VIDEO: Lew Rockwell Explains Why Secessionism Is Libertarian

Lew Rockwell at 2015 Houston Mises Circle

02/03/2015 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

Recorded at “Breaking Away: The Case for Secession”—the Mises Circle in Houston, Texas, on 24 January 2015.

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