Liberty Means Freedom for All

Thomas Anderson has just graduated from CSUStentoria, with his degree in Political Science. Itsan election year, and as a young progressivein California who has been raised by equallyprogressive parents, he is very much concernedwith the political issues currently being discussedin the mass media.A chance encounter with a fellow graduate namedKelly Kelso, however, shakes up his sett led view ofthe world. He is challenged to examine the risingnumber of alternatives to the two-party systempresented by third party movements such as theLibertarian Party and the Green Party, and is forcedto acknowledge that there is far more to politicsthan simply Democrat versus Republican, andliberal versus conservative.Thomas delves energetically into not only thegrowing Libertarian movement, but the free marketperspective of the Austrian School of economics, aswell as the rigid yet compelling view of Ayn Randsphilosophy of Objectivism. His explorations growwider, now encompassing the Tea Party movementand the Christi an Right; tax resisters and gunrights advocates; survivalists and militia members;anarchists, communists, and Democratic Socialists;as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement.He debates the radical environmental views ofanimal welfare and animal rights advocates, andchallenges opponents of corporate globalism aswell as deniers of global warming, as he strugglesto reformulate and articulate his own developingbeliefs, while coping with a sea of conflicting ideasand opposition.But this abstract political theory is brought intosharp encounter with concrete political reality,when Thomas hears a news report of an armedconflict with authorities taking place just outsideof town, involving someone with whom he hasbecome emotionally involved