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Friday 5th March 2010
The Material Witness Ticket to Servitude
9:30 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Patriot Act | Rule of Law | dictatorship | Comments: 1
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 [...]
Thursday 24th September 2009
Antiwar Interview on Ashcroft, Tyranny, etc. now online
7:39 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Surveillance | Terrorism | dictatorship | Comments: 2
Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat earlier this week on the post 9/11 roundup of innocent terrorist suspects, why John Ashcroft should receive “justice” (and hard), the outrage of sovereign immunity, and the bisexual congresswoman entrapped by a lesbian foreign agent.
You can hear it here.
[If that link doesn't work, hit this [...]
Thursday 10th September 2009
The Post 9/11 Round-up of Innocents: Ashcroft’s High Crime
7:45 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Rule of Law | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 14
The Post–9/11 Roundup of Innocents
by James Bovard Freedom Daily May & June, 2009
Many Americans have been lulled into a false sense of security by the end of the George W. [...]
Wednesday 29th July 2009
Other Outrageous Terrorism Prosecutions
2:53 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush Betrayal | Rule of Law | Terrorism | Comments: 5
I appreciate the thoughtful emails on the Lackawanna Six article. Unfortunately, the proseuction in that case was par for the Bush-era domestic war on terrorism. Here’s a piece from the American Conservative during Bush’s 2004 reelection campaign…..
Undue Process
American Conservative October 11, [...]
Wednesday 14th March 2007
Rising Odds of Impeachment
1:24 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Rule of Law | Comments: 30
Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….)
I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales. Bush has “benefitted” from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic. No matter what the Bush administration did, they [...]
Wednesday 7th June 2006
The Most Absurdities Per Kilogram
10:29 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush Betrayal | wool | Comments: 2
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted my Freedom Daily article on the feds’ war against Tommy Chong. Always sad to see a great comedian get no respect.
Here are the first few paragraphs; full text is here.
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
by James Bovard, Posted June 6, 2006
The war on drugs has produced more absurdities per kilo [...]
Friday 6th January 2006
Think Tanks as Military Bases
11:22 am | Ashcroft | Bush | Cheney | lese majeste | think tanks | Comments: 4
George W. Bush exploits captive audiences as well as any president. During the last four years, he has ritually gone to military bases to uncork his biggest inanities regarding foreign policy. There are some howlers that can only be tossed out in front of an audience forbidden to laugh. No one in a military audience [...]