Tom Harris MP thinks “an awful lot of people – perhaps dozens” are worried about our trend towards a police state

David Davis

Interesting comment thread on that post on his blog. About 97% critical of him I would guess. Brave guy, then, anyway.

And here’s Middleborough cops trying to interdict private photography in the street:-

Obama versus McCain: let’s all keep a sense of perspective

Peter Davis

Let’s concentrate on the important stuff…

…while greenazis demand a cut of £57 trillion in output, so we all have to become starving subsistence-farmers and yet live in the land that was the most efficient mechanized farming machine in the world – what they will love while they drive their SUV – and this is what the Paras were doing in the meantime….protecting the bastards’ right to flay us all with hunger and cold.

Libertarianism? Yes, for non-stalinists I think it’s good plan to be libertarian, and you might therefore be able to behave usefully as a sovereign individual in such a civilisation – ‘coz you’d know how to, sort of – but I’m not sure I’d any more want to die for a greenazi’s right to oppose us…not after what’s gone before. You know, guns and death and stuff, and “freedom fighters”. Skulls everywhere, many smashed and with biggish blast-holes: millions of the things… Year Zero; that sort of scumbag rubbish. Some things can’t be forgiven. I’d “let God sort them out”, from now on. Too much blood has flowed under the bridges, for us to be merciful any more.

I begin to understand the anger in blogs like the Devil, and Obnoxio, and Mr Eugenides….and all the others….we have tried to be patient men, but sometimes it does not work any more.

David Davis

The Landed Underclass sums up…..

…why we, who live in a stalinist paradise, need all these mind-altering potions. In the end, there is nothing. Even for those of us who believe in God and the eternity of Paradise in Heaven, scientists can’t really convince us that this will occur. So we have vodka and beer instead, to help us though the socialist “now” and its “future”.

David Davis

Oh dear…. why?

David Davis

“Fast food outlets should be barred from opening near schools.”

Isn’t it enought that socialists have removed the content and taste from the lessons, for the poor little buggers? Do they have to do it to the food as well?

Hat tip Tim Worstall via Obnoxio the Clown.

If you have to turn all people into poor wrteched downtrodden sheeple, who agree with everything you say on Big Brother the Wireless Tele Vision, then at least let them have food which tastes of something.

It’s the socialists…..again

David Davis

India is climbing out of Ghandi-Nehru-induced barbarism and post-1947-reimposed-pre-British darkness, but the stalinists can’t have that. No, it can’t be allowed. For India to be a modern first-world nation will expose their dangerous irrelevance again, and a billion++++ people could be free, and for ever out of their control, if they are not careful. This stuff is no accident.

I just live to see the day when someone will say “thank you” to our civilisation. It is not this day, sadly, and Barack Obama is planning to postpone it for a very, very long time, and this really does matter, for he is about to, possibly drive the world’s most important polity for a few years, and I am very sad about that. (McCain would not be much better but the descent into the cesspool of oblivion and destruction,, under him, would take a bit longer.)

Rudyard Kipling wrote a story, once. Not really about India, but good anyway. Wayland Smith was free to go, as soon as someone thanked him, in the first chapter.

Fingerprinting of parents of nursery school children is of course, “not planned”.

David Davis

CICERO !!!

… = … Come in, Children, Eat, Relax, Obey……

I am astounded as usual, by the extent to which private outfits will sell rope to the hangmen.

As usual, Mr No-One, is planning to extend this scheme.In fact, more cleverly than is normally the case, he does not even get a mention.

Honeycomb Solutions (I bet you 50p that 90% of firms called “solutions” are hand-in-c*** glove with stalinist statists) says this. the article positively shimmers with all the statist planning buzzwords, and has prbably been written by the Department for Child Abuse Children (I expect there is one.)

As a Libertarian, one understands the concerns of the two parents of a child, for the wellbeing of their property, which is to say: the child. However, the fears of the majority about such things as abduction, molestation, paedophilia, assaults on children, and the like, all no more common now than 50 or 100 years ago, ought to be set aside in favour of the concern for civil liberty that this wedge-end-measure suggests will be the caes in more places in the future.

Who can say how long before it is used to prevent a “Fathers 4 Justice” father from getting his “kid” back from the State?

So why don’t we vote, then?

David Davis

The Landed Underclass comments sagely on why voting percentages have been falling like a stone for some years. If he’s got the right idea, then things are worse than we thought.

