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For a country where the national flag flies from front porches and convenience stores and where children recite the Pledge of Allegiance each morning at school, we’re remarkably resistant to the notion of being governed. In the fall of 2013, the Pew Research Center found that only three in ten Americans trust the federal government to do what’s right ‘most of the time’. The self-conception of most Americans, with their visions of pioneers and plucky underdogs fighting for independence, is all about freedom. The flip side of that vision, however, is all about distrusting government. And ‘government’, in US political...

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 13:41Attack of the Nazi Trolls: A Lesson for Message Board ModeratorsIn a recent blog entry titled, "I've Been Red-Baited!", I wrote, "I'm not familiar with LibertyForum.org, but it appears to be an anti-Bush, anti-war message board with a distinctly anti-Jewish undertone." A member of LibertyForum.org named Max Soldo (aka "thoughtcriminal") has responded by e-mail and provided further clarification of LibertyForum's political orientation. He writes: This forum is a libertarian forum, and is devoted to the libertarian concept of unabashed free speech. With that principle in mind, most posters aren't libertarian as many fringe types...

This is my first vanity ever, and it's just here as a warning. To any of my friends from here who are also on www.libertyforum.org, do NOT try to contact me privately on that forum. The person who has signed up as "cachelot" on that forum is not me. The technique of ripping off internet identities is a fairly old neo-nazi scam, first seen in Europe. It serves many purposes, from pure harassment to attempts to gain access to private communications, which sort of brings it into the realm of wire fraud. I have made repeated attempts to reach the...