And how exactly do you call yourself a "libertarian" and then support a national intelligence agency monitoring the non-violent political activities of private citizens?
As a libertarian myself, I am definitely not completely comfortable with this, but I can see where @DanielBMarkham is coming from. From a strict libertarian perspective, if they're not initiating force against anyone, they aren't doing anything really wrong. Passive monitoring may be distasteful (and I worry about the eventual repercussions of it), but it's not necessarily something a libertarian would find to be inherently wrong.
As a libertarian myself, I am definitely not completely comfortable with this, but I can see where @DanielBMarkham is coming from. From a strict libertarian perspective, if they're not initiating force against anyone, they aren't doing anything really wrong. Passive monitoring may be distasteful (and I worry about the eventual repercussions of it), but it's not necessarily something a libertarian would find to be inherently wrong.