Challenging Nandor
"Nandor - part of the 'ban-this-thing-and-compulsory-those things' Green Party - has been politicking while stoned
again," says Libertarianz spokesman Russell Watkins. Watkins says that Green MP Nandor Tanczos' claim that McDonalds
have somehow 'trodden' on 'youths' free speech' by not allowing 'Tearaway' magazine to be placed in McDonalds
restaurants suggests that "Mr Tanczos might well benefit from some basic lessons in property rights, and in free
speech."
Watkins clarifies: "It is not unusual for aging hippies like Nandor to confuse genuine rights with bogus ones, as this
current example exemplifies. It almost sounds like Nandor wants 'free' speech to be compulsory. Nandor champions the
right of youth to free speech, but doesn't offer McDonalds any support to exercise their right to decide what literature
they have displayed on their property. What he forgets, or perhaps doesn't understand, is that your right to free speech
does not require that anybody else provide you with a lecture hall, or a hamburger restaurant, within which you may
disseminate your views. This is 'free' speech only in the sense that someone else is paying for you to talk."
Watkins concludes with a challenge to test if Nandor really believes what he is saying. "In the interests of testing the
consistency of Nandor's misundertanding of what the right to free speech consists, I ask - no demand!! - that Nandor and
the Greens display the following in all of their electorate offices: Libertarianz literature, the novel 'Atlas
Shrugged', 'The Free Radical' magazine, Bjorn Lomborg's 'Sceptical Environmentalist', and full-colour laminated
McDonalds menus. Let's see just who is treading on whose 'free' speech, shall we?"