Libertarians tend to be very interested in the government's monopoly on legitimate violence.  It's true.  It's a major issue.  I think I get where Rand Paul was coming from last week and I even support it.  The government can take your life, your property and your freedom.

But, you know, it usually doesn't.  You are unlikely, my friends, to ever find yourself in combat with government agents.  That's a good thing.  The government will largely not restrict your freedoms.  The government largely doesn't care.

It's your employer who you should watch out for.  To Libertarians, the employee/employer relationship is a voluntary one.  To an extent, it is.  Though, for most people, it's not that voluntary.  Most people cannot choose not to work at all.  They're responsible for their own care and often for the care of others.

Your employer can drug test you, monitor your computer usage or, as The Wall Street Journal reported last week, track you with Radio Frequency ID Tags.  What juxtaposing the stories of Ron Paul and the people tagging did for me (see my Esquire piece at the link above) was really solidify in my mind that it's our relationship to work and the hierarchy of the work place that is a far more potent method of organizing our society than our politics is.

That, more than drones in American skies, is the more worrisome threat to liberal democracy.