{"id":19391,"date":"2024-04-04T16:50:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=19391"},"modified":"2024-04-05T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:28:33","slug":"talking-last-rights-with-matt-kibbe-on-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/talking-last-rights-with-matt-kibbe-on-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Last Rights with Matt Kibbe on Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to <strong>Matt Kibbe<\/strong> and <strong>Free the People <\/strong>for inviting me on this podcast. Plenty more comic relief where this came from at this link \u2013<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Government\u00a0Commits More Crimes than We Know | Guest: James Bovard | Ep 273\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72K1fgP1TMs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to my outtake video on <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/how-hogans-heroes-saved-me-from-the-east-german-stasi\/\">my East German adventure<\/a> along with the NY Times article after I exited East Berlin<\/p>\n<p>Here is an outtake photo from Matt&#8217;s Instagram page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/jpb-and-kibbe-from-his-instagram-Screenshot-2024-04-05-084757.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19441\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/jpb-and-kibbe-from-his-instagram-Screenshot-2024-04-05-084757.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/jpb-and-kibbe-from-his-instagram-Screenshot-2024-04-05-084757.png 676w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/jpb-and-kibbe-from-his-instagram-Screenshot-2024-04-05-084757-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is my 1994 article on the feds persecuting Deadheads that Matt mentioned &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19436\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-800x721.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-800x721.jpg 800w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-1024x923.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-768x692.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-1536x1385.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/JPB-1994-DEA-Deadheads-scaled-e1712278301870-2048x1846.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearty thanks to Matt Kibbe and Free the People for inviting me on this podcast. 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