This is a stupid article written by a stupid man who's got some long chip on his shoulder against libertarians.

Responses that address his smears, which are mostly fabricated from plain ignorance;
http://reason.com/blog/2011/08/31/mi...ertarians-apol
Here’s one way Lind makes this bogus claim:

[W]here was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century?... [C]ivil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights, voting rights, abuses by police and the military, and the subordination of politics to religion -- issues like the campaign to expand human freedom by turning highways over to toll-extracting private corporations and the crusade to funnel money from Social Security to Wall Street brokerage firms.
I challenge Lind to name, if he can, a liberal or progressive who’s done as much good work on behalf of the cause of “abuses by police” than the libertarian journalist Radley Balko, whose investigative reporting has exposed police and prosecutorial misconduct and also helped get a man off of death row and out of prison, among other things. As for abuses by the military, the libertarian economist Milton Friedman played a key role in ending the draft, which ought to count for something.
http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com...s-in-jackboots
One reason for Lind’s conflation is that he automatically translates being anti-democracy into being pro-autocracy — because he assumes that the only alternative to democracy is autocracy. But in fact there is a third option; rather than the many dictating to the few or the few dictating to the many, what libertarians seek is a world where nobody is in a position to dictate to anybody — or at least to get as close to that situation as possible. (It might be argued that such a system actually has a better claim to the term “democracy” than those regimes that typically receive that label.) For anarchist libertarians, this means replacing the state entirely with networks of voluntary association; for minarchist libertarians, it means structuring the machinery of government in such a way as to make it as difficult as possible to abuse.
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