Joska Fischer may be the moderate, public face of this party, but it is still nothing more than the same band of radical Marxists that caused such massive upheaval and destruction throughout Western Europe during the 60s/70s.
They haven't changed their stripes, merely bought newer, more expensive suits to disguise their unbridled fundamentalism.
They're are essentially unchanged, espousing the same ideology that has been tried repeatedly, e.g. in the G.D.R. and former Soviet Union, and which has never succeeded, in spite of their best efforts.
still awake?
You got it to the T. One of the original founders of the Green Party of New Zealand was in turn an original founder of the German Green Party itself - he moved to NZ in the late 1970s.
And the Greens are unashamedly Chomskyite in its stand. Keith Locke, who is their current Foreign Affairs spokesman, oops, spokesperson, is openly and virulently anti-American. He is certainly no greenies way before 1990s, and publicy praised Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot when he came into power in 1975 and he even said today he has "no regrets" over what he said back then. And wait, he also defended David Irving, which gives you a clue as to how close the far-left, Greenies, and neo-Nazis are in today's world.
Looking at how NZers vote, we could end up with Locke as our PM by 2008. Just remember that there are people on that position of power that take Noam Chomsky that seriously. ;-)
,,, you've just given me encouragement and new zeal with that statement. I never thought of slapping the "fundamentalist" label on the GREENs - what a strategy!! For a while I've been calling gender femanists "female chauvinists"... works like a charm.