The Greens are once again trying to demonise Tasmania's forest industry with disgraceful slurs linking it to mass murder, rape, slavery and extortion.
A poster on the party's Facebook page, authorised by Kim Booth, says: "Tas forest products are conflict forest products".
The deliberate use of the words "conflict forest products" is an attempt to link Tasmania's forest industry and forest workers with "conflict minerals" and "conflict diamonds" in Africa.
These terms are well understood, and defined by Amnesty International, as referring to the black-market sale of resources by rebels and warlords to fund their campaigns of unimaginable violence.
Non-government organisation Global Witness says conflict minerals in the Congo pay "for weapons and funds armed men in a conflict characterised by murder, mass rape, wholesale pillaging and the displacement of tens of thousands of people".
Clearly, in using this term the Greens are attempting to link Tasmania's forest industries with appalling crimes against humanity.
We know Mr Booth and the Greens have a pathological hatred of forestry, and used their deal with Labor to destroy two out of every three jobs in the industry, but this latest attempt to vilify forest workers is beneath contempt.
Their claims are wrong, in every sense, and Mr Booth should apologise for authorising this reprehensible rubbish and ensure that it is removed.