens went backwards in both. Pro forestry parties (Libs Federally, Labor at the State level) got the swing to them.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 10 10 at 03:25 AM • permalinkWhen I left Tassie years and years ago it was riven by a conflict over a proposed pulp mill, with a greenie called Christine Milne appearing on telly a lot making all sorts of ridiculous claims. Now… oh look, nothing much has changed.
Posted by Blithering Bunny on 2006 10 10 at 03:46 AM • permalinkNah the Greens are just unhappy that the new arrivals are not navigationally challenged Muslims from Iraq coming by a leaky boat who have zero skills, refuse to want to learn English, hate Australian Govt, and want to be on the dole que pronto.
Posted by Wylie Wilde on 2006 10 10 at 03:55 AM • permalinkcuckoo: Re #8 : Do you have any idea how embarressing it is for transgendered people to be supported by these Fruit Loops?
Look, it’s bad enough for those of us with male chromosomes and female bodies or the reverse. It’s worse for those whose genitalia is non-standard, neither one thing nor the other. It’s pretty bloody awful for those of us who rely on daily pills to make sure we don’t look like something out of Barnum and Bailey.But the worst, the very worst, is that the only people who don’t treat us like Freaks and Perverts are the Greens. OK, I’ll admit, medically I am a Freak. So what, born like it, Honi soit qui mal y pense etc, not a lot I can actually do about who I am.
But at least I’m not a Moonbat.
[The Greens] claim that because there will be men working on the mill’s construction who are without partners, prostitution and fights over women will be the order of the day. Those workers will maraud around the community, seeking “entertainment opportunities, including female companionship in the local community. This may result in conflict with local men,” the submission opines.
And then silicon-based life-forms on the planet Zod will see the conflict on Earth as their opportunity to strike. We’ll all be rounded up like cattle - oops - tofu and eaten alive. We have it coming what with all our paper hegemony devastating the universe which Al Gore invented anyway.
Posted by Mr Hackenbacker on 2006 10 10 at 04:24 AM • permalinkYou’ve gotta laugh. Pull a thousand cones, throw the Maoist/Che ‘Free Tibet’ t-shirt on, go to some useless anti-Bush/Howard/Blair demo shouting ‘Land Rights for Gay Whales’ and then try and bullshit to the rest of us that they’ve got a handle on economics and stuff, like, you know, the real world. Ask a green moonbat economist about how it all works and the answer is..“Well, you know, man, it’s a vibe thing…”
The Greens] claim that because there will be men working on the mill’s construction who are without partners, prostitution and fights over women will be the order of the day. Those workers will maraud around the community, seeking “entertainment opportunities, including female companionship in the local community. This may result in conflict with local men,” the submission opines.
You know, this actually is anti-male stereotyping. We’re not all a raging mass of uncontrollable urges. I imagine these workers have hobbies to keep them busy after work. Like gardening. And quilt making.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 10 at 05:35 AM • permalinkthose workers will send money back home to their families
This is the newspaper version of economics. Money is actual wealth, to a newspaper.
Money sent home either stays there, serving as local currency, in which case it amounts to a gift to Australian taxpayers ; or it comes back to buy something made in Australia, in which case it circles around like money does in the ordinary case.
We can only be thankful that these lunatics have never yet managed to seize the balance of power in Federal Parliament.
Can you imagine a future Labor or Coalition government having to rely on Greens support to get important legislation through the Senate? It would be a disaster.
Makes me long for the days when the Australian Democrats represented the genuine middle ground in Australian politics rather than the rotting political corpse that they’ve now become.
Posted by sanchez9900 on 2006 10 10 at 06:01 AM • permalinkO/T, or maybe on?
Channel 7’s 20-1 great escapes. (I’m NOT watching it, it’s background noise…)
Cyclone Tracy - Peter Garrett’s comment is just gold. To paraphrase:
“Nature is so powerful and there is nothing we can do about it.”
Well, I’ll be buggered, does that mean he doesn’t support anthropogenic
global cooling global warmingclimate change?Those workers will maraud around the community
“maraud”...?
Who are they expecting, the Viking hordes?
Posted by carpefraise on 2006 10 10 at 06:34 AM • permalinkYears ago, I was involved in the construction of a phosphate mine in the wilds of Florida. You can still see the remains of the workers’ village, out in the palmetto scrub… the false-front stores… the saloon… the bordello at the end of the street… the bullet holes in the wall of the Sheriff’s office. It was a wild place, I tell you. Those construction workers are a rough lot.
