I find Kos' embrace of the idea very heartening. I believe in the 2nd Amendment. I believe in freedom from government (but I am also not stupid to the idea that sometimes I need the government: especially when it comes to Antitrust Laws, Securities Fraud, Food Regulation, Pharma-Regulation, so on). Basically: government should not mess with the individual; it should, however, mess with the corporation.
Those who are looking for theoretical bases for this notion should look no further than DeTocqueville and DeJouvenal. They argued in "Democracy In American" and "On Power" respectively, that the only way the power of a government can be checked is by way of an "aristocracy." Where those aristocracies are absent, fake aristocracies, called Intermediate Social Authorities, need to stand between the government and the people. In my opinion, corporations are that intermediate social authority. However, America is unusual, because in its case, the intermediate social authorities, are able to control the state (by way of lobbying and money politics). This leads to Hallibuton backed government Wars, Exxon backed government exploitation of the world, Smith and Wesson backed government arms trading. In
this situation -- not predicted by DeTocquville and DeJouvenal -- the government has to reduce the power of the intermediate social authority in order to protect the individual.
Libertarians only care about individual liberty. We prefer when the state fights the 'aristocracy', because in that tug and pull is the most liberty for the individual. If either one controls the other, the individual gets crushed.
One way to think of the inter-relationship between the state/corporation/person is to look at how this tripartite division first emerged. It emerged in the feudal days when you had a weak king, a powerful aristocracy who backing was necessary to make the king, and the serfs. Most of the time the feudals abused the serfs. The serfs could not turn to anyone for help because the king was too weak. Then came a smarter king. He said, "if you enter my city, serfs, you will be free, and I will protect you." So some serfs left their feudal lords and went to the king. There they became free. The problem now was that they had to fight for him (and die for him). So they traded in agricultural indentured servitude for military indentured servitude. But this new kind of service was a bit better. You could own property now. You could become a knight. You could get the king to give you land and become free (assuming you lived through the war). More and more serfs flocked to the king. The aristocracy weakened. The feudals, ticked off, went after the king. Sometimes he lost. Sometimes he won. In the end, with the rise of the centralized state, he appears to have won. Nazism, Stalin, French Terror, are all instances of the centralized state gone haywire. [If you note: they always killed their richest -- because the richest were the former feudals]. In response to the almighty central state, people used the corporation and the bureacracy and the lawyer to protect themselves. But in the American experience something weird happened: the corporation and the lawyer started to pull the strings of power. It used lobbying and wealth and money and networking to take control of the state, and thereby, take control of us, and make us all serfs -- pay us only 5.15 an hour, not give us health-care (Walmart), and take away our pensions (Enron). So the time came, the time that is now, again for all of us to strengthen the state in order to limit the feudal lord, and that is why being a Libertarian Democrat makes so much sense.