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INTERVIEW – Johan Norberg Lindsay speaks to an anti-anti-anti-anti smacking Civility in the face of evil is no virtue; rage in the Globalisation is Freedom! rally at Parliament. face of nihilism is no vice. From the luscious locks of Johan Norberg comes - Lindsay Perigo part 3 of our series on globalisation 30. Phil Rennie The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t New Zealand’s Spending Binge unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping COVER STORY & SPECIAL FEATURE Government spending has put NZ on a highway quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. to hell. Either way, you’re accountable. 9. David B. Kopel - Arundhati Roy Gun-Free Zones 36. Sean Kimpton David B. Kopel reveals what a shopping mall in It is error alone which needs the support of Parable of The Broken Window government. Truth can stand by itself. Salt Lake City and Virginia Tech’s campus have in Sean stabs a sharp shard in the heart of insolent - Thomas Jefferson common: a ban on guns. fools. “But wait there’s more!” applies to more than just infomercials. The threat posed by humans to the natural 10. Lech Beltowski environment is nothing compared to the threat to humans posed by global environmental Gun Control – It’s Mental Health, Stupid! 37. Peter Cresswell policy “He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment Clapton on Robert Johnson: Going With Flow - Fred L. Smith and buy one.” Luke 22:36 Finding your mojo really is groovy baby! How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how Peter Cresswell 12. 39. David Kahn do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone 32 Dead Montessori and Optimal Experience who understands Marx and Lenin. The moral disarmament of the individual results in - Ronald Reagan Research: Toward Building A Comprehensive the literal disarmament of the individual. Education Reform Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed How maximising challenge enhances ‘fl ow’ in the 14. Tim Wikiriwhi lamb contesting the vote. Montessori classroom. The Right Of Revolution – In Praise of -Benjamin Franklin Commodore Frank Bainimarama 43. FILM REVIEWS: “Gun control” is a job-safety program for Has Bainimarama simply exercised his right of criminals. ‘300’ – reviewed by Jason Maurone & Aaron revolution? - John R. Lott Bilger An armed society is a polite society. Manners Spartacus ‘Rocky Balboa’ – an unseen movie review by 16. are good when one may have to back up his Jason Roth New Tory = New Labour: UK’s Tories go pink acts with his life. Not all is hunky dory in the world of Tory Glory ‘The Great Global Warming Swindle’ - Robert A. Heinlein – reviewed by Marcus Bachler The world is fi lled with violence. Because 18. Dr Vincent Gray criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding The Peer Review Mafi a 48. COLUMN – Susan Ryder citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they Scientifi c censorship: How the peer review mafi a It’s Like, Sooooo Coal, Y’know? will win and the decent people will lose. protect the orthodoxy. - James Earl Jones 49. COLUMN - Tibor Machan The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those 20. Greg Balle Racism v Bigotry who live in upscale developments with armed Reserve Bank of New Zealand encouraging * Kicking my News Addiction * Non-Partisan security guards -- and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. cartel banking: Where’s the outrage? Teaching But what about lower-income people living in Isn’t price fi xing a bad thing? high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should 51. COLUMN – Rex Benson such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can ‘make a statement’ 21. Peter Cresswell Take A Letter by adding to the thousands of gun laws already Bollard’s meddling exacerbates the boom on the books? - Thomas Sowell he’s trying to bust 52. MUSIC – Daniel Walden A cowboy with a noose around the necks of Callas! The Greatest of Them All Gun Control: The theory that a woman found exporters. dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her 53. BEER – Neil Miller panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker 24. Owen McShane The Mussel Inn – got that fatal bullet wound. “Put That BBQ Down, and Move Away From A Whale of a Time - L. Neil Smith the Coast!” 54. COLUMN - Jason Roth A man with a gun is a citizen. A man without a Knee-jerk regulation from bored bureaucrats gun is a subject. destroying a Kiwi tradition. Tehran International Book Fair - John R. Lott 26. Peter Cresswell 56. COLUMN – Lindsay Perigo The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. Decentralisation, And Those Who Oppose It Sins That Are Tritest - H. L. Mencken The planners’ war on the human spirit. Lying to others is lying to yourself. Visit ‘The Free Radical online’ at: www.FreeRadical.co.nz May - June 2007—The Free Radical — 1 Contributors Appeasement & Abdication Peter Cresswell JOHAN NORBERG SUSAN RYDER VINCENT GRAY PHIL RENNIE OWEN MCSHANE TIM WIKIRIWHI When you sup with the devil, the statists themselves – it’s the it’s said, you’d better use a long spineless appeasers who give the spoon. That’s a lesson that’s lost statists sustenance. on appeasers, whose own moral Appeasement doesn’t work. If you DAVID KOPEL TIBOR MACHAN LECH BELTOWSKI disarmament leaves a vacuum want to hand the world on a plate inviting those with a more immoral to the statists, to the aggressors, to agenda to fi ll it. the killers, then ‘the benefi t of the doubt’ is all they need to fl ourish. Ignore aggressors and declare a “gun-free” zone? You might as well Appeasement is not a winning tell every mass-murder he’s safe to strategy and it never has been. A go about his business. compromise that delivers to the statists all they ever wanted is not a Ignore the nationalisation of children victory. A deal that rewards subtle SPARTACUS NEIL MILLER MARCUS BACHLER and deliver Bradford and Clark an aggression invites more naked and across-the-board anti-smacking more virulent aggression later.