Saturday
I hate the use of the word 'public' as a synonym for 'government'. The government is the government and the public is what is not the government.
But I am not here to save the English language, I am here to save the planet.
- Leon Louw, at today's Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International conference in London
True and good words.
I hope they made an impression on the young people attending the conference - young people who will certainly not have been told such things at school or university.
Posted by Paul Marks at October 28, 2007 05:40 PM
Louw's entire lecture - on how to privately own the open seas - was brillant. Actually, pretty much everything that man writes is great to read. And he gave yesterday's talk while suffering jetlag after having just got off a long flight from Cape Town, where he lives.
Posted by Johnathan Pearce at October 28, 2007 09:19 PM
I thought Leon Louw's talk was amazing. To have been messed around by two governments, suffering jetlag, giving the lecture at a time much earlier than he was expecting, plus technological hold ups, that he gave such an incredibly informative and witty talk was brilliance.
Posted by Richard Garner at October 29, 2007 03:02 PM
Jetlag? from Capetown? I was under the impression that Capetown was on GMT. I could understand if he was tired from a long flight, but that's not jetlag.
Feel free to correct me, the pedant needs to know when he is wrong so that he may be more right in future :)
Posted by mandrill at October 31, 2007 01:20 AM
A brilliant man, I wish I could have been there.
The problem is that not only the politicians, but also the News / MSM folk, want "the public" to be the same as "the gov't". This false equivalence is a problem.
Posted by Tom Grey - Liberty Dad at November 1, 2007 04:31 AM
