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Liberal? What Does That Mean? by Ian R Thorpe.
What is a liberal? Is it something to do with the kind of politically correct thinking that obsesses over minority rights while seeking to marginalise mainstream society? Is liberalism an authoritarian system that seeks to impose politically correct left wing ideology on everybody. Or is a liberal, as is argued here, a very respectable political postion whose name has been usurped by people reluctant to acknowledge their inner Nazi.

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by Ian R Thorpe.
2010-09-19
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KEYWORDS: liberal, libertarian, libertine, left, politically correct, politics, socialist, human, rights, minority, minorities, gay, sexual, race, racist, freedom, philosophy

Many commentators are saying the terms right and left are no longer relevant in modern politics. There is certainly plenty of evidence to support this view from the Labour government recently ejected by UK voters with their authoritarian attitudes, obsessions with surveillance and control of information and their penchant for passing legislation on matters of personal choice, behaviour and morality to the U.S.A's Obama administration and their determination to ram down the throats of a hostile majority laws that while claimed to be about minority rights are aimed at giving minorities privileged status.

In the United States of course words like socialist and left belong to the politics that dare not speak its name. So America's authoritarian left refer to themselves as 'liberals.'

This brings me, a lifelong classical liberal, to the point of most personal concern, the devaluation of the word liberal. When was liberalism anything to do with the political techniques of Josef Goebbels or the policies of Josef Stalin? When did liberalism, the political philosophy founded on the ideas of John Locke and developed by thinkers such as Thomas Paine, Mary Woolstonecroft and John Stuart Mill ever have anything to to with big government, the constant expansion of the public sector and the creation of a dependency culture among the lower orders?

To discuss this, one must first define what what 'liberal' means. is. Some would content that in these days of free markets in language and meanings of words being variable at the whim of solipsists 'liberal' is just a synonym of "libertarian". Nothing could be further from the truth. Although it is possible to be both a liberal in the traditional sense and a libertarian these things are very different although the difference is perhaps too subtle to be understood by those who confuse libertarianism with libertinism.

If we stay with true libertarians for now these fall into two camps, the ultra-individual, "don't tread on me" types, often the shrillest advocates of the "all tax is theft" mantra while being simultaneously the noisiest advocates of maintaining big military capabilities. These people are truly libertines, they demand total personal freedom but do not accept that others should have the same rights. The more positive and more interesting libertarian position however is that of the people who, while considering all tax is a monstrous imposition accept that taxation is necessary and who desire the greatest amount of freedom possible but understand that freedom comes with responsibilities.

The problem we have is in seeing where the line is drawn between libertarianism and anarchy, not anarchy in the popular sense but in the true sense. Think of the relationship between these words, monarchy, oligarchy, anarchy.The exception is democracy or to be correct timocracy because what we have in the developed world is not government of the people, by the people, for the people but government by those who control the flow of money.

The belief that has always kept me a liberal and a libertarian is that although when the word is now used by Obama supporting, hate mongering Democrats in the USA or Labour supporting neo-Nazis in the UK it becomes an insult to every true liberal principle, in the end I believe in the ability of individuals to decide for themselves the best course on which to set their lives in order to pursue personal fulfillment.

To put it in simple terms I am a liberal not through moral or philosophical dogma, but because I believe that a liberal nation, a libertarian nation rather than an authoritarian state is the best way to achieve, to borrow a phrase from Jeremy Bentham, "The greatest good of the greatest number."

How does the populist authoritarianism of politicians like Tony Blair and Barack Obama fail that test then, how do they fall so far short of achieving the greatest number that one has the impression they must have been deliberately aiming for the worst outcome for everybody.

First there is the replacement of political philosophy with marketing psychology. Look at the language they use. The words 'fair' and derivatives such as 'fairer' and fairness' are so overused by politicians that realists reach sick for the sick bucket every time we hear them. Not so the supporters of populist authoritarianism, they cap their hand gleefully and sigh ecstatically.

"Fairness, who could not agree with that, who could support unfairness, only the truly mean spirited and curmudgeonly could be against fairness," they tell themselves.

