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Pastor Butch Paugh<\/strong><\/a> and I talked about how the government was ravaging American freedom on his radio program.\u00a0 Show was spurred by the New York Post<\/a> excerpt of the first chapter of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pastor Butch lives in West Virginia, a state that has a lot more freedom than any place on the Northeast Corridor. He understands TSA much better than Bostonians do.\u00a0 The 1944 quote from Judge Learned Hand on “the spirit of liberty” resonated intensely with him. We concurred on the absurdity of Covid decrees that shut down churches while entitling liquor stores to remain open; Pastor Butch said he was very disappointed at how churches complied with those lockdown orders. The logo for the program captures Pastor Butch’s position on the Second Amendment.\u00a0 MP3 outtake of\u00a0 the show<\/a> is below.<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/JPB-on-Pastor-Butch-radio-show-010324aa-Part.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor Butch Paugh and I talked about how the government was ravaging American freedom on his radio program.\u00a0 Show was spurred by the New York Post excerpt of the first chapter of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pastor Butch lives in West Virginia, a state that has a lot more freedom than any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,3899,3932,3933,158,252,256],"class_list":["post-18968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-freedom","tag-last-rights","tag-pastor-butch","tag-paugh","tag-radio","tag-tyranny","tag-west-virginia"],"yoast_head":"\nDiscussing Last Rights on the Pastor Butch Radio Show - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pastor Butch and I discuss Last Rights, "the spirit of liberty," TSA, and political rascals on his radio show from West Virginia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/discussing-last-rights-on-the-pastor-butch-radio-show\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Discussing Last Rights on the Pastor Butch Radio Show - 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