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Leighton Smith LLEIGHTONEIGHTON SSMITHMITH: WWhathat mmakesakes hhimim ttick?ick? – IInterviewnterview IInsidenside SSUEUE BBRADFORDRADFORD: WWhyhy iiss sshehe ssmackingmacking pparents!arents! OR F F R S E SSOCIALISTOCIALIST SSWEDENWEDEN: WWhyhy ddoesoes iitt wwork?ork? E W D O O L GGODOD: Dawkins explodes the delusion! M B 7474 JJOHNOHN KKEYEY: Anything there? NZ $8.50 March - April 2007 After the release of the report on global warming prepared by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the call for a new environmental body to slow global warming and protect the planet -- a body that potentially could have policing powers to punish violators -- was led by French President Jacques Chirac. The meaning of this “effort” is that Chirac is attempting to make an international crime out of attempts to increase production and raise living standards. I am not surprised by this attempt to criminalize productive activity. In fact, I predicted it. - George Reisman, p.16 The NNooseoEEnvironmentalnvoirosnmeen tal iiss TTighteningightening NOT EXTRA: “Global Warming: The panic is offi cially over” - Monckton TAXPAYER FUNDED Subscribe NOW To The Free Radical Dear Reader, Said former editor Lindsay Perigo: Said Samuel Adams, “It does not An army of principle will penetrate The Free Radical is fearless, “How do we get government as require a majority to prevail, but where an army of soldiers cannot; it will succeed where diplomatic freedom-loving and brim-full of it might be & ought to be? It will rather an irate, tireless minority management would fail; it is great writing and good reading take a revolution inside people’s keen to set brush fi res in people’s neither the Rhine, the Channel, nor the ocean that can arrest – writing that challenges all the heads.” The Free Radical is fully minds.” The Free Radical is where its progress; it will march on the sacred cows, and gets you committed to that revolution that irate, tireless minority speaks horizon of the world ... and it will behind today’s news. of ideas. Don’t miss out on out. conquer! – Thomas Paine Don’t miss out on your copy: your intellectual ammunition. Subscribe now! Join the army of principle. Subscribe now! Subscribe Now! Subscribe now! Know somebody who would like or benefi t The Free Radical stands four-square for the future of freedom in New Zealand. from a dose of Free Radical? 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Box 96-103, Balmoral, Auckland, NZ Name: or VIA INTERNET: www.freeradical.co.nz. and click on the subscribe bar! Address: Name: Name on Card: Address: Email Address: Message: Credit Card Number: Expiry Date: Please fi nd enclosed a cheque for $NZ 49.50 +$5 p&p Charge my Visa / Mastercard / Am Ex OR direct Debit our Bank Account: Account No. 12 3016 0561084 00 THE FREE RADICAL - Tested & Guaranteed Contents 100% Free of Bureaucratic Nonsense 4 Kiwi Herald 25 Peter Cresswell 51 COLUMN – David Slack News From Moenui “The invisible hand of the market doesn’t “He cooks that crystal meth cuz his ‘shine don’t (pop. 421). deliver a sustainable nation.” True or False? sell.” If ‘sustainability’ means anything, says your 5 INTERVIEW – Leighton Smith editor, then two examples of success suggest the 52 FREE SPEECH – Richard McGrath What Makes Leighton Smith Tick? invisible hand of the market is all that does deliver. Scaring Smokers into Submission Susan Ryder – AKA ‘Susan the Libertarian’— winkles out what gets this talkback king out of Malthus Meets the Greens 53 PURE PERIGO – Lindsay Perigo bed in the morning, and asks, “Why aren’t you a The Greens’ Russel Norman was debunked even Is Banning Free Speech the Next Step in the libertarian?” before he was born, says Cresswell. Voluntary Euthanasia Debate? Perigo tries to stop the next religious book burning. 8 Lech Beltowski CENTRE PAGES: One Law For All One man took a knife to a gun fi ght. Why do the SPECIAL ‘GOD DELUSION’ SUPPLEMENT police want to crucify the man who didn’t. 30 Marcus Bachler WHO SAID THAT? 9 INTERVIEW - Johan Norberg The God Delusion & the Moral Confusion Cultures are not museum pieces. They are Why Does Sweden Work? The God Delusion is a wonderful book and the working machinery of everyday life. It’s cold it’s dark—and that’s just the regulatory Richard Dawkins is a superb intellect. So what Unlike objects of aesthetic contemplation, framework in which Swedes live. So how come went wrong? working machinery is judged by how well it Sweden still fl ourishes? works, compared to the alternatives. 