{"id":6814,"date":"2014-04-10T09:05:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T13:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6814"},"modified":"2014-04-10T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T14:22:40","slug":"libertarian-hooliganism-speech-new-hampshire-liberty-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/10\/libertarian-hooliganism-speech-new-hampshire-liberty-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"My Libertarian Hooliganism Speech from New Hampshire Liberty Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jim Bovard - Libertarian Hooliganism @NHLF14\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SovyCMjmmI8?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>I gave this spiel at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freestateproject.org\/events\/liberty-forum\"><strong>New Hampshire Liberty Forum<\/strong><\/a> in February &#8211; a great event put on by the fine folks at the <a href=\"http:\/\/freestateproject.org\/\"><strong>Free State Project<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It was a real treat to speak to such a fine audience.<\/p>\n<p>The first four minutes of the speech has too much\u00a0verbal wheel spinning &#8211; but it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">sorta hits stride\u00a05 minutes<\/span> into the 44 minute spiel when I tell how I hijacked a Massachusetts Turnpike tollbooth.\u00a0 The \u00a0talk also includes sordid details about my pathbreaking work at the Harvard Business School,\u00a0learning how not to shovel working with the Va. Highway Department, raiding GATT headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and getting\u00a0tarred as a federal undercover agent in North Carolina. The highlight of the Q&amp;A is the story of almost getting stabbed by an angry Boston sculptor lady I met at a natural food store.<\/p>\n<p>The full title for the speech was &#8220;Libertarian Hooliganism: Having Fun Raising Hell for Freedom.&#8221;\u00a0 I have to tip my hat to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JamesCBabb\"><strong>James Babb<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; who came up with that title when I spoke to the LP Penn last summer. It was too good not to recycle.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RedPillRecording\"><strong>Red Pill Recording<\/strong><\/a> for their excellent video work and thanks to <strong>Liam Leane<\/strong> for getting the video up online.\u00a0 And I appreciated <strong>Brian Lewis<\/strong> sitting in the front row during the talk so I could watch his reaction to tell if the damn jokes were working.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the stories in this speech are plucked from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Public-Policy-Hooligan-Rollicking-Washington-ebook\/dp\/B00AKZH97W\"><strong> Public Public Hooligan<\/strong><\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JPB-tight-image-Hooligan-speech-NHLF-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6817\" alt=\"JPB tight image Hooligan speech NHLF 2014\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JPB-tight-image-Hooligan-speech-NHLF-2014.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JPB-tight-image-Hooligan-speech-NHLF-2014.jpg 635w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/JPB-tight-image-Hooligan-speech-NHLF-2014-150x102.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave this spiel at the New Hampshire Liberty Forum in February &#8211; a great event put on by the fine folks at the Free State Project.\u00a0 It was a real treat to speak to such a fine audience. 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