Fighting for Freedom?
January 5, 2012
So, the Army would like to punish Corporal Thorsen for daring to speak out in favor of Ron Paul? So much for the horse-hockey about soldiers “fighting for freedom,” eh? I suspect the real offense in this young man’s remarks came when he started to say that “Israel could defend itself” . . . oops, “We’re having technical difficulties” as he was abruptly cut off. Perhaps a bumper-sticker ought to be designed in his honor: “Support the troop.”
Butler Shaffer was Professor Emeritus at Southwestern University School of Law. He is the author of In Restraint of Trade: The Business Campaign Against Competition, 1918–1938, Calculated Chaos: Institutional Threats to Peace and Human Survival, and Boundaries of Order. His latest book is The Wizards of Ozymandias.
Response to Mark Shea, re: Catholics and Libertarians 