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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 [...]

Tuesday 7th February 2012

My Endorsement of WeWontFly.Com

Anti-TSA activist Ken Krawchuk caught me on film at last year’s Maryland Libertarian Party convention responding to his question about the great TSA boycott that he, Jim Babb, and others organized in late 2010. They did a superb job - that was probably the worst PR drubbing the TSA has yet received.
Here’s [...]

Sunday 20th November 2011

Nature of the State Revealed in One Minute 39 Seconds

9:34 am | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The police response to the nonviolent protests at the University of California Davis is a stark lesson of how much abuse some government officials feel entitled to inflict on anyone who does not kowtow.

Watching this video, I wonder how much more violence the police would have inflicted if they had been confident that they [...]

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

6:17 pm | FBI | Justice Department | Surveillance | Comments: 3

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 [...]

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?

Friday 11th March 2011

MP3 of Interview on Patriot Act & Teacher Unions with Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson and I had fun trouncing the Patriot Act and Teacher Unions on the WSPD radio yesterday.
Click on the highlighted text below to hear the MP3:
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Friday 25th February 2011

Patriot Act Poster from ACLU

Great stuff from the American Civil Liberties Union!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Sunday 2nd January 2011

TSA Boarhawgs America: Washington Post Cartoon

Another excellent cartoon from Tom Toles of the Washington Post…
Here is a link to a great collection of 26 anti-TSA cartoons from the Daily Bail

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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