Crush Liberalism

From RCP (with video for context):

Stone: Do you think it’s fair to send people to jail who don’t buy health insurance?

Pelosi: … The legislation is very fair in this respect.

Just to recap:

When George Bush wants to listen in on phone calls between terrorists, that’s stepping on our freedoms.

When Pelosi wants to toss people in the slammer because they won’t purchase a product, that’s the epitome of freedom.

Got it.  Thanks for the clarification.

By the way, Ace has a most excellent analysis of economic and personal freedom and how socialism squashes them both every time it’s tried.  Do yourself a favor and read it, but savor the excerpt:

Socialism never attends a party without an escort of coercive state behavior. It is a historic fact — indeed, an economic fact — that as the state seeks to regulate and control more and more economic activity, they must, of course, control more and more human activity.

Economic activity is human activity, after all. Economics is not somehow divorced from humanity. Economic choices are not made of their own volition, passive-voice, without an actor. People make economic choices — and socialism demands an ever-increasing control over those choices, and therefore the people who make those choices. (Or, more accurately: formerly made those choices.)
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Right out of the box they propose sending people to jail for acting as economic subversives and economic traitors and yet I am, somehow, paranoid if I point out that the first step here is to reduce human freedom and increase state power. …

Well put, Ace.