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Thursday 22nd March 2012

Paranoia Vindicated? Uncle Sam’s Plan to Retain Your Personal Info

This is a great day for the paranoid. Attorney General Eric Holder today approved federal agencies retaining the info they vacuum up on innocent Americans. Your dossier just got thicker. Or perhaps the only real “change” is that the government is admitting what it has long been doing.
From the New York Times [...]

Friday 28th October 2011

MP3 of Playing Whack-A-Federal-Mole on the Brian Wilson Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a hoot yesterday flogging hell out of the Patriot Act and its noxious progeny.
Dang, hard to believe this stupid act is 10 years old. It has almost outlived my idealism.
You can listen to or download the show by clicking here brian-wilson-patriot-act-bash-10-27-2011

Monday 22nd August 2011

The FBI and Antiwar.com

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Justin Raimondo has an excellent report today on the FBI’s internal documents on Antiwar.com.
A blogger filed a Freedom of Information Act request and received a trove of FBI documents, some of which detailed official curiosity regarding Antiwar.com.
One of the FBI documents states: ““There are several unanswered questions regarding www.antiwar.com. It describes itself as [...]

Friday 12th August 2011

Latest Patriot Act Frauds and Follies

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today the following piece from the May issue of Freedom Daily -
The PATRIOT Act in the Crosshairs Again
by James Bovard
The most controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act are coming up for renewal this year. There is hope that Americans will finally learn more about how the [...]

Saturday 30th July 2011

MP3 of my Raging Bitch Tribute on Brian Wilson Radio Show

WSPD’s Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat yesterday about Declan McCullagh’s excellent article on the House Committee vote to require Internet Service Providers to keep records of every website visited by every customer.
While this provision is currently the hobbyhorse of nitwit conservative Republicans, the Obama administration also supports this vast data [...]

Monday 25th July 2011

MP3 of Freedom Fest Panel Flogging the War on Terror

Jacob Hornberger, Sheldon Richman, and I had fun flogging the war on terror during a Freedom Fest panel earlier this month.
Since I was the token moderate on the panel, I went third. I started out my riff (@ 20 minutes into the tape) talking about how a TSA agent at Baltimore went [...]

Tuesday 21st June 2011

Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law

from the March issue of Freedom Daily….
Bush, Torture, and the Rule of Law
by James Bovard
Last November, George W. Bush’s memoir, Decision Points, hit the streets. And Americans could see firsthand the former president bragging about ordering torture. Bush wrote that when he was requested to approve the CIA’s waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he responded, [...]

Tuesday 31st May 2011

Supreme Court Again Absolves Nation’s Most Dangerous Criminal Class

The Supreme Court ruled today that John Ashcroft cannot be personally sued regardless of the crimes committed against American citizens thanks to his policies as Attorney General.
What a crock.
On the same theme, Tom Engelhardt has an excellent essay today on “Post-Legal America.”

Saturday 28th May 2011

Dilbert Solves the Patriot Act Mystery?

We learned in the last few weeks that a secret ruling exists which permits the federal agencies to violate far more Americans’ rights under a twisted interpretation of the Patriot Act.
Are the feds using smart phones to track millions of Americans?

Saturday 19th March 2011

“Police Are Out of Control…”

My two cents on police brutality, from an interview yesterday on police brutality with Press TV
Bovard: “Police are often out of control and local governments do a very poor job of protecting people from their protectors. Almost across the board, you have law enforcement officers who don’t feel obliged to obey the law.”
Bovard: “The entire [...]

Tuesday 15th February 2011

Video - My CPAC Patriot Act Bash (and Jacob Hornberger’s Speech)

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

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

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 [...]

Thursday 10th February 2011

Clinton’s Forgotten Dictatorial Tendencies

… 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 [...]

Thursday 3rd February 2011

Patriot Act and Attention Deficit Democracy

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 [...]

Monday 17th January 2011

Good Government Guns II : My Treason

The satire I reposted yesterday was spurred by this article I wrote for American Spectator. It’s always satisfying when a piece spurs a Brooklyn philosophy professor to urge that I be prosecuted for treason……[thanks to WRSA for that photo....]
[...]

Thursday 13th January 2011

Speaking on the Patriot Act on a CPAC Panel Next Month…

I will be paying my respects to the Patriot Act at a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on Saturday, Feb. 12, from 10 to 11 a.m. The panel is sponsored by the Campaign For Liberty. C4L will be having lots of stout events at this year’s CPAC. [...]

Wednesday 5th January 2011

Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today this article from the September issue of Freedom Daily - (also on Counterpunch)
Why the Tea Party Should Despise George W. Bush
by James Bovard
The Tea Party movement is challenging politicians and political establishments in many parts of this country. Many Tea Party supporters define [...]

Wednesday 22nd December 2010

How Washington Protects Your Privacy & Liberty

from the January issue of The Freeman -
James Bovard
How Washington Protects Your Privacy and Liberty
January/February 2011 • Volume: 61 • Issue: 1
Preserving trust in government is the highest good—at least for politicians. To create that trust, government continually spawns façades to make people believe their rights are safe. Few things better illustrate [...]

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