liberals? hah, cut the crap.

writing the last post made me thing about all the people i know that claim to be liberal. for them, of course, being liberal means supporting stuff like abortion, euthanasia, drug liberalization, and so on. some of them - i was reading a social networking profile last night that made me laugh hard in that part - say things like "be yourself", "express yourself, your creativity, your freedom" and crap alike when they cheer any measure of the state that reduces individual liberty. like the smoking bans, the reduction of salt in bread, the centralized id card, the dna database, the cameras on the streets recording our every step. things done for public health's and security's sake. they cheer, those things are for the common good of everyone. and they call themselves liberal. hah.