The Price of Liberty

We constantly complain about the abuse we endure from government. Especially the bureaucratic regulatory agencies and bodies of political appointees and elected officials.

Government is supposed to (and claims to) protect us from people who would hurt us, who would do evil things. This, in turn, justifies (in their eyes) government doing bad things to us.

This short discussion from Madd Medic’s “Freedom is Just Another Word…” webzine is worth pondering. together with the recent commentaries TPOL has published on Progressivism, Prohibition, and the Social Gospel.

I’ve used the term “neo-liberal” to describe today’s progressives, but more and more refer to the by their desired results: Regressivists. They want our society, our culture, our civilization to slide back into a state of tyranny and total government (totalitarianism). One significant “sect” of modern, neo-liberals are socialists, which come in several flavors: national socialists (Nazis and Fascists and Falangists and the like), international socialists (Communists or Marxist-Leninists, Maoists, etc.), and transnational socialists (which I call Tranzis) .
Whatever we call them, they are bad.
These people call themselves “Progressive Liberals” or “Liberal Progressives.” It is part of their many attempts to spin – or bluntly, lie, their way into power.
One term that Madd Medic does not discuss is a relatively uncommon one: “Paleo-Liberals.”
As a free-market anarchist, I (Nathan) cannot agree with much that is attributed to Classical Liberalism, or its related philosophy of minarchism, which most Libertarians in the US and the UK today are. I see no justification or necessity for government to have to provide many of the services and exercise many of the powers that classical liberalism recognized as appropriate for government. Certainly not mandatory government.