Archive for February 2011
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Friday 25th February 2011
Patriot Act Poster from ACLU
2:17 pm | Patriot Act | Police | Rule of Law | Secrecy | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
Great stuff from the American Civil Liberties Union!
Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom
2:14 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Congress | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Freedom | Rule of Law | Taxation | wool | Comments: 8
from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (November 2010)
Obama Advisor Sunstein’s Peril to Freedom
by James Bovard
Cass Sunstein is the chief of the Obama administration’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. As Salon’s Glenn Greenwald noted earlier this year, Sunstein “has long been one of Barack Obama’s closest confidants.” His values are probably guiding the [...]
Friday 18th February 2011
The “Of Course” Curse (1983)
3:26 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 12
This was my favorite op-ed of 1983. It provided a chance to tip my hat to the editors who, in previous years, almost invariably added that phrase into my articles.
The article was accepted by Robert Semple, one of the greatest op-ed editors the New York Times ever had. Kyle Crichton did a superb [...]
Thursday 17th February 2011
Speaking at Maryland Libertarian Party Conf on March 12
11:43 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 6
I will be speaking after dinner at the Maryland Libertarian Party convention on March 12 in Dundalk, Maryland. Dundalk is down the road from the old Sparrow Point steel mill, and just after the Baltimore tunnel.
Topic will be the Patriot Act, TSA, and other outrages against Americans’ liberty.
My spiel is scheduled for 7:30. [...]
Tuesday 15th February 2011
Video - My CPAC Patriot Act Bash (and Jacob Hornberger’s Speech)
1:23 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Congress | FBI | Freedom | Justice Department | Obama | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | Wiretapping | Comments: 4
FFF “Repeal the PATRIOT Act!” Roundtable from CPAC 2011 from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
Here’s the video from Saturday’s CPAC forum, sponsored by Campaign for Liberty.
Ivan Eland did an excellent job of moderating. My speech was probably about 15 minutes. Hornberger followed and gave the best speech I have ever seen [...]
Video - Me & Jacob Hornberger Thumping Conservative Statists
1:06 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Congress | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Freedom | Justice Department | Obama | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Torture | War crimes | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
Jacob Hornberger Show from CPAC 2011 with James Bovard from The Future of Freedom Foundation on Vimeo.
From the Future of Freedom Foundation: This edition of the Jacob Hornberger Show was recorded at the Conservative Political Action Conference on February 11, 2011. Jacob and special guest James Bovard discuss “Why Do Conservatives Support Statism?”
The Jacob [...]
Sunday 13th February 2011
Trashing the Patriot Act at CPAC
8:56 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | Wiretapping | Comments: 10
Christian Gomez of the New American wrote an excellent article on the Patriot Act bashing during CPAC. Here’s a few outtakes from his piecedealing with my spiel at CPAC on Saturday:
Bovard started his speech by asking the audience: “I’d like to know how many people in this room have had their phone [...]
Friday 11th February 2011
MP3 of My CPAC interview with WSPD’s Brian Wilson
8:07 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 11
WSPD’s Brian Wilson - a great libertarian radio host - hell, a great radio host per se - is at CPAC this week helping keep an eye on all the damn rascal politicians.
He interviewed me and Jacob Hornberger, the chief of the Future of Freedom Foundation, this afternoon.
On Egypt, I got to work in [...]
Egypt: One Bastard Down….
11:48 am | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
…. more to go.
Congratulations to the Egyptian people for toppling their tyrant. Keep fighting!
I hope the protestors can capture the government bulidings and make public the files that detail the torture and other atrocities.
And as far as US govt officials - “What did they know and when did they know it?”
Thursday 10th February 2011
More CPAC Photos
7:21 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 10
CPAC Motto? Not for Campaign for Liberty attendees
3:48 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
9:13 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Clinton | Congress | Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Impeachment | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Secrecy | Surveillance | Wiretapping | dictatorship | Comments: 0
… posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation
Freedom Daily October 2010
Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies
by James Bovard
It seems like a century since Bill Clinton was president of this country. Unfortunately, the abuses of George W. Bush and the pratfalls of Barack Obama are causing many people to raise their [...]
Wednesday 9th February 2011
My “Holy Shit!” Rumsfeld Response Unfit to Print
2:52 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 3
Michael Tennant emailed me on Saturday to get my response to the news that Donald Rumsfeld would be receiving the “Defender of the Constitution” award at CPAC. He has a very good article at The New American website with quotes from a number of libertarians and conservatives bashing the award.
Tennant notes that [...]
Tuesday 8th February 2011
Book Signing [or ??] at CPAC Saturday Afternoon
4:02 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Comments: 6
CORRECTION: Looking at the revised schedule, it looks like the book signing may be from 12:30 pm to 1 pm on Saturday.
Campaign for Liberty has arranged for me to do a book signing on Saturday at 12:30 pm at the Conservative Political Action Conference in DC. I’ll be at the C4L booth [...]
Sunday 6th February 2011
U.S. Govt. Backs Regime that is Murdering Demonstrators
11:13 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 0
This Youtube video, produced by Al Jazeera English, vivifies the nature of the government that Hillary Clinton and others are propping up.
Saturday 5th February 2011
Hillary Clinton Champions Egypt’s Torturer-in-Chief
9:15 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
Hillary Clinton is championing Egypt’s Torturer in Chief as new leader. I guess the Obama team is hellbent on further disgracing the United States in this ongoing clash.
Details here.
Friday 4th February 2011
Same Problem Here with Federal Agencies….
12:59 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Elective Dictatorship | Comments: 3
Thursday 3rd February 2011
Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
12:30 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Congress | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Lying | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | Secrecy | Surveillance | Wiretapping | Comments: 0
The Campaign for Liberty reposted this 2006 article of mine today, so, what the heck - I’ll pile on.
The Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy
By James Bovard
The American political system failed when Congress and the media recently rolled over in favor of extending the most onerous provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Despite stark [...]
Wednesday 2nd February 2011
Egyptian Heroine: “We Do Not Trust a Govt. That Sends Thugs to Kill Us.”
9:51 pm | Uncategorized | Comments: 7
I just listened to a live interview on Al Jazeera English with a 23-year-old woman in Tahrir Square. The pro-Mubarak forces are apparently pounding the anti-Mubarak demonstators in the Square with gunfire this night.
The Al-Jazeera host asked why she and other demonstrators refused to accept Mubarak’s promise to hold elections.
Salma Al-tasi replied: “We [...]