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As I sifted through the bickering, reading the occasional post of substance, I noticed that "Libertarian" and "libertarian" are being used interchangably.

Both quotes from Ronald Reagan make sense to people on both sides of this issue, if you take notice of where the "l" is lower case, and where it is capitalized.

The libertarian ideology is not one and the same as the Libertarian Party platform. I consider myself a libertarian. I am not part of the Libertarian Party, nor do I intend to register as a Libertarian. Just a few examples of where I differ from the Libertarian Party:
- I support "profiling"
- I support maintaining an offensively natured, forward deployed, nuclear-armed, standing military
- I think the Libertarian Party platform contradicts itself, where it reads that children should not be allowed to force a religion upon their children, but then goes on to say that "Parents, or other guardians, have the right to raise their children according to their own standards and beliefs"
- I also think that abortion is unconstitutional and thus it should be banned

After reading your profile page, its clear, you are a violent and dangerous political malcontent. You trash conservative Republicans like myself, with caustic and incindiary rhetoric, calling us "evil" socialists and "sociopaths", because they don't agree with or support your political philosophy of fringe extremism. Not only that, but you bluntly state, you're willing to committ premeditated murder.

Here's a quote from your profile page.
"I cannot think of one elected official for whom I would brake, if I saw them crossing the street, nor one for whom I would not put the vehicle in reverse and back over, afterwards."

Whether you consider yourself a libertarian, or a Libertarian --- the definition of a "Libertarian" is, a member of a political party that advocates libertarian philosophy --- your rhetoric and behavior labels you a fringe extremist and reactionary absolutist. This isn't the type of rhetoric that Ronald Reagan was engaged in. Reagan was a moral/law and order conservative and never talked of killing his fellow conservative Republicans, nor his political opponents on the leftwing either.