The Tom Woods Show, episode 1153.

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Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

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are wrong.com. Hey, everybody, Tom Woods here. We're talking today to Joshua Smith, who is running

for Libertarian Party Chair. The Libertarian Convention for 2018 is coming up

the end of June into early July, and the race for chair has been rather interesting, and I thought

I would talk to Joshua about what's going on and what his platform is and where he would like

to see the party going. So Joshua, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks a lot, Tom. I appreciate you having me on. You know, I don't do a whole lot of political

stuff on the show, but once in a while, there's an episode that's just crying out to be made.

And I heard those cries, and I said, doggone it, we're doing this episode. So let's start off with your background.

Who is Joshua Smith? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, I served in the United States Navy.

I think I got out sometime around 2005. And, you know, I really saw the wasteful spending and the loss of

innocent human lives. And at the time, I didn't know what libertarianism was. I didn't know about non-inventionism.

I didn't know about the non-aggression principle. But I knew that I didn't like that. And it really

opened my mind to this kind of anti-state movement. And then I got really into Ron Paul.

And I campaigned behind Ron Paul in 2008 because he was speaking the way that I felt. You know,

he was talking about

ending the war on drugs and and auditing or abolishing the Federal Reserve and, you know, ending

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