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Friday 18th May 2012

MP3 Podcast of my Antiwar.com Interview Thumping TSA

9:17 am | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

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 -
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Friday 11th May 2012

TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare

11:41 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 2

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 referring [...]

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 [...]

Friday 18th November 2011

TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nuisance

3:37 pm | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | Comments: 0

The Transportation Security Administration is celebrating its tenth anniversary this week. Perhaps they can uncork an extra bottle of champagne to toast the hundreds of thousands of jobs they destroyed by making travel far more onerous for Americans.
I have been flogging this agency since 2003. Here is a link to my blog entries on [...]

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

TSA Infiltrates Egyptian Military???

9:31 pm | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 4

“Egyptians decry ‘virginity tests’ on detained protesters, urge military rulers to investigate”
Associated Press, Published: May 30
CAIRO — Activists and bloggers are pressing Egypt’s military rulers to investigate accusations of serious abuses against protesters, including claims that soldiers subjected female detainees to so-called “virginity tests.”
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But one general used a news conference to make negative [...]

Thursday 14th April 2011

Your Tax Dollars at Work and Play

Washington Times, April 15, 2011
Uncle Sam’s big plans for your hard-earned tax dollars
by James Bovard
Congratulations - your tax payment is probably your biggest purchase of the year. The federal tax burden now amounts to more than $20,000 per household, according to Internal Revenue Service data. Your contribution to the Treasury coffers will permit Uncle [...]

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 [...]

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

Thursday 9th December 2010

My Antiwar.com Radio Interview on “Assassin Nation”

Antiwar.com’s Scott Horton and I had a rollicking good chat regarding “Assassin Nation” - the Obama administration’s right to kill Americans.
You can listen to the MP3 by clicking on this 10_12_06_bovard

Wednesday 1st December 2010

TSA Misses the Biggest Bomb in the Land

11:11 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Uncategorized | Comments: 2

from Washington Post cartoonist Tom Toles’s Sketchpad today -

At a time when the White House and Homeland Security are yammering about how the TSA needs to squeeze our butts for our own good, the feds are screwing the economy with enough deficit spending to wreck practically everyone’s future. Or at least [...]

Wednesday 24th November 2010

TSA: Attitude Fines for Complaining About Being Molested

11:15 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Surveillance | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 4

The Transportation Security Administration has a long history of stretching power far past the bounds of sense of decency. This 2008 piece from the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily exposes the perils of a bad atttiude at the airport..
Freedom Daily, June 2008
Federal Attitude Police
by James Bovard
The Transportation Security Administration has created more gantlets [...]

TSA Screeners’ Forgotten 2004 Luggage Theft Rampage

8:40 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1

On this first National Opt-Out Day, good Americans are supposed to blindly trust the Transportation Security Administration.
But the TSA has had far more scandals than the media chooses to admit - or remember.
Following is a piece I wrote for the New York Times in August 2004 on the nationwide epidemic of [...]

Tuesday 23rd November 2010

TSA: Three Cheers for National Opt-Out Day!

National Opt-Out Day is a great response to the TSA’s damned outrages.
From the Opt-Out Day website