Were that the case there would be a massive majority of mean spirited curmudgeons in every democracy. In fact through misuse and overuse fair has become as meaningless as 'liberal','left' or 'right'. I think Nick Clegg, leader of the UK Liberal Democrat party illustrated the point perfectly during the General Election campaign earlier this year. In a speech he gave at a hospital Clegg told his audience if he became Prime Minister under his government Britain his government would make Britain a fairer place.

The podium from which he spoke was placed outside a Children's cancer ward. Even Clegg's worst enemy could not have picked a more inappropriate location for talk of fairness than a place that more than any other illustrates life will never be fair and to make it so is way beyond our abilities.

The conundrum then is how does a liberal government go about creating a system that protects the weak and vulnerable from "the heartache and the thousand shocks flesh is heir to," as Hamlet put it without encroaching on personal liberties?

It should be easy but the public sector always performs extremely badly at the tasks assigned to it. Why do public servants perform badly? Simply because they have an incentive to do so. There is no end product, revenue from sales does not have to fund wages and if, for electoral reasons, taxes cannot be raised to cover shortfalls, money can always be borrowed to cover the deficit. Thus there is no brake on the creation of labyrinthine bureaucracies in which none of the departments seem capable of even communicating let alone collaborating. Parkinson's first law of ergonomics states that the volume of work expands to fill the time available to do it. In this era of de - industrialization with a constantly expanding pool of workers for whom the private sector (the wealth creating sector) has no need it is inevitable that the bureaucracy will expand.

And with the authority of the law and the power of the state behind them it is also inevitable that the state's servants will want to reach into and regulate every aspect of our lives. They have already made great advances in taking over the raising of our children, turning them into homogenized little conformists instead of the bright, confident, sometimes smart-mouthed individuals most of us hoped our children would be, they have taken over workplace relationships and are trying to regulate personal relationships. The UK's hate law, which did not go through under Labour and is likely to be thrown out by the Conservative / Lib Dem Coalition or, more likely, quietly dropped by its sponsors contained a clause to the effect that if a person of a minority felt they had been abused there could be no defence. Accusation would have been proof of guilt. So people could be dismissed and prosecuted for racial, gender or religious for saying "Good morning" in a way a minority member did not like.

No liberal would ever deny anybody a fair hearing whatever their offence, no liberal would ever support a law that effectively takes us back to the days when "the word of a gentleman" was enough evidence for a commoner to be convinced of a serious crime. The only difference with the modern law is that now it is not the word of a gentleman but the word of any identity politics player.

The real problem for traditional liberals, those whose ideas are based on the teachings of Locke, David Hume, Thomas Paine, J. S. Mill and other enlightenment thinkers rather than on Lenin, Goebbels and Mao Tse Tung is how in a world that increasingly makes a virtue of selfishness and rewards self interest does one reconcile the demands of modern living with the principles of liberalism or libertarianism.

I personally am not anti-state but I am anti-big-state, I believe the government had no business spending taxpayers money on telling people what they should eat, how much alcohol they can drink without fear of finding essential medical services (for which they have paid through taxation) being withdrawn or where and when they can smoke a cigarette if they so desire. I am also increasingly appalled by the obsession with minorities that consumes those most illiberal of people, the progressives. These people like to call themselves themselves liberal to disguise their innate authoritarianism but are very eager to impose their prejudices on the whole of society.

In a truly liberal society everybody should be equal in the eyes of the law, everybody should have equal opportunities in education, to succeed on their own terms in life (this might be described as "the pursuit of happiness", to live peacefully, to be fairly rewarded for their work, to make their own choices relating to lifestyle and to exercise their right to privacy. Beyond that the state should not interfere by asserting the rights of one group above another, should not initiate 'affirmative action' programmes as a way of redressing perceived injustices and should not involve itself in matters of morality by imposing the moral prejudices of one group on others who may find themselves forced to accept that which they find abhorrent.

A case in point is the current demand from the gay community (or gays,lesbian, bisexual and transgender community thought whether the mutual loathing of those groups qualifies them as a community is questionable) that the right of same sex couples to be married be enshrined in law. Not satisfied with the civil partnerships sanctioned by the state the loathsome whiners who claim to speak for these minorities are now demanding religious groups be forced to conduct same sex religious marriages. Personally I don't give a damn. If a couple can find a church minister willing to officiate, it's fine. I don't care. What is wrong with this demand and the backing given to it by the authoritarian 'progressives' is that it concerns itself so much with being politically correct and being seen to be progressive it tramples on the feelings of members of certain religious groups whose faith involves disapproval of homosexuality. The proposed law requires that the state places more importance on the feelings of homosexuals than on the feelings of churchgoers.

