An investor of a company well known to us is being sued: the classic tactics of a certain over the edge group. Read this. Make sure you save a personal copy of the page.
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November 8th, 2002 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
 The Law of Unintended Consequences is a popular one with libertarians seeking to highlight how government rules and actions have perverse consequences. So it was interesting to watch British parliamentarians being reminded about the perverse side-effects of government rules at a committee hearing at the House of Commons this afternoon. A government-appointed adviser, Alan Pickering, was pointing out to MPs that legislation such as the 1995 Pensions Act, introduced after the Robert Maxwell scandal in the early 1990s, has in fact simply encouraged many firms to shut down pension schemes for their workers. “This is a classic example of the law of unintended consequences,” he told MPs. Quite. Interesting to watch as MPs listened to this point with expressions of blank incomprehension. You could imagine this thought going through their heads: “You mean that our desire to better Mankind might backfire? Who would have thought it?” November 6th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. November 5th, 2002 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. November 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
The Samizdata.net One Year Gathering last night seemed the perfect chance to get the ‘Global Conspiracy’ moving forward again… 
We had everything required for a conspiracy by sinster globalist illuminati:
However it proved hard to keep the conspirators focused on the job at hand
Very hard, in fact
It did not help that there were many distractions
But we did achieve something… we proved that Andrew Dodge not only wears his leather kilt in ‘true Scottish style’, someone has autographed his posterior! November 3rd, 2002 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
We updated to a newer release of Movable Type around 1800 GMT today. If you commented on something around that time and it was lost during the shuffle, please accept our apologies! November 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Anyone who has had the misfortune to have seen many examples of Modern ‘Art’ recently can only concur with the British politician who described this year’s Turner Prize exhibits as “bullshit”. Ok, not terribly polite, but a wonderfully lucid and accurate description of what is on display. Can we hope for similarly salty descriptions of the EU as a “crooked empire”, the British education system as a “Soviet disaster zone” from the UK’s political masters? November 2nd, 2002 | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder November 2nd, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul November 1st, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
November 1st, 2002 | One comment - (Comments are closed)
A protester against a possible war against Iraq is urging fellow-minded people to observe a 24-hour period of total silence as a way of registering their views. It is tempting to mock, but this writer cannot help feeling that if 99 percent of so-called peace activists took a Trappist monk-like vow of silence, the rest of us who do think there is a case for ridding the world of Saddam would be grateful. Come on you Ted Ralls, Robert Fisks, Michael Moores – shut your traps. October 30th, 2002 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
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