It’s true that disasters bring out the best in some people – and they also bring out the worst. Where’s there’s a disaster, there are always looters and other opportunistic scum. Then there are the green vultures who swoop on the first whiff of smoke.
Bullying left-wing thugs GetUp have already been exposed soliciting donations for political campaigns on the back of Australia’s ongoing fire crisis. Shamelessly, they’ve gone even further.
The GetUp activist group is driving the campaign of some bushfire survivors who blame climate change for fires burning in southeast Australia and are calling for “100 per cent renewable energy for all”.
This should be no surprise. Shameless media tart, Tim “The Great Predicto” Flannery, likewise cobbled together a muppet show of sock-puppets to exploit the bushfire crisis for cheap political gain.
The bushfire survivors’ group gained national attention when it was launched in February with a personal endorsement from decorated former NSW Fire and Rescue commissioner Greg Mullins.
GetUp promoted the launch on its Twitter feed in advance, telling supporters Mr Mullins would join Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action at a press conference in Canberra.
Mullins, it should be noted, is top banana in Flannery’s climate muppet show. While his minders insist he has “no affiliation” with GetUp, it seems there is a lot more to the story.
The fire chiefs group led by Mr Mullins has no direct link to GetUp but some of the Climate Council’s supporters and contractors do have GetUp connections. The Mullins group, with Climate Council support, is pledging to hold a national summit after the fire season has ended early next year to devise a strategy on combating future fires that would take account of climate change.
This new GetUp astroturfing exercise is likewise fronted by a gallery of the activist group’s sock-puppets.
The GetUp website promoting Bushfire Survivors for Climate Action provides harrowing accounts of fire victims’ experiences. It seeks support for their cause and is authorised by GetUp’s national director, Paul Oosting.
The site says GetUp provides “in-kind support” while “ad hoc media support” comes from the Climate Media Centre…
Prominent among the group’s survival stories is Lyn Trindall’s account of how she escaped her lower Blue Mountains home at Winmalee in October 2013. Ms Trindall, the local GetUp group co-ordinator and a former Blue Mountains councillor…Another survivor, retired teacher Janet Reynolds from Bega and a supporter of recent “school strike” protests over climate change…
theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/getup-stirs-the-climate-claims-of-fire-activists/
Green opportunists really will exploit any tragedy to the hilt.
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