He was using "freedom" in a sarcastic tone, because the neocons like to spam "freedom" and the protection thereof as a response to any complex issue.
As anyone with even a thin understanding of history would know, people with no, or few government protections are very far from free indeed. It would seem the liberatarian neocon's view of "freedom" is freedom for the highest, tiniest tiers of society, and damnation for the rest. "Trickle-down theorey" my ass.