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Originally posted by JSDSKI
Disagree with the notion that the only personal freedoms liberals support are those you find personally distasteful.

It sounds like the response I get a lot. When I disagree with a liberal they automatically assume I must be a conservative; when I disagree with a conservative, they automatically assume I'm a liberal. I'm actually neither -- my political philosophy is libertarian; both sides of the political spectrum have a constant "love-hate" relationship with the things I say!

Originally posted by JSDSKI
Sometimes business interests use eminent domain to pursue commercial interests like city development or business parks. Sometimes environmental groups use the same doctrine to protect federal lands and resources.

...and being libertarian I disagree with both! Both represent a violation of property rights.

Originally posted by JSDSKI
What is an example of liberally controlled government interference with exchanging goods and services?.

Can you say "Social Security"? What about "income tax" or "sales tax"? Or maybe "building permit" or "business license"? Try to conduct business free from these interferences and people with guns will come to arrest you! Granted, there are both conservative and liberal positions supporting this interference (again, a reason I'm libertarian), but generally, liberals are substantially less business friendly than conservatives -- just look at how people are lining up politically on the current social security reform debate.

Originally posted by JSDSKI
I just disagree that regulating gun ownership automatically results in the loss of ones right to own a gun. Or that there is some liberal conspiracy to take guns away from people.

You need to listen to the leaders of the gun control groups (nearly all of them share a liberal philosophy) -- their goal is the elimination of all private ownership of guns; many of them have said such in plain English.

I'm always left asking: What do people who want to ban or "regulate" firearms plan to do to me that my ownership of guns is even a concern to them? If you are a person who respects my rights, my firearms pose no threat to you what-so-ever! So why do you want to "regulate" them? What is in your plans that my ownership of guns should even be an issue?