I apolgize for my error.

What you are saying is that many people still believe in liberty – and that they can cooperate together to defeat statism.

It was my first trip to the Capital, after moving as part of the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org/). There were a couple thousand people at the state house, giving testimony and submitting cards showing their opinion of the new legislation. Almost none of them were in favor.

I concluded, upon seeing the crowd and hearing their passion on the subject, that my decision to become a Porcupine was a good one.

That’s how we expats cope with the demands of the local immigration authorities and it works fine. Remember bureaucrats want an easy life like anyone else. Supply them with complete documentation and all their boxes ticked so they can show they did their job and everyone’s happy.

The mindset of Whitehall was revealed by a civil servant at the Home Office at the time of yet another futile crackdown on the legal ownership of firearms: “Controls are good.” That’s what they think. That’s what they all think, at all times and in all circumstances. If they did not think that, they would not be able to function in the mind numbing, brain dead, intellectual wasteland of the British bureaucratic state.

If people have to fill in endless forms and deal with Civil Servants and Local Government Officers they will just give up.

The ordinary British people are just no good at such things – no matter how good they may be at such little things as educating their children, inventing and manufacturing new products, and so on and so on.

Once the paper work and the officals come in, the activity (social, economic, or educational) is doomed.

As for freedom of speech.

Of course this whole policy (by the aptly named Mr “Badman”) is about CRUSHING free speech and freedom generally.

The idea that the government in charge of perhaps the worst “eduction system” in the Western World is to set itself up as the judge of home schooling is absurd.

And the idea that this is to prevent “child abuse” is a lie.

http://www.politics.co.uk/opinion-formers/press-releases/children-and-family/voice-renews-calls-for-nanny-registration-$1303425$366260.htm

Surely this falls under the scope of Protocol 1, Article 2 of the ECHR, which would prevent the Government from forcibly educating children according to its agenda?

Probably not in practice. Compulsory school attendance is fairly mainstream on the continent. If schools are not always state run, they are usually state approved.