Rand Hobart's Random Homilies » liberty http://blog.randhobart.org.uk Between outraged ranting and mediocre mundanity is the time I'm allowed... Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:16:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2011/10/11/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2011/10/11/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:41:10 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=7762 By Sarah Shin / 10 October 2011

Slavoj Žižek visited Liberty Plaza to speak to Occupy Wall Street protesters. Here is the full transcript of his speech.

Don’t fall in love with yourselves, with the nice time we are having [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2011/10/11/slavoj-zizek-at-occupy-wall-street/feed/ 0 Injunctions, Super-Injunctions, and Damned Hyper-Injunctions http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2011/03/18/injunctions-super-injunctions-and-damned-hyper-injunctions/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2011/03/18/injunctions-super-injunctions-and-damned-hyper-injunctions/#comments Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:04:45 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=7724

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The UKs Con-Dem coalition is in no hurry to overturn the erosion of civil liberties and social freedoms imposed on a comatose citizenry by Blair/Brown’s ‘Neue Labour’.

Just how many state sponsored databases are YOU on…?

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/12/18/the-stasi-coming-to-a-free-country-near-you/feed/ 0 Care in the Community Pig in Toronto http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/07/14/care-in-the-community-pig-in-toronto/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/07/14/care-in-the-community-pig-in-toronto/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:19:54 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=7460 What an absolute cunt of cretin this copper is…

Stick a  retard in a  uniform it’s still just a retard, only it’s wearing a uniform. Still, he was such a chivalric retard, protecting the female officer next to him who clearly was so incapable to speak for, or [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/07/14/care-in-the-community-pig-in-toronto/feed/ 0 Bastard Babylon Buffoons http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/06/30/bastard-babylon-buffoons/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/06/30/bastard-babylon-buffoons/#comments Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:23:00 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=7407 The filth really are scraping the bottom of the barrel if this is an example of the intelligence and application of ‘The Law’ (as opposed to ‘their law’) we can expect from a Metropolitan Police Inspectors these days.

What a bunch of utter and totally retarded cunts.

For such a Neanderthal to [...] Related posts:

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/06/30/bastard-babylon-buffoons/feed/ 0 Exit Through The Gift Shop http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/05/21/exit-through-the-gift-shop/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/05/21/exit-through-the-gift-shop/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 09:42:46 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=7256 Exclusive 5 min Extended Sneak Peek

Banksy

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2010/05/21/exit-through-the-gift-shop/feed/ 0 What a Load of Bollox… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/28/what-a-load-of-bollox/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/28/what-a-load-of-bollox/#comments Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:19:14 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=6534 Some people need to get a fucking grip;

Legal warning over Inverness school’s trip

A school trip for about 70 pupils has been cancelled because of potential legal action over the exclusion of a disabled child in the group.

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/28/what-a-load-of-bollox/feed/ 0 We’re OK now, the Daily Wail’s on the case… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/12/weere-ok-now-the-daily-wail-is-on-the-case/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/12/weere-ok-now-the-daily-wail-is-on-the-case/#comments Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:42:25 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=6405

How police in Big Brother Britain treat you like a terrorist for taking holiday snaps

On Tuesday morning, a sunny day in London, Grant Smith decided to make use of the good light and set out to take some photographs of Christ Church on the corner of Newgate and King Edward Street.

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/12/weere-ok-now-the-daily-wail-is-on-the-case/feed/ 0 Are there any non-criminals left in the UK!?!!? http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/10/are-there-any-non-criminals-left-in-the-uk/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/10/are-there-any-non-criminals-left-in-the-uk/#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:21:07 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=6385 A libertarian coalition is emerging in the US to resist an ever expanding statute book. The need is just as urgent here

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/10/are-there-any-non-criminals-left-in-the-uk/feed/ 0 Mainstream Media Finally Cottons On… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/03/mainstream-mmedia-cottons-on/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/03/mainstream-mmedia-cottons-on/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:29:58 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=6318

Police warned over misuse of terror laws to stop innocent photographers

By Mark Hughes and Jerome Taylor

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/12/03/mainstream-mmedia-cottons-on/feed/ 0 Swansea Council R Dumb… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/11/24/swansea-council-r-dumb/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/11/24/swansea-council-r-dumb/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:38:02 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=6511 … as a box of frogs;

My comment on the page (post yours)…

Dear Sirs,

Do you employ people who are qualified in law to draw up your policies, or do you engage outside lawyers for the task?

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Nikon Photographer Arrest Threat Over Jet Ski Drama

Police banned a photographer from taking pictures of people on a jet ski and threatened to arrest him despite an officer admitting the images he had taken were perfectly lawful.

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]]> http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/10/28/jet-ski-tog-threatened-with-arrest/feed/ 0 Plastic Plod Prod Tog in Park… http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/09/18/plastic-plod-prod-tog-in-park/ http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/2009/09/18/plastic-plod-prod-tog-in-park/#comments Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:07:01 +0000 RandHobart http://blog.randhobart.org.uk/?p=5639

Photography enthusiast said he will never return to Town Hall Park in Runcorn after being quizzed by police for filming

A photography enthusiast said he will never return to his local park after being treated like a suspected paedophile by police.

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