[Sarah]

Thanks for some well educated facts on the matter.
I don't understand this idea that FR is a forum to counter government intervention in everything.
(While I will admit your answer was a bit more erudite than mine...)
PS. Were you home schooled?

[ConstitutionLover]

I happen to be a proud product of a Massachusetts public school system.

[TigersEye]

I don't understand this idea that FR is a forum to counter government intervention in everything.

Apart from the fact that keeping government in a small box was an overriding concern of the Founding Fathers and a basic premise of conservative philosophy perhaps the idea has taken hold here due to personal interpretations of the opening statement on FR's homepage:

Welcome!
Free Republic is an online gathering place for independent, grass-roots conservatism (there's that word conservatism again) on the web. We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, (uhhhh, what's that mean?) to root out political fraud and corruption, (nothing corrupt about taking kids away from their parents for refusing to take some bureaucrats test is there? doh!) and to champion causes which further conservatism (oh no, not again) in America. And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah!

[society-by-contract]

I don't understand this idea that FR is a forum to counter government intervention in everything.

Freepers support plenty of government intervention. If you want to visit a forum where folks oppose government intervention in *everything* click on the link below:

http://www.anti-state.com/

[kegler4]

"I don't understand this idea that FR is a forum to counter government intervention in everything."

Well, not quite everything. Try suggesting that governement shouldn't be legislating against, say, homosexuality or marijuana, just as a couple of examples, and suddenly you'll find lots of support for government intervention. Except for a handful of really hardcore cases, EVERYBODY is in favor of some government intervention.