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==Controversy==
==Controversy==
===Call to pass a Private Members' Bill to '''Execute Tony Blair for Treason'''.===

On 3rd February 2011, Sean Gabb director of the Libertarian Alliance, suggested at [http://libertarianalliance.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/a-bill-for-the-execution-of-tony-blair/ his blog] that British MPs might wish to put forward to Parliament this Private Members Bill:
"Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. That Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is declared guilty of high treason for his subverting of the ancient and fundamental laws of England and introduction of a tyrannous and arbitrary government over the lives and liberties and property of the people of England;

2. That the said Anthony Charles Lynton Blair shall within thirty days of coming into force of this Act be taken to Trafalgar Square to be hanged by the neck until dead and that the details of this provision shall be arranged by majority vote of the persons named in the schedule to this Act and that the authority of such persons shall for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect be regarded as final and binding notwithstanding any rule of common or statutory law;

3. That all property of the said Anthony Charles Lynton Blair whether real or personal and whether held by him or for his benefit shall be forfeit and that the details of this provision shall be arranged by majority vote of the said persons named in the schedule to this Act and that the authority of such persons shall for the purpose of carrying this provision into effect be regarded as final and binding notwithstanding any rule of common or statutory law.”"
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Note from Blair Supporter: my edit was "automatically reverted", but I understand I am able to re-submit it. The reason it should be allowed to stand is that it is factual and comes directly from Sean Gabb's site, which link I have included as verification. I have not added my own opinion on this.
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===Yasmin Alibhai Brown===
===Yasmin Alibhai Brown===

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Dr Sean Gabb (b. 1960, Chatham, Kent) is the director of the Libertarian Alliance, a British free market and civil liberties think-tank.[1]

Career

Sean Gabb joined the Libertarian Alliance in 1979. He graduated in History from the University of York in 1982.[2] He became the Director in 2006, shortly before the death of its founder Chris Tame.

In 1991 and 1992 he was the Economic and Political Adviser to Jan Carnogursky, the Prime Minister of Slovakia[3] where he was attacked for being a free market radical.[4] He was a director of the Sudan Foundation[5] which existed "to promote better relations between the British and Sudanese peoples". He resigned from this post in January 1999.

Writing work

Sean Gabb has written on a number of conservative leaning websites including vdare[6] and lewrockwell.com.[7] He has also written for newspapers such as The Times[8] and the Birmingham Post.[9] He also wrote an obituary for Chris Tame.[10]

Political positions

Gabb is for the legalization of drugs and is an opponent of multiculturalism and mass immigration as a political policy.[11] He sees no harm in gay marriage or gay adoption, but defends the need to be able to speak in open criticism of homosexuality as part of his stance for freedom of speech from political interference.[12] He is an isolationist in foreign affairs (he is as much anti-American as Eurosceptic)[13] and an advocate of the widest social and economic liberty. He has written in support of the monarchy[14] and House of Lords,[15] in defence of the rights of holocaust deniers[16] and in enabling a time limitation law on the charge of child abuse.[17]

Gabb is controversial to some because of his views, for example: "the Commission for Racial Equality and all similar organisations should be abolished, and their records burned."[18] Gabb explained this by often likening the British government to a police state, saying, "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."[19] He compared the government to a police state as far back as 1989, when he wrote, "The Thatcher Government has brought into being the full coercive apparatus of a police state."[20]

Regarding freedom of speech, Gabb has written: "It is no business of the State to tell people what they can and cannot think. Our bodies are our own. Our minds are our own. What we do with them is our business."[16] He has also said that the government "should cut benefits, taxes and regulation, and leave people alone. The people will do the rest."[21] Gabb is against the European Union. He has said of immigration: "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."[19]

In favor of free markets, Gabb has taken a position against limited liability corporations on that basis that they shield shareholders from their debt obligations, representing a state subsidy. He said in an Oxfam debate that their creation was "one of the greatest legislative mistakes of the 19th century. Their existence is based on a separation of ownership from control. The owners are released from all responsibility."[22]

Controversy

Yasmin Alibhai Brown

The Libertarian Alliance did a press release stating that Sean Gabb had been invited to take part in a talk taped for the BBC on multi-culturalism, debating with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown. Alibhai-Brown objected when Gabb said that the Libertarian Alliance believed the government's Commission for Racial Equality should be shut down, saying that without laws meant to control discrimination, it would occur more frequently. Gabb asked her, "Yasmin, are you saying that the indigenous 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?" To which Alibhai-Brown answered, "Yes." Gabb asked if Alibhai-Brown seriously thought that Gabb wanted to murder her, at which point Gabb's voice was faded out, 20 minutes prior to the end of the debate.[23][24] After this debate, it was alleged by the Libertarian Alliance that Gabb's microphone was shut off.[19]

