The Tom Woods Show, episode 624.

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

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Welcome, everybody. What an episode we have today. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable,

because guess who's joining us today? John Beza. John is a retired police detective from the New York

Police Department, where he worked for over 20 years. But for our purposes, the significant thing is that

he was Director of Security

for the Ron Paul 2012 presidential campaign. And man, does he have stories. So we're going to talk

about some of those stories today. I am so thrilled to be able to do this. I also want to just say,

by the way, a thank you. I'm so pleased at how

many thousands of people every single day tune in to the Tom Wood Show to get their daily

dose of libertarianism. And I'm trying to bring on guests who, well, frankly, enrich your life,

because they certainly enrich mine. And I really hope you

enjoy this conversation. I can't see how you couldn't. There's no way this could possibly be bad.

John, welcome to the show. Thank you. Good to be here, Tom. Let's start off by having you tell us a little

something about your own background and end that story up with how it is that you came to be contacted by,

I guess, contacted by the Ron Paul people, or did you talk to them? Tell us that at the end of your

story. Okay, well, I started off young, 18 years old as a New York State Correction Officer,

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