JAMES LILEKS REMEMBERS THE NEW DEAL:

The NRA, among other things, was intended to prevent the depredations of competition, and “allowed industry heads to collectively set minimum prices,” as this rather scant wikipedia entry notes. (The same page relates the story of the tailor who was arrested for charging 35 cents to press a suit; the NRA rules specified the price at 40 cents. So he was arrested. Consider that the next time someone complains that liberty and civil rights have been eliminated in the last 7 years.)

But economic liberty doesn’t count as liberty because . . . well, because if it did it might stand in the way of policies that some people like. Read the whole thing.