Wailing Greens tick me off
I have decided to vote Greens last (along with Liberal and Labor).
I have been extremely unimpressed by the Greens energy policy and housing policy. But the last straw is a moronic piece of legislation proposed by Australian Greens whaling spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert.
http://rachel-siewert.greensmps.org.au/content/media-release/greens-call-end-aussie-spy-planes-aiding-japanese-whaling
The Australian Greens today introduced a private Senators Bill to ban any form of Australian assistance to Japanese whaling, such as the use of spy planes.
My Bill creates a new offence making it unlawful to provide services, support or resources to an organisation engaged in whaling so the Australian government and local companies can no longer assist Japan's brutal whaling regime," said Australian Greens whaling spokesperson Senator Rachel Siewert.
Many Australians were appalled when it was revealed that Australian air services were used by a company with connections to the whalers to assist in this summer's slaughter.
The assistance provided to the whalers was to track the main protest vessel of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society so that a ship from the whaling fleet could hinder the Sea Shepherd's pursuit of the main fleet.
Without the Sea Shepherd on its tail, the main whaling fleet could undertake its mission of killing whales more easily.
In response to the information that the Japanese whaling fleet had hired Australian planes from Hobart and Albany to track the Sea Shepherd ships' movements, Senator Bob Brown committed the Greens to act to ensure no such assistance could be provided in the future.
Firstly, let me say that I do not approve of the killing of whales. I don't eat whale. I don't think there is a humane way of killing whales. I would prefer if the Japanese stopped killing whales. Perhaps we can strike an agreement with them in which they stop killing the whales.
If an Australian does kill a whale I don't mind if that person is punished at my expense. However placing a human in jail for two years is worse than killing a whale - in my opinion.
The Greens are proposing to jail an Australia for two years not for killing an actual whale but for providing any form of help to the Japanese who kill whales. Over-the-top.
The Greens use the example of Australian planes that tracked the movements of an anti-whaling boat. It is ludicrous to jail an Australian for two years for flying a plane that watches a boat that tries to follow and hinder a boat of Japanese that kill whales. I wouldn't jail an Aussie for two weeks for doing that thing. And the Greens want up to two years jail for that "offence".
The last thing we need now is more legislation. Most people have not learned the thousands of pages of laws that we already have. Most police don't know every law that our politicians passed just in the last year. We have so many laws because idiot politicians keep adding poorly thought-out garbage like this whaling bill.
I will not be voting Green again. At the next Federal election I will vote Labor last, Liberal 2nd last and Greens 3rd last. Any other candidate gets my vote ahead of these.
