"This better than just about any post on FR demonstrates how sick, dangerous and evil the libertarian agenda is".[wagglebee]
GladesGuru is in no way accurately reflecting libertarian principles. Even libertarians admit that one of the primary functions of government is to protect individual rights.
I think that a great many libertarians actually hate the very idea of government and the rule of law.
Libertarians (especially on FR) love to quote Ronald Reagan's 1975 Reason Magazine interview; however, they conveniently excerpt his entire statement [added emphasis is mine]:
If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.Now, I can’t say that I will agree with all the things that the present group who call themselves Libertarians in the sense of a party say, because I think that like in any political movement there are shades, and there are libertarians who are almost over at the point of wanting no government at all or anarchy. I believe there are legitimate government functions. There is a legitimate need in an orderly society for some government to maintain freedom or we will have tyranny by individuals. The strongest man on the block will run the neighborhood. We have government to insure that we don’t each one of us have to carry a club to defend ourselves. But again, I stand on my statement that I think that libertarianism and conservatism are travelling the same path.