Scott Horton of Antiwar.com Radio and I had fun earlier this week paying respects to Transportation Security Administration. You can download or listen to the 18-minute interview by clicking on the following – 12_05_14_bovard
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How Twitter is Upgrading Our Gene Pool
On Twitter – @jimbovard Another great Non Sequitur cartoon from Wiley Miller
MP3 Podcast of My Tribute to TSA on the Brian Wilson Show
WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a hoot this afternoon paying homage to the TSA. You can listen to the @ 18 minute show by downloading or clicking on the following: bovard-brian-wilson-show-5-15-2012-tsa-tribute
Police Week: My Favorite Cop Photo
This is National Police Week in Washington. The photo above is the second-most popular non-tattoo photo on my Flickr page. I took it at a DC Police Week event a few years ago. I wonder if this cop’s bike has since qualified for a disability pension.
Freedom Activists as Government Entrapment Targets?
The continuing controversy over Stacy Litz, the former Center for a Stateless Society staffer who got busted and then became a government informant and set up other freedom activists, is bringing welcome attention to the perils of advocacy in the age of Leviathan. If it becomes as politically profitable to bust freedom activists as it […]
Playboy: Why Talking About Drugs Is Worse Than Murder
News came out this week that a libertarian activist in the Philadelphia area has turned government informant and set up fellow freedom activists with drug busts. C4SS announced that they were terminating their association with the woman. Claire Wolfe has an excellent analysis of the controversy here. I have written about government informants over the […]
TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare
From the February issue of Freedom Daily, posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – TSA — Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare by James Bovard Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush promised Americans, “We will not surrender our freedom to travel.” In hindsight, he may have been […]