Family to be fined for hosting the Liberty Summer Seminar

The Liberty Summer Seminar is by far my favourite yearly political social event. It is a place where politicians, journalists, academics and students can gather around with a bottle of Liberty Ale and learn about the philosophy and politics of freedom.

I owe a lot to the LSS, and not just for the good memories. Attending there as an undergraduate student I gained a greater breadth to my education. I heard economic and political theories that were never once mentioned by my own professors. I became engaged in ideas that to this day I find exciting and truthful. Even those that are not libertarian, such as blogger Roy Eappen, have been engaged by the topics and ideas at LSS.

The event takes place on the property of the Jaworski family. They cook amazing meals (considering that they are cooking for 100 people) and help to make the event the fun experience that it is.

After 10 years it seems that the municipal government has decided to take action against such a horror as providing people with food:

Due to an anonymous zoning complaint filed with the local municipality, husband and wife bed-and-breakfast proprietors Marta & Lech Jaworski may be forced to pay as much as $50,000 in fines for permitting their son, Peter, to use his family’s property to host the Liberty Summer Seminar, an annual barbecue in support of liberty.

“Our family escaped Poland for fear of reprisals in 1984 after my mom and dad handed out pro-democracy and pro-freedom literature from under my baby carriage,” said Peter Jaworski. “It’s ironic and upsetting that they may now be facing charges in Canada for allowing me to host an event in support of those very same principles.”

$50 000 fine can bankrupt them. It is an absurd punishment for doing nothing that should be punished. The municipality of Orono should be ashamed of itself for threatening the livelihoods of these innocent people.

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