This is what happens when you don’t discipline poor behaviour. George Christensen is running wild.
Yesterday, on his Facebook page, he began a thread with the introduction:
“Australian taxpayer dollars are funding young Labor party activists to campaign for Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Oh and to rip Donald Trump signs out of people’s front yards.”
He then linked to a video where one young Australian man did indeed seem to be ripping up Donald Trump signs. It is unclear as to whether the people appearing in the video knew they were being filmed. The same young man did say that “and so like my flights, and my travel amounts is all paid for, technically by the taxpayer.”
That was enough for George who was righteously indignant about such abuse of taxpayer dollars and the unlawful behaviour that it was funding.
Except the Coalition is in government so Labor can’t be using ‘taxpayer dollars’ to fund anything.
When it was pointed out to Mr Christensen that it must be Labor Party funds being used, his response was “Watch again. The guy explains its taxpayer money. Not sure what program they are over there on. Perhaps DFAT’s Political Exchange programme.”
It’s hard to understand the level of ignorance of a politician who does not realise that any DFAT programme is approved and funded by the government of the day.
Whilst I cannot condone the actions of the young man who ripped out a Donald Trump sign, George seems to have forgotten about the Young Liberals “black ops” which landed them before ICAC.
Not only was there an organised campaign to remove signs, there was also an anonymous email making false allegations designed to ruin a woman’s career.
Young people sometimes do silly things, like when Tony Abbott was arrested for destroying a street sign or when George Christensen wrote in the Student Advocate “My thoughts: the truth is women are stupid and that’s that.”
With this thread, Christensen has added libel to the xenophobia, homophobia, misogyny, climate change denial, Muslim and union bashing, and state government issues that are the usual offering on his Facebook page.
