[HatSteel]

For what it's worth, since I've come to FR and had a chance to discuss with a number of folks from different walks, I've turned more and more in a "libertarian" direction in terms of "FREEdom."

There's real freedom and there's patriotic, jingoistic freedom. The latter kind says a barowner can't permit smoking in his own establishment.

[MrLeRoy]

since I've come to FR and had a chance to discuss with a number of folks from different walks, I've turned more and more in a "libertarian" direction in terms of "FREEdom."

Testify, brother! I've heard statements like that before---oddly, I've never heard anyone claim the opposite.

[EBUCK]

I've turned more and more in a "libertarian" direction in terms of "FREEdom."

That's because you are a closet dope smoker and producer of child porn. It absolutely cannot be due to the fact that Libertarians propose a more "free" republic.....

[Hank Rearden]

For what it's worth, since I've come to FR and had a chance to discuss with a number of folks from different walks, I've turned more and more in a "libertarian" direction in terms of "FREEdom."

There's real freedom and there's patriotic, jingoistic freedom.

Bingo. You get it. So many of the teeming masses simply want Big Stupid Republican Government, in order to rule us their way.

We get a lot of crap from Republicrats about "limited government" - what they mean is limited to the laws and restrictions they want. Individual liberty means nothing to these pinheads.