Release Date: Sunday 15th June 2008
Release Time: Immediate

Contact Details:
Dr Tim Evans on 07956 472 199 or via tim@libertarian.co.uk
Dr Sean Gabb on 07956 472 199 or via sean@libertarian.co.uk

For other contact and link details, see the foot of this message
Release url: http://www.libertarian.co.uk/news/nr067.htm

Libertarian Alliance provides background reading on UK Civil Liberties

In light of David Davis’s decision to stand down as a Member of Parliament the UK’s radical free market and civil liberties think tank, the Libertarian Alliance, today launched an online publications list tailored to inform journalists and ordinary people on a range of key civil liberties issues.

LA President, Dr. Tim Evans, said:

“With more than 800 publications freely available on www.libertarian.co.uk it is only right that the LA now steps up to the plate and widely circulates intellectual ammunition designed to inform people on a range of civil liberties issues.”

LA Director, Dr. Sean Gabb added:

“The publications promoted in this release are just a taster of what the LA has on offer. Today, more than ever, it is vital that friends of liberty in Britain circulate this list as far as possible.”

Why we Support David Davis: http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc172.htm

Introduction to LA material on civil liberties:

Dr. Sean Gabb, Against Identity Cards (pdf)

Dr. Sean Gabb, A Libertarian-Conservative Case Against Identity Cards (html) - (pdf) 

Antony Grey, Why Pornography Should Not Be Censored (pdf)

David Botsford, Why the Right to Armed Self-Defence Against Criminals Should Not have Been Suppressed in Britain and How It Might Gradually Be Re-Established
(pdf) 

David Botsford, Fear of Violence and the Current Britsih Anti-Gun Hysteria: Blaming Objects Instead of Criminals For Crime (pdf)

Brian Micklethwait, Why Guns Should Not Be Illegal (pdf)

Simon Birch, The Censorship of Films on British Television: How It Works and Why It Should Stop (pdf)

Dr. Nigel Ashford, Human Rights: What They Are and What They Are Not (pdf)

Russell Whitaker, Against the Censorship of Electronic Communication: A Libertarian Argument Against All State Interference in the Provision and Transmission of Pornographic Imagery on Data Networks, Computer Bulletin Board Systems and Information Services, and Public Switched Telephone Services, 1994, (pdf) 

Tom Burroughes, Free Speech, Privacy, Property and Contract in the Electronic Age: A Journalist's View (pdf) 

Brian Micklethwait, How and How Not to Achieve Good Taste in Advertising: Free Market Regulation is Better Than Government Regulation (html) - (pdf) 

Dr. Sean Gabb, The Case Against Sex Censorship: A Conservative View (html) - (pdf)

Matthew Parris, On the Need to Allow People to Harm Each Other (pdf)

Paul Staines, Acid House Parties Against the Lifestyle Police and the Safety Nazis
(pdf)

Tim Evans and Helen Govett, Big Mother's Deadly New World: How The Government is Going to Destroy Patient's Health Records and Kill People (pdf)

David J. K. Carr, Don't Trust Me, I'm a Lawyer: The Operation, Scope and Possible Effects of the Government's War on Money Laundering (pdf)

Dr. Sean Gabb, The New Tyranny of Global, European and British State Control of Financial Transactions (pdf)

Dr. Sean Gabb, The Full Coercive Apparatus of a Police State: Thoughts on the Dark Side of the Thatcher Decade (pdf)

Mark Roberts, Related To Bigotry: The Repression of Swingers in Early 21st Century Britain (html) - (pdf)

Avedon Carol, The Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill 1994 Is Undemocratic, Unjustifiable and Dangerous (Submission by Feminists Against Censorship to the Home Affairs Committee) (Published jointly with the British Association of Libertarian Feminists) (pdf)

Avedon Carol, Censorship Won't Reduce Crime: Submission by Feminists Against Censorship to the Home Affairs Inquiry into Computer Pornography (Published jointly with the British Association of Libertarian Feminists) (pdf)

Avedon Carol, How British Broadcasters Are Promoting the Unjustified Censorship of Pornography: An Open Letter (To The Independent Television Commission, The Broadcasting Standards Council and the Broadcasting Complaints Commission) (Published jointly with the British Association of Libertarian Feminists) (pdf)

Other Material by Sean Gabb

Freedom of Speech

Free Life Commentary 159 24th April 2007 Defending the Right to Deny the Holocaust,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc159.htm
Free Life Commentary 157 2nd January 2007 More on the Persecution of the BNP,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc157.htm
Free Life Commentary 145 16the April 2006 Emma Chamberlain and the Astor Theatre: How Dissidents are Treated in Modern England,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc145.htm
Free Life Commentary 140 28th September 2005 The Difference between Doing and Looking: Reflections on the Case of Subhaan Younis,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc140.htm
Free Life Commentary 37 14th November 1999 Reflections on the Gary Glitter Case
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc037.htm

Civil Liberties

Free Life Commentary 155 26th October 2006 On Opposing the DNA Database,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc155.htm
Free Life Commentary 138 16th August 2005 The Reform of Alcohol Licensing in England: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc138.htm
Free Life Commentary 131 14th March 2005 The Jaws of the Trap Are Closing: Hunting, the Courts and the Constitution, by Sean Gabb
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc131.htm
Free Life Commentary 120 27th April 2004 Fat Children: Sad, but not Our Problem,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc120.htm
Free Life Commentary 116 28th November 2003 In Defence of the Right to Encourage Gross Fatness,
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc116.htm
Free Life Commentary 88 17th January 2003 Hunting Paedophiles in England: Present Madness, Future Shame
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc088.htm
Free Life Commentary 87 16th January 2003 Identity Cards: Some Brief Objections
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc087.htm
Free Life Commentary 81 4th December 2002 A Record of a Debate Held by the Local Government Association on Wednesday the 4th December 2002 on the Motion: �This House Believes Promoting Diversity Causes Discrimination�
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc081.htm
Free Life Commentary 75 6th November 2002 The Conservatives: Will They Surprise Us?
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc075.htm
Free Life Commentary 73 25th October 2002 Saving the Kiddies, Enslaving Adults
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc073.htm
Free Life Commentary 67 26th June 2002 Why the Double Jeopardy Rule Should not be Changed
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc067.htm
 

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Note(s) to Editors

Dr Sean Gabb is the Director of the Libertarian Alliance. His latest book, Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back, may be downloaded for free from http://tinyurl.com/34e2o3. It may also be bought. His other books are available from Hampden Press at http://www.hampdenpress.co.uk.

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 800 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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