Robert Stark
Sean Gabb is the director of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK
Topics include:
- The objectives of the Libertarian Alliance
- The divide between establishment libertarians and traditionalist leaning libertarians
- How there were originally laws against the publication of pornography under the Obscene Publications Act but there were no laws about possession
- How today the publication of pornography has become widespread but there are strict laws about possession such as the Extreme Pornography Act
- How laws dealing with possession give enormous power to the police state
- Hate speech laws in the UK
- The case of Joshua Bonehill-Paine who planned an anti-Jewish rally and was sentenced to three years in prison
- How the BNP membership was leaked and how many of it’s members who were government employees were sacked
- Sean Gabb – Enoch Powell. The Man and His Politics
- How the Labor Party imported a new electorate
- How a balkanized country makes it more difficult to cooperate against the state
- Whether only Europeans can create free societies
- The Basic Income
- The debate about whether wealth used to corrupt politics and generated by crony capitalism should be confiscated
- Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost Lost England and How to Get It Back
- Double Jeopardy laws in the UK and how they were dumped after the Murder of Stephen Lawrence
- Police Brutality in the UK
- The Legacy of Margaret Thatcher
- His historical fiction written under the pen name Richard Blake and his most recent book Game of Empires
- His interest in the Byzantine Empire which is the setting of many of his novels
- How the Byzantine Empire was a much more free and humane society than the Roman Empire
One correction Sean, the age for child pornography is 18, not 16.
Thanks. I thought the 1988 and 93 Acts specified 16. So you can legally have sex at 16, but not film yourself doing it!
Changed by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which created the above mess in which a photo of your naked 17 year old girlfriend or wife is “child pornography”. Done to bring us in line with the American Puritans via an (American authored) UN agreement, whose official name escapes me right now (same international agreement type as those anti-smoking ones).
The Act was such a mess that it specifically specified 16 as the age of consent, but then was issued with “guidance” declaring that under no circumstances should the law as written be enforced if both participants are under 16. Everyone was so distracted by the hullabaloo over lowering the age of consent for gays, nobody much noticed the other parts, like making Page 3 photos of Samantha Fox et al into retrospective kiddie pr0n.
I expect it to be lurched upwards to 21 at some point, there are regular rumblings about that in the States, on the basis of protecting college-age girls from exploitation, blah de blah.
A knowledge of the Law can be such a cheering thing!
It’s worth adding that a more recent law applied the same age of consent at 18 to drawings.
Sean
If look on the net the Bonehill bloke has been goading TPTB for several years and has had ASBOs etc for several years. It is this that they are pushing rather than a first offence cartoon publication. Still an attack on free speech but not quite as overt as one time publish=jail.
Just because someone begs for martyrdom is no reason for giving it.
Well there goes my defence of Mary Tudor out of the window…
IanB: OT but this might interest you–if you have not seen it already. It relates how the temperance movement was a part of stopping alcohol from competing with petrol in the early 20th Century.
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