Liberty Means Freedom for All

Thomas Anderson has just graduated from CSU
Stentoria, with his degree in Political Science. It's
an election year, and as a young "progressive"
in California who has been raised by equally
progressive parents, he is very much concerned
with the political issues currently being discussed
in the mass media.
A chance encounter with a fellow graduate named
Kelly Kelso, however, shakes up his sett led view of
the world. He is challenged to examine the rising
number of alternatives to the two-party system
presented by "third party" movements such as the
Libertarian Party and the Green Party, and is forced
to acknowledge that there is far more to politics
than simply Democrat versus Republican, and
liberal versus conservative.
Thomas delves energetically into not only the
growing Libertarian movement, but the free market
perspective of the Austrian School of economics, as
well as the rigid yet compelling view of Ayn Rand's
philosophy of Objectivism. His explorations grow
wider, now encompassing the Tea Party movement
and the Christi an Right; tax resisters and gun
rights advocates; survivalists and militia members;
anarchists, communists, and Democratic Socialists;
as well as the Occupy Wall Street movement.
He debates the radical environmental views of
animal welfare and animal rights advocates, and
challenges opponents of corporate globalism as
well as deniers of global warming, as he struggles
to reformulate and articulate his own developing
beliefs, while coping with a sea of conflicting ideas
and opposition.
But this abstract political theory is brought into
sharp encounter with concrete political reality,
when Thomas hears a news report of an armed
conflict with authorities taking place just outside
of town, involving someone with whom he has
become emotionally involved...