Libertarians want the exact same ends as many Socialists. They want to pull up the poor and see them prosper. They want individuals of every race and sex to have maximum opportunity. They want everyone to live healthy, prosperous lives with quality education and affordable health care.

Yes Larry, they want regulations. They want intelligent management. They want rules for safety and peaceful conduct. Police, firemen, teachers…. yada yada…

They simply approach it with a different framework that may be foreign to you.

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All Libertarianism begins with the Non-Aggression Principle. They oppose all force and threat of force. Libertarians have opposed American militarism more consistently than anyone else.

They believe that a government isn’t exempt from the moral law. Moral and ethical rules don’t change when a person puts on a uniform or wheres a badge. Our benevolent rulers are just people. They have the same inherent motivations as the evil GREEDY CEOs and their financiers.

[Ironically, our attempts to rein in big business with stricter regulation does nothing but push opportunistic politicians, powerful interest groups, giant companies and bankers farther into bed with each other...] Look up “economic fascism”…

Libertarians believe in property rights. They believe your life belongs to you. The wealth you make with it belongs to you, and you can save it or trade it for anything as long as your commerce is voluntary.

That’s the operative word right there: “voluntary”. How on earth can you have a problem with that…? Really. Lew Rockwell was right. If people actually WANT services or programs, why on earth do they have to be FORCED to pay for it…?

Here’s my favorite part. In a truly voluntary world, you can band together as many (insert your ideal society type) people as you can convince and sway into an area (or remotely) and carve out a life for yourselves as you see fit… As long as you’re not forcing them to stay or hurting them.

Did you catch that? Libertarians want you to be able to have the society you want. Can Libertarians have theirs under yours…?

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Take another look at the subject, Larry. Where ever your seeing people being harmed or robbed or forcefully exploited, you’re NOT looking at Libertarianism.

Don’t just trip over the first “pro-big business” root you encounter. That’s barely smarter than the “racism” charges people throw around. Don’t settle for nonsense, Larry. You’re smarter than that.

Don’t sh*t on the people who want you and the people you love to be free…

I think you mean “…concentrate on them.”? I presume a typo, but love the article.

1. I don’t want to put words in Mr. Rockwell’s mouth, but I don’t believe he would have any problem with private charities funding medical research. What he has a problem with is government taking money, by force, and deciding where that money should be spent. This is nothing more than theft, made to appear legitimate because it is performed by an allegedly beneficent government full of good people who only want to serve mankind and have no self-interest whatsoever. Even if government research results in cures, it is just as immoral and me breaking into my neighbor’s home and stealing his money to buy medicine for my sick daughter. Of course it is noble for me to want to help my sick daughter, but this does not mean that any action I take to accomplish that end is automatically moral and right.

2. “There’s the crux of libertarianism, that we create anarchic, unregulated marketplace…” – This isn’t quite truthful. Free markets are not unregulated–they’re better regulated than markets that are regulated by governments because they are regulated by you and me. In a free market we, as consumers, are free to choose the products and services we feel provide the best value. Those that provide lesser value go out of business. Entrepreneurs start new companies to provide products and services of greater value, and over time we see great improvements in quality, while prices go down. We see this happen with computers because there is a fairly free market for the production and distribution of this product. We see much of the opposite in health care because it is regulated by government, rather than consumers.

3. Regarding the example of company ABC. Bob’s behavior would not be acceptable to Mr. Rockwell, because it is fraud, and libertarians do not believe fraud is acceptable. The libertarian position would be that Bob would be responsible to pay full restitution to those to whom he caused financial damages.