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The Scottish Parliament has just done what unfettered democratic institutions do: make the prejudices of the majority into laws backed by violence to suppress minority view points. They have now banned fox hunting in Scotland, refusing even to compensate the people who will lose their livelihoods as a result. On the later point I am actually glad as the immoral viscousness of this statist intrusion is made all the more stark to see.
Until people start to respond in kind and impose a physical cost on such actions by the state, and on supporters of such actions, it is unlikely much will change. Given the complete lack of viable political opposition to the socialist Labour and National Socialist SNP in Scotland, it is horrifying that only Sinn Fein, a grotesque organisation whose objectives are antithetical to liberty, provides the only viable model for friends of liberty who wish to oppose the increasingly repressive intrusions of the state.
I hope that if evil days should come upon our own country, and the last army which a collapsing Empire could interpose between London and the invader were dissolving in rout and ruin, that there would be some, even in these modern days, who would not care to accustom themselves to a new order of things and tamely survive the disaster.
– Winston S. Churchill
Peace!
Stay off my back
Or I will attack
And you don’t want that!
– Snap (from I’ve got the Power)
…and Snap really was the lyrical Jessie James.
Turning to Communism for fear of Fascism is like suicide for fear of death
– Perry de Havilland
Real free trade would mean no subsidies, no trade taxes, no loan guarantees, and, for Heaven’s sake, no bailouts of foreign banks and governments.
– Lew Rockwell
Any one who migrates to Windows XP must be a very trusting soul. Pathologically trusting in fact. An excellent InfoWorld article (via Instapundit) demonstrates why if you have Win XP you are more or less granting Microsoft access to whatever they deem their business on your hard drive any time you connect that Windows XP machine to the Internet.
Use Linux, Unix, Macintosh, Windows 98 or Windows 2000…hell, use DOS if you must but for goodness sake stay away from Windows XP unless you think it is just fine and dandy for a company not known for its benevolence to have a access to your data in the pursuit of their interests. You will not even know when they are looking or what they have downloaded to your machine ‘for security’ (their security, not yours). Bill Gates already has quite enough money to live happily ever after, he does not need any more of yours. Friends don’t let friends buy Windows XP.
And while we are on the subject, don’t forget to regularly check out Privacy Digest if you happen to think your business is your business.
Just because we libertarians deplore the state’s intrusions does not mean we give the Mega-Corporations a free ride.
Nobody wants to get shot with any sort of pistol, which brings us around to the first principle of gun fighting, which is “Have a gun!”
– Jeff Cooper
You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
– Alphonse Capone
Freedom without opportunity is a devil’s gift
– Noam Chomsky
The devil’s gift is the granting of ‘opportunity’ as the excuse to limit freedom
– Perry de Havilland
Whatsoever, for any cause,
Seeketh to take or give
Power above or beyond the Laws,
Suffer it not to live!
Holy State or Holy King –
Or Holy People’s Will –
Have no truck with the senseless thing.
Order the guns and kill!
– Rudyard Kipling, extract from “MacDonough’s Song”
Sent in by a certain fellow Illuminatus with the following excellent remarks:
Doubtless a lot of you at the Samizdata gang know Kipling and perhaps particularly “MacDonough’s Song”, a sort of ancient libertarian cyberpunk chant from the dawn of the 20th century. If not I’ve attached the entire text, which is entirely consistent with our philosophy.
Quite! Back in Samizdata’s paleolithic era, there was a run of Kipling quotes both here and on Natalie Solent‘s blog.
At least the ones which are not so alarming that I do not want to show them!
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Great Moments in Capitalist History: on this day in 1824 J. W. Goodrich introduced rubber galoshes to the public.
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