Libertarian Alliance Showcase Publication No 12: reflections on the origin and the stability of the State

Sean Gabb

Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2008

Political Notes No. 193

ISBN 9781856376143

ISSN 0267-7059

 

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/polin/polin193.pdf

Third annual conference of the Property and Freedom Society, Bodrum, Turkey, 2008

Sean Gabb

First things first.

VIDEO Record of Proceedings:
Property and Freedom Society
Third Annual Meeting
Bodrum, Turkey, May 22-26, 2008
Hotel Karia Princess

Better quality videos available on request from Sean Gabb

Here is a collection of abstracts and videos.

Friday, May 23
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00 Program begins (Hotel Conference Centre)
10:00-10:15 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Welcoming Remarks
10:15-10:45 Yuri Maltsev, Alexander Solzhenitsyn on Politics and Economics
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 Paul Gottfried, Perspectives on the Role of Religion in American Life
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Anthony Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple), The Culture of the Underclass
12:30-14:00 Lunch
15:00-15:45 Maltsev, Gottfried, Daniels, Discussion, Q & A
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Peter Brimelow, The Libertarian Case Against Open Immigration
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:15 John Lott, More Guns, Less Crime
19:00-21:00 Dinner

Saturday, May 24
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Enrico Colombatto, In Defence of Corruption
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Lott, Colombatto, Brimelow, Discussion, Q & A
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Mustafa Akyol, Understanding the Ottoman Empire, Modern Turkey, and the Kurdish Question
12:30-14:00 Lunch
15:00-15:15 Peter Mentzel, Free Traders vs. Socialists during the late Ottoman Empire
15:15-15:45 Akyol, Mentzel, Discussion, Q & A
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Sean Gabb, The Nature of Ancient Financial Markets
16:30-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:00 Philipp Bagus, Do We Need to Fear Deflation?
17:00-17:15 Nikolay Gertchev, The Omnipresence of Monetary Policy
18:30 Departure to the fishing village Kadikalesi
19:00-22:00 Reception and Dinner at the beach

Sunday, May 25
8:00-9:45 Breakfast
10:00-10:30 Thomas DiLorenzo, The Errors of �Public Choice�
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Gabb, Bagus, Gertchev, DiLorenzo, Discussion, Q & A
11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:15 Remigijus Simasius, How to Deal with Bullies as Neighbours? Reflections on the Foreign Policy of Small Countries
12:30-14:00 Lunch
15:00-15:30 Justin Raimondo, Ron Paul and the Prospects of Paleo-Libertarianism in the U.S.
15:30-15:45 Robert Groezinger, European Reactions to the Ron Paul Phenomenon
15:45-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Simasius, Raimondo, Groezinger, Discussion, Q & A
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-17:30 Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Reflections on the Origin of the State
17:30-17:45 David Gordon, Is the Existence of the State Proof of Market Failure?
17:45-18:00 Coffee Break
18:00-18:30 Hoppe, Gordon, Discussion, Q & A
19:30-23:00 Farewell Reception, Dinner, and Entertainment

Monday, May 26
8:00-9:30 Breakfast
10:00 Meet in the Hotel Lobby. Walk to the Marina
10:30-17:00 Boat Excursion. Lunch on the Boat. Swimming.
19:00-22:00 Dinner at the Hotel

Tuesday, May 27
For conference attendees staying through Tuesday, a day-trip to Ephesus and the last place of residence and resting place of the
Virgin Mary can be arranged. Transportation cost per person is Euros 25. Please indicate as soon as possible if you are interested in
such an excursion. There will be a list made available for this purpose at the hotel reception desk.

Note on Recordings

These are low-quality video files. First class recordings are available on request (please donate!) from the Libertarian Alliance, or by contacting sean@libertarian.co.uk.

VOTE OR EAT … Ahhhhhhhhhh….. BISTO !!!! … That’s the way to do it!

David Davis

Vote or eat. Zimbabwe (that is to say, Southern Rhodesia.)

Stalinist bastard, that Myooogaaayb person.,,…. He won’t be allowed into hell, you know.

