The Libertarian Alliance: BLOG

David Davis

Everybody ought to read Samizdata every day. “That’s how it’s done, that is the real thing” (as an Israeli General said while regarding British squaddies quelling unrest in somewhere-or-other by simply looking smart, well-turned out, polished and armed, very businesslike, and nice to the locals - and no poncy sun-specs!) That red stuff’s not a link by the way - I could not find one in time, I just wanted to say it loud.

Jonathan Pearce does what is needed for dealing with the “what about the poor starving in the streets” obstacle, which lefties - and even those good-hearted people who you could never describe as “left”, just “worried by inherent uncertainty” - will always begin with whe  they encounter you, and find you are some disgusting cold-and-bright freemarketeer capitalist toad.

Good for you. Quote of the day coming up:

As history has shown, mutual aid and philanthropic societies typically thrive because of, not in spite of, a powerful pro-freedom, pro-free enterprise culture. The belief that we are entitled to pursue our self-interest (so long as it does not involve aggression, theft or fraud) does not clash with the idea that it is good to be generous and helpful to those who have been dealt a crap hand in the cardgame of life.

As we in the Alternative Bookshop used to say: “Liberty is the mother, and not the daughter, of order.”