The unbearable hypocrisy of Green

Read the attached blog and weep at the hypocrisy that is the green religion:

BOB BROWN ON POLITICAL DONATIONS – ‘A CANCER THAT MUST BE CUT OUT’
“There is a stench rising from the whole electoral donations system in Australia. We don’t want this to go the way of America and need to stop it now.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 2 February 2001)
“Australia should seize the moment and ban donations. It is an absolute blight on democracy.”
(Bob Brown, The Bulletin, 19 October 2004)
The Greens support a ban on all private donations. “As a matter of democratic principle, elections should give voters fair access to all parties’ policies, and public funding is the most even-handed way to ensure this outcome,” Senator Bob Brown said.
(The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 February 2009)
“There is a growing wave of corporate largesse that is eating at the fabric of our democracy.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 14 April 2000)
“Democracy is being eroded by money. The ideal of one person, one vote, one value is eroding under the monetarist epithet that influence is there to be bought. Your power is directly proportional to your purse, and if you are out of the power circle your powerlessness is proportional to your poverty. All democracies in this age of materialism face the same degradation of the pivotal democratic ideal of equality.”
(Bob Brown, The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 August 2009)
“The Australian Greens say ending all large political donations would make a tremendous contribution to stamping out corporate influence in politics.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 30 July 2009)
“Donations should only be allowed from individuals and only up to a limit of $1000.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 30 July 2009)
“We should, like Canada, put an end to cheque book democracy.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 1 February 2006)
“I challenge corporate Australia and the big political parties to clean up the system by establishing a Democracy Trust Fund through which corporate donations can be channelled and distributed to all parties and independents in proportion to their vote at elections.”
(Bob Brown, Press Release, 1 February 2000)
“This is insidious, it’s corrupting, it should be stopped.”
(Bob Brown, Lateline, 16 June 2006)
“They (the Coalition and Senator Fielding) voted against fair democratic reform aimed at reducing the influence of wealthy donors. It corrupts politics.”
(Bob Brown, The Canberra Times, 12 March 2009)

THE GREENS RECEIVE THE LARGEST SINGLE POLITICAL DONATION IN AUSTRALIAN HISTORY
THE Australian Greens’ campaign at the last federal election was largely bankrolled by a businessman, the wotif.com founder Graeme Wood, who made the largest single political donation in Australian history. Mr Wood, whose wealth was estimated at $372 million in last year’s BRW Rich 200 list, gave $1.6 million to fund the Greens’ TV advertising campaign, helping to significantly increase votes for the party in key states.
(The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 2011)

BROWN DEFENDS DONATIONS TO THE GREENS
“We’re in the real world . . . so, yes, we do accept donations from individuals, from small businesses, from the union sector.”
(Bob Brown, The Age, 19 August 2010)
Senator Brown said he would be “forever grateful” for Mr Wood’s donation, which was both selfless and hazardous.
(The Sydney Morning Herald, 8 January 2011)