When I spoke at the largest nationwide gathering of freedom activists in Las Vegas and at the national Libertarian Party conference in 2004, I was booed for my criticisms of Bush’s warring and torturing. I was also later booed for opposing torture at the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. Plenty of libertarians were no longer in favor of freedom - unless it included the freedom to torture terrorists. And how do we know who is a terrorist? That’s easy - because someone somewhere claims to suspect them of something. More
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