There are other examples of hypocrisy.  The Green Party website lists their six core principles.  At the very top of the list is: “Participatory Democracy - working to create proportionally elected governments that represent and engage citizens.”  

Yet in 2011 the current party leader and former climate modeler Andrew Weaver launched an ongoing SLAPP suit against retired geography professor Tim Ball with the specific intention of silencing him and stifling Ball’s public participation in the AGW debate.  Rather than engage in public debate on the strength of his arguments, Weaver chose to shut Ball up through the courts.  (SLAPP is “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation”).  Launching a SLAPP suit to silence someone you disagree with is the complete opposite of encouraging participatory democracy, as the Green website says.  

www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Weaver-Ball%20lawsuit.pdf