[FreeTheHostages]

oh thank you thank you thank you for your post.

I thought I was going insane here with despair. I don't expect everyone on Free Republic to be well-read on everything, but is there no one here who understands that when it is written "powerful advocate of the liberal perspective," they are referring to the small "l" liberal perspective that admits of classical markets operating with natural rights and strong protection of individual freedoms and little government intervention.

When I was but a young girl, children were still taught about John Locke and John Stuart Mill and people that libertarians here would hail as heroes. It saddens me to think that people on this thread went "off to the races" on the world "liberal," because a good classical education would warn then that that word does not mean Democratic in modern political philosophy.

Libertarians: I do claim Rawls as one of us.

[Mudboy Slim]

"I was going insane here with despair..."

Some would describe that as an over-reaction, but the transmutation of liberal ideals of FReedom and self-responsibility to Lib'ral Socialist Dogma and Tyranny is but one of the many crimes with which the Left has afflicted America!!

Gotta admit to being clueless as to this character's bona fides as a libertarian, but I'll take yer word fer it that he was no Lib'ral!!

FReegards...MUD