Originally Posted by roachboy

well, ace, thing is that in other contexts you'd likely be about "accountability" and seem like the sorta feller that thinks the rule of law is at least in some way important. or maybe you are committed to some realpolitik idea, so long as it effects other people, preferably far away...i also imagine that you, like alot of folk, find themselves very committed to the rule of law when you are affected, but that's another matter. anyway, much of the import of the above comes from the pattern you fit it into. i think dc is right and what he says about it is more or less what i was thinking about when i put the op up. i'm a little less blase about the remaining months of this execrable regime because i think they can, and probably will, do more damage. you, ace, seem to not connect it to any pattern.

but i just dont understand how it is that this acceptance of opacity at the level of state squares with your free marketeer views in other areas.
i just dont get it--do you compartmentalize your political views in such a way that entirely contradictory positions can operate side-by-side?
it seems like you'd have to, given your economic positions and your "war on terror" positions--libertarian except when there's a threat, real or imagined, in which case authoritarian.
it really makes no sense to me.
please explain.