A closer look at the London riots on Parliament Square that the media will never show that illustrates it is about much more than just an increase in student fees that is stealing from one coercive class to give to another parasitic one.
And, a little neo welfare anti-Hoppean monarchism to counterpoint:
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Yes! It’s about time we got some revolutionary dubstep music going!
I just hope the Ministry of Silly Walks doesn’t get it’s funding cut. It’s vital to the economy!
The Trots were out in force again. I noticed while watching live that the violent corner in Parliament Square had a preponderance of red flags.
A for effort, F for content. Anarchism doesn’t feel quite right when it’s invoked to justify wealth transfers that can only take place through the mechanism of the state.
I think the children of the revolution have already been fooled.
I saw a greater purpose in the videos than just wealth transfer. The contrast between the welfare and warfare of the royals and the students demanding autonomy was quite striking. I saw very little of the socialist demands that the mainstream media has tried to focus these demonstrations on.
What autonomy Michelle? Surely I should be demonstrating for my autonomy, my freedom to spend my income without paying for the education of others. IMO these demonstrations are EXACTLY aout wealth transfer, plain and simple: “You lot over there, we want you to give your stuff so we don’t have to pay and if you don’t give it to us, we’re going to destroy your stuff.”
Really, really inspirational stuff.
Life, liberty and property is a two way street. If you’re get something for nothing, it’s only because someone else is paying – some else always pays.
32.50 – “The Treasury is Getting F#$&ed!”
Good stuff anarcho-syndicalists and primitivists, socialists of all stripes… destroying property for the sake of it.
Useful idiots.
You deny or forget that parliamentary funding for the monarchy is £40 million this and every year.
Moreover, the Crown Estate is one of the largest property owners in the United Kingdom, worth over £7.3 billion derived from stolen funds.Not to mention the immoral transactions conducted by the treasury every day since its inception.
The real Auberon Herbert would be all for truth, justice, and the delivery of property to their rightful heirs.
The only silver lining is that due to the actions of the central bank, that £40m doesn’t buy the Windors as much real stuff as it did 20 or even 10 years ago!
But while I agree with your anti-royalty/state sentiments, what’s the connection to Aubrey Herbert’s post? I don’t think you’re saying that the demonstrators might justifiably destroy private property on the basis that the state has stolen property from others, but that seems to be the natural reading of your post.
What private property? The HM Treasury (http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/)? The welfare prince and his car?
I think “Jon Leckie” has never actually read the real Auberon Herbert (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auberon_Herbert) and his treatise entitled: The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State and Other Essays.
“Aubrey Herbert” may not have as well.
Can you provide details of the Royal thefts of land you speak of? Did all the crown lands previously belong to the peasantry?
Certainly you do not need any historical documents and details related to the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
Actually I do because I’m not yet convinced that all the crown lands were previously owned by somebody else.
So are the socialists trying to co-opt the libertarians into sympathy because they too have turned on the state once other peoples money has run out?
I have real trouble sympathizing with these people when it seems to me to be a huge temper tantrum by these people. They’re being forced to deal with reality. You want us to support people refusing to deal with the reality of their socialist government? I think not.
Someone here referred to Charles as a “welfare prince”. I think that about sums it up. It’s hard to feel sorry for the British royals. But yes, I wish that protesters wouldn’t destroy private property.
The statute behind the protesters at 0:30-ish is a statue of none other than George Washington…
I am pretty sure it says King George
You were looking at the one in FRONT. Look at the smaller one BEHIND them.
I’ve been there and seen it in person.
I have no sympathy for the UK government, but I have to say, those protestors are idiots.
I wonder if any US state, local, or federal governments try to stand up to public employee unions, a similar thing will happen?
I don’t see anything in that video to be pleased about – their grievance is no more than a reduction of their subsidy. They’re begging for the State to look after them. An attack on the Royal Family as the embodiment of the State is not evidence of the libertarian class consciousness you’re looking for.
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