Pubdate: Mon, 24 Mar 2003
Source: Border Mail (Australia)
Copyright: 2003 Border Mail
Contact:  http://www.bordermail.com.au/
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Author: John McLeish

TROPPO POLICIES NEED TO BE CHANGED

NO doubt about it, the extent and ferocity of the recent bushfires is
the result of failed forest management practices.

For more than twenty years now forest managers and politicians have
listened and acted on the failed ideological policies of the Green
movement.

Parks management have locked up forests, closed bush tracks, and
reduced funding and staff numbers for forest fuel reduction burning
programs. All for Green preference votes.

The same Green movement now has a drug policy that will allow all
Australians easy access to marijuana, heroin, speed and ecstasy.

Allowing Australians young and old the opportunity to be drug addicts
for life. Supplying speed and ecstasy to Australians young and old.
Building new injecting rooms.

If these drugs are decriminalised we will have more overdoses, more
road deaths by drug users, more misery and suffering by innocent
victims. All in the ideological name of a Greens policy called
"harm minimisation".

Why is the Australian taxpayer funding a $25 million campaign to
reduce the use of drugs in the community, when at the same time paying
Green politicians in Parliament that promote legalised recreational
drug use and failed forest management practices?

It is time for Prime Minister Mr John Howard to de-register the Greens
as a political party. Uncontrollable bushfires and drug addiction have
caused enough terror across Australia.

Its time for the Greens to change their "troppo" policies.

The Australian environment desperately needs support with policies
that are sound, logical and based on proven scientific research.

What we have now is an Australian Greens party that has been hijacked
by ferals.

Even blind Freddie can see that the failed ideological policies of the
Green movement are a clear and present danger.

John McLeish,

Wodonga
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