Midnight Oil

Subject: Re: NMOC: Brown is the sell-out, not Garrett
From: "mironmizrahi" <mironmizrahi@yahoo.com>
Date: 4/12/2007, 9:26 am
To: powderworks@yahoogroups.com.au


I would have voted Green in a heartbeat if it was a truly environmental
party. Instead, it is a sly party which uses the green brand to
expend the
bulk of its political capital on George Bush, East Timor, West
Papua, gays'
rights, drug laws, refugees and numerous issues that have little to
do with
climate change, global warming and water shortages.

and i would have read sheehan in the SMH in a heartbeat if he was
truly a journalist intent on selling as many copies of the SMH as
possible as any journo working for a modern news publication should.
instead he uses the platform he has been given to report on criminal
activities, unveil government bungles, discuss contemporary issues.
none of which has anything to do with profiteering

so if the greens had no other agenda than the environment he would
have voted for them? thank whomever he did not. i think he can safely
vote family first. actually, no, he cant. they also have more than a
one-item agenda

i think he'd better stick to selling papers. Brown's deficiencies
notwithstanding this article is so moronic i will stop here





This is not to question the obvious reality that Brown has done more
than
most people on behalf of the environment, or that the Greens take the
environment more seriously than the major parties. Brown has been
fighting
the good fight for 35 years. He has been the formal leader of the
Greens for
just two years, but has been the party's de facto leader since 1989,
when he
was in the Tasmanian Parliament. This is far longer than John Howard
maintained his grip on the Liberal leadership.

At 62, Brown has just been elected for another six-year Senate term.
He has
been in the business of accumulating power for a very long time. When
Garrett emerged as a threat to Brown's power base, he was subject to a
steady stream of claims that he had "sold out". Brown dismissed him as
Little Red Riding Hood. Now, just three years after entering Parliament,
Garrett sits in federal cabinet with his hands on the machinery of
policy
and power. He has always practised the art of the possible.

If anyone has sold out in this contest it is Brown, for using the
environment as a screen for other obsessions, and for failing to
grasp the
enormous political opportunity presented by the 2007 election.

The Greens should start thinking about a new leader, one more
honourable and
less shrill.



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