Greens make me see red (Andrew Bolt)

Herald Sun ^ | 21st July 2006 | Andrew Bolt

[naturalman1975]

THE irrational cravings the Greens and other Leftists have for easier drugs runs so deep that we must conclude the worst.

This month's "drugs, please" came from the Victorian Greens, who promised to scrap all criminal sanctions for drug users and give addicts free heroin.

Last month's came from the Democrats' leader in South Australia, Sandra Kanck, who told Parliament that ecstasy (or MDMA) was "not a dangerous drug".

In fact, she chirruped, "one of the best things you could probably have done for the people on the Eyre Peninsula who had gone through that trauma (of bushfires) was give them MDMA."

The federal Greens are no better, vowing at the last election to decriminalise drug use and consider free heroin for addicts.

And three years ago its (now quietly deleted) policy was to make softer drugs "more freely available" because people need "the opportunity to achieve personal fulfilment" and that "may, for some people at particular times, involve the use of drugs".

I said this hankering for easier-to-get drugs was irrational -- but only if the Left's aim is to cut drug use.

You see, make anything more available, and more people will use it. So when Switzerland pioneered "safe" injecting rooms, overdose deaths tripled. And when the Howard Government instead got tough on drugs, deaths dropped.

The sorry conclusion? These "more drugs" policies are clearly drawn up by people so selfish, unimaginative or arrogant that they can't imagine anyone who isn't exactly like they fancy themselves -- rational, and strong enough to take drugs without hurting anyone.

I sure don't say they use drugs themselves, mind. But I can introduce them to plenty of junkies who once shared their lethal conceits.

[basil]

place keeper

[muawiyah]

Naw, they don't take drugs ~ they just act that way all the time.

[ClaireSolt]

Selfish, yes. In their zero sum view, disabling a sector of society with drugs, makes it easier for them to get ahead and get theirs. They will willingly step over the dead bodies to get their piece of the action.

[WorkingClassFilth]

I call the green activists stop light communists because they've gone from red to green with a brief flash of yellow in between. In the final analysis, there isn't a dime's of difference between these nitwits and radical bombers of the '60s.