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Friday 27th October 2006

Great Hungarian Protest Photo & Police Brutality Video

The photo above is from the UK Guardian.
There is a short video of police brutality against Budapest demonstrators on YouTube here.
Hat tip to Daniel MacAdams, who spent most of the 1990s in Budapest.

“Every Day is 1956″: The Hungarian Revolution Today

The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an op-ed I wrote on the Hungarian Revolution, then and now. Here’s the piece.
“Every Day is 1956:” The Hungarian Revolution Today
by James Bovard
Friends of freedom should doff their hats to the Hungarians this week. Fifty years ago, the Hungarian people bravely expelled Soviet tanks from Budapest and [...]

Wednesday 25th October 2006

LISTEN LIVE - Thursday (10/26) - on the Brian Wilson Radio Show

Brian Wilson, one of the best talk show hosts in the country, invited me on his show tomorrow (Thursday, 10/26) at 4:30 pm Eastern time for half an hour. You can listen live here. He is on WSPD in Toledo, 1370 AM.
Should be plenty of laughs, especially about torture and Bush.

Live Online Today (10/25) at 2 PM Eastern - Salt Lake City radio

I will be on the “Born on the Fourth of July” radio show with host Barbara Whiteley today (Wed., 10/25) for one hour starting at 2 p.m. Eastern time. You can listen live on the net here (link is in the upper right corner). The station is at 630 AM on the dial.

Tuesday 24th October 2006

Great Cartoon Bashing NSA Wiretaps on Americans

Newsday’s Walt Handelsman, aided by Roy Furchgott, has a wonderful animated cartoon featuring singing spies. The cartoon is here.
This makes the National Security Agency wiretap issue so simple even a congressman might be able to get the point. Perhaps congressmen will respond by merely adding an amendment to a “spying legalization” bill to prohibit the feds from [...]

Wednesday 18th October 2006

The Washington Post Makes Dictatorial Powers Mundane

3:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Torture | Comments: 10

Editor & Publisher posted online this afternoon my piece on a Washington Post article that made me shake my head ruefully at the breakfast table.
Update: Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin quoted a chunk of this column in his blog today here.
How to Make a Power Grab ‘Mundane’
The Washington Post’s story today - “Bush Signs Terrorism [...]

Tuesday 17th October 2006

Backstage at the Torture Signing Ceremony

The feds have become super vigilant in tapping our phone calls, tracing our movements, and intruding into our lives over the last 5 years.
Wouldn’t it be great to have hidden microphones around the White House this morning to hear what was said by dignitaries, congressmen, and other sociopaths invited for the signing ceremony of the [...]

Friday 13th October 2006

Bush’s Operation Founding Fathers Fraud

Operation Founding Fathers
by James Bovard
FREEDOM DAILY July 2006
(posted online by Future of Freedom Foundation October 13, 2006)
Few subjects generate more official lies than the U.S. government’s devotion to spreading democracy abroad. Iraq has been the largest most recent geyser of such deceits. In order to understand future U.S. government messianic democracy efforts, it is worthwhile [...]

Thursday 12th October 2006

Cartoon Freedom Fighters

Politics & Prose Bookstore in DC had a book event tonight for Attitude 3 - a collection of the work of “the New Subversive Online Cartoonists.” The book, edited with questions and commentary throughout by Ted Rall, features the work of people more than happy to expose the lies and crimes of the Bush regime.
Many of [...]

Monday 9th October 2006

Pro Libertate: Independent, Unabashed, and Undaunted

9:35 pm | Bovard | Comments: 6

Will Grigg is one of the hardest working pro-freedom bloggers in the business. His Pro Libertate blog is consistently among the punchiest, pithiest, most penetrating takes on the perils of politicians.
He has a new blog entry on Sam Adams and the American Revolution that vivifies the danger of waiting until too late to resist oppression.
The blog [...]

Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship

The fine folks at Future of Freedom Foundation posted today a piece I did on Bush’s endless nullifications of federal law.
The longer he reigns, the more difficult it is to give Bush the benefit of the doubt.
Bush’s Signing Statement Dictatorship
by James Bovard, October 9, 2006
President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is [...]

Wednesday 4th October 2006

The Washington Post’s Disgraceful Record on Ruby Ridge

11:28 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 3

The Washington Post weighed in on the death of former congresswoman Helen Chenoweth today. The fact that Chenoweth harshly criticized the feds sealed her reputation, at least with the Post.
The Post notes: “She also held hearings on ‘black helicopters,’ which militia members believed were filled with United Nations-sponsored storm troopers eager to swoop into the [...]

Yesterday’s KAOS Radio Interview Now Online as an MP3

Scott Horton has converted our interview from yesterday into an MP3 which can be easily downloaded here.

Tuesday 3rd October 2006

Foley the One-Handed Warrior

2:21 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 34

ABC News revealed this afternoon that Foley was engaging in “Internet sex” with a teenage boy while Foley was voting for the Bush administration’s Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriation in 2003.
ABC reports:
This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., …
Maf54 [FOLEY]: I miss you
Teen: ya me too
Maf54: we are still voting
Maf54: you miss me too
The [...]

The 1995 Playboy article on Ruby Ridge

Here’s the piece on Ruby Ridge mentioned in the prior post.
The article had magnificent artwork. Unfortunately, I’m not adept at scanning and inserting the images into a blog.
The article closes with the following questions: “If Congress is not willing to look into such misconduct, who will protect the Constitution? Will Congress let the Justice Department [...]

Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth, R.I.P.

11:25 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 0

Former congresswoman Helen Chenoweth died yesterday in a Nevada car crash. She was one of the most courageous members of Congress in the mid-late 1990s. She fought harder than any Idaho senator to find out the truth about the federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. While Sen. Larry Craig was wishy-washy, hemming and hawing, Chenoweth was unflinching.
Obituaries mention that she [...]

Monday 2nd October 2006

LIVE ONLINE - Tuesday (10/3) 6 pm Eastern- Scott Horton KAOS radio show

Scott Horton will be having me on his show on KAOS radio tomorrow (Tuesday, 10/03) evening at 6 pm Eastern. You can listen online live here. Or tune up in the Austin, Texas area at 92.7 FM.
We will be bantering on torture, dictatorship, Attention Deficit Democracy, and, if I’m lucky, beer. Scott is a hardliner [...]

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