Saturday, July 09, 2011

Green/Left attempt at censorship in Australia

Fortunately, the threat of boycotts is a fairly empty one. The organization concerned claims a big membership but few of those they count are in any way active. In reality they are just a small group of Left activists with big mouths
A powerful consumer lobby group has threatened a mass boycott of major grocery companies if they oppose the carbon tax.

Activist group Get Up has been accused of blackmail after sending a warning letter to 150 companies including Coca-Cola, Heinz, Kraft, McDonald's, Schweppes and Nestle. Get Up says it will urge its 570,000 members to "boycott goods and services that are linked to the scare campaign".

Get Up confirmed it was prepared to mount a national boycott of the products of any company that was "holding our climate to ransom" by supporting a multi-million-dollar anti-tax advertising campaign by business.

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Boycotts are rarely effective anyway and so many big firms are in the gun this time that you would almost have to stop living if you wanted to boycott them all.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There are a unlimitled number of these leftist activist "organizations" around the world. Their goal is to create the illusion that their memberships are vast and that they have the power to disrupt large companies, or even governments. Their claims are "rarely" true.

For the most part, it's usually a few "useful idiots" creating armies in their computers with the hope of forcing some elected nitwits to change their policies, or to con some one out of as much money as they can get away with. Also note that usually, the further to the Left the group is, the more patriotic-sounding name they have.

Anonymous said...

How do we set up boycott on the rent-a-crowd known as GetUp! They should have called it GetStuffed because that is their attitude to the average Austarlian who doesn't support their far left ideology. That mob are so anti-free speech they make Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iran look like moderates just, like the loony Greens in this country.

-btm

Spurwing Plover said...

Just what all eco-nazis do to silence oppisition to the sinister plans BEWARE OF THE GREEN SWASTIKA