Over the years it has become apparent to me that to discount the position of others on the basis of their number is democratically sound but morally wrong. It’s this feeling that has brought me, and others like me, to samizdata and to a consideration of libertarianism.
– JohnJo
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October 31st, 2003 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
 Woe to those who enact evil statutes, and to those who constantly record unjust decisions, so as to deprive the needy of justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their rights, in order that widows may be their spoil, and that they may plunder the orphans. October 25th, 2003 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)
All I advocate is that the free market is the only known method of solving the calculational problem of allocating work to those talents that can engage in it most productively. The free market means in practice comfort, prosperity and abundance for all economically as well as maximising the sphere of personal autonomy within which we can enjoy our liberty and prosperity. Attempts to find other solutions to this key social problem have always been failures, practically and conceptually. October 22nd, 2003 | 20 comments - (Comments are closed)
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can’t get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods. October 15th, 2003 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
Says Alice:
And here it is:
What a series that was. October 15th, 2003 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 9th, 2003 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Poverty is a miracle, created by governments October 3rd, 2003 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
I think our attitude toward America should change … we have a chance, in America, to be the moral leadership of America. The problem is when? It will happen, it will happen [Allah willing], I have no doubt in my mind, Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you, either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I [think] if we are outside this country we can say ‘Oh, Allah destroy America,’ but once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it. September 30th, 2003 | 49 comments - (Comments are closed)
Whenever a politician starts talking about “the children”, keep one eye on your wallet and the other on your liberty. September 29th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
The humbling of the WTO not only worsens economic prospects for the developing countries (as well as for the rest of the world) but also shifts the balance of global political power from poor to rich – perhaps decisively, and who knows for how many years. That is what the developing countries’ champions are so busy celebrating. September 23rd, 2003 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
— Former UN weapons inspector Richard Butler, via Glenn, to whom Samizdata remains loyal. September 20th, 2003 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
— Salam Pax, summarising how quite a lot of us actually feel, writing in the Guardian. Actually, go read the whole thing. The descriptions of how the Ba’athists attempted to censor the internet and how people got around it that follow are quite interesting. September 9th, 2003 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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