Greens pro-cops, anti-Green

Submitted by naught101 on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 22:55

We didn't hear much about it on the east coast, but the Greens just became the New Labour. No, they haven't sold out on Uranium yet, but they're on their way! One of WA Senator Rachel Siewert's staffer's went to a protest at Julie Bishop (Lib/Nat Minister for Science), and the protest got violent. That is, the cops whacked people with battons, and pepper sprayed them, and a protester threw a rock. And the Greens dutifully stood up for the oppressed and apologised to the cops, and sacked the staffer who went to the protest. News.com.au's WA branch has a piece on the article, but I don't want to promote that shit. The West Australian had a reasonable front page piece on it on Saturday that I've just seen, unfortunately it's not on their website.

Not only did Siewert sack her staffer, but Bob Brown stepped in, and fucking agreed with her. COME ON you fools! Protesters, being the front line of a diverse movement, pushing the boundaries of issues that you agree with, and get beaten up by a bunch of thugs that have been completely bought out by the establishment and are intent on defending, with violence, the worst parts of the capitalist system - the bits you want to change (I know you've always been too soft to actually tackle capitalism head on). These thugs are actually allowed to be violent - they carry deadly weapons at all times, for fuck's sake. And you take it out on the protesters. Way to support the movement. I think I just lost all respect for Bob Brown, it's unfortunate that such a misguided fool is the face of the Greens.