As far as specific principles, I'd have to go back in the archives of my posts to find some of the threads I've been involved in, but there are times when I've just sat there at my computer screen shaking my head when a thread comes along about what seems to me to be a perfectly legitimate law enforcement action ... and again, law enforcement inherently involves, at times, compelling people to do that which they do not want to do, or preventing them from doing that which they want to do ... but everyone starts shrieking about jackbooted Nazi thugs infringing on people's personal freedom.
Do I believe that in some cases the state, society, the government, or whatever you want to call it or however you want to define it, should protect people from themselves? I guess you can say that I do, because I would never, ever, ever, not in this or any known solar system, favor the legalization of drugs, prostitution, etc., that a lot of extreme libertarian elements favor. It is simply not in my DNA to do that. My point is that I think I can still be a good political conservative while holding those beliefs. If I'm out of step with conservatism 2006, c'est la vie, I would hope we still have enough of a big tent to brook some disagreements and still be on the barricades together when it's gonad-cutting time, as in this November.