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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 3rd February 2012

C-SPAN Booknotes: Terrorism & Tyranny (2003 transcript)

1:26 pm | Ron Paul | Terrorism | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

I came across this transcript this morning and figured it was worth sending around the track one more time. You can watch the video from this interview here - Brian Lamb’s views come through more clearly on tape than in the transcript. One of my favorite comments he made: “Well, your sense of [...]

Wednesday 30th November 2011

Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan

2:21 pm | Afghanistan | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 8

from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (posted online today)
Dying to Corrupt Afghanistan
by James Bovard
American soldiers are dying so that Afghan politicians can continue looting U.S. tax dollars. Foreign aid has long been notorious for creating kleptocracies — governments of thieves. The $50+ billion foreign aid that the United States has dumped on [...]

Wednesday 31st August 2011

Another FBI Terrorist Trainer Bites the Dust

12:49 pm | FBI | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 3

Today’s Washington Post reports details on a guy who the FBI hired to provide expert anti-terrorism training:
William G. Hillar billed himself as a hero and a patriot, a 28-year veteran of the Army Special Forces who shared his knowledge of counterterrorism by holding training sessions for federal agents and local police.
The 66-year-old Millersville man told [...]

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 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.”

Tuesday 3rd May 2011

Feds: Watch Out for Radicalized Individuals!

The Department of Homeland Security has warned landlords in the DC area “to be looking out for the radicalized individual,” according to Peggy Jeffers, of the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington Inc. DHS sent out the warning to apartment and building managers on Sunday evening, the same time that Obama announced [...]

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 [...]

Monday 24th January 2011

Our Know Nothing Foreign Policy (full text)

The American Conservative placed online today the full text of my review of Magic and Mayhem.
Worst and Brightest
Review of Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy From Korea to Afghanistan, Derek Leebaert, Simon & Schuster, 336 pages
By James Bovard
In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign-policy experts have become Washington’s leading con [...]

Thursday 20th January 2011

JFK+50: Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy

I received a copy of the March issue of the American Conservative in the mail today. Here are some brief outtakes from a book review (totaling @ 2000 words) I wrote in that issue on the general theme of Our Know-Nothing Foreign Policy :
*In the decades since John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, foreign policy experts [...]

Friday 7th January 2011

Our New Terrorist-Tainted House Homeland Security Committee Chief

11:43 am | Congress | Terrorism | wool | Comments: 8

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is the new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
This dude knows all about terrorism, since he has spent decades doing big-time fundraising for the Irish Republican Army.
Muckraker/hell-raiser/freedom-fighter Will Grigg has an excellent piece on King’s hypocrisy on LewRockwell.com today.

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 September 2010

Obama: 9/11 Made Us Stronger

from the new book of White House insiders’ leaks to a Washington journalist -
9/11 worked out great for Leviathan and the political class, but it has been hell on the freedoms and taxpayers of America.

Wednesday 15th September 2010

Abolish the Phony Privacy Board

Washington Times September 16, 2010

BOVARD: Abolish the Phony Privacy Board
Panel was designed to rubber-stamp constitutional infringement
by James Bovard
President Obama has failed to make any appointments to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. This board epitomizes the charades Washington has played since Sept, 11, 2001. Instead of stocking the board with [...]

Thursday 15th July 2010

What the FBI Does Best

It is unfortunate that few of the nation’s editorial writers have ever understood the FBI as well as Handelsman did within weeks after 9/11…..

Wednesday 14th July 2010

The New American Credo

Weren’t things supposed to be different after Obama was elected?
[cartoon from the New Yorker, 2002]

Friday 9th July 2010

“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” - my Pennslyvania speech…

Now online here: the video of my “Freedom and the War on Terrorism” speech last month in Bernville, Pennsylvania. I want to thank Bob Bowers, who organized this libertarian supper club, for inviting Jacob Hornberger and I to talk there. The audience was excellent - lots of hardliners full of fire-and-brimstone. [...]

Tuesday 20th April 2010

The Slippery Definition of Extremism

The Future of Freedom Foundation is shotgunning out this op-ed today….

The Slippery Definition of Extremism
by James Bovard
Americans are once again hearing of the perils of extremism. But the definition of this offense is slippier than a politician’s campaign promise. The definition of extremism has continually been amended to permit government policies that few sober people [...]

Monday 19th April 2010

Podcast of April 19th Interview with Ernie Hancock

Legendary hellraiser and freedom fighter Ernie Hancock had me on his radio show today. We talked about the meaning of April 19th - Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc.
He tried to squeeze out a few predictions but I pretty much took a dive.
You can hear the show by clicking radio-jpb-2010-04-19-ernie-hancock-a-pmhere. (The [...]

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