The interesting history they don't teach in schools

[Mister Agenda]

What mechanism is in place to protect individual rights?

Well...if you listen to the libertards...they claim the "free market" will handle that.  Ignoring of course that like all of the phony gods created by mankind the free market is just as phony.  Markets exist but are subject to manipulation by rich cocksuckers.

As something of a 'libertard' myself, you seem to have us mixed up with the anarchocapitalists. Libertarians are for government, just (to varying degrees, depending on the libertarian) not so much as we have currently. One of the legitimate functions of government should be to reduce the impact on markets of the manipulations of rich cocksuckers.