Slag, not so fast there. As a recent [compared with you] convert to Libertarian ideology, I suggest that there is no one true faith. Libertarianism is like Islamic Jihad. We have many beliefs in the Umma. <Actually, your theory that "government has no bearing on human behavior" is an element of LP theory, and a very mistaken one. Another big failing of LP theory is the notion that man is an "economic animal". Some may be, maybe you are, but to put undue weight on economics is very mistaken. It is popular with theorists like LP fanatics because it is, like Marxism, a materialist construction, removing from their calculations any impossible to define human and spirtual factors that are at the root of everything people do. It is a gross oversimplification, in other words, akin to Marxism. >
Perhaps you were dealing with Shiite variety Libertarianism rather than Sunni.
Actually, I was a Libertarian before I had heard of Ayn Rand or Libertarians, so it's not really that I'm a convert. Indeed, Lindsay Perigo, the local yokel version of Libertarianism excommunicated me after a short time. I worked for Radio Liberty for a short time in 1995. He was running it. It was some time later than I was excommunicated, long after leaving the company, which was NOT running their marketing along Libertarian lines, which was a problem for me, causing me to leave.
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