Gyumri, Armenia: A Student Posing a Question
following my Lecture at the University
Yerevan, Armenia: Listening to a Translation of a
Question from Armenian into German While Seated next to the Former Mayor of Yerevan
Yerevan, Armenia: Students Attending my Lecture on
Institutions and the Rule of Law
Baku, Azerbaijan: Meeting (beside Rashad, who is
Translating, and Tural, a Former Intern at the Cato Institute
and Founder of the Free Minds Association) with Opposition
Leader Ali Karimli
Baku, Azerbaijan: Meeting with Opposition Leader
Isa Gambar (from a News Clipping)
Great work, Tom!
Very glad to see the intent looks on the students. I hope they came away with an appreciation of the libertarian tradition reflected in their appearance. Seminars like these will often make changes further down the paths of their lives, at a point when they will make a decision, however small and unbeknownst to their conscious minds, that will affect their future beliefs forever.
“From little acorns, great oaks are made.”
Cheers!
Just Ken
kgregglv@cox.net
http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/
Dear Ken,
Yes, Tom has made great impact on the minds of people. If people still talk about him, if I still receive calls about his TV coverage and about his visit, then I believe there was a change in the conscious minds of people who are just fed up with ideological pseudo doctrines.
Thank you, Tom!
Tural
Baku/Azerbaijan
True, Tural.
In my free time, I watch Azeri TV. What an amazing interview Dr. Palmer gave, grandissimo! this courage, I was stunned! I am not sure our friends in the US realize the tremendous work he is doing. You see, it is easy to share libertarian thoughts in the cosy places between Champagne and petit fours, nice places where you can’t get hurt…like defending progressive ideas in California or under the Eiffel Tower, let me laugh…It is another thing to actually go to places where people need these ideas because they suffer from the arbitrary rule of dynasties, nepotism and oligarchy. And guess what, that is precisely what Dr. Palmer did. He explained to a broader audience the basics and essentials of the rule of law in a free society. Thanks to a very good translator, nobody needed subtitles, but not only because of that.
NV
Hi everybody! Glad to be here. Many thanks to Dr.Palmer who was really an excellent mentor.
Loking forward to more activities here in Azerbaijan.
Parviz/OSI-AF
“It is another thing to actually go to places where people need these ideas because they suffer from the arbitrary rule of dynasties, nepotism and oligarchy.”
That’s true, but these same ideas of liberty have been undermined by numerous commentators on this blog who prefer to shill for mass murderers such as Madeleine Albright.
Great work, Tom! Continue to keep doing this sort of thing. It’s in the places undergoing development & transition where it is most important to spread good ideas — these are the places where efforts have the greatest chance of haing an effect (as you obviously know).
Again, keep up the good work!
Steve,
You’re a nutjob.
Tom,
I greatly admire the work you’re doing. While the Lew Rockwell goons quarrel over whether MLK, Jr. or Abraham Lincoln was the most evil figure in American history, you are introducing bright and eager people (like the ones who have posted above) to the miracle of classical liberalism, in places around the world that are in desperate need of such ideas. Thank you.
-Ben
Dear Ben,
Thanks a lot for your rightly-made comments. just to quickly follow-up on that, usually in places like Azerbaijan people are VERY sceptical about the ideas they hear from different people (scepticism is one of Soviet legacies here). Thus, although they are desparate for those ideas, as long as you dont make it delicately, it is difficult for your message to reach the masses. So my point, first you need right ideas and then right people to introduce those same ideas. And personally, I dont think anyone better than Tom Palmer.
All the best,
Tural
Baku/Azerbaijan
Congratulations, Tom. I thought Natalie Vogel’s comments above were especially on point, save for the minor correction that it is no longer safe these days to mouth libertarian sentiments in front of the Eiffel Tower…
Excellent Mr Palmer
spreading freedom and liberty everywhere . I really admire you. Congratulations