Candidlist

From 1999 to 2001, Gabb kept a website called the "Candidlist," which named UK Members of Parliament who held Europhile views. According to London's Evening Standard, after MP Ian Bruce was named on the site, Bruce emailed Gabb: "I hope you are very rich. Would you please let me both have a note of your postal address and where you would like me to serve court papers on you." After Bruce demanded, "Action this day... I will campaign tirelessly to retain the pound," Gabb wrote back, "I will make this reclassification before I go to bed tonight."[25]

Partial bibliography

  • Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England and how to Get It Back, The Hampden Press, London, 2007.
  • The Column of Phocas (historical novel), The Hampden Press, London, 2006.
  • Trusting Brands in Society: The Quality and Value of Modern Medicine, Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, 2005.
  • Smoking, Class, and the Legitimation of Power, The Hampden Press, London, 2005.
  • From Antitrust to Disaster: An Overview of European Union Competition Policy, Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, 2004.
  • The Cost of European Environmental Regulations in the Accession Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, 2004.
  • Why Greater Freedom of Patient Information in European Healthcare Could Save Lives and Money, Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, 2004.
  • War and the National Interest: Arguments for a British Foreign Policy, The Hampden Press, London, 2004.
  • (With Dennis O'Keeffe) Markets, the Internet, and Morality, The Institute of Economic Affairs, London, 2003.
  • Why Trade Barriers between the European Union and the Developing World Should be Lowered, Centre for the New Europe, Brussels, 2003.
  • Dispatches from a Dying Country: Reflections on Modern England, The Hampden Press, London, 2001.
  • (With Dennis O'Keeffe and Pat Stoll (eds)) Issues in School Attendance and Truancy, Pitman Press, London, 1995.
  • (With Dennis O'Keeffe) The Report of the North London Truancy Unit, Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1994.

References

  1. ^ "Officers and Advisory Council of the Libertarian Alliance". The Libertarian Alliance.
  2. ^ "Alumni" (PDF). Grapevine (Spring 08): 21. 2008. Retrieved 2008-12-25. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |coauthors= and |month= (help)
  3. ^ "Slovak Writings". Sean Gabb. 1992-06-30. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  4. ^ Sean Gabb. "Reply to Mimochodom, an Article by Zuzana Szatmary". Seangabb.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  5. ^ "Free Life 30, May 1999". Seangabb.co.uk. 2005-09-01. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  6. ^ "Sean Gabb Articles". VDARE.com. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  7. ^ "Mark Oaten, Rent Boys and the Secret Police: A View of How England Is Governed at the End of Its History by Sean Gabb". Lewrockwell.com. 2006-01-24. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  8. ^ "Should the Church be disestablished Yes says Dr Sean Gabb". The Times. London. 2008-10-24.
  9. ^ "Why all true citizens need their own guns - Life & Leisure". Birmingham Post. 2006-06-07. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  10. ^ "Chris R. Tame". The Independent. London. 2006-03-23.
  11. ^ Sean Gabb, Culural Revolution, Culture War, August 2007
  12. ^ Sean Gabb, Culural Revolution, Culture War, The Homophobic Heresy, August 2007
  13. ^ Arguments for a British Foreign Policy, Daniel P. Mulroney, igreens.org.uk, 2004
  14. ^ Why Libertarians Should Sing "God Save the Queen", Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, 7 September 1997
  15. ^ Why the Hereditary Peers Should Stay in the House of Lords, Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, 25 November 1998
  16. ^ a b Dr Sean Gabb (2007-04-24). "Defending the Right to Deny the Holocaust, Sean Gabb, 24 April 2007". Seangabb.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  17. ^ Reflections on the Gary Glitter Case, Sean Gabb, Free Life Commentary, 14 November 1999
  18. ^ "The Right, the Left and 'Free Expression'". Whatnextjournal.co.uk. Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  19. ^ a b c "BBC Censors Discussion of Multiculturalism: Shuts off Microphones on Libertarian Alliance Spokesman". The Libertarian Alliance. 2004-02-16. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
  20. ^ "The Full Coercive Apparatus of a Police State: Thoughts on the Dark Side of the Thatcher Decade". Libertarian Alliance. 1989-05-03. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
  21. ^ "Be fair to all parents". The Evening Standard. 2007-07-11. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
  22. ^ "Free Trade v Fair Trade". Free Life Commentary. 2005-04-16. Retrieved 2007-09-17.
  23. ^ Cambridge University Conservative Association Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: racist.
  24. ^ ""BBC World Service debate on Multi-culturalism"". Retrieved 2010-11-13.
  25. ^ "Londoner's Diary: Web of Intrigue". The Evening Standard. 1999-12-13. Retrieved 2007-09-17.

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