Taking liberties
High Country NewsPosted: August 1st, 2006 by Thomas L. Knapp
Author: Ray Ring
“He seemed like an ordinary concerned citizen, not a part of an orchestrated, multistate campaign. But the libertarian movement he belongs to — broader and more powerful than the anemic Libertarian Party — has a growing reach in American politics. The movement’s mission is to maximize individual freedom by limiting government power in everything from taxes to judges’ rulings. One of its national leaders, Grover Norquist, has said that he wants to reduce government ‘to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.’ In this campaign, which is playing out in six Western states, the libertarians mostly want to ‘reform eminent domain’ — or at least that’s what they say.” (07/24/06)
