God I can be a clown when I set my mind to it. Once again, fulsome apologies! Grovel grovel.

If not for people like Bob Brown and the thousands who supported him, here and around the world, the Franklin River would be no more. I purchased goods and donated money then, and if we choose to do it again now, what damned business is it of yours? I only wish I could contribute more, and I thank those people who did. This whole sorry mess was designed to shut Bob and those who are against the destruction of Tasmania’s beautiful forests. That’s the reality, and Bob refused to play.

IF you were interested in a balanced view, which you obviously aren’t; and if you were interested in upholding free speech and the ordinary person’s right to access the legal process, of which our taxes pay for, which you aren’t; and if you upheld any individuals or groups right to protest, then this attack would’ve been superfulous. I’ll help support the upgrading of support against the Pulp Mill’s construction, and people like you won’t put me off.

What role will you play when the old forests around the country have all gone, and the planet is slowly choking in its own filth? Probably screaming the loudest about the destruction of the planet, and us apathetic lot who allowed it to happen. Bob Brown has more integrity in his little finger than you’d have in your whole body, if it was twice its size! For his tireless struggles on behalf of the future of my kids and grand kids, I thank him!

And I say this as along time member of the ASU, soft cuddly community services union.

And in East Gippsland public interest defender Tony Hastings was stuck in major legal case against illegal logging and I was gratified to be able to help him in a legal support sense, and due to his own guts and determination he won a famous legal victory.

All on John Brumby/Bracks watch actually as wet old growth/rainforest was illegally logged.

Tony Hastings, or Tony Quoll as his artistic moniker goes, has a great website you can google anytime and there are some stories on my blogging about his case.

Greg: Nil

Bob and the rest: Plenty.

Greg, if it is not already too late to do so, please grow up, look around you and consider the wider moral and ethical implications of your rants before launching them.

There is a whole world out there with finite resources, warm and caring people and unimaginable complexity of life forms.

Your article and your responses to criticism show neither awareness of this world nor sign of compassionate caring life even within your own skin.

Please, for your own sake, lighten up! Take yourself less seriously and go get a few new friends.

And what a heaven sent opportunity to send a message to:
Forestry Tas,
David Bartlett
and those shadowy Lennonesque and Howardly figures.
maybe even Peter Garrett.

Irrestistible!

There will always be shrapnel for Bob.

See http://www.on-trial.info/ Breaking news.

Wherein lies the first real victim in these proceedings? A poor, tattered but once powerful motivator of human endeavour, one which the law has, along with everyone else in any form of power, especially corporations, thrown overboard in their obscene rush to make millions of dollars at the expense of the land.

Her name happens to be Morality. And piously falling back on the specifics of the law in order to allow the utterly immoral practice of clear-felling our precious native forests in order to be turned into pulpwood to be sent to Japan and turned into lavatory-paper which we then buy back again is an affront to all decency. To put these rolls of infamy onto our super-market shelves is the perfect illustration of how little value is placed upon our world, and that of our childrens’ world for the future.

I would love to see what the law had to say if these non-renewable forests of ours would be seen in a parallel case by a judge if the were the Sistine Chapel which was the issue at stake. You may notice it too is non-renewable.

I would refer readers to this passage from the judgment of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Brown v Forestry Tasmania, handed down on 30 November 2007:

“The amendment to cl 68 of the RFA, insofar as it relates to CAR, simply puts in clearer language what we regard as the true meaning of the original clause.”

And this:

“In our view the clarification effected by the new cl 68, which would have been unnecessary but for the erroneous decision below, does not rob the RFA of its character of a regional forest agreement as defined.”

Wake up Greg. This is truly a first rate piece of crap that you have subjected us to. Go and write something up to the Crikey standard we are used to and demand from you.

It really doesn’t matter when Bob knew about his bill - the point is he was put in this predicament by the underhand and Machiavellian machinations of Howard, and so the high moral ground you are so amusingly trying to occupy was ceded by your erstwhile leader long ago.

Still. your hyperventilating is well worth the subscription fee.

And should politicians use their public office to raise funds for a legal action that was brought by the Party? Brown brought this action as a private citizen as he is entitled to do, but he is now using his position as a political party leader to run a fundraising appeal for himself?

Surely, even his keenest acolytes must be able to see that there is some cause for questions here?

Crikey must of made a packet ads over this story, but alas,
it’s symptomatic of the overall decline of crikey of late

i fear it’s lost it’s edge,

too many idiots like this and also too much academic writing

You don’t have to agree with the cause to see that this is a natural process (that happens all the time). Really, this article is just bizarre more than anything else. Very strange.

I’m spitting chips over your article. Bob Brown is one of the very few politicians in this country who’s opinions and practice measure up to the true meaning of ‘servant of the people.’ The shocking behavior of the forestry goons of Tasmania would pulp the whole place given a free hand. ‘Lets chop down all the trees, dam all the rivers and who gives a.’ Well I do and if Bob Brown is in financial trouble because he got of his backside and went in to bat for what remains of the Tasmanian forests then he can expect my support and will get it. Greg go plant a tree.