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June 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Debate on allowing shooters into national parks turned ugly in the NSW parliament on Wednesday night, with a Shooters Party MP telling his Greens counterpart it was unfortunate “I can’t take you outside and beat you to death”.
After hours of an at times fractious debate, including claims national parks would be turned into de facto game parks for “weekend cowboys”, a vote on the Shooters Party bill was deferred until Thursday.
The most heated clash involved the Greens Jeremy Buckingham, who repeatedly goaded Shooters MPs during his contribution to the debate.
Bristling at the attacks, the Shooters Party’s Robert Brown threatened the Greens MP with violence after Mr Buckingham accused the Game Council of taking millions in kickbacks.
“I don’t have a thin skin but when a guy looks at you and points at you and says onto the record in this house they took a million dollars kickback, to me that is impugning my reputation, mate,” an angry Mr Brown said.
“Unfortunately we’re in a modern era so I can’t take you outside and beat you to death.”
The Shooters Party MP later apologised.
“I lost my temper,” he said.
The government, who backed the bill in return for Shooters Party support of their power privatisation, says the changes to the Game and Feral Animal Control Act simply extend existing culling programs of pests such as dogs, cats, pigs and goats.
Government leader of the upper house, National Party MP Duncan Gay, said the bill would “protect and improve wildlife and habitat by providing further opportunities to affectively and efficiently manage pest animal species”.
Critics have raised fears the bill could open hundreds of parks and reserves to recreational hunters, rather than just the 79 listed by the government, with NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker given the power to veto or green-light shooting in national parks.
Greens MP David Shoebridge said the laws would turn national parks into “de facto game parks”, risking the safety of park users and park workers.
“It allows shooters for the first time ever, amateur shooters, weekend cowboys out for nothing other than blood sports to have access to the national parks,” Mr Shoebridge told MPs in the upper house.
Labor’s environment spokesman Luke Foley disputed that the Shooter’s bill was about the eradication of feral animals.
“This is not about feral animals – this is about electricity privatisation,” Mr Foley told MPs.
“Handing the keys to our national parks over to recreational shooters will not impact on this (feral animal) problem.”
Labor MP Walt Secord said the 79 national parks and reserves accounted for 40 per cent of those in NSW, or an area the size of Belgium.
Mr Brown said the Shooters proposal was a “suitable conservation bill”.
“All the other argy bargy that has gone on here tonight about deals and everything else, the reason this bill is here is because we believe it is good for conservation,” he said.
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