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Sean’s release about the BooBy-C has obviously sparked the Heffer into action, here. The whole sad story, of what the Beeb has been allowed to become, begs questions about WHAT we all must have been doing, as a civilisation and as a suppsedly unitary culture recently. This is a culture which fought (and defeated) unimaginable evil, on at least seven occasions in the last 500 years, not to mention minor corrective actions against others.

As to staking claims to and/or occupying the airwaves, they are Real Estate just like Land, for they have physical existence in Fact. In this regard, “Radio Hams” are the quintessential mmodern equivalent of Australian Aboriginals, Eskimos, or “Native Americans”; they have been using quite well-established parts of these since God was in shorts - certainly before absolutely every “State Broadcaster” was founded, and 100% certainly before ANY supranational organisation of any kind whatsoever came into existence, the League of Nations included!

The majority of the planet’s Hams are Old White Men of many nations, most of which majority are also scientists and engineers of many sorts, and all of whom are amiable and sociable chappies who like a quiet life. They are the ideal people to be put in charge of allocating all the competing proerty rights that will be debated when it comes to throwing the “airwaves” open to competition. Let the Hams sort it out; the surviving ones who can drive or at least stand up, will all get together at a “Rally” for a couple of days, buy and sell exciting old junk to/from each other (the most important part of the event), hear competeing claims, allocate them on the basis of need versus practicability versus how much it’s worth for the applicant, and then everyone can go home.

How embarrassing; I notice someone has just got there before me!

I chanced to find this here . Without going into detail the article addresses 100% of the important issues about climate change hysteria versus the survival of individual freedom. 

This article written by the Czech President Vaclav Klaus and published recently in the Financial Times is very sound. It is so good it speaks for itself and requires no additional comment. Enjoy!

NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
In Association with the Libertarian International

Release Date: Wednesday 20th June 2007
Release Time: Immediate

Contact Details:
Dr Sean Gabb (Director), 07956 472 199, sean@libertarian.co.uk

For other contact and link details, see the foot of this message
Release url: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/news/nr052.htm

“BIAS AND THE BBC: ABOLITION THE ONLY ANSWER!”, SAYS FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK

The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties policy institute, today calls for the immediate abolition of the BBC and the removal of all barriers to a free market in broadcasting.

(In its 18th June 2007 report, From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel, the BBC admits to systematic bias in favour of an enlarged and activist state, and against liberty and tradition.)

Commenting on this report, Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Sean Gabb, says:

“The BBC is a propaganda vehicle for the ruling class - that is, for that loose coalition of politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, educators, and media and business people who derive wealth and power and status from an enlarged and activist state.

“In its mealy-mouthed, bureaucratic way, the BBC has now admitted that its core function is not to report the news or to entertain the public, but to impose the specific ideological viewpoint known as �political correctness�, an evil axis of anti-liberal, anti-white racist, anti-Western, anti-Enlightenment and collectivist values and coercive social engineering. With the decline of old style Marxism and Socialism this form of illiberal doctrine has gained a growing and hegemonic role throughout much of academia, charities and civil organizations, churches, social and welfare services, most political parties, and government and the civil service. But its main transmission mechanism is via a controlled media, of which the BBC is the natural centre.

“As an ideology, political correctness promotes the power and privileges of the ruling class. It stigmatises and demonises any dissenting opinion, seeks to censor and silence it, and manipulates information in order to balkanize society into alleged �victim� groups who provide tribalistic bases for the exercise of political power - and the extraction of economic profit - by that class.

“The answer to this admitted bias is not better regulation: all regulation must ultimately be overseen by the same members or clients of the ruling class who produced the bias. It is not privatisation: that will do nothing more than turn a propaganda vehicle for the ruling class into a profitable propaganda vehicle for the ruling class.

“The only answer is full and immediate abolition. The BBC should be taken off air. Its employees should be sacked and its buildings sold off. All its internal records should be destroyed. All its copyrights should be thrown into the public domain.

“At the same time, all the Broadcasting Acts should be repealed, and the airwaves should be opened to private appropriation in the same way as land in an uninhabited territory is open to appropriation. The sole function of law in such an environment should be to ensure that appropriated frequencies are actually used, and that other broadcasters do not trespass on the frequencies appropriated by each.

“There should be no more regulation of what is broadcast in this environment than there now is of what is printed.

“But we must begin with the BBC. It must be destroyed - before it destroys us.”

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Note(s) to Editors

Dr Sean Gabb is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance. His new book, Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back, is available for free download at http://tinyurl.com/34e2o3

He can be contacted for further comment on 07956 472 199 or by email at sean@libertarian.co.uk

Extended Contact Details:

The Libertarian Alliance is Britain’s most radical free market and civil liberties policy institute. It has published more than 800 articles, pamphlets and books in support of freedom and against statism in all its forms. These are freely available at http://www.libertarian.co.uk

Our postal address is

The Libertarian Alliance
Suite 35
2 Landsdowne Row
Berkeley Square
London
W1J 6HL
Tel: 07956 472 199

Associated Organisations

The Libertarian International - http://www.libertarian.to - is a sister organisation to the Libertarian Alliance. Its mission is to coordinate various initiatives in the defence of individual liberty throughout the world.

Sean Gabb’s personal website - http://www.seangabb.co.uk - contains about a million words of writings on themes interesting to libertarians and conservatives.

Hampden Press - http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk.- the publishing house of the Libertarian Alliance.

Liberalia - http://www.liberalia.com - maintained by by LA Executive member Christian Michel, Liberalia publishes in-depth papers in French and English on libertarianism and free enterprise. It is a prime source of documentation on these issues for students and scholars.

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