Saturn's Children (Duncan and Hobson book)
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Saturn’s Children: How the State Devours Liberty, Prosperity and Virtue is a
personal liberties
, and undermine the material well-being of the people.
Its title refers to the Roman myth that
hardback edition features Saturn Devouring His Son, a painting by Francisco Goya
portraying the myth.
Controversy
The book courted political controversy due to
MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Brian Mawhinney. As a consequence, many of the book's stridently libertarian messages disagreed with the position of Duncan's party, which, at the time, was suffering considerable internal divisions, culminating in a leadership contest
in 1995.
Perhaps the most controversial of the policies advocated in the book was the position taken that all drugs, currently controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, should be legally available to the public. When the book was published in paperback, this chapter was omitted. Not wanting to hide his views, Duncan at one time posted the offending chapter on his official website, "for the benefit of the enquiring student".[1]
References
- ^ "The Legalisation of Drugs". www.alanduncan.org.uk. Archived from the original on 19 April 2001. Retrieved 13 January 2022.