[KJS]

You wrote:

"It's so sad that Liberalism has been perverted into promoting a bigger, more pervasive, more intrusive, more concentrated central government authority at the expense of personal freedom and diffusion of government powers."

Witness the USAPATRIOT ACT and its successor, both forwarded by the current non-liberal administration. Few who've read the acts could say these are not the most far-reaching intrusions into the sphere of personal freedom and association put forward in decades, maybe ever. They give more police and surveillance power to the federal government than any other single bills in the history of our republic. Those say that conservatives who push these measures are in favor of less government and more personal freedom are merely regurgitating long-held misleading beliefs about what it means to "liberal" or "conservatives".

KJS