The Libertarian Alliance (LA) was formed in 1967 and is Britain’s most radical free market and civil liberties think tank – hosting the world’s second largest libertarian web site after the CATO Institute in Washington, DC.
The LA currently has nearly 800 pamphlets in print and has published more than 150 authors. It has attracted widespread press and media interest, and has been at the forefront of establishing libertarian ideas as an important part of modern political discourse.
Dr Sean Gabb, the Director of the Libertarian Alliance, speaks regularly on the Television, and on the radio, in current affairs programmes and where comment is required. On Monday 16th february 2009, he massively upset a few people at Conservative-Future, giving a speech about the extent (large) to which the Tory Party on gaining power – as it might – should slash the size of the British State, including totally abolishing the BBC and taking it off air terminally.
The Purpose and Strategy of the Libertarian Alliance was published as LA Tactical Notes No.1 in 1981 and is available on this web site. It remains the best introductory guide to the organisation by underlining its primary purpose to explain radical free market ideas to members of the public be they students, journalists, businessmen, academics, government officials or anyone else interested in the future.
Building up an influential network of free market scholars and commentators throughout the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and beyond, has enabled the Libertarian Alliance to become the major global publishing operation that it is.
Dr Chris R. Tame, Founder and first Director of the Libertarian Alliance, died in March 2006. He was succeeded by Dr Timothy Evans and Dr Sean Gabb, who as President and Director, now jointly run the organisation.
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eevaclayton // 28 February, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Could you please tell me why the american chemical agro industry is using acrylamide in their soil . Is it so that they can open new cancer clinics, as they are doing . This agent is I believe a nazi pre war medium, used on the jews . Am I right? I believe one of the nerve agents is acrylamide . The food showing high levels of acrylamide, I don’t believe are being produced naturely, as the powers to be want us to believe. If this is correct I believe they are breaking the treaty geneva protocal
David Davis // 29 February, 2008 at 10:08 am
Acrylamide is a fairly harmless mmonomer for use in plastics. It has no function in “soil”, and does nothing there.
“Acrylaldehyde”, known to us chemists as Acrolein, is a normal by-product of frying food that contains protein, which is more or less all foods.
The Nazis did not know about either of these chemicals, although german chemists, frequently Jewish and therefore likely to have been elsewhere by then, probably characterised the compounds since German pre-war science was highly regarded and very advanced.
Acrylamide is not a “nerve agent”. Nor is acrylaldehyde.
The chemial used to cause death in gas chambers was “Zyklon-B.” There is a very large wikipedia entry about it if you would like to know more. Alternatively, “Einsatzgruppen” used to herd people into trucks, lock the doors, and pump in the exhaust gases from the engine, simple as that, and equally effective. There were so many peope to kill, and so little time. Perhaps george W Bushitler stages the 9/11 disaster to hide his einsatz activities against poor blacks in new Orleans? I do not know. Do you?
What do you mean by “the powers”?
The “Geneva protocol” is to do with agreed (or not) conduct of soldiers in war, towards combatants and civilians.
eevaclayton // 27 May, 2008 at 12:36 am
acrylamide is a known neurotoxin . You can find out about the effects of acrylamide poisoning. Acrylamide is not allowed into our food , however it arrives by agricultural means . Acrrylonitrile is the purcusor for making acrylamide . Yes it came to north america by way of germany in 1953 , and was being tested by a german chemist by the name of herbst in 1926. It is a poison.
Nick Danger // 30 October, 2008 at 3:55 pm
Hey, I’ve been to several meetings of the Libertarian Alliance and didn’t see any of you people!
James Halifax // 30 October, 2008 at 5:25 pm
There are two such Alliances, you know. Perhaps you went to the
wrongother one.David Davis // 20 February, 2009 at 9:02 pm
There are two. We are on ordinary friendly terms with the other one, and many people in the UK are members of both groups. This is fine by us and them. We broadly work for the same objectives, and that’s better than what the Marxists do to each other.
Colin Leakey // 29 October, 2009 at 9:18 pm
It is true that Keynes misunderstood ” The Prof” aka A.C. Pigou, whose short biography or Memoir by John Saltmarsh and Patrick Wilkinsion was published by Kings College in 1960. Although Keynes’ attack on Marshall hurt Pigou. ..it was this episode ( ie impiety towards Marshall) ” in no sence caused a breach between these two men”. Pigou’s influence in relation to theory of employment and welfare merit revisitation. Whether Libertarians like it or not, Welfare matters: Then and now. ( CLAL Kings colllege1955-59 )