[Skybird]

That comparison is an offence, and if you seriously compare libertarianism or me with these people and their doings, than you have not understood one bit about libertarianism (to differ it from today's understanding of the term liberalism, which in American English today stands for left ideology or socialism in plain English).

I would recommend you to read Murray Rothbard: The ethics of freedom, to teach you a bit about how real libertarians would judge those idiots you compared me to. Especially the chapters dealing with questions of justice in libertarian understanding should find your attention. The book can be downloaded for free and legally at the von Mises institute's American website.

Beyond that, you just ignore that history shows exmaples for both Europe and Asia where trading local communities and city states have functioned and led to cultural blossoming in places where it caused fruitful and constructive competition for best talents. Even in ancient Greece it sometimes - sometimes - worked, usually before power hungry state leaders or abusive democratic state order took over control.

But you want your canon of democratic beliefs and republican powers, like a club fan has a banner of his team hanging on the wall. Once even were willing to donate your life and health to fight in the name of these things, by a finger's snipping of the pendant of the Führers (plural). Well, I wish people would be more choosy regarding for what they put their lives at risk. But well, not my business, not back then, not in Iraq, not in Afghanistan. BTW, free market participants were not who wanted these wars - it were polticians, governments, and business monopolists with strong lobbies in politics (that en passant by their mere existence already bypass the electorate's votes, just to mention that - so much for "democracy" and "in the name of the people"...).