Archive for August 2007
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Wednesday 29th August 2007
Richard Jewell, R.I.P.
9:43 pm | Bovard | Comments: 5
Richard Jewell, the Atlanta security guard smeared by the FBI after a pipe bomb exploded during the 1996 Olympics, has passed away. Jewell’s experience epitomizes the feds’ ability to turn an innocent man’s life into hell.
Here is the section on FBI Director Louis Freeh and Jewell from my 2000 book, Feeling Your Pain:
In a 1995 [...]
The “Terrorist” Batting Average
11:53 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the June 2007 Freedom Daily on the Bush administration’s endlessly inaccurate terrorist accusations. The title of the piece is about as close to baseball as I have gotten in the last decade or so.
The “Terrorist” Batting Average
by James Bovard
For almost six years, the Bush administration [...]
Tuesday 28th August 2007
Hooray! The Federal Government is Clean Again!
8:59 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Comments: 10
Or at least that’s the message I’m picking up from reading some commentators on Alberto Gonzales’s exit.
Shizam, some of these people seem to think that the Justice Department will henceforth be in the justice business.
And some seem to think that Gonzo’s resignation proves that ”the system works.”
What a crock.
It has been over 15 years since the [...]
Tuesday 21st August 2007
Live ONLINE Today (8/21) at 1:20 pm Eastern - Gardner Goldsmith Show
10:25 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 2
UPDATE: Yesterday’s interview is now online as an MP3. Download it here.
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I will be on the Gardner Goldsmith show on WTPL in Concord, New Hampshire today. This will also be broadcast around the state by Great Eastern Radio.
Gardner is a first-class hell raiser and he is making it hot for the bad guys in the [...]
Saturday 18th August 2007
Torture Radio Interview Now Online
8:39 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 6
Scott Horton of Antiwar.com interviewed me on Thursday on the latest developments on the torture scandal. As always, Scott’s optimism is downright contagious.
You can click onto the MP3 of the interview here -
We did the interview just before the Padilla jury verdict was announced. I reckon the interview would have been more caustic…
The Christian Science Monitor [...]
Thursday 16th August 2007
Torture Correction & a Hat Tip to a Democrat
10:18 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Torture | Comments: 5
In the torture article I posted yesterday, I ragged on the Democrats for rolling over for Bush’s nominee to be the chief lawyer for the CIA.
Sen. Ron Wyden has proven me wrong.
The Associated Press reports tonight: “A Democratic senator said he would indefinitely block President Bush’s nominee to become the C.I.A.’s top lawyer. “I’m [...]
Tuesday 14th August 2007
Will Torture Bring Down Bush?
10:31 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 15
The American Conservative posted online my article from their July 30 issue on why the torture scandal may finish off the Bush administration.
BREAKING BUSH’S RESISTANCE American Conservative July 30, 2007
by James Bovard
From the first days after the Abu Ghraib photos hit the airwaves, the torture scandal has epitomized the worst of the Bush presidency. A [...]
Monday 6th August 2007
What do Citizens Owe Government?
3:51 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 21
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from Freedom Daily on citizens’ duties to their rulers.
What Do Citizens Owe Government? by James Bovard Freedom Daily
When politicians are not promising new benefits to citizens, they continually remind citizens what they owe the government. From their first years in government schools, children are indoctrinated [...]
Wednesday 1st August 2007
Matthew Gaylor, Champion of Freedom, R.I.P.
10:06 pm | Bovard | Comments: 11
I got an email from Matthew Gaylor’s sister today informing me that Matt had passed away on June 28th.
Matt was a great libertarian champion. He did especially fine work for the Second Amendment, for online freedom, against government surveillance of every type, and on many other issues.
He had the best libertarian email list of the 1990s: he helped rally and inform [...]