We in the LA used to sell a badge, in the early 1980s, in the Alternative Bookshop, whien we had a badge-making-machine. (I wonder what happened to it? It ought to be worth money and in a museum by now?)

One badge said:- “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal”.

Is the cavalry-charge of the Enemy Class, against mortal humans, out of control or is this sort of twaddle intended as “good Wireless Tele Vision”??

David Davis

Just look at the buggers. There’s a spat I hear, about one of them phoning some old guy about his grand-daughter. I’m sure it was “good broadcasting”. Now, I know jack-shit about slebs, not finding the Wireless Tele Vision News very helpful in my estimation of what’s happening to the planet – so I don’t watch it – at all at all at all. But these two have got to have been smoking or snorting something.

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Which one of the buggers is which? I do not know. Pray tell.

How are we going to re-encompass the regrowth of liberalism, if we have to contend with buggers like this, who contrive to upset people, for money, paid for by our taxation-take? What useful work could they do in a Libertarian nation, holding the beliefs they clearly do? I do not know.

What is to become of the BBC? What goes on these days is embarrassing to an old and civilised culture which thought it had given birth to it.

I am not suggesting that we ought to shoot all its directors, programme-controllers and major-presenters out-of-hand, against a wall in White City (a bit drastic I admit.) But ought a way to be found to curtail these Enemy Class excesses, while also removing the prohibition on ordinary British mortals from receiving RF signals?

Getting colder? Maybe.

David Davis

Useful stuff here.

I can’t think why the lefties always deny that the earth has no settled climate.

Perhaps all greenazis are climate-change-deniers, then?

Extreme Weather Alert: Meteorologists Predict Intensely Brisk Autumn

Surveillance and “management” … of what?

David Davis

I am indebted to Sofia for sending me the link to what’s below. Scary stuff when you integrate it all.

Libertarian Alliance showcase publication 20: Affirmative action, social terorism and trade Union freedom…

David Davis

http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn099.pdf

Dr Jean-Louis Caccomo, Affirmative Action, Social Terrorism, and Trades Union Freedom: The Failures of the Fallacious Concept Of ‘Social Justice’, 2003

Affirmative Action, Social Terrorism, and Trades Union Freedom: The Failures of the Fallacious Concept Of ‘Social Justice’
Dr Jean-Louis Caccomo

Economic Notes No. 99

ISSN 0267-7164                   ISBN 1 85637 570 6

An occasional publication of the Libertarian Alliance,
Suite 35, 2 Lansdowne Row, Mayfair, London W1J 6HL.

© 2003: Libertarian Alliance; Jean-Louis Caccomo.

Jean-Louis Caccomo is a lecturer in the Département des Sciences Économiques et de Gestion at the University of Perpignan, France. His speciality is economic dynamics and he wrote his thesis on the economic analysis of technological change.

The views expressed in this publication are those of its author, and
not necessarily those of the Libertarian Alliance, its Committee,
Advisory Council or subscribers.

FOR LIFE, LIBERTY AND PROPERTY

The tendency to confuse the rhetoric of racism and exclusion with the functioning of the market economy is a disturbing sign of deep intellectual regression and mental manipulation. The moral and philosophical foundation of market individualism is not a smug cult of blind egoism, but rather a commitment to judge individuals without regard to attributes such as skin colour, ethnic origin, religion, socio-economic status, or sex. An individualistic society refuses to consider people on the basis of such attributes, insisting that before one is a man or a woman, a peasant or a professor, black or white, blue or white collar, one is an individual.

As long as we hold supreme the value of the individual – a value which can neither be dissolved in a group nor reduced to the sum of specific attributes – a just society can only be founded on a respect for individual choice. Only a State of Rights can guarantee

Interesting

David Davis

From Freeborn John: Now, then: why would people in the Gaza Strip want a socialist to be the president of the USA, and why would they put themselves out to try to ensure this thing, since they can’t officially vote? I can’t think of a reason, can you?

If people who terrorize people into trying to influence other people whom tey don’t know and who could possibly liberate them, into not liberating them, then this sort of stuff is also the business of this blog to expose.

The coming boom

David Davis

Interesting perspective on Forbes.

How socialism serves the people

David Davis

from Newmania:-

In 1948 the first year of the NHS there were 480,000 hospital beds and 176,000 people on the waiting list. Today there are 167,000 beds and 1,283,100 on the waiting list.
Sun 2.7.08

It probably cost less than in 1948, oh, half a billion, say. Now it’s 80-odd billion, rising.

I wonder what he wants?