Where the odious hypocrisy of the self righteous scumbags who support this campaign is revealed however is while they insist that in the name of equality there must be no exemptions, no special cases for Roman Catholic or Evangelical Christian churches but are quite happy for Muslims to be exempt from the law because 'we must respect their faith'. Oh well, Muzzas are the current fashionable minority for the Politically Correct Thought Police

So in that one thing you see the hypocrisy, duplicity and delusions of moral superiority that typifies the 'progressive movement' exposed. Just to add a little extra flourish, not long ago a British Judge in a case of marital rape brought in a British court by a Muslim wife against her husband ruled that the law, established after a long and often bitter battle, which enabled married women to prosecute their husbands for rape could not apply to Muslims because in the Muslim faith a woman is her husband's property to be done with as he pleases. The progressive left of course see no irony in cheering this verdict as delivering justice for Muslims and then crossing the road to join a demonstration against domestic violence.

These however are the people who support big government, who applaud the proliferation of often contradictory laws that impose the moral choices of special interest groups on large sectors of society. These are the people who have usurped the word 'liberal' and used it to conceal their authoritarian tendencies. It is our civic duty to help them get in touch with their inner Nazi so they know where their true political alliegance lies.

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Bank of England's Disastrous Quantitative Easing Policy Destroying Pensions and Lives
Big News today is that the shortfall in the final-salary pensions schemes of the FTSE 350 companies has risen to �80bn at the end of last month, four times higher than at the same point last year according to pensions analysts Hymans Robertson. The figures expose the extent to which repeated rounds of quantitative easing (QE a.k.a.creating money in computers) has distorted the value of ...

Argentina's Lightweight Government Throws Its Weight About
The government of Argentina, still deluding itself that the Falkland Islands belong to them, has threatened to press criminal and civil charges on British oil companies exploring off the Falkland Islands if they do not "justify their actions" by a May 2 deadline. In its latest display of megalomaniacal lunacy over the disputed islands, The Government of Argentina said it had ...

Spain's Jobless Hits New Record
Nearly one in four Spaniards are now out of work, according to figures released by the government on today, as Standard & Poor's cut the country's credit rating by two notches over its debt burden and ailing banks. The number of unemployed people hit 5,639,500 for March, with the unemployment rate reaching 24.4%, the national statistics agency reported.The figures came on the same day as rating agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Spanish sovereign debt ...

The Folly Of Trying To Inflate Away Debt
As the debt crisis grinds on and the creit crunch mutates into the credit famine the clueless politicians and even more clueless economists and academics who advise them can only think of one course of action. That is to inflate away their debt problem by devaluing currency to the extent at whic a bag of potatoes or wheat grain costs $�� 1 trillion. Inflation is the cruellest tax, destroying the savings and pensions of sensible people and rewarding irresponsibility.

Asinine Eurocrats Want To Waste More Of Our Money
On reading the news about the Bureaucrats of Brussels, those smug, smooth faced spawn of a pox whore's scab lice who control our distiny and their demand for a budget increase of twice the official inflation rate after ...

Meanwhile As Punters Suffer Brussels Bureaucrats Throw Away Money As If It Is Infected
European Commission bureaucrats have squandered millions of pounds on bizarre projects that provide little or no benefit to member states, it has been revealed. Wasteful schemes include spending �20m on building three ports in Spain and Italy that remain unused four years after their completion and sending a �blogging donkey� equipped with a solar panel and a video camera around Europe as part of ...

The Demon Stagflation Is On The Loose
The Credit Crunch is stil crunching European economies and the savings and pension funds of individuals.Demand for housing loans has falled 70pc in Portugal, 44pc in Italy, and 42pc in the Netherlands in the first quarter of 2012. Enterprise loans fell 38pc in Italy. This puts a rather different perspective on the UL Labour Party's outraged squealing about our economy contracting one fifth of one per cent over the last ...

