Craig Murray explains some basic principles of a libertarian.

Legislating on taste and personal morality is assumed. Authoritarianism is the default setting. The anti-foxhunters and anti-smokers have got the strength to impose their will, the anti-abortionists not, at least in the UK. But why do we have to seek to impose our will by force, not reason?

Why indeed? I have sometimes wondered at the kind of sick mind that would seek to criminalise the use of imperial measures, for example.