Archive for October 2007
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Wednesday 31st October 2007
LIVE ONLINE Thursday morning 10 a.m. - Charles Goyette Show
9:26 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 1
I will be on the Charles Goyette show on Thursday (11/01) at 10:05 a.m Eastern time. Charles is one of the best talk show hosts in the biz - and he is gung-ho pro-freedom. We will be talking about torture and other Bush legacies. .
If you are in Phoenix or much of Arizona, you can [...]
Kwiatkowski Radio Interview Now Online
9:14 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 1
Monday night’s radio show with Karen Kwiatkowski is online here in MP3. (Click on the MP3 file for the second hour of her 10/29/07 show).
We had a good ol’ time whupping up on Bush, Cheney, and the rascals who have anointed them.
Monday 29th October 2007
Editor Bob Vindicates the FBI
10:46 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 12
My essay on “The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture” has been deftly refuted by Bob Weir, the editor of The News Connection down in Texas. Here is the response he sent The Future of Freedom Foundation:
“Keep your eyes on this case, because it could help determine how far feds can go to destroy innocent people.”
Correction: [...]
On the Karen Kwiatkowski Radio Show tonight (Monday 10/29)
8:47 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 1
I will be on the Karen Kwiatkowski Radio Show tonight from 9 till 10 pm Eastern time. You can listen live here.
Karen’s radio show is now on the We The People Radio Network.
Karen is the retired Air Force Lt. Col. who courageously blew the whistle on the NeoCons’ machinations in the Pentagon prior to the war with [...]
Friday 26th October 2007
The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture
9:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Terrorism | Comments: 15
The following op-ed is being shotgunned out today by the Future of Freedom Foundation.
THE FBI’S RIGHT TO THREATEN TORTURE
by James Bovard
A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still [...]
Wednesday 24th October 2007
Drunk Driving Checkpoints vs. Freedom
7:51 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Surveillance | dictatorship | Comments: 21
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online a piece I wrote for their Freedom Daily on the scourge of drunk driving checkpoints.
DRUNK DRIVING CHECKPOINTS: EVERY DRIVER GUILTY
by James Bovard
Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are stopped each month at police checkpoints that treat every driver as a criminal. These checkpoints, supposedly started to target drunk [...]
Friday 19th October 2007
My Troubles with the No Fly List Finally Explained
10:48 pm | Bovard | Comments: 12
For those of you who missed the comment by Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for the New American Revolution, on the “Raving Editors” blog entry…
It has come to my attention that many of these hostile editors may have you confused with Blind Sheik al-Bovard. This guy was a piano player who penned a few [...]
Speaking Monday (10/22) in Orlando
10:40 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 2
I will be talking at Students for Liberty event at Valencia Community College West on Monday, October 22, from 5 till 7 pm. Here’s the invite -
If you need more info, shoot me an email at jim@jimbovard.com
Or contact the presdient of VCC’s Student for Liberty, Alicia Barker, at abarker4@atlas.valenciacc.edu
Should be lots of fun - I’m [...]
Wednesday 17th October 2007
Editors Rave Over my “President’s Right to Kill” article
1:21 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 18
The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation kindly forwarded to me some of the lively responses they received after sending out my op-ed, “Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?”
I’m not certain, but I’m pretty sure all these editors decided not to publish the article.
Here’s a response from Bob Weir, the executive editor of the [...]
Wednesday 10th October 2007
Bush Stands Up for Genocide
3:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Comments: 11
Bush today vigorously opposed a congressional resolution to finally recognize the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians as genocide. Bush declared: “We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do [...]
Tuesday 9th October 2007
Excellent new DVD on FBI National Security Letter Abuses
12:29 pm | Bovard | Comments: 1
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee just released an excellent new DVD: FBI Unbound: How National Security Letters Violate Our Privacy.”
The DVD features interviews with George Christian, the executive director of Library Connection, the Connecticut organization that courageously refused to comply with an FBI National Security Letter (NSL) and helped make the letters a national controversy. Lisa Graves of [...]
Friday 5th October 2007
Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?
10:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Rule of Law | dictatorship | lese majeste | Comments: 17
The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out an op-ed I wrote about presidents’ right to kill. My favorite line from this piece:
Sometimes the threat of a noose is the best way to keep the peace.
ARE PRESIDENTS ENTITLED TO KILL FOREIGNERS?
by James Bovard
What is the common term for ordering soldiers to kill vast numbers of innocent [...]
Thursday 4th October 2007
FREE BOOKS! On the Brian Wilson Radio Show today (10/4)
10:39 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 3
I will be on the Brian Wilson radio show today from 5 to 6 p.m. Eastern time on WSPD in Toledo. You can listen live here.
Brian received a heap of copies of Attention Deficit Democracy, and he may be passing some of those out today.
Brian is now far and away the top rated talk [...]
Wednesday 3rd October 2007
Great Expose on Lies on the USS Liberty
12:12 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 3
The Chicago Tribune yesterday printed an expose on the lies regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. John Crewdson’s article makes clear that the U.S. government knew that the Israeli planes had clearly identified the USS Liberty as an American ship before they began strafing and bombing it. Three Israeli torpedo boats attacked and almost [...]
Monday 1st October 2007
How Bush Used Bogus Fears to Win a Second Term
1:10 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Comments: 3
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my fearmongering Freedom Daily article from July 2007.
Thus far, it looks like the Fear Card continues to work for the Bush team. The news media has cowered as Bush and Cheney invent one fraudulent pretext after another for the U.S. military to commence slaughtering Iranians. But that [...]