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  Tony Hollick // 6 March, 2008 at 5:18 pm

  My understanding of our Constitution is that no Parliament can bind a future Parliament. I’m not sure that referenda can have any binding efect at all.

  If at any future time a British Parliament decides that Britain will no longer be a partner in the EU, that’s it. What is the EU to do? Send in troops?? Whose troops? It would also be an attack on a NATO member.

  I’m happy about being a European. I’m not so happy with the way our gutless legislatures put all the “nasty” measures through the EU, to escape responsibility.

  Europe’s total GNP now exceeds that of the US, by quite a margin. Frankly, I’m more concerned by all the authoritarian “criminal-justice” and ‘false-flag’ “War on Terror” and phony “War on Drugs” crap being foisted on us by the Goddamn US authoritarians, who pipeline the filthy stuff straight into the “Home Office.”

  RIGHT NOW, IN THE UK, you can be arrested without charge or access to a lawyer, deported without due process to the USA, there to be confined indefinitely without charge, publicity or access to anyone. I’ve been threatened with this directly by Gil Kerlikowske, Chief of the Seattle Police. I laughed… Would you?

  It’s not Brussells doing that to us, brothers and sisters. It’s the Goddamn US “Department of Justice.” And they used their sock-puppet Blair to railroad it through in the dying moments of his increasingly authoritarian premiership.

  There are more than one in every hundred Americans incarcerated in the US right now. A total of 5.6 _million_ souls are enmeshed in the aptly-named US “criminal justice system.”

  Compare that with 82,000 imprisoned here; and that’s over _twice_ the European average.

  It doesn’t take a weather-man to know which way this particular breeze is blowing.

  Regards,

  Tony

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  sinblancaporelmundo // 14 March, 2008 at 4:43 am

  Socialism is death.

  http://sinblancaporelmundo.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/una-imagen-una-palabra/

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  sinblancaporelmundo // 14 March, 2008 at 7:05 pm

  I beg your pardon. The Mother Nation of individual freedom is not Britain, is Spain.

  The economical and individual freedom begun with the teachings of the School of Salamanca in the 16th century, I´m afraid, sir.

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  David Davis // 14 March, 2008 at 7:18 pm

  I take your point. That is OK.

  However, how then do you explain the (in practice) quite free societies of the Anglosphere - at least until stalinism got its teeth into our ankles via pests like Gramsci etc, in the 20th Century?

  I suppose what I am saying is then, “why did Spain not bear the torch of individual freedom and libertarianism to the world from the 1500s onwards?”

  In the interim I do of course forgive Spain the interregnum of the early 1800s, when she was under the heel of the fascist pig Napoleon.

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  David Davis // 14 March, 2008 at 7:27 pm

  I do of course agree with you, that socialism is death.

  However, this is not yet widely recognised in the UK, since we have not until now experienced it in its full horror, and my libertarian colleagues would regard such a statement as rather one-dimensional and shallow.

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  David Davis // 14 March, 2008 at 7:28 pm

  Ragther, in fact, as if I was the editor of The Sun (a newspaper, some would call it.)

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  sinblancaporelmundo // 15 March, 2008 at 9:26 am

  Well, that´a a good question.

  I suppose we were under the heel of a catholic monarchy that spent all of its time and money on saving the souls of the European protestants.

  Yes, I suppose you were quite lucky not experimenting socialism in its full horror. We had that in the times of the II Republic and the Civil War in Spain and that was terrible enough

  Unfortunately there are still people in Spain who does not want to learn from the lessons of the past and still have voted for z in the last election. That´s really depressing.

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  David Davis // 15 March, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  I don’t know what you will be able to do about that. Is there a Libertarian Party in Spain - or, at the very least, a “conservative” kind of grouping that is minimal-statist? If so, what are its chances?

  As you can see, I am very much now in favour of Libertarian Parties, although this is not the position of the Libertarian Alliance personally as an organisation.

  Happily, the LA is content to let me promote other ones on this blog, for now.

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  Ian B (1) // 15 March, 2008 at 7:08 pm

  The question of parties is interesting. I’ve said here before that I don’t think parties can create political change; the constituency for whatever political idea needs to exist first so that it can vote the party into power. If we look at Britain, the only new party to break through was the Labour Praty, (the Tories and Whigs having sort of arisen like mushrooms out of the mulch of the elite as factions), and Labour did that because they were the political wing of a much broader movement- trades unions, socialists, co-operative societies and so on. Once those social structures had arisen, the average poor worker, a member of a trade union, who socialised at the working mens’ club, shopped at the co-op and so on would find it very difficult to vote for anybody else.

  Not dissimilar to Islamic groups in the mid-east building political support out of the provision of social structures such as schools and local healthcare etc.

  So while I’ll do what I can to support the LPUK and vote for them if they put up a candidate in my constituency, in truth I can’t see them ever being more than a fringe party without some kind of social power base and I’m not sure where one can even imagine that would come from.

  Besides all else, the days of local solutions to social problems that a political movement can step into and use “for their own ends” are over; the state provides everything now.

  My old upper school was demolished recently and replaced by a horrid Blair Academy. It’s run by a religious group. I’d rather it was being run by a Libertarian group. Perhaps that’s the way forward.

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