Freedom to suppress freedom

C. Pierce:

The blog’s Five Minute Rule as regards the Paul family and its politics remains intact because it enables the casual listener to realize that Rand Paul — and his pappy, Crazy Uncle Liberty (!) — believe you have all the freedom in the world, but that every other powerful institution in society — except the government — has the untrammelled freedom to abridge the de facto exercise of those freedoms as thoroughly as it chooses, and that the government has no place in alleviating the suffering that results because that would be destructive of your freedom. Oh, and you shouldn’t get blown up at Starbucks by your own government, either.

Now, it’s gay marriage and, yeah, he’s nuts…