The morbid paranoia of the ardent conservative. Par for the course with such nonsense as:
"Bob Brown is a Communist, dressed up as a Green, as are all the Greens." To their way of thinking this is the ultimate insult, brand the 'B' a communist. Such people are devoid of any rational thought, needing to be spoon fed, their political wisdom, by the likes of shock jocks and others from the bias ultra right media. They firmly believe, "If its printed in the Daily Telegraph, it must be true."
I never agreed with the conservative politics of John Howard, but I never believed the man was a Nazi, I can differentiate one from the other.
Yes Cherful, all us Greens are communist, holding clandestine meetings in dingy basements, plotting and scheming the ultimate overthrow of government, when we seize political power, its off to the gulag with the lot of you, where we will force you to eat tofu. Does this rant by me help to reinforce your paranoia, I hope so, I would not want you to rest soundly in your bed. oh! you can't do that anyway. the Reds are hiding under the bed.
Cherful, the Vietnam War is over, are you still expecting the yellow commie hordes to invade Australia? Please.

Paul it is the fervent wish of the greens, to force your ideas, [those of a very small minority] on the rest of the population that gets you labeled as communist. Not even you could argue that your numbers have not been swelled by a very large number of ex communists.

It is hard not to see a birds of a feather syndrome, when you wish to force your ideas on the vast majority, a communist technique, who see you as ratbags. Surely it would be reasonable for you to actually convince that majority of the truth of your ideas, before expecting them to comply with your wishes.

I believe it is good that you have overreached yourselves in taking advantage of circumstances to force through some radical rubbish. The carbon tax has shown people you are not just the nice tree huggers, but a malevolent movement committed to taking much of their dreams from them, & forcing them into an impoverished way of life, when ever the chance arises.

Well done greens, how is that foot with the bullet in it?

Paul1405, could I solicit your views on my last post.

What’s your feeling about the Greens’ position on population growth and sustainability?

Do you think that Milne and Bandt might possibly improve the ‘real green’ part of their agenda by lobbying for net zero immigration and a holistic political change towards a sustainable society?

Or will every feral pig in Australia sprout wings and fly out to sea and become shark food before this happens?

I strongly suspect the latter!

Brant is not to be in Parliament much longer.
Even a brief look at how he got there warns of his impending removal.
In a seat more often Labors Liberals preferences him, against the wishes of some.
Some Labor preferences to, and he won, but only on the second votes of many.
I can find NOTHING to support the view Brown is a great anything.
Must have missed the answers to my questions.
Surely in such a rising party, ha ha, as the greens some one can defend those points?

Dear Hasbeen,

Again with the carbon-tax scare.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott has taken up every
possible position on climate change - from skepticism
to warm embrace to horrified opposition. In his latest
phase - any discussion of actual policy has been
displaced by a concentration of Gillard's
trustworthiness as he accuses her of having broken
an election promise not to introduce a carbon tax.
And Abbott offered one Independent a $1 billion
hospital if he backed a Coalition minority
government - he's also accusing Gillard of selling
out to the Greens. How hypocritical. Abbott keeps
going down a base-level political path - and people
are getting sick and tired of it.

Economic experts have stated that there should be
a penalty on carbon emissions and that a market-based
system is the most effective way to do this.

Malcolm Turnbull has held his climate change position
even though it cost him the Liberal leadership.
At least Turnbull has stayed true to his beliefs.
Once the tax is implemented in July - and people
begin to realise after a while that it's not as
horrendous as they were led to believe - (just as
it happened with the GST), perhaps they will
realise that its substance over sham that should
matter in politics. Silly political debates, hyped
grandstanding stop working eventually.

cont'd ...

BTW - the "communist" scare doesn't work
anymore - only those political throwbacks
to the 1950s - believe in it.

But like so many others in the past they
belong on the dung heap of political history
along with their mentors.