A LETTER TO THE EDITOR"Tasmanian Police, in charging Peter Cundall and several other elderly protestors, who were demonstrating in a non-violent, non-offensive manner against the Pulp Mill on the steps of the Tasmanian Parliament, have successfully demonstrated that they are now either a totally compromised and politicised arm of Government policy, or they have simply lost the plot.
Did the police ever get around to laying charges against Forestry workers who seriously assaulted Forestry protesters, and/or vandalised their property earlier in the year?
What can ordinary citizens do to publicly protest their serious objection to the ongoing destruction of Tasmania's precious old growth forests, and poisoning of its water catchments?. The Government doesn't care, and watches aimlessly while a Forestry Industry relentlessly continues to destroy some of the best carbon sinks in the world at a time that we desperately need them.
Monocultural regrowth on a 90 year harvest cycle does not maketh a complex, mature age ecosystem several hundred years in age.
In terms of human time scale, it is no different in principle to constraining the average human lifetime of 70-80 years to that of a 10 year old, then having the nerve to suggest that a generation of 10 year olds will carry the wisdom and complexity of life experience to that of a mature age adult population.
Well done Tasmanian Police for demonstrating that you can no longer be relied upon to apply the law with any common sense."
Did the police ever get around to laying charges against Forestry workers who seriously assaulted Forestry protesters, and/or vandalised their property earlier in the year?
What can ordinary citizens do to publicly protest their serious objection to the ongoing destruction of Tasmania's precious old growth forests, and poisoning of its water catchments?. The Government doesn't care, and watches aimlessly while a Forestry Industry relentlessly continues to destroy some of the best carbon sinks in the world at a time that we desperately need them.
Monocultural regrowth on a 90 year harvest cycle does not maketh a complex, mature age ecosystem several hundred years in age.
In terms of human time scale, it is no different in principle to constraining the average human lifetime of 70-80 years to that of a 10 year old, then having the nerve to suggest that a generation of 10 year olds will carry the wisdom and complexity of life experience to that of a mature age adult population.
Well done Tasmanian Police for demonstrating that you can no longer be relied upon to apply the law with any common sense."
Darren Phillips
Lilydale, Tasmania
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