{"id":6709,"date":"2014-03-02T13:56:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T18:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2014-03-02T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T19:01:29","slug":"video-speech-obamas-reign-constitutional-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/02\/video-speech-obamas-reign-constitutional-terror\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; My Speech on &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Reign Of Constitutional Terror&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"James Bovard - Obama&#039;s Reign Of Constitutional Terror @NHLF\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dDYg9-sQFdk?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>The fine folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freestateproject.org\/events\/liberty-forum\">New Hampshire Liberty Forum<\/a> are placing online videos of the speeches at last week&#8217;s conference.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the first talk I gave (the &#8220;Libertarian Hooligan&#8221; speech should be online later).<\/p>\n<p>As I was going through the TSA checkpoint last Sunday at the Manchester, NH airport, I was cross-examined by a TSA Behavior Detection Officer (BDO). 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