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  • BRITISH BILL OF RIGHTS? SEAN GABB PUTS ONE FORWARD (I thought I’d add to it.) —

    http://thelibertarianalliance.com/2015/05/10/a-draft-bill-of-rights-for-the-united-kingdom/A BRITISH BILL OF RIGHTS? SEAN GABB PUTS ONE FORWARD

    (I thought I’d add to it.)



    Sean, Thoughts as I have them given Epstein, Hayek, and what we have seen in the states…

    a) No law shall be applied retroactively (no law no crime, no law no fine, no law no fee)

    b) Specify that unreasonable time be determined independent of the resources or constraints of the courts. (this will solve the vast majority of problems)

    c) Search and seizure does not prohibit freezing of assets, and it must, since this has gotten out of control in the states. American courts abuse this to starve you or impoverish you into submission.

    d) All persons acting in a crown capacity: police, administration, and judiciary, are required to speak the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, at all times. Police in america are incentivized to lie and have become very good at it.

    e) Prohibit entrapment. This has gotten out of hand in the states.

    f) Jury nullification for unjust laws. (Obvious)

    h) Separate violent and non violent offenders. Use single person cells if cells are required.

    g) Restore Libel Defamation and Slander (unless statements are true)

    h) prohibition upon infringement not violation.

    If possible (hard to swallow):

    i) universal standing in cases of violation of these (BoR) rights ( meaning that one need not be harmed, only possess direct knowledge of an infringement of these rights. If one possesses direct knowledge and does not act to prosecute infringement, then one is a conspiracy to the infringement.)

    j) all persons engaged in the administration of the law: police, administration and judiciary are personally liable for their actions, and must possess private insurance (bonds) to perform their duties.

    Sean Gabb’s Original Post:


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:33:00 UTC

  • END OF FREE SPEECH. THE SACREDNESS OF LYING. —Second, the constant social pres

    http://www.newmarksdoor.com/mainblog/2015/05/free-speech-in-peril.htmlTHE END OF FREE SPEECH. THE SACREDNESS OF LYING.

    —Second, the constant social pressure of having to monitor everything you say, lest some unguarded politically incorrect utterance loses you friends, dates, status, or even employment makes for (pardon the fifties’ expression) boring conformists, apparatchiks afraid to think for themselves—quite the opposite of the sturdily independent, resourceful, thoughtful, plainspoken, and creative character that used to be the American ideal. Take the case of Smith College president Kathleen McCartney, who joined her students’ “shared fury,” she said, as “we raise our voices in protest” against the grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island. Trouble is, she raised her voice in the wrong slogan, declaring that “All lives matter,” when the approved chant was “Black lives matter.” How could she be so disgracefully discriminatory in her nondiscrimination? her scandalized undergraduates exploded. A modern college president may be the very definition of an apparatchik, but there is something humiliating to human nature in the cringingly self-abasing apology that McCartney fairly sobbed out, without even having to be carted off in a dunce cap to a reeducation camp, as if she were her own Maoist cultural-revolutionary commissar. What would it take to make characters like this pull the lever at Treblinka?—

    FROM

    http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_2_free-speech.html

    VIA:

    http://www.newmarksdoor.com/mainblog/2015/05/free-speech-in-peril.html


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:23:00 UTC

  • OK…. I give in. I want my Porsche. I want open highways. I want to feel spring

    OK…. I give in. I want my Porsche. I want open highways. I want to feel spring. I want to see the equinox from a beach. I want to go to a concert. I want service from a waiter who understands grace. I want my Italian leather couch and chair, and my dutch antiques, and my german china.

    I am even willing to tolerate the painfully inane ignorance of americans, and the sight of the disintegration of western civilization – at least for a week or two.

    Sigh.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 10:07:00 UTC

  • I’m going to start a petition to declare Ukrainian women our national treasure.

    I’m going to start a petition to declare Ukrainian women our national treasure.

    Seriously


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 08:11:00 UTC

  • OMG IT FEELS GOOD TO WRITE AGAIN I love my product, I love my staff, I love my f

    OMG IT FEELS GOOD TO WRITE AGAIN

    I love my product, I love my staff, I love my friends and family. But if I don’t write then I must constantly face the foolishness of the world without an outlet for my frustrations.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 06:45:00 UTC

  • THEORY OF RELIGION I haven’t found this book before, and found it today by accid

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0813523303/AXIOMATIC THEORY OF RELIGION

    I haven’t found this book before, and found it today by accident. It doesn’t seem to be terribly popular. But it’s appendix is structured very much like propertarianism.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 06:01:00 UTC

  • OUR INTER-TEMPORAL DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, COGNITION, KNOWLEDGE AND LABOR Is thi

    OUR INTER-TEMPORAL DIVISION OF PERCEPTION, COGNITION, KNOWLEDGE AND LABOR

    Is this the correct spectrum? hmm……

    UTOPIAN (progressive) verbal/gossip/short term…

    …………TECHNICAL (libertarian) scientific/exchange/medium term…

    ………………………..TRADITIONAL (conservative) normative/force/long term


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 04:19:00 UTC

  • The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit

    —The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.—

    Bertolt Brecht. Life of Galileo


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-11 00:53:00 UTC

  • BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST —The general Marxian theory of “universal hist

    BURNHAM: WHY I AM NOT A MARXIST

    —The general Marxian theory of “universal history,” to the extent that it has any empirical content, seems to me disproved by modern historical and anthropological investigation.—

    —Marxian economics seems to me for the most part either false or obsolete or meaningless in application to contemporary economic phenomena. Those aspects of Marxian economics which retain validity do not seem to me to justify the theoretical structure of the economics.—

    —Not only do I believe it meaningless to say that “socialism is inevitable” and false that socialism is “the only alternative to capitalism”; I consider that on the basis of the evidence now available to us a new form of exploitive society (which I call “managerial society”) is not only possible but is a more probable outcome of the present than socialism….—

    —On no ideological, theoretic or political ground, then, can I recognize, or do I feel, any bond or allegiance to the Workers Party (or to any other Marxist party). That is simply the case, and I can no longer pretend about it, either to myself or to others.—


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 14:02:00 UTC

  • IF LIBERALS WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE WE SHOULD HELP THEM. IT’s that simple. But we

    IF LIBERALS WANT TO COMMIT SUICIDE WE SHOULD HELP THEM.

    IT’s that simple. But we do not have to let them destroy us as well.


    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-10 13:54:00 UTC