{"id":6682,"date":"2014-02-24T15:55:39","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2014-02-25T14:10:41","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:10:41","slug":"zesty-times-new-hampshire-liberty-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/24\/zesty-times-new-hampshire-liberty-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Zesty Times at New Hampshire Liberty Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a couple talks at the <strong>New Hampshire Liberty Forum<\/strong> last week.  This is a program of the <strong>Free State Project <\/strong>&#8211; and it was great to see how much further the Free Staters have gotten since the last time I visited New Hampshire. These folks are putting their shoulder behind making freedom a reality, and it is bracing to see.<\/p>\n<p>Some folks in the audience kindly tweeted during my talks, and here&#8217;s some of the lines they zipped out. I&#8217;m especially obliged to <strong>Dan Alban<\/strong> &#8211; the Institute for Justice lawyer who whipped the IRS in federal appeals court a few weeks ago. <strong>Brian Lewis<\/strong> was most helpful with both speeches &#8211; especially when he asked about the Boston knife woman. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the following lines are spinoffs from stories in the speech from my new memoir,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"> <strong>Public Policy Hooligan<\/strong> (available as an e-book for $6.95 from Amazon<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;In DC, agency bureaucrats think I&#39;m a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23redneck&amp;src=hash\">#redneck<\/a>.  In North Carolina, they think I&#39;m an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23undercover&amp;src=hash\">#undercover<\/a> federal <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23agent&amp;src=hash\">#agent<\/a>&quot; &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437362819395485696\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> on hard times in his youth: &quot;It had gotten so bad, I had stopped buying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23beer&amp;src=hash\">#beer<\/a>&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437358327891517441\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;The agency official said, &#39;Hey, that report is secret.&#39; I said, &#39;Yeah, it&#39;s stamped &#39;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Confidential&amp;src=hash\">#Confidential<\/a>&#39; on every page&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437363950725115904\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> on slacking on job: &quot;As soon as you had both hands in your pockets, people would say, &#39;Ah, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23government&amp;src=hash\">#government<\/a> employee&#39;&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437360108180611073\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Remember the Audio! Libertarian paladin <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> fighting leviathan! See him today at NH <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreeStateNH\">@FreeStateNH<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/liCMsMxOiM\">http:\/\/t.co\/liCMsMxOiM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Gardner Goldsmith (@gardgoldsmith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gardgoldsmith\/statuses\/437311412743184384\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23NHLibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#NHLibertyForum<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> details Obama&#39;s Reign of Constitutional Terror. He&#39;s good at killing people on unjustified suspicions.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fran\u00e7ois-Ren\u00e9 Rideau (@fare) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fare\/statuses\/436974512685719552\">February 21, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>&quot;She was cute in a bottle-of-lightning kind of way&#8230;so I brought over a six-pack of beer like you&#39;re supposed to&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437366624245780480\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>After a woman pulled a knife on him &amp; began screaming at top of her lungs, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> began to suspect she had anger issues <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437367140044537856\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Journalist&amp;src=hash\">#Journalist<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JimBovard\">@JimBovard<\/a> says he had a hard time finding <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23editors&amp;src=hash\">#editors<\/a> with the guts to publish work critical of the gov&#39;t after 9\/11 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23LibertyForum&amp;src=hash\">#LibertyForum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Alban (@Frimp13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Frimp13\/statuses\/437365149784375298\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>The only way to reform a govt program is to abolish it. &#8212; James Bovard.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23libertyforum&amp;src=hash\">#libertyforum<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zorzhanna (@Zorzhanna) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zorzhanna\/statuses\/437364544739237888\">February 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Twitter @jimbovard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a couple talks at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum last week. 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