Lighting the flame of freedom, one cigar at a time
The Telegraph reports that Arnie is converting the Capitol’s inner courtyard into an “all-weather smoking plaza”...
And who said he wouldn’t do anything useful as governor? Let’s hope that sends the PC anti-smoking facists into the throes of narcoleptic fits.
Comments are off for this postBBC censors Dr Sean Gabb
NEWS RELEASE FROM THE LIBERTARIAN ALLIANCE
In Association with the Libertarian International
London, Monday 16th February 2004
Contact Details: Sean Gabb, 07956 472 199, sean@libertarian.co.uk
And Chris R. Tame, 07957 644 519, chris@libertarian.co.uk
For other contact and link details, www.libertarian.co.uk/news/nr015.htm
BBC CENSORS DISCUSSION OF MULTICULTURALISM:
Shuts off Microphones on Libertarian Alliance Spokesman
Today, Dr Sean Gabb, Director of Communications for the Libertarian
Alliance, was invited to take part in a discussion of multiculturalism
on the BBC World Service. Also taking part was Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, a
regular columnist for The Independent. Dr Gabb was taken off air just
half-way into the discussion and told he was no longer required.
Gabb Speaks
The Libertarian Alliance is urgently seeking a tape of the discussion,
with a view to lodging a formal complaint against the BBC, which is
funded by a compulsory levy on all homes which have a television set.
For the moment, here, quoted from memory, are some of Dr Gabb’s comments
on air:
“I do not necessarily object if people want to come to this country to
look for a new life. I do object if they want this at my expense – at my
expense as a tax payer, and at the expense of the constitutional rights
which are my birthright.”
“Every so often, someone stands up and tells us what benefits we have
had from diversity. Such may be, but we must also consider that part of
the price has been a police state. In this country, we have severe
restrictions on freedom of speech, on freedom of association and on
freedom of contract – all in the name of good race relations.”
“The Libertarian Alliance believes in repealing all the race relations
laws and in shutting down the Commission for Racial Equality.”
Mrs Brown’s Racist Attack
When Yasmin Alibhai-Brown objected that this would remove all controls
on racial attacks and on discrimination, Dr Gabb replied:
“Yasmin, are you saying that the white majority in this country is so
seething with hatred and discontent that it is only restrained by law
from rising up and tearing all the ethnic minorities to pieces?”
Her answer was yes, though she seemed to think better of this answer
immediately after. She did not deny that the white population was only
kept in line by criminal laws to restrain them from attacking ethnic
minorities. When Dr Gabb asked if she seriously believed he wanted to
murder her, his microphone was turned off and he was “released” from his
engagement with 20 minutes of discussion still to run.
Recline, Female-gendered Person, Recline
Diane Ravitch in Opinion Journal:
A college professor informed me that a new textbook in human development includes the following statement: “As a folksinger once sang, how many roads must an individual walk down before you can call them an adult.” The professor was stupefied that someone had made the line gender-neutral and ungrammatical by rewriting Bob Dylan’s folk song “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which had simply asked: “How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man?”1 comment