Mathematics and Reality
In all of our blogs and web sites the Greenteeth team have been critical of those science fans who are turning science into a religion. Scientists deny this of course even in the face of the evidence. Here Ian R Thorpe shows you that the idea of mathematics as God is nothing new, it has been around longer than Christianity in fact.

Cameron Gazes Into The Abyss
At Prime Minister's questioin time today David Cameron was given a threashing the like of which he had not experienced since he was at his very posh school, and he did not enjoy it. After less than 10 minutes of suffering "the slings and arrows of outraged MPs from members of his own and opposition parties, the Prime Minister looked like a pit bull with piles. The Leverson inquiry ...

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The Question That Wob't Go Away: Who Is Barack Obama?
So now Chris Matthews isn�t the only one experiencing a little thrill when he thinks about Barack (omit middle name) Obama. The recent revelation that from the early 1990s until the day before yesterday�or, to be more accurate, until Obama made his decision to run for president�a biographical pamphlet circulated by his literary agents described him as having been �born in Kenya� has been setting the world of ...

How The Grexit May Make Things Worse In Greece
It looks more likely that Greece will crash out of the euro. But if it attempts to return to the drachma, there's a pretty big problem, which no one's really come up with a way to fix. The printers at De La Rue or its rivals are, according to reports, preparing to run off some new Greek banknotes ...

Is America Really A Post White Nation or Is This Writer Spouting Typical Progressive Claptrap When is a majority less than a majority? Answer: when the minority is bigger. This is what has just happened in the US: births to the white majority in America fell in the first six months of last year to just 49.6 per cent of the total, meaning that Caucasians, as they are quaintly known, may within the next 30 years become an endangered species.Given America�s boast that it is a land of ...

The New Reactionaries by Victor Davis Hanson, Pajamas Media
About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives�partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to �permissive� or �na�ve,� partly because �progressive� was supposedly ...

Wind farms can cause climate change, finds new study
Wind farms can cause climate change, according to new research, that shows for the first time the new technology is already pushing up temperatures.

I Promise You The President Has A Big Stick says vice president
Vice President Joe Biden went after presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in a campaign address at New York University, questioning the former Massachusetts governor�s chops on foreign policy. And, he was there to try to prop up his boss� credentials ....

Minimum Alcohol Pricing Shambles by Dick Puddlecote
You have to wonder if UK politicians who have been promoting minimum alcohol pricing might have been a bit pissed when they made the decision to go for it. Consider this response to a parliamentary question tabled by a UKIP member of the House of Lords ...

Asinine bureaucrats
I shared Gildas� rage yesterday; he fared better than I, he was actually able to articulate his rage. PMQs left me quite speechless and I abandoned the effort to write.PMQs has become a monotonously unfolding pantomime of ...

A Spectacular Devaluation But no Recovery In Sight
The sterling effective exchange rate is one reason why the UK has recorded the highest inflation rate of any advanced economy. With the onset of the crisis, the Bank of England allowed sterling to depreciate dramatically ...

Salt Tax Again
Salt is now the same as tobacco. Soon there will never be a heart attack again, anywhere in the world, and the drones will live in morose greyness for all eternity. Well, I like tobacco, but I won�t die if I can�t get any. It�s a fun part of life ...

Obama Message Booed ~ In Massachusetts (by Allahpundit)
Well, it stands to reason. Massachusetts is a deep red state. Wait, what?
I held off blogging this yesterday in hopes that video would emerge but after almost 24 hours I�ve given up hope. It started when Romney advisor Eric Fehrnstrom tweeted: ...

The second front - the new fear and panic tactic to replace AGW
Apr 22, 2012 Greens If the struggle to put climatology back on a scientific footing were not bad enough, the UN has just set up a new intergovernmental body, which will push biodiversity as the new excuse to "scare 'n' tax".

Inequality: a middle-class obsession by Daniel Ben-Ami
Unlike past warriors for equality, today�s campaigners simply dislike both the super-rich and �trailer trash�.

Executive Order 13547: �The Sleeping Power Grab� (by Erika Johnsen)
To be fair, President Obama�s executive-order output hasn�t unreasonably outpaced that of his predecessors � his especial willingness to actively circumvent Congress and snatch huge gobs of power for the federal bureaucracy only makes it feel like he has. In July of 2010, President Obama signed executive order 13547 � �Stewardship of ...

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