Wilderness Society discord?

Form A Committee! (quote, "The Sex Pistols")

Oh Dear oh Dear?

The Wealthy “Wilderness Society” is in a muddle?

Do we need this in a federal election year?

What can be the motive behind the attempt to bring a newer generation into the leadership and board?

And, what are THE POLICIES which the “new generation” are seeking to bring to the Society's Constitution?

What are the old guard of Alec Marr and coy seeking to protect?

ARGH!?!?!#$%^&*(?

Qvestions qvestions qvestions!?!?!?

It's a long-long time ago I learned of the dangers ever-present to “voluntary organisations”, especially when politics, power, and salaries become part of the mix.

That's why I've essentially stayed clear of them for decades, even though I hold the notion highly as perhaps the best thing people can do with each other. Well...., after voluntary sex...!

But when a group becomes as big, and as influential as such as the Wilderness Society, danger lurks in every meeting, and secret gathering, and private intention.

Clearly, there's something fishy going on, when a secret meeting is called of the board and/or that 30 or so members, to change the Constitution's numbers from 20 to 4500, needed to call a meeting?

From the outer, here, and never having been a member of the W.S., but having had enough to do with enough “voluntary” organisations over time, I know that behind the directors' chairs there's ALWAYS some battle or another going on for dominance, or for change, or no change, or such.

Being the idiot and “outsider” I was, I was never given the “low-down” on what one issue or dispute was actually about.

Whichever group I fumbled into, I could see all manner of megalomania extant in the meetings, on the stages, at the podiums, down the pub afterwards.

Always there were genuine and serious folk, often prepared to reduce themselves to “pit-bulls” to hold the line, as they saw the best line to hold.

But too often, self-interest was what was getting in the way, either because SOMEONE was “on the paperbag payroll” of some filthy politically-minded behind-the-scenes agenda-setter, and knew full-well their aim, and plan to upset the group and their usually Honourable Intentions, or someone was not of their own mind, and were but puppets of another filthy stirrer or wealthy developer, or such.

Much like the New South Wales parliament of the last 202 years, say what?

But for the top brass of the Wilderness Society to secretly conspire to alter the Constitution's numbers in the way they have, there has to be a simple explanation.

POLICY!

With my rantings of the last twenty years echoing loud and long across the ether, through the minds of all our politicians, and wannabes, and speculators and property developers and Bikers and Aborigines and Yer-Common-Garden-Variety-Vegetarian GREENIE, and homeless gangs of voting-aged youth, GLOBALLY, it IS as likely that the fracas in the W.S., of late, is about deploying or employing their influence in the parliamentary Greens “Policy Division” one way or the other on whether to adopt the increasingly popular, but ever-controversial LAND TAX, as Recommended by the federal Treasury Knob MISTA Ken Henry.

I've blogged before about the fact that most of the Environmental Groups which have formed over the last 3 or 4 decades, have been formed and maintained by essentially “the idle rich”, often young adults who had the luxury of choosing whether to “GET A JOB” or not, the option being that “daddy” will make life easy, because they work amongst government officials or such, and so the usual pressures placed on adults to work or lie their arses-off at the dole shop for a fortnightly cheque, didn't arise.

These kids, young adults, drop-outs from the mainstream society, and I'm NOT knocking them for that, mainstream society SUCKS! No doubt, were/are the lucky ones, but have enough of a conscience to want to do SOMETHING useful, and they often naturally gravitate to environmental issues, thus, to relaxed groups like Greens orgs.

Their private schooling gives them many advantages in such places and they often do well in running meetings etc. and are of great benefit overall.

HOWEVER......! Always, there is a number of them, who are in there because 1, they like the “work environment, and they like environment work”, but 2, because they are on some little mission or another to “watch over things and affairs”, to ensure that their nice-little-nest-egg, of inheriting Daddies four or twenty houses along the coast, or the flats in Elwood, or the “farm” on the fringes of the city, or some other chunky piece of ever, up-valuing real estate, IS NOT THREATENED by the True Environmentalists Blow for Economic Justice, such as has been put to the federal government by one MISTA Ken Henry in December last year!?

Land Tax, is THE REFORM, Genuine and Wise Environmentalists want the opportunity to VOTE FOR, regardless of whether it means that in future everyone will be rich beyond their wilderness dreams, albeit that they, and all of us, of health and age enough to, will be expected to do, for the first time in Australia history, and Honest Days' Work, for an Honest Days' Pay!

Yeeeessss, me little hearties, there's always a few of these scoundrels around, who cunningly subvert the Just and Wise for their own lazy arse ends.

In regard to the Wilderness Society, I expect that it's no different there, but cannot say that this little ever-common form of subversion is what is behind the schism there-in.

But “POLICY” in such a group, is pretty-much always what is behind a split.

And today, well since, as Thomas Paine put it in his Agrarian Justice pamphlet of 1797, since “cultivation of the Land began”, ownership and the Just distribution of Land is a priority issue.

So, from the reforests of Uluruba, it seems to memememe, that if the Wilderness Society wants to clear up it's board, and it's divisions, then perhaps the best method is to bring out into the open, the debate about their organisation's final POLICY on Ken Henry's LAND TAX?

Clearly, anyone who is not in favour of it, does not want the Greens to increase their position in our federal and state parliaments, therefore we can safely say that they are not Greens, and that they are little more than greedy, shifty, lousy scum. Er, bastards! Er, scoundrels! Er, rogues, et al.

Therefore, if the once Honourable Wilderness Society wants to do what is best for the environment and thus for the future of all Humanity, and at once retain it's Honourable place in the publics' mind, then there is NO ARGUMENT to be had therein, and there should, without debate or erring or fuss, be a unanimous vote and decision to support any move by the Greens, led by The Honourable Senator Bob Brown, in our otherwise disgustingly corrupt parliaments, along the lines of their FULL SUPPORT for the Henry Tax Review's Recommendation for a National Land Tax, to be implemented within a very short period of time.

A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

And, although I've not been a member of the AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION, the Illustrious ACF, for several years, THE SAME APPLIES THERE.

GREENPEACE, (once also a member) the same applies there.

Just as Reason, Wisdom and their original Calls for Justice demand, THE SAME APPLIES THROUGHOUT OUR UNIONS.

NO ARGUMENT!

But nobody listens to me, I'm just a mumble-fuck idiot who hates people and hides in forests....., and talks to little birdies, and spiders and bugs and even mozies, before and after I swat them.....!

Apologies for getting emotional..........

LAND TAX. NO ARGUMENT.