Libertarian protest march turns into free-for-all
A demonstration by up to forty-three economic libertarians has ended in disarray because of lack of co-operation among the marchers, police reported.
The rally was sponsored by the pressure groups Modern Economists for Maximum Enterprise and the Modernisation of Economics (MEMEME) and the Free Libertarian Union of Fukuyaman Friedmanites (FLUFF).
The organisers had planned for the march to proceed along Wall Street, in protest at the housing projects which are beginning to dominate the former financial powerhouse.
However, despite securing the full agreement of the Manhattan police, the organisers were unable to gain agreement among the marchers, many of whom refused to obey stewards’ instructions, wear identifying badges or keep to the agreed route.
“This is a clear moral triumph for deregulated individualism,” said Jack I. Moright, a FLUFF spokesman and one of the four participants (not counting two noisy individualists in a baby carriage) who walked all the way along Wall Street as originally planned.
