Trooper Thompson:
Freedom of speech is for everyone. It is the right to express unpopular views that needs defending.
Damn right. Said so before.
Archive for the ‘libertarianism’ Category
Freedom of speech is for everyone
Posted in libertarianism, tagged free speech on 15 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A quantity of Surveyors
Posted in libertarianism, tagged arbitration on 15 March, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Fine piece from Dennis, with more from commenters, on the gross corruption of the construction industry, particularly as it applies to local government contracts.
I always wondered what Quantity Surveyors actually did; the last time I heard of any was during the miners’ strike back in nineteen-canteen, when both the government and the miners’ union [...]
How ’tis done
Posted in libertarianism, tagged IPJ on 10 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Anyone reading this who is not already a Libertarian*, and who would be interested to know more about Libertarianism as applied to the UK in the early 21st century, ought to to read this fine account by LPUK leader Ian Parker-Joseph.
* A sort of technical intuition, which I could hardly claim to be evidence-based, leads [...]
The expanding blogothingie
Posted in libertarianism, tagged blogs on 28 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some more LPUK members’ blogs recently added to the roll:
Caligula’s Palace
Craggy Island
Their Contempt for You is Total
Everything I Say is Right
Obliged to all those who link here; the reason that things are so rarely brought up to date is that I would be a disorganised rabble, but for the fact that there’s only me.
Easy test
Posted in libertarianism on 16 February, 2009 | 6 Comments »
This is easy. Anyone who can’t get 100% on this really needs to do some revision.
Nuremburg defence?
Posted in libertarianism, tagged freedom of speech, Nuremburg defence on 15 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A discussion, as one would hope and expect in the frankest of terms, of the absolute or otherwise nature of the freedom of speech, at The Devil’s Kitchen.
…either you have freedom of speech or you don’t; and “freedom” means the freedom of people to say things that you don’t agree with.
If someone says something that [...]
Out onto the surface of the planet
Posted in libertarianism, tagged canvassing, lpuk on 30 January, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I’m back. Words are now apparently being pressed in less time than it takes to make tea, roll a cigarette, and fetch the post. What was wrong with it I’m not really sure.
To amuse myself in default of laughing at people on the internet I made up a hasty A4 poster advertising fakecharities.org (which still [...]
Abolish ‘democracy’
Posted in libertarianism, tagged constitutional reform on 27 January, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Complete, concise and correct (and graphical!) summary of the position of the police with respect to the Palace of Westminster, by Inspector Gadget, who does not have to make it up.
The only benefit to the country of these appalling messes created by the Labour party is perhaps that they make eventual constitutional reform more, rather [...]
War is the health of the State
Posted in libertarianism, tagged Middle East on 20 January, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I am obliged for the link to David Davis of the Libertarian Alliance.
Despite this I am still not prepared to take a position as a British libertarian on the current Middle Eastern crisis. At the personal level I should prefer to allow people who live in fighting-places (the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Afghanistan, etc.) simply [...]
Political orthodoxy
Posted in libertarianism, tagged MP expenses on 20 January, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I am obliged to Guthrum for reference to the new LPUK campaign about MPs’ expenses.
I have already written to my MP. When I did so, the mechanism announced that any identical, cut-and-pasted letters would be automatically detected and ignored.
How about the following as a standard letter to cut and paste.
Might I [...]
