Welcome

Welcome to Liberty Glasses. This is a blog started on June 14, 2012. My name is Jared and I reside in Chicago, Illinois (the land of big government). I am a registered independent, Ron Paul supporter since last year, and follower of politics for many years. I created this blog to offer opinions from a libertarian perspective with two goals: 1) to provide libertarians with a place to read and discuss issues affecting the liberty movement and 2) to provide non-libertarians with a good idea of what the average libertarian thinks about certain issues.

Now onto more speciffic information. I am what many might consider a conservative libertarian, or constitutional libertarian. This means that I am not an anarchist, but rather I support a limited government much like the one envisioned by the founders. This also means that I am pro-life. The Constitution says that the government is here to protect "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Some libertarians believe that abortion is an issue of protecting liberty, others life. I believe that it is protecting life.

I am also not a "big-L" Libertarian. That means that I am not active in the Libertarian Party. While you may see me supporting a few Libertarian Party candidates, I align with the goals of Ron Paul: integrate libertarianism into a major party instead of splintering off. My ideal candidate to endorse (you will see me endorse several candidates through this blog) is a libertarian thinker active in the Republican Party. It will be much easier for us to turn a major party into a "libertarian party" rather than turning the Libertarain Party into a major party.

I want to thank you for visiting my blog and I hope that you will be back often in the future. The liberty movement is rapidly expanding, and I am glad to be a part of it.

In liberty, Jared