Greens get scared when they are around blokes who do physical work. Last State election I (former farmer) was handing out National leaflets and chatting to an old coal miner doing the same thing for Labor. We both had a good laugh at the poor Green unsuccessfully trying to hammer a stick into the ground for a sign. The old coal miner (probably late 70s) knocked it in with just a few swings.
Question: when have they ever taken such an opportunity?
As someone (can’t remember who) recently said in another context, the greens never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
And as to flying in “sex workers” from Melbourne, this represents only a very small portion of the revenues of Prostitutes Airborne to Care for Outsiders. And that occasional jiggly motion that the plane used to make in flight has been solved (the door to the pilot’s cabin now locks from the outside).
The solution is simple: Burkhas for all Tassie women. And sheep.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 10 10 at 08:58 AM • permalinkI know I keep on quoting this guy.
What the hell.
“that dreary tribe of high –minded women and sandal- wearers and bearded fruit juice drinkers who come flocking to the scent of “progress” like bluebottles to a dead cat”
“If only the sandals and the pistachio-coloured shirts could be put in a pile and burnt, and every vegetarian, teetotaller, and creeping Jesus sent home to Welwyn Garden City to do his yoga exercises quietly!”
To this you have got to add the ugly fact that most middle-class Socialists, while theoretically pining for a class-less society, cling like glue to their miserable fragments of social prestige. I remember my sensations of horror on first attending an I.L.P. branch meeting in London. ... Are these mingy little beasts, I thought, the champions of the working class? For every person there, male and female, bore the worst stigmata of sniffish middle-class superiority. If a real working man, a miner dirty from the pit, for instance, had suddenly walked into their midst, they would have been embarrassed, angry, and disgusted; some, I should think, would have fled holding their noses.
o/t Pity the poor ABC chappy FORCED to fly first class to Germany with our money and perve at bottoms and breasts jiggling away in a “burlesque” review.
Yeah that’s right taxpayers..your hard earned is expended on the intellectual pursuit of striptease..
Now I know the guy who watches the ABC won’t mind but I think his wife will not be amused. Foreign correspondent indeed.Grr, the blog software crapped on the link again (damned apostrophe): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D’Kora_class_starship
Hooooweee! They’re building a new pulp mill in New Zealand? I wonder if they’re hiring yet. I’d sure like to pull down a truck load of NZD to send back home to Texas. Maybe I can make enough to take care of this pesky clap I picked up in Thailand while marauding there last year (not too mention this disgusting bloody cough!). Say, are Tasmanian chicks hot?
#31 blogstrop,
Aaaargh! There be trouble at Mill!
One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treddle?
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 10 10 at 11:58 AM • permalinkOur Greens are goofy and annoying, but politically impotent (and even, on occasion, unintentionally useful—see US Election 2000). Yours seem just plain nuts.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 10 10 at 12:51 PM • permalink#48 ““Aaaargh! There be trouble at Mill!””
“One on’t cross beams gone owt askew on treddle?
Posted by Spiny Norman”Dimsdale?
Posted by Old Grouch on 2006 10 10 at 05:25 PM • permalinkNo Grouch, the Spanish Inquisition!!!
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 10 10 at 07:03 PM • permalinkAren’t the Greens the Uber Liberals in our constellation wanting fully legal prostitution and drugs to improve us all?
They don’t have to even try to be consistent -but wait until they do get some power, and watch. I’m not advocating it, mind you. Keep them looking the ridiculous self-contradicters they are, I say.
What utter morons. They’re obviously completely unfamiliar with Australia’s migration policy (i.e. the Employer Sponsored Migration booklet, a pdf file).
There’s more specific info on the permanent entry pdf, but it basically boils down to “anyone who has had TB, or has had contact with someone with TB must show X-rays proving they do not have the disease”. Similar reporting standards apply for HIV, although that’s not necessarily grounds for refusal (but, realistically, probably would result in refusal).
You’ve really got to worry about groups who’re invariably hot for more legislation and regulation, but don’t even have the most basic clue about what legislation/regulation we’ve already got.
Well, either that or their routine cry of “you lie like Hitler did” would be more appropriately used when they’re describing themselves rather than the Libs.
Hey youngy! it must have been great showing that fairyboy Greens politician how to bang in a post! What a laugh that must have been! Seriously though, did you ever consider that he may not have done a whole lot of manual labour? Maybe (and it sounds crazy I know) he’s never banged in a post before? As a green, he’s probably a well-paid inner city type and can afford to have some uneducated dimwit (or former farmer?) to do that sort of crap for him.
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All sounds rather reminiscent of the spiels another vegan nature-worshipper used to produce, before capitalist imperialist western hegemons ended his freedom of expression.