[billbears]

Notice that there is not a peep of dissent from the anti-France groups for this political intrusion into personal choices. Indeed, the politicians are carrying out part of the boycotters' agenda. So much for "voluntary" action.

So you see no problem with this. If you choose to not buy a product fine, but the author has a point. When it comes to the point that politicians are intruding on my choice then it is limiting the freedom we hold dear

Viva la freedom

[Pikachu_Dad]

BOSH. The pols have no say in what we boycott. Grow up.

[Nick Danger]

the author has a point. When it comes to the point that politicians are intruding on my choice then it is limiting the freedom we hold dear

That's exactly what the author wants you to think. This is a typical diatribe from the The Ludwig von Mises Institute. I'm about ready to organize a boycott of them. Here's their shtick, and I see it in every article posted from their web site:

• A few introductory paragraphs leading you to believe that they are reasonable people who know what they are talking about.
• A sudden leap into something very bad and scary, which concerns a parallel, but fundamentally unrelated phenomenon. In this case it's that grandstanding politicians have been playing to anti-French sentiments by proposing "tough sanctions" that will go nowhere in the legislature but are red meat for a screaming mob.
• A few paragraphs of sesquipedalian tergiversation that so mix up the two phenomena in an avalanche of jargon and bulls**t that unless you're careful, the Von Mises Boys will convince you that they are one and the same, or even causally related.
• The conclusion: Item B is bad. Therefore unrelated Item A is bad. In this case, politicians using law to coerce behavior is bad, therefore voluntary boycotts undertaken by citizens that involve no coercion whatsoever are bad.

I don't know what the deal is over at the Von Mises Institute, but the stuff I see posted here from their site is not just poorly reasoned crap, it's deliberately misleading crap, and quite often it sells a leftist agenda while claiming to be doing just the opposite.

I don't think those guys are what they say they are.