Comments on: Introduction from FREEDOM IN CHAINS (1999) http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/ Author James Bovard Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:57:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: The We’re Fucked Report 1,6 « The We’re Fucked Report http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118944 The We’re Fucked Report 1,6 « The We’re Fucked Report Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:05:35 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118944 [...] Introduction from FREEDOM IN CHAINS (1999) [...] [...] Introduction from FREEDOM IN CHAINS (1999) [...]

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118925 Jim Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:07:11 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118925 Fin-Tastic - thanks for the kind words. My "evolution over the years"? If only it had not been for the interference by the parole board... Fin-Tastic - thanks for the kind words.

My “evolution over the years”?

If only it had not been for the interference by the parole board…

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118920 Jim Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:54:16 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118920 Dirk - your point on the "End of History" hokum is a bullseye. I was astounded when that doggerel swept Washington in the late 1980s/early 1990s. And naturally, it was Washington intellectuals who sought to profit the most from the claptrap. Dirk - your point on the “End of History” hokum is a bullseye. I was astounded when that doggerel swept Washington in the late 1980s/early 1990s.

And naturally, it was Washington intellectuals who sought to profit the most from the claptrap.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118919 Jim Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:53:10 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118919 Tom - you could market that doll to the names of guys who donated the maximum allowable amount to the McCain campaign within 72 hours of his announcement of her as his running mate. Tom - you could market that doll to the names of guys who donated the maximum allowable amount to the McCain campaign within 72 hours of his announcement of her as his running mate.

]]> By: Tom Blanton http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118918 Tom Blanton Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:20:24 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118918 Mencken is right about getting it good and hard - the bizarre thing is that vast numbers of Americans seem to enjoy it. Some don't even seem to notice it. Anyway, the Sarah Palin school girl action figure at www.herobuilders.com has given me an idea for a sure-fire money-maker - a Sarah Palin school girl inflatable doll. Mencken is right about getting it good and hard - the bizarre thing is that vast numbers of Americans seem to enjoy it. Some don’t even seem to notice it.

Anyway, the Sarah Palin school girl action figure at http://www.herobuilders.com has given me an idea for a sure-fire money-maker - a Sarah Palin school girl inflatable doll.

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118916 Dirk W. Sabin Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:06:42 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118916 An appreciation of History, for this generation is something that is being reconfigured into a kind of Readers Digest Version of Atavistic Eschatology. After all, the lead political consultant for the McCain campaign is reported to have a fondness for cage fighting. Why bother with the messy confusions of history when we can simply go straight back 6,000 years to the beginning, when children played with dinosaurs and the cave man received The Word. Mao Zedong passed into history 32 years ago today and one can see the "change" that has occurred in that pistol-whipped nation . Seeing their change and then watching as the cheerful Bolsheviks of our own Election Season babble their fairy tales, one is quickly apprised of the news that it's only in a nation that dismisses history that a magnificently idiotic concept as "The End of History" can arise. Nobody should shed a tear for democracy in this benighted carcass of a nation.....it is the Death of the Republic we should be mourning. We've got Democracy real good and as Mencken grinned....in November , we're going to get it "good and hard". An appreciation of History, for this generation is something that is being reconfigured into a kind of Readers Digest Version of Atavistic Eschatology. After all, the lead political consultant for the McCain campaign is reported to have a fondness for cage fighting. Why bother with the messy confusions of history when we can simply go straight back 6,000 years to the beginning, when children played with dinosaurs and the cave man received The Word.

Mao Zedong passed into history 32 years ago today and one can see the “change” that has occurred in that pistol-whipped nation . Seeing their change and then watching as the cheerful Bolsheviks of our own Election Season babble their fairy tales, one is quickly apprised of the news that it’s only in a nation that dismisses history that a magnificently idiotic concept as “The End of History” can arise.

Nobody should shed a tear for democracy in this benighted carcass of a nation…..it is the Death of the Republic we should be mourning. We’ve got Democracy real good and as Mencken grinned….in November , we’re going to get it “good and hard”.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118911 Jim Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:56:03 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118911 But Goebbels assured Germans that they had an "ennobled democracy" after Hitler's hacks passed the Enabling Act in the Reichstag. Sad that folks have learned so little from history. But Goebbels assured Germans that they had an “ennobled democracy” after Hitler’s hacks passed the Enabling Act in the Reichstag.

Sad that folks have learned so little from history.

]]> By: Chris Baker http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118909 Chris Baker Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:54:08 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118909 James, Eventually, a democracy decays in what I simply call a post-democratic system. This terms covers many systems that were in many respects still democracies legally. The Third Reich is an excellent example. When exactly did it go from democracy to dictatorship? It's a process that has seen too many times. James,

Eventually, a democracy decays in what I simply call a post-democratic system. This terms covers many systems that were in many respects still democracies legally. The Third Reich is an excellent example. When exactly did it go from democracy to dictatorship? It’s a process that has seen too many times.

]]> By: Fin-tastic http://jimbovard.com/blog/2008/09/07/introduction-from-freedom-in-chains-1999/#comment-118904 Fin-tastic Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:43:01 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=482#comment-118904 I read this back in high school. It's still the best political book I've ever read. And it's been interesting to watch your evolution over the years. "Sometimes the threat of a noose is the best way to keep the peace." Love it! I read this back in high school. It’s still the best political book I’ve ever read. And it’s been interesting to watch your evolution over the years. “Sometimes the threat of a noose is the best way to keep the peace.” Love it!

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