After reading other Libertarian commentary on this news, I regret publishing these thoughts.

Eliot Spitzer has a right to privacy. In addition to my parenthetic statement that prostitution should be legal, I must say that the danger to our people of extortion and blackmail of a politician is based on a political system that is not Libertarian.

The political system and the laws of our government grant powers to officials that they ought not to have. It is clear that no officials should have the power that extortion or blackmail could access or manipulate. Governors, along with legislators and others in government clearly have too much money and power, which they can grant as favors to those who "influence" them.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the person, it is in the System.