A does a great honor to have my friend Walter Williams on with me. How are you . For another girl show i want Walter Williams. Those who dont know you all three people out there, you are the distinguished professor of economics at george mason. We know you as a syndicated columnist numerous books and essays a libertarian Classical Liberal i would say. Is that about right and of course you write for town hall wellness daily world review hundreds of newspapers across america. Lets jump right into this. Lets start with the fundamentals. Lets start with the basics. How would you define liberty . I define it as people being able to engage in peaceable voluntary Exchange Without interference by others and typically down to mankinds history liberty is not a normal state of affairs. Throughout mankinds history he has been subject to arbor where arbitrary abuse and control by others and so the amount of liberty that americans have and perhaps western europe as well, the amount of it is relative
Well, good afternoon, everyone. My name is chuck deaver. Im a vice president. The texas Public Policy foundation. And were delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discuss lesson about the use of poisons in national policy. This is something that as a now retired u. S. Army Intelligence Officer i was certainly aware, but until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. So the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john
Well, good afternoon, everyone. My name is chuck deaver. Im a vice president. The texas Public Policy foundation. And were delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discuss lesson about the use of poisons in national policy. This is something that as a now retired u. S. Army Intelligence Officer i was certainly aware, but until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. So the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john
And north korea. And so its great honor to have todays presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. So the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john and sarah, when john is the coauthor with sarah of the book that were going to be discussing this afternoon . He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967. He in vietnam on board swift boat. So he was in what was then called the brown water navy, right. Going up to the the the the rivers, the the deltas of the mekong right and probably mostly in south the southern part of south vietnam. He was decorated, of course, for his service there. He then went to university of Texas Law School finished theres the top graduate. He
Well, good afternoon, everyone. My name is chuck deaver. Im a vice president. The texas Public Policy foundation. And were delighted to have you here with us for a fascinating discuss lesson about the use of poisons in national policy. This is something that as a now retired u. S. Army Intelligence Officer i was certainly aware, but until i read this book, i had no idea scale that these poisons were deployed by the former soviet union and todays successor state the Russian Federation as as nations like the peoples republic of china and north korea. And so its great honor to have todays presentation with the authors of the the dancer in the double stalin pavlova and the road to the great pandemic. So the book covers about 100 years of history in the use of both chemical poisons and bioweapons in a way thats, pretty sobering when youre done with the book and you realize just the magnitude of whats been done in the past. So if i may, id like to introduce the authors we have with us, john