David Davis

Lord Mandyperson seems to think it’s OK for him to hobnob with “oligarchs” who have silly names, but not for George Os-boy to do so. Of course, if Lord Mandy does it, it’s for the good of the country”. I can’t, though, wuite see how it was “bad for the country”, if little Os-boy either stepped aboard the famed yacht, or talked about declining £50,000 for the Tories, or both.

Personally, I would say that giving the Tories £50,000 of foreign money to fight the stalinists with, would do slightly less harm to the lives of ordinary wretched individuals in Britain today that having Lord Mandy in the government (again….and again….and again…) Perhaps that’s why the buggers have latched onto this one, and it’s just the old Enemy Class doing its stuff to us.

Let’s make every british subject into a policeman, and then there won’t be any crime.

At all at all at all.

David Davis

Now, we will be faced with handheld fingerptint scanners. Then anyone who even mildly dipleases the every increasing occupying army of “More Policemen On The Beat” – whether they are real or artificial ones – will be able to have his pawprints forcibly taken, and deleted afterwards kept on file for ever and ever.

Truly, the solution must be to force everyone to be a Policeman – whether he will or no. Then we can all spy on each other all the time, for ever, and crime will be a thing of the past, even though there will be more indictable offences than ever before.

What good people we shall have become!

For freedom to flourish, we need liberty (as I keep saying.)

David Davis

Hayek particularised this relationship between whatever “State” authorities there may be, and individuals, by stating that “to be controlled in one’s economic pursuits…..is to be controlled in everything”.

Today we learn that the Forestry Commission, a body statist to its very fibre (no pun intended) from its inception to its present activities, is to terminate ancient rights of individuals to collect fallen timber and dead wood for any purpose, on the grounds of “health and safety.”

I am not convinced that the right is enshrined in Magna Carta, as my copy does not appear to explicitly state it. But the point is that this is a symbolic act by a “big statist” QUANGO, designed further to separate individuals from victimless rights, which is to say natural ones as we have always described. it is nothing to do with “political correctness gone mad” – as if PC was something designed to help civilisations operate sanely and rationally anyway.

No: the plan to forbid people from gathering their own dead wood, instead “licensing” “local timber merchants” to sell it to them, merely is another act in the sordid sham of “bringing government closer to the people it serves”. Just like death-camps “served” the Jews and others under another socialist state I shan’t mention: government was brought closer to them than was good for their health and well-being.

Like my post the other day, on the true importance and meaning of revising history with regard to Agincourt (and why what the French revisionist historians are doint is TOTALLY relevant to the fight for liberty) what the Forestry-gauleiters are up to is yet another little detailed skirmish in the long retreat of liberty from the lives of ordinary people.

This gradual confiscation is designed to make it harder and harder for us to climb back out of the Dark Age in store for us, to a state where real Natural Rights can again be exercised in a minimal-statist environment. Successful conferences like ours which has just closed in London last night, will do great good in firing up the officers of libertarianism for the future. But officers are no use unless the “lesser folk”, for whom it is all about in the end, and of whom there are many many millions, understand what’s at stake, and how to use liberal philosophy to combat petty local assaults on natural rights.

Grand think-pieces will not be forgotten. But, in the even grander strategic context of British libertarian thought and tactics for re-engineering liberty for humans, this blog will increasingly take the role of exposer of petty, nasty, bureaucratic destruction of liberties, especially ancient ones.

Awards at the Libertarian Alliance conference. Brian is too modest.

David Davis

There was another one….

Congrats to old Brian, on his Lifetime Achievement Award. Via the Devil.

Agincourt and WW1: different enemies for different reasons. If libertarianism is not about defending what these old men think they fought for, then it is nothing.

David Davis

I have been garotted, in the last 48 hours or so, for writing about why it’s important to think about past battles of the English against large enemies who wanted us all dead for the wrong reasons, and what the impications are and were for the survival of libery for individuals.

All tyrants want the English dead. It ought not to be surprosing at all, at all at all. And their reasons are, naturally, wrong, for we are right. But without English liberalism there will be no libertarianism.

Here’s one of the very last articles that you will  ever read, about what my old man used to call “The Poor Old Chaps”. File it for historical purposes. It’s nearly Remembrance Sunday, and as these guys pass out of our lives and into memory, make a little note of them. Libertarian conferences are all very well and nice, but I don’t think we’d have been having any at all (at all at all) if things had been different by the end of the Third World War*** in 1991.

***First = 1752-1759

***second = 1793-1815

***third = 1899-1991