Libertarian positions on military: Actually I think that the ideal situation would be if the military and intelligence agencies and politicians were dominated by libertarians. My primary issue with government surveillance is that the government has powerful sections of it that are essentially modern day Nazis (DEA, ATF, IRS, ICE, etc). I think that the government has extreme potential to combat victim causing crime, if the NSA actually targeted criminals we would be seeing child molesters sent to prison faster, we would be seeing cyber thieves sent to prison faster, etc. It is kind of a double edged sword, on one hand it is good that the police agencies are incompetent because it allows The Jews to escape from their gas chambers, but on the other hand it is bad that they are incompetent because it allows truly bad people to do bad things. I rather like the idea of a Libertarian Pseudo-Orwellian Utopia, where everything is legal that doesn't cause victims, even things that are extremely unpopular (like viewing and possessing CP), but where the police agencies are so powerful and skilled that they can bring victim causing crime (rape, theft, molestation, etc) to its knees. Legalize everything that does not cause victims to directly be created, be extremely liberal and leaning towards freedom with all things like age of consent, privatize the shit out of everything, eliminate taxation (hell, I would voluntarily help to fund a libertarian policing agency), and have an extremely powerful defense agency (or network of defense agencies) that can blow True Crime away and protect us from those who wish to cause us harm. Sounds good to me! Essentially, those who do not restrict the freedom of others should be left free themselves, and those who wish to restrict the freedom of others should be ruthlessly incapacitated or if need be eliminated. In an ideal libertarian world nobody would care very much about an agency doing large scale intelligence operations with the goal of combating crime, because the only criminal things would be things that all rational people recognize as bad and in need of being stopped. This is actually why I am very much in favor of militant libertarianism, the only people who can complain about totalitarian libertarianism are those who wish to oppress others. Being forced into freedom is hardly being forced at all. Of course I do not think that the NSA is a defender of libertarian ideals. I merely think that the NSA doesn't give a fuck about criminals in 99.9999999% of cases, nor do I think they share intelligence with people who do. Terrorism / Espionage != regular crime.