Andrew Bolt: Greens and Burnside are the perfect political marriage
As well as backing away from allegations of bullying that has plagued the Greens in recent months, Julian Burnside accuses people of being hateful, while being hateful himself - which is why he is the perfect Greens candidate, writes Andrew Bolt.
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JULIAN Burnside joining the Greens is a perfect marriage of haters and conspiracy fantasists.
Burnside is the celebrity “human rights” lawyer who’s announced he’ll be the Greens candidate in Kooyong, running against Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
It figures.
I first met Burnside years ago when I agreed to help him raise money for refugees with a hypothetical in which I played a minister in a peacetime Liberal government.
On stage, Burnside, the host, told me “my” government had just ordered me round up tens of thousands of immigrants and bus them to detention camps.
What I would do? I said I’d of course resign in protest at such insanity and I saw Burnside sweat.
Me quitting wrecked his hypothetical, which was premised on his fantasy that the Liberals (and me) were evil.
Burnside has since given other examples of a failing he shares with many Greens voters — of believing their opponents are monsters.
In fact, they LOVE to assume it, because it licenses them to hate.
For instance, Burnside once tweeted that he “hoped little children would stop Scott Morrison in the street and spit on his shoes” for his work as Immigration Minister.
He later tweeted a picture of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton as a Nazi, a Jew-killer, and said “take this seriously”.
At least he apologised for tweeting, in a thread attacking former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, “pedos in speedos”.
Leftists tend to excuse such barbarities as righteous anger, but Burnside’s anger does lead to crazy conspiracy theories.
On Tuesday he suggested — with zero evidence — that the Liberals were secretly drowning illegal immigrants.
“We don’t know how many people die in boats that are turned back … We’re not allowed to know.”
And he’s claimed that this government is so corrupt that he predicted the Prime Minister would “whisper to the Navy to let a couple of asylum seeker boats through before the election” to “terrify the nation that we are under attack”.
Yet when this modern moralist was asked this week about joining a Greens party that’s been ripped apart by allegations of bullying and sexism, Burnside’s finger suddenly stopped wagging.
He had “no interest” in such claims, he loftily declared.
What a perfect example of the Green moralist — accusing people of being hateful, while being hateful himself and condemning in others the sins he ignores in his own.
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