Comments on: Watching from the CN Tower: Toronto Liberty Seminar http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2008/01/21/watching-from-the-cn-tower-toronto-liberty-seminar/ Website of the UCL Conservative Society: promoting the Conservative Party at UCL since 1910 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:27:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Luca http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2008/01/21/watching-from-the-cn-tower-toronto-liberty-seminar/#comment-22991 Luca Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:37:54 +0000 http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2008/01/21/watching-from-the-cn-tower-toronto-liberty-seminar/#comment-22991 Well I guess we have a good UK-Canada link :) Tom is really inspiring, he traced rights and the concept of property from the middle ages, through Innocent IV and Aquinas. Surprising to know that a Pope actually decreed that infidels had rights as everyone else. I'm going to see how the Fraser Institute organises things too, they have a seminar next weekend in Montreal. As for the translations, in the various links and literature he recommended were so many sites in languages of all kinds, I was thoroughly impressed! I guess you'll be hearing some more from your canadian correspondent :) Well I guess we have a good UK-Canada link :) Tom is really inspiring, he traced rights and the concept of property from the middle ages, through Innocent IV and Aquinas. Surprising to know that a Pope actually decreed that infidels had rights as everyone else.

I’m going to see how the Fraser Institute organises things too, they have a seminar next weekend in Montreal.

As for the translations, in the various links and literature he recommended were so many sites in languages of all kinds, I was thoroughly impressed!

I guess you’ll be hearing some more from your canadian correspondent :)

]]> By: Oliver Cooper http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2008/01/21/watching-from-the-cn-tower-toronto-liberty-seminar/#comment-22990 Oliver Cooper Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:08:08 +0000 http://www.uclconservatives.co.uk/2008/01/21/watching-from-the-cn-tower-toronto-liberty-seminar/#comment-22990 Quite simply, Tom is a hero. He spent the late 1980s smuggling literature on freedom into the Eastern Bloc; has commissioned works by Hayek, Bastiat, and Friedman to be translated into Arabic and Farsi to distribute in the Middle East; and was one of the six plaintiffs that last year secured people in Washington DC their constitutional right to keep arms in the home for self-defence. On top of all that, he's a captivating public speaker, and one of the most knowledgeable guys you'll ever meet. If you ever get a chance to hear Tom speak, make sure you grasp it with both hands! Free-market environmentalism's a very interesting area of study, simply because it's so entirely ignored. Fortunately, in London, we have one of its foremost exponents, in Mark Pennington at Queen Mary's. Quite simply, Tom is a hero. He spent the late 1980s smuggling literature on freedom into the Eastern Bloc; has commissioned works by Hayek, Bastiat, and Friedman to be translated into Arabic and Farsi to distribute in the Middle East; and was one of the six plaintiffs that last year secured people in Washington DC their constitutional right to keep arms in the home for self-defence. On top of all that, he’s a captivating public speaker, and one of the most knowledgeable guys you’ll ever meet. If you ever get a chance to hear Tom speak, make sure you grasp it with both hands!

Free-market environmentalism’s a very interesting area of study, simply because it’s so entirely ignored. Fortunately, in London, we have one of its foremost exponents, in Mark Pennington at Queen Mary’s.

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