Happy Anniversary!

There’s some bitching by Bob Brown in this story on John Howard’s 10th Anniversary as Prime Minister.

Interestingly Bobby claims that;

“[Howard] is able to dig a little bit below the surface to play on fears that people have and to be able to assure people that he will look after those concerns, even if they are figments”

So John Howard exploits fear, irrational fear at that? No doubt Bob is referring to terrorism, or what he probably thinks is the legitimate struggle against the West’s tide of secularism, and free-market liberal democracies.

If Islamic terrorists win, Senator, homosexuals like you will be the second to die. It should be obvious who is at the front of the queue. Need a hint? The Koran demands Muslims kill them, wherever they find them...

The idea that John Howard is playing on ‘irrational fear’ is laughable. The Western World has experienced Islamic terrorism firsthand- the US and Britain certainly know that fears over security are well justified. A number of Australians who travelled to Bali, and no doubt our Indonesian embassy staff, must also realise that fears over terrorism are not ‘figments’.

Bob Brown's claim is ironic, when noting that the Green’s successes stem from the Party’s ability to convince the electorate that global warming is as sure as death and taxes (it’s not)- and that they alone can fix the problem through their dark green philosophy (they cannot- nothing can).

And for the record, Bob himself was busy scaremongering before the last federal election. Here’s what he said;

"On Saturday a vote for the Coalition will be a vote for the chainsaws in some of the most magnificent forests on Earth and I hope every undecided voter has this in mind.

"Two-thirds of Tasmania's iconic forests that could be protected will go to the chainsaws under John Howard."

Oh, deary! Two-thirds of Tasmanian’s ‘iconic’ forests? Bob Brown is like a dictator who claims 99% support in a rigged election. He offers figures that mean absolutely nothing. What exactly is iconic to Bobby and the Greens? Everything! No parking lots, ever, because that is always at the expense of someone’s paradise.

With any luck, we'll get another 10 years of the Coalition, at the very worst- that's 10 years without the Greens.

Happy Anniversary, John.