Archive for March 2010
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Wednesday 31st March 2010
Federal Judge: Bush Administration Was Criminal Conspiracy
10:34 pm | Ashcroft | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Obama | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Wiretapping | Comments: 5
Federal judge Vaughn Walker ruled today that the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program was illegal.
This has been obvious ever since the New York Times blew the lid off of the National Security Administration’s massive surveillance operation in late 2005. It is amazing that the issue is still open to dispute.
Unfortunately, there is not a [...]
Tuesday 30th March 2010
New York Times: My Two Cents on How to Respond to the Census
9:33 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Census | Surveillance | Comments: 0
The New York Times on Wednesday has a piece on the controversy over the Census. It includes my two cents on how to respond to the feds:
“The census has become a lightning rod, and it’s drawing people’s attention to the danger of federal surveillance,†said James Bovard, an author and former census taker who [...]
Friday 26th March 2010
Podcast of Census Show with Brian Wilson
8:29 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 2
WSPD talk show host and renowned hellraiser Brian Wilson had me on his program yesterday. We did our best to restore people’s faith in the privacy/confidentiality of their Census responses… unless, of course, politicians decide they don’t like you or your group.
The podcast is here:jpb-radio-brian-wilson-show-3-25-2010.
To listen to it, right click and….
Wednesday 24th March 2010
How Germans Fought & Beat an Intrusive Census
1:32 pm | Surveillance | Comments: 2
This article ran in the Detroit News, the Washington Times (which ran a great cartoon with the piece), and a few other places.
DATELINE: HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY @ June 1987
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Christian Science Monitor: The Census is Untrustworthy
10:05 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Obama | Surveillance | Comments: 5
posted today (and in their national weekly print edition) by the Christian Science Monitor -
My 2 favorite lines from this piece - *A surplus of lies naturally produces a deficit of trust.
*Citizens are not obliged to pave the data highway for Leviathan’s next intrusion into their lives.
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The 2010 Census: Will Your Answers Stay [...]
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Is the FBI Your Friend on Facebook?
9:07 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | FBI | Surveillance | wool | Comments: 9
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released internal federal documents detailing how FBI agents are creating false or deceptive profiles online to gather more personal information on Americans.
From the Associated Press story:
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate [...]
Tuesday 16th March 2010
Bait and Switch Democracy at its Best
8:28 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | Lying | Rule of Law | wool | Comments: 6
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday that she may ram through the Democrats’ health care legislation through the House via a brazen fraud. The Washington Post reports:
After laying the groundwork for a decisive vote this week on the Senate’s health-care bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi suggested Monday that she might attempt to [...]
Wednesday 10th March 2010
Kudos to Kucinich & 64 Other Courageous Congressmen on Afghanistan
11:04 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Ron Paul | Comments: 2
Dennis Kucinich deserves credit for forcing the House to formally debate the Afghan war.
His comments - and those of Ron Paul and the other 63 folks who voted against perpetuating this war - will be part of the honor roll of our time.
On the Republican side, Rep. Paul was joined in opposing the Afghan war [...]
Sunday 7th March 2010
My Brief State Department Career
8:19 pm | Bovard | Uncategorized | Comments: 3
It lasted about 60 minutes. 75 minutes, max.
The photo is from late 1988 or early 1989. The State Department had a program that brought in some outside speaker once a month. I was there to whup up on the World Bank, a favorite target of mine in those years.
The [...]
Friday 5th March 2010
FBI Bankrolling Bloggers Advocating Murder?
9:17 pm | FBI | Surveillance | wool | Comments: 8
The Associated Press story on the New Jersey guy who advocating killing federal judges reveals that the bloodthirsty blogger was apparently a paid FBI informant.
A right-wing New Jersey blogger charged with threatening federal judges told a
jury Thursday that his racist Internet rants were an FBI-sanctioned ruse to “flush out” dangerous neo-Nazi and white supremacist [...]
The Material Witness Ticket to Servitude
9:30 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation put online my article from the December Freedom Daily….
It’s amazing to see what kind of legal crap the government gets away with these days.
The Material Witness Charade Freedom Daily, December 2009
by James Bovard
Last September, a federal appeals court ruled that former [...]
Wednesday 3rd March 2010
Bush Lied Up & Down on the Iraq War
10:29 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
In Washington, politicians “regenerate†honesty like a salamander growing back a lost tail. And there is no statute of limitation on when a politician’s henchmen can magically restore his honor.
Karl Rove has a new book out claiming that Bush never lied about the Iraq war. Instead, there were some misstatesments with immaculate intent.
This [...]