[webstersII]

“I have been attacked, called names, told that this is not the site for me.”

Me, too. I have no use for any mind-altering substances or other vices that many Libertarians push but as soon as you stand up and say that the gov’t has no authority to prohibit certain things they label you a Libertarian, a pothead, and worse.

Most people on FR would be shocked to learn that in the early years of the this Republic that alcohol consumption was quite high, way higher than today. The British tried to tax sugar, which was used to make rum, and that really set off the Colonists.

People on FR need to stick to the facts and not just go with their emotions like the liberals do.

[Wolfie]

Everybody’s got a good reason why we just can’t go by the Constitution. Everybody. So here we are.

[Antoninus]

Most people on FR would be shocked to learn that in the early years of the this Republic that alcohol consumption was quite high, way higher than today. The British tried to tax sugar, which was used to make rum, and that really set off the Colonists.

Yes? And tell me what our founding fathers thought of pornography and other "lifestyle" issues like sodomy? That's where the real disconnect comes from. If a liberal-tarian stood on a street corner in 1793 Philadelphia and ranted about how the government was a tyranny because he wasn't able to open a gay bawdy house on Chestnut Street, he would have been tarred and feathered--at best.

The Founding Fathers knew quite well that men do not have a God-given right to vice. Somewhere along the line, many Americans forgot that.