Release Date: Friday 31st March 2006
Release Time: Immediate

Contact Details:
Dr Sean Gabb, 07956 472 199, sean@libertarian.co.uk

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"LEAVE KATE MOSS ALONE: GO CATCH SOME CRIMINALS", FREE MARKET AND CIVIL LIBERTIES THINK TANK TELLS PROSECUTORS

The Libertarian Alliance, the radical free market and civil liberties policy institute, today calls on the Crown Prosecution Service to drop its investigation into the private life of the well-known fashion model Kate Moss. Miss Moss could be charged with possession of cocaine. If convicted, she could in theory go to prison for seven years and face an unlimited fine.

Libertarian Alliance Director, Dr Sean Gabb, says:

"If Kate Moss wants to sniff cocaine - not that I would for a moment claim she does - that is her right. It is monstrous that there should be laws against the use of mood-altering substances.

"It is also a waste of our tax money and a symptom of the gloating contempt in which we are held, when the authorities decide to spend six months investigating this non-crime while real crimes go unpunished and even uninvestigated.

"The Libertarian Alliance offers Miss Moss its full support, and encourages her to continue her firm and dignified refusal to cooperate with the authorities.

"Her struggle is our struggle."

The Libertarian Alliance believes:

* That there should be no laws to control the development, manufacture, possession, advertising, sale or use by adults of any pharmaceutical or mood-altering substance;

* That, for the achievement of the above, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 and all similar legislation should be immediately repealed;

* That, for the achievement of the above, the Drug Trafficking Offences Act 1986, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, and all other laws regarding "money laundering", should be immediately repealed;

* That, for the achievement of the above, the Medicines Act 1968 should be immediately repealed, together with all other laws that regulate what and how pharmaceutical substances may be sold;

* That all agencies of inspection and control set up to implement the above laws should be immediately abolished, and that their records be destroyed;

* That all investigatory powers given to the authorities for the prosecution of offences under the above laws should be immediately abolished;

* That all persons found guilty under the above laws should be pardoned and where appropriate compensated;

* That, without any increase in the burden of taxes elsewhere, the excise duties on tobacco and alcohol should be reduced to match the lowest level in any of the other 24 member states of the European Union;

* That all the police officers and Crown Prosecution Service lawyers who ordered the investigation of Kate Moss and her alleged taking of cocaine should be dismissed from their jobs

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Note(s) to Editors

Dr Sean Gabb is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance and edits its journal Free Life. His latest book, Smoking, Class and the Legitimation of Power, is available at Amazon. His other books are available from Hampden Press at http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk.

Obituaries already published of Dr Tame can be found in The Independent and in Free Life Commentary.

He can be contacted for further comment on 07956 472 199 or by email at sean@libertarian.co.uk

Extended Contact Details:

The Libertarian Alliance is Britain's most radical free market and civil liberties policy institute. It has published over 700 articles, pamphlets and books in support of freedom and against statism in all its forms. These are freely available at http://www.libertarian.co.uk

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Associated Organisations

The Libertarian International - http://www.libertarian.to - is a sister organisation to the Libertarian Alliance. Its mission is to coordinate various initiatives in the defence of individual liberty throughout the world.

Sean Gabb's personal website - http://www.seangabb.co.uk - contains about a million words of writings on themes interesting to libertarians and conservatives.

Hampden Press - http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk.- the publishing house of the Libertarian Alliance.

Liberalia - http://www.liberalia.com - maintained by by LA Executive member Christian Michel, Liberalia publishes in-depth papers in French and English on libertarianism and free enterprise. It is a prime source of documentation on these issues for students and scholars.