{"id":23373,"date":"2014-04-25T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T15:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=23373"},"modified":"2014-04-25T07:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T15:50:47","slug":"ron-paul-the-authoritarian-nation-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/25\/ron-paul-the-authoritarian-nation-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Paul: The Authoritarian Nation-State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> This week Charles Goyette <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.podcastone.com\/pg\/jsp\/program\/episode.jsp?programID=401&amp;pid=408907\">talks with Ron Paul<\/a> on their weekly podcast about the increasing authoritarianism of the nation-state. From mandating people\u2019s decisions about medical treatment and insurance, to the clandestine gathering of private phone calls, and its deployment of special operations forces around the globe, the state\u2019s heavy hand is everywhere. And as we learned in the Bush years and again in the Bundy stand-off, the state has the audacity to tape off small, restricted areas that it designates as &quot;free-speech zones.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>This week a conversation with Ron Paul about the Authoritarian State.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.podcastone.com\/pg\/jsp\/program\/episode.jsp?programID=401&amp;pid=408907\"><strong>Download MP3 here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/charlesgoyette.com\/\">Charles Goyette<\/a> is <em>New York Times<\/em> Bestselling Author of <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Dollar-Meltdown-Unconventional-Investments\/dp\/B0040RMF2K\/antiwarbookstore\"><i>The Dollar Meltdown<\/i><\/a><i> and <\/i><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Blue-Broke-All-Over\/dp\/B00B9ZH4UY\/antiwarbookstore\"><i>Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America\u2019s Free Economy<\/i><\/a>. Check out Goyette and Paul\u2019s national radio commentary: <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ronpaulsamerica.info\/\"><i>Ron Paul\u2019s America<\/i><\/a> and the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/podcastone.com\/Ron-Pauls-Podcast\"><i>Ron Paul and Charles Goyette Weekly Podcast<\/i><\/a>. Goyette also edits <a HREF=\"http:\/\/charlesgoyette.com\/newsletter\/\"><i>The Freedom and Prosperity Letter<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week Charles Goyette talks with Ron Paul on their weekly podcast about the increasing authoritarianism of the nation-state. From mandating people\u2019s decisions about medical treatment and insurance, to the clandestine gathering of private phone calls, and its deployment of special operations forces around the globe, the state\u2019s heavy hand is everywhere. And as we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-23373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23374,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23373\/revisions\/23374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}