More Terms I Don't Get

I never could get my mind around the "they hate our freedoms" line.

Doesn't this imply the raison d'etre of a terrorist is to attack freedom? What terrorist gets up in the morning, stretches, yawns does a few crunches, takes a swig of Araq and proclaims, "Gish, gosh I hate freedom. I think I'm going to be blow myself up."

I think, unless someone can steer me otherwise like a cow cluelessly chewing on grass, that's a vague and possibly misleading belief.

Of course, conservatives tend to take this stance. But then again, conservatives, the committed ones anyway, can be a rather contradictory or even hypocritical bunch. They talk an awful lot about freedom but are often too willing to take it away. Sure, they're not alone on this front but liberals don't speak much about it - maybe because they abandoned its principles?

They claim to be fiscally conservative and  for free markets; they take massive swipes at Obama, but seriously, who are they kidding? Bush was kicked started the bail out plans and they didn't seem to mind it back then.

The same goes for drugs, pornography and homosexuality. How many times have we seen conservatives speak ill on each (and rightfully so) only to engage in them at different times?

I hate people who declare wars on this and that and then partake in this and that.

It's just one of those things. Human hypocrisy that is. I know people try to figure out who is more culpable but that's like trying to figure out who is more evil, Lex Luther or The Riddler?

Closer to home, Quebec's political and intellectual classes provide all the proper platitudes about pluralism, freedom and democracy but are all too ready to invoke the notwithstanding clause to trample on civil liberties in the name of protecting the collective.

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Question: Is classical liberalism alive and well and do libertarians have a right to claim lineage to it?