Friday 5 September 2008

More, please.

Speaking of things that should be banned on publicly "owned" footpaths, as some people have been, there are politicians about who'd like to ban this:

                                                    girlskissing
The fools.

What say we make a concerted effort instead to make bans unfashionable?  Who's with me here?  Let's Ban Bans!

If you don't like something someone's doing, what's wrong with persuasion for goodness' sake.

7 comments:

Elijah Lineberry said...

I am with you, Peter! ..let's ban all the bans which snivelling people seek to impose out of envy.

Peter Cresswell said...

Oh crikey, haven't you got the memo. We're supposed to be disagreeing. ;^)

Bryce Edwards said...

I'm with you on this.

I propose the adoption of the slogan: "Ban Nothing. Question Everything".

This was the slogan of the unfortunately now-defunct UK "Living Marxism" magazine which stood apart from the current state of the left by being rather libertarian and against censorship, authoritarianism, etc.

So speaking from a left perspective, I'd argue that the left in NZ need to re-embrace libertarianism and free-thinking. I'm not too optimistic about this happening in a hurry however.

Bryce
www.liberation.org.nz

Peter Cresswell said...

'Living Marxism' has become 'Spiked Online,' which is very libertarian, and utterly against censorship and authoritarianism -- and always a bloody good read.

And you're dead right on everything else too, Bryce. :-)

The Tomahawk Kid said...

Actually - I am with the politicians here -I think all those layabouts standing around should be banned so we can focus on the important issue here

Rebel Radius said...

It seems like a contradiction to make bans unfashionable, given that fashion is an individual choice to running with the herd and bans are physical maps to enforce that the fashionable run à la mode.

Anonymous said...

Hell, subsidise that kind of stuff. I'll pay :-)

Bryce, you're the most sensible leftie I've met. Keep up the good work.