33 Vincent Gray - Thomas Sowell 12 INTERVIEW – Graham Crawshaw The God Instinct Positive Conversations are Vital to Children How the ‘God instinct’ is sweeping the world, but I have a dream that my four little children will NZ parents are way down the scale when it not in the way you might think. one day live in a nation where they will not comes to conversing with their kids says the UN. Paul Charman talks with literacy campaigner be judged by the color of their skin, but by Graham Crawshaw about this much overlooked 34 Peter Cresswell the content of their character. skill. Is-Ought? Not a Problem! - Martin Luther King Jr. If God is dead, then what of morality? And what 14 Richard Goode of beer? Or Paris Hilton? So long as the people do not care to Yes Jim, I Do Mind! exercise their freedom, those who wish to BZP user Dr Goode responds to would-be BZP 37 Jeff Perren tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and banner James Neanderton on this latest bid to Environmentalism and Christianity ardent, and will devote themselves in the ban party pills. Is environmentalism really the new state religion? name of any number of gods, religious and And if so, just how deep do those religious roots otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping 15 Peter Cresswell go? Which religion? And what’s the antidote? men. Yes Sue, I Do Mind! – “Who’s There?” - Voltaire “Nanny State.” 39 PZ Myers Smacking? If there’s anyone who needs It’s Never Going to End As of oligarchy so of tyranny... Both mistrust smacking, says your editor, it’s this MP, an If reason isn’t the saviour of the world, then inanity the people, and therefore deprive them of inveterate Nanny Statist with Chairman Mao still and narcissism certainly aren’t. their arms. tattooed on her soul. - Aristotle 40 James Panton COVER STORY & SPECIAL FEATURE In the transition to statism, every Science vs. Superstition: infringement of human rights has begun 16 George Reisman The Case for a New Scientifi c Enlightenment with the suppression of a given right’s least The century of science meets today’s culture The Environmental Noose is Tightening attractive practitioners. of pessimism: urgent reason for the new He hates to say “I told you so,” but the fact is - Ayn Rand Reisman has. Repeatedly: In their push to punish Enlightenment of Panton’s title, and one he hopes emitters, the high priests of the state religion to help fi re. You can only protect your liberties in this of environmentalism are well on their way to world by protecting the other man’s freedom. criminalising productive activity altogether. 43 COLUMN - Shaun Holt You can only be free if I am free. Let’s Use Morality More 19 Roger Kerr - Clarence Darrow: Achieving the Dream 44 Elizabeth Rata If clean air, clean water and wild landscapes are When dictatorship is a fact, revolution your dream, then a recent report suggests that Ethnic Fundamentalism in New Zealand becomes a right. less anti-business bureaucracy and more property How the ‘secular religion’ of ethic fundamentalism - Victor Hugo rights should be on the agenda. defi es reason, and becomes dangerous when politicised. You have to remember that trade unionists 20 Augie Auer and anti-nuclear campaigners didn’t Imagining Climate Change 47 Tibor Machan go away. They just morphed into eco- Television’s favourite weatherman cuts off at the Never Mind One’s Cultural Identity mentalists because they realised that global knees the warmists’ favourite “mad notions.” What defi nes you? Of what should you be warming was a better weapon than striking, Environmental apocalypse? Not on Augie’s watch. proud? Your unchosen attributes, or your own or doing lesbionics for Mother Russia in achievements. Berkshire. 21 Christopher Monckton - Jeremy Clarkson Global Warming: “…the panic is offi cially 48 EDUCATION – Carol Potts over” Montessori Celebrates 100 Years of Success Those who make peaceful revolution After eviscerating Nicholas Stern’s Report so impossible will make violent revolution successfully, Monckton assesses the recent inevitable. UN/IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and reaches 50 BEER – Neil Miller a fi rm conclusion. “The panic, he says, “is over” Real Ale for Real Drinkers - John F.
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