re: How convenient
I do support limited government, but I try to keep my concerns in the real world as much as possible. Libertarians who fail to do this end up hiding with their guns behind rolls of barbed wire in Idaho somewhere.
I do sometimes wonder that if Al Gore had come up with the Patriot Act, if it would have gotten half the crap that it has. But then Gore and those like him are about absolute control of economics, not defense.