He doesn’t get it. He’s a sex-and-drugs libertarian, not a free speech and freedom from surveillance libertarian.
He’s probably more of a “I don’t want to piss off my big-government worshipping employers at foxnews and lose my show like judge Napolitano did” libertarian.
Which is a libertine, not a libertarian. Yes, you are free to be as hedonistic as you want to be. You are NOT free from suffering the consequences of making such horrible life choices.
With freedom, comes PERSONAL responsibility.
For instance.....Some perspective...We are less closely watched by government than citizens of other countries.
No need for any perspective here. Regardless of whether it's 3000 cameras, or 500000 cameras, or 1 camera, all are equally damming, and all should be done away with. The Stossel of 10-ish years ago would have made this point, I think.
Stoessel is correct that this government already is abusive. Just the national details t proves that. He’s downplaying a terrible abuse of power with the NSA crime. They collect data and sift through it to target political enemies, that is, anyone who makes them the least uncomfortable.