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To: Libbyt who wrote (33)	6/5/2002 6:13:24 PM
From: LPS5	Respond to of 2534

Hi Libby, Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. The biggest philosophical roadblock I've encountered - repeatedly - is, upon posting articles like this one, the assumption that a more laissez faire policy approach would necessarily imply less (or no) policing of violent crimes, fraud, and coercion. In fact, the opposite is true. The personal freedoms that travel in lockstep with a true market economy survive only by virtue of the rule of law. Antitrust policies, arbitrary social reordering, and the parceling out of public assets (i.e., airwaves by the FCC) by governmental subsidiaries do not serve to preserve legal order; they erode the range of options available to a free people, embolden an already-overstepping government and contribute to the gradualism that, over time, leads to a dulling of vigilance on the part of those whom the government (purportedly) serves. LP.