29th Libertarian Spring Seminar - 2014
Seashells Apartments – Jeffreys Bay
Thursday 9th October 2014 to Sunday 12th October 2014
Friday 10th October 2014
9-10 Frances Kendall - Fast and slow thinking and the Oscar Pistorius trial
10-11 Ivo Vegter -The tinfoil-hat loonies were right all along
The surveillance state, and the implications of Edward Snowden's revelations.
Audio No Presentation
Audio No Presentation
11.30-12.30 Leon Louw – A libertarian approach to traditional law
Audio Presentation
Winner of the highly prized but rarely seen Ria Crafford award for Best Speaker!
15.00-16.00 Andrew Kenny – Chiefs and Traders
My talk will be trying to explain a mystery of morality and economics. Why do so many people believe that it is morally better for an unemployed man to starve to death rather than work for a salary below the prescribed minimum? I believe the answer lies deep in our evolutionary past.
Audio Presentation
16.00-17.00 George Werner - Abolishing Government as a social institution, Practical or Utopian?
No audio or presentation.
17.00-18.00 Schalk Dormehl - State of the dark market
Audio Presentation
Saturday 11th October 2014
Audio Presentation
Winner of the highly prized but rarely seen Ria Crafford award for Best Speaker!
15.00-16.00 Andrew Kenny – Chiefs and Traders
My talk will be trying to explain a mystery of morality and economics. Why do so many people believe that it is morally better for an unemployed man to starve to death rather than work for a salary below the prescribed minimum? I believe the answer lies deep in our evolutionary past.
Audio Presentation
16.00-17.00 George Werner - Abolishing Government as a social institution, Practical or Utopian?
No audio or presentation.
17.00-18.00 Schalk Dormehl - State of the dark market
Audio Presentation
Saturday 11th October 2014
9-10 Gareth De Vaux – The road to anarchy
Audio No presentation
10-11 Trevor Watkins – Authoritarians
An overview of “Swarmwise” by Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish Pirate Party, and its relevance to libertarian ideas.
11.30-12.30 Ron Weissenberg - Orania – Whitewash, white elephant or white what?
An independent democratic state within South Africa, or an all-white enclave of Afrikaner Calvinism and nationalism? With some Constitutional interpretation and serious use of colour on this patina of possibility , could this model of self-determination be a contender for our citizenship?
Audio Presentation
16.00-17.00 Stephan Botes – When government operates in fiction
How the de jure government of the united (in lower case) States having been superceded by the de facto Government of the UNITES STATES, an ens legis, a creature of the law, a federal corporation operating in legal fiction and no longer bound by constitutional principles, affects us in South Africa.
Audio Presentation
17.00-18.00 Garth Zietsman - Liberty and Democracy
Audio Presentation
Sunday 12th October 2014
9-10 Erik Peers - Going against the grain; is Noakes a Libertarian?
Is free choice in what we eat not one of our most fundamental liberties? The world, including South Africa is in the throes of an unprecedented exponential increase in obesity, and allied chronic diseases. The magnitude of this is set to dwarf AIDS. Is this a failure of government or of the free market?
Audio No Presentation
Audio Presentation
Audio Presentation
12.00 – C Bower - Punishment - a pointless pursuit
Audio Presentation
12.15 - C Bower - Reflections on SAPS vs R Barnard
No Audio Presentation
11.45 E Marais – Dorp van Drome – individual activism that works
Audio No presentation
Program
Thursday evening, 9th
October - Informal drinks on the deck or in local pub.
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Friday 10th October
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Saturday 11th October
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Sunday 12th October
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9-10 Frances
Kendall - Fast and slow thinking and
the Oscar Pistorius trial
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9-10 Gareth De Vaux
– The road to anarchy
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9-10 Erik Peers - Going
against the grain; is Noakes a
Libertarian?
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10-11 Ivo Vegter -The tinfoil-hat
loonies were right all along
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10-11 Trevor Watkins – Authoritarians
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10-11 Prof Pierre
Le Roux - Economic growth and Economic
freedom
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11-11.30 Tea
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11-11.30 Tea
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11-11.30 Tea
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11.30-12.30 Leon
Louw – A libertarian approach to traditional law
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11.30-12.30 Ron
Weissenberg - Orania – Whitewash, white elephant or white what?
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11.30- C Bower –
What do people want?
11.45 E Marais –
Dorp van Drome – individual activism that works
12.00 – C Bower - Punishment
- a pointless pursuit
12.15 T Watkins –
Pirates and swarms
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12.30-16.00 Lunch/leisure
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12.30-16.00 Lunch/leisure
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13.00-16.00 Lunch/departure
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15.00-16.00 Andrew
Kenny – Chiefs and Traders
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16.00-17.00 George
Werner - Abolishing Government as a social institution, Practical or Utopian?
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16.00-17.00 Stephan
Botes – When government operates in fiction
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17.00-18.00 Schalk
Dormehl - State of the dark web
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17.00-18.00 Garth Zietsman - Liberty
and Democracy
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19.00 Dinner
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19.00 Dinner
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Synopses of talks
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Speaker
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Synopsis
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Date and time
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Ron Weissenberg
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Orania – Whitewash, white elephant or white what?
Orania- An
independent democratic state within South Africa, or an all-white enclave of
Afrikaner Calvinism and nationalism?
With some Constitutional interpretation and serious use of colour on this patina of possibility , could this model of self-determination be a contender for our citizenship? |
11.30-12.30 Saturday 11/10/14
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Trevor
Watkins
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Authoritarians
An
overview of the books “The Authoritarians” by Bob Altemeyer.
Pirates
and Swarms
An
overview of “Swarmwise” by Rick Falkvinge, founder of the Swedish
Pirate Party, and its relevance to libertarian ideas.
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10-11
Saturday 11/10/14
12.15-12.30
Sunday 12/10/14 |
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Stephan Botes
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When government operates in fiction
How the de jure government of the united (in lower case)
States having been superceded by the de facto Government of the UNITES
STATES, an ens legis, a creature of the law, a federal corporation operating
in legal fiction and no longer bound by constitutional principles, affects us
in South Africa.
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16.00-17.00 Saturday 11/10/14
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Ivo Vegter
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The tinfoil hat loonies were right all along
The surveillance state, and the implications of Edward
Snowden's revelations.
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10-11
Friday 10/10/14 |
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Andrew Kenny
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Chiefs and Traders:
Explaining our Evil Labour Laws
My talk will be trying to explain a mystery of morality
and economics. Why do so many people
believe that it is morally better for an unemployed man to starve to death
rather than work for a salary below the prescribed minimum? I believe the answer lies deep in our
evolutionary past.
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15.00-16.00 Friday
10/10/14 |
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Erik Peers
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Going against the grain; is Noakes a Libertarian?
Is free choice in what we eat not one of our most fundamental
liberties?
The world, including South Africa is in the throes of an unprecedented exponential increase in obesity, and allied chronic diseases. The magnitude of this is set to dwarf AIDS.
Is this a failure of government or of the free market?
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9.00-10.00
Sunday 12/10/14 |
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