Just when you think the mob cannot possibly get any uglier or more unethical, along come the Greens with a blueprint for plumbing depths so deep even the fish with little lights on the ends of their noses need lights on the ends of their noses!
Meet Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon. She has a wonderful plan for pressing Brett Lee and Glenn McGrath into service as acolytes for her cause. It involves the mob that persecuted the pair putting pressure on them to become animal welfare advocates. Click on "THE BIG SMOKE" below for details.
Let's be very clear about something. Lee and McGrath were not led to "see the error of their ways" by gentle encouragement and reasoned debate. Their photographs were first lifted from a website where they'd been displayed without their consent. Then they were passed on to the media where they were published, also without their consent, ostensibly because "it was in the public interest." Give me a break!
Before there could be any exploration of the photos’ legitimacy or circumstances, Lee and McGrath were pursued by an angry mob threatening all manner of violence and retribution and expressing unbridled hatred for the pair in true enlightened anti-hunter fashion.
Sure it may be true that a picture the Sunrise program and the Sydney Morning Herald circulated as evidence of Lee's complicity in McGrath's African safari activities was actually taken years before and in New Zealand and disseminated by the media without permission let alone research, but who cares? The mob certainly didn't!
The mindless, ravenous masses, all baying for blood and armed with no more facts than one finds in a hasty Tweet or Facebook post, then threatened to destroy McGrath’s charity in retribution, a charity that supports countless women enduring the daily trials of breast cancer.
As a result, McGrath recanted via public statement.
This process embodies all the worst excesses of the various Inquisitions of historical infamy. First find some scant evidence of a thought or practice at odds with official doctrine. Then gather the mob to haul the heretic before the Grand Inquisitor for public humiliation and interrogation.
Once racked, tortured and threatened with eternal damnation, the heretic's reputation and livelihood destroyed, he had no choice but to recant simply to escape further torment.
It was then incumbent upon the now reformed heretic to go forth and spread the officially sanctioned message of his abusers in order to avoid a good roasting in the town square.
Is this not what Rhiannon now demands of Lee and McGrath?
Shame on you for attempting to turn persecution and mob outrage into legitimate recruiting tools for your cause. It is akin to the activities of Christian fundamentalist groups that force homosexuals through a deprogramming process before sending them hither and yon to preach about the grace behind their 'cure'.
As for the suggestion killing animals for ‘fun’ should be illegal, it is interesting to me that no hunter I have ever met described his motive for hunting as the pursuit of ‘fun’.
This is a simplistic Greens’ and animal liberation agency construct contrived to belittle what drives the hunter, in order to promulgate hatred and disdain amongst the public, thus creating a launch pad for the mob mentality so graphically demonstrated and manipulated during the past week or so.
Hunters are motivated by many things, among them the preservation of cultural practices and a commitment to taking personal responsibility for harvesting the ultimate in free-range, organic meat for the table, hides for craft endeavors and so on. Anyone interested in the complexities of the hunters' motivation might find some illumination in my article "Killing for Kicks", the title drawn from another construct of the ignorant.
As Ms Rhiannon well knows, Australian hunters may only hunt non-native species that do incalculable damage to our fragile natural environments, many of which are at the root of ongoing and very high rates of extinction.
The Greens are also concerned about the damage feral species do to the environment. However, their hoplophobic hatred of weapons leads them to favour the grotesque fate of poisoning with 1080 baits over hunting, despite the fact there is neither cure nor effective treatment for Sodium fluoroacetate poisoning.
The Greens are also concerned about the damage feral species do to the environment. However, their hoplophobic hatred of weapons leads them to favour the grotesque fate of poisoning with 1080 baits over hunting, despite the fact there is neither cure nor effective treatment for Sodium fluoroacetate poisoning.
Hunting allows men and women to contribute to the repair of our ecosystems, while preserving often ancient hunting techniques and crafts, thus preserving culture, while taking responsibility for the meat they eat and the leather they use, rather than allowing abattoir workers to kill for them so they can do a Pontius.
I should know by now there is nothing a Greens politician will not stoop to so's to accomplish the Party's ends. Alas, they still manage to shock even the likes of me.
I should know by now there is nothing a Greens politician will not stoop to so's to accomplish the Party's ends. Alas, they still manage to shock even the likes of me.
Anyway, I'll get outaya way now....
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Fish with little lights on their noses need lights...... ROTFL. For shitsake write the bloody book!!
ReplyDeleteGlad you found it entertaining, Anon, but I hope the point of the article wasn't lost. Rhiannon's latest scheme really does expose the Greens for the unethical manipulators of the intellectually crippled mob they are.
DeleteI don't hunt but I do vote for the Greens. I am also a PhD student (Pol) who reads your blog regularly. I often find your articles challenging as a Greens voter, although I suspect your aim is satire more than offence (?). Just wanted to say that increasing numbers of a new generation of voters think as you do about the party's predictable objections to hunting and gun ownership.
ReplyDeleteYes, Pam, satire it is. Unlike the Greens and their followers I don't hate for the rush of it. I suspect your are right. The next gen of Greens maybe a lot more reasonable and appreciative of Aussie traditions and culture. I think programs such as River Cottage and Gourmet Farmer help, as they tend to be to the new millennium what Grass Roots magazine was to the last 3 decades of the last millennium. Good luck with your studies and remember to your use super powers for good ;-)
DeleteThe Greens have some great ideas, ideas that when you look at the research on the topics would give you the impression that the Green policy is infact evidenced based.
ReplyDeleteThen you come to firearms and hunting and they flee from evidenced based policy.
It gets worse when you accept that the Greens leadership has flowed from a socialist background. You see that their hunting and firearms policy are infact a betrayal of the socialist ideal, Gun Control is a Class Struggle, the ruling class see to control the middle and working class & Gun Control is a standard part of that. (http://socialistappeal.org/analysis/us-politics/1161-gun-control-and-class-struggle)
So not only are they WRONG on guns & hunting, they are failing to defend the powerless that they so often claim to be the champion for.
Nail, head, bang! As I have confessed in the past, I was once a committed Green, back in the days of the Franklin and Grass Roots magazine, when being a member of the Greens was about sustainability, self-sufficiency and social justice. But then their raison d'etre became one of fear-mongering and manipulation with a kind of socio-political eugenics objective.
DeleteThey are a party of people egotists. People who have wild ideas about what's normal and how society should look in the future, but lack the brains or talent to put their policies into practice. So they indulge their egos by running on the Greens ticket, safe in the knowledge they will never be in a position to have their policies proved wrong.