...that the same folks who respond with lusty cheers to every encroachment of police powers inflicted upon the populace, provided only these are cloaked in the raiments of the War on Terra, are the first to sound the tocsins about the dire hazard to our ancient liberties whenever some social program threatens to sap the self-reliance of our sturdy yeomanry with vile gummint strictures addressing healthcare instead of manly patriotic restrictions upon travel promulgated by an enlightened bureaucracy to save us from the machinations of al Qaeda.
I've come to think of this as "situational libertarianism."
cordially,