In my opinion

[Keyser Soze]

businesses can create bureaucracies as impenetrable and money-wasting as any government.corporations will build their own military if necessary.

take russia in the decade after the fall of communism,russian GDP declined 50% in five years. the elite grabbed the assets they could and shuffled them out of russia.

in 1994 alone, 600 businessmen, journalists, and politicians were murdered by gangsters. russia lacked a working road system, a banking system, anti-monopoly regulation, effective law enforcement, or any sort of safety net for the elderly and the jobless.

then the mafia took over.

today's russia is moving back toward authoritarianism under Putin. apparently, given a little freedom, many people will demand less.you'd better be careful about setting up that utopia; ten years further on it may be taken over by authoritarians.

libertarianism in its more rational form is small government conservatism, with some social reforms mixed in.

if i were to survey the so-called libertarians on this board, i would bet most of them would more likely fall into the conservative category rather than the libertarian when they consider the reality of their decisions.