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Booze, drugs, weapons, international travel, fortified compounds and a place in jet-set society all take money. HST was hardly a homebody content with the wife's apple pie. You are free to continue dissecting my adjectives, but I think you'll continue to fail seeing the forest

As far as dissing him goes, I think not. I simply labeled him for what he was - a dissipated symbol of a dissipated generation. Your characterizations of the man, in a struggle against the man, are a stretch too far IMO. You're certainly free to imagine him as a symbol for some kind of freedom if you choose. In a like kind of freedom, I believe that he was a man enslaved by his own demons and killing himself was the final act of a particularly small and foolish life.

If you were the authority on the Founders that you seem to feel, you'd know that self-control and moral underpinnings were essential to their ideas about liberty. This assertion is no mystery. If you believe they would have seen HST as an embodiment of their ideal freedoms, I'd like to read about it.

If you liked HST, fair enough. I did not. He'll rest no easier if I laud him or condemn him. I won't, however, endorse, or ignore, the romantic myth that boomer culture has granted him. I sincerely hope his family fares better now that he's gone - he must have been a terrible pain.

Hunter was for America in a way that America needs; -- he was for individual liberty.

I've never mistook Hunter as a 'champion'; -- he just fought the good fight against control freaks his whole life.
That he loved liberty, and wrote about it well was enough for me.

Booze, drugs, weapons, international travel, fortified compounds and a place in jet-set society all take money. HST was hardly a homebody content with the wife's apple pie.

Who claimed he was a 'homebody'? And sure, he was paid well. -- So what?

You are free to continue dissecting my adjectives, but I think you'll continue to fail seeing the forest

I've seen through your 'forest' my son, and its not a pretty picture.

As far as dissing him goes, I think not. I simply labeled him for what he was - a dissipated symbol of a dissipated generation. Your characterizations of the man, in a struggle against the man, are a stretch too far IMO.

Why do you still "struggle against the man"? He's dead..

You're certainly free to imagine him as a symbol for some kind of freedom if you choose. In a like kind of freedom, I believe that he was a man enslaved by his own demons and killing himself was the final act of a particularly small and foolish life.

I suspect he was terminally ill, and ended life on his own terms. Obviously, that enrages you. How sweet.

If you were the authority on the Founders that you seem to feel, you'd know that self-control and moral underpinnings were essential to their ideas about liberty. This assertion is no mystery.

I'm a student, not an 'authority' attempting to preach to the choir.

If you believe they would have seen HST as an embodiment of their ideal freedoms, I'd like to read about it. If you liked HST, fair enough. I did not. He'll rest no easier if I laud him or condemn him.

So why the condemnation? Your vindictive rhetoric serves no real purpose..

I won't, however, endorse, or ignore, the romantic myth that boomer culture has granted him.

Someone asked you to endorse his lifestyle? Who?

I sincerely hope his family fares better now that he's gone - he must have been a terrible pain.

Might your family have first hand knowledge on the same subject? Your words here give that impression.