Know why?  He’s, er, too bad.

Lucifer (MORGOTH) won’t let him in, he’s er, rather bad.

He’ll be handed a brazier, a fag-lighter, and some paraffin, in a thingy, and he’ll be, er, set adrift, into the outer Void. He’ll have to join Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Castro (who is dead too) Bin Laden (who will continue to remain dead this year too as well and also next year) the Sendery-Luminosy-man-whose-name-I-can’t-remember-coz-he’s-a-saddo-who-chopped-off-living-people’s-faces-while-alive, Kim-Il-Sung, and the others.

How absolutely stupid and myopic of us all here, not to notice, about the connection between voting and eating, if there is a “government”.

He who does not work, neither shall he eat. For “work”, read “agreement”. Marxist Gramsco-Eagletonians, all. Again. As ever.

Tony, my dear chap, you can ask me again about these sub-human droids, and about a diagnostic test to distinguish what kind of machine they appear to be when going about in the world, and how to characterise this machine so as to eliminate it, but you yourself ought to know what I point to.

D-DAY … thanks to Samizdata for noticing it too, I’m glad to say.

David Davis

Here. See our stuff from yesterday, here. I find nothing in the MSM, so great and fierce historical events pass into not memory, but the blogosphere, I guess.

 

Did SAURON run a “browser-hijacker” prog to trick Denethor through his palantir?

David Davis

I don’t know. Do you? But it sounds like a fun idea. I’ve had experience of it recently.

My Palantir now no longer responds to Sauron’s commands for it to be redirected to porn sites, the Ukraine, and other places like it where antispywaremaster, privacyconductor and stuff like that come from. Etc. Or perhaps I have become “stronger”, against evil. I do not know.

These people, whom we have liberated, ought to tell their young men who have nothing to do in the night and therefore no girls to f**k, (what else is there to do in the night?) to learn capitalist manners, which is that you DO NOT release (or, worse, even, write) viruses and malware programmes and send them onto the internet.

The Internet is your friend. not your enemy. Stupid people. Think where you would be, if Putin had a red-hot-pliers and was dragging at your fingernails, like he knows how to do? He’s the Prime Minister right now, but how long before he’s in the Police again? Silly boys, think!

Machine now happily fixed but I still don’t like Firefox. IE-Explorer 7 runs fine now with PCTools spyware doctor in the backgound, and not really any slower as far as I can tell. Perhaps Mozilla should have called it Shadowfax?

I do not know.

This is what gives socialists, redistributors, marxists, other faux-humanoids and stalinists the traction they need, to continue to exist.

David Davis

MY 05 XK   B

This is a  silver-grey 05-reg Jaguar, an XK. Very nice motor, guv… shame if we were to tax it off you then, eh?

I’m not saying that people ought not to have any number plate they like. For statism, in which you have to have whatever plate the state says it is pleased for you to have, is worse. The problem arises when (understandable) envy is stirred up in an underclass deliberately engendered by the same state so as to keep it in votes, power, stolen cash, and clientele to continue to “vote” for it.

People with stuff that could be lost, such as Jag XKs, ought to become Libertarians. They would then have done a thing which says they have understood that the conditions in which they can best flourish (unhindered for ever, by outside gangster agencies like states – provided that they do no harm to others around them) will arrive faster without them behaving like slebs in the face of (a) the created-underclass clientele of the Enemy Class, and (b) attracting the tax-raising-attention of a grasping gangsterized state.

It is extraordinarily silly, and even, soon, dangerous, to walk about in Gordon Brown’s Britain, with a number plate like that. Sorry.

If it was me, I would choose “4″ as my number. Then, they would not know who I was.

‘Morning, campers! Here are today’s silly search-strings…

David Davis

kate middelton	3
easy solutions environement dog shit	2
where are we going? to the toilet!	1
william and kate	1
remembering june 6th 1944	1
funny barack obama quotes	1
kate middleton	1
mark steyn mcleans	1
slovakia sculptor	1
groups who don’t care about global warmi

 

And we might be getting somewhere…just now we got this:

“population control” environazis

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