Did you see the source on this? Here:
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When I read this, my very first thought was "This guy is a liberal idiot who has probably spent a good deal of time in an ivory tower pontificating to himself because he enjoys the sound of himself speaking..."
Then, I thought, I should check the source first before I say that. Funny how you can just pick them out after a few words in the first paragraph.
If I hear one more LIBERAL MORON compare the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan to our Founding Fathers, I am going to send out a team to revoke their right to have stupid speech issuing from their piehole, because they have just exceeded the limits of tolerance.
In case you did not know it, and this pathetic excuse for a handwringing Euroweenie clearly doesn't know it, the Founding Fathers DID NOT DELIBERATELY BLOW UP INNOCENT WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Classical liberalism has nothing to do with today's perverted definition of "liberal". Friedrich Hayek was the epitome of a classical liberal. Classical liberalism is what conservatives like Goldwater were supposed to be trying to conserve.
Not saying I agree with anything written in this essay, far from it. Just making a point.