Something is so because we say it is

Brenda Rosser

Ecological sustainable forestry 'exists' now because they say it does. Any evidence to the contrary is no longer admissable or relevant in our law courts.

It's no use calling upon the major 'opposition' party to rise up and call for sanity. They love this new development and they're close buddies after after all. A little tit-for-tat in parliament occasionally but no serious disagreements...not really.

This is progress. This is an advance to a new 'civilised' way of killing. If we can't hide the dead carcasses we'll hide the slaughter by deadening our language and laws. Illegal logging is now lawful logging. Ignorance is freedom. Truth is inconvenient and ugly. Language is a cancerous growth not a tool which we shape for our own purposes.

Links:

Logging Turned Legal
http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,21277796-5007221,00.html

Protected Areas of Tasmania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_areas_of_Tasmania

The Wielangta Ruling of December 2006
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/federal_ct/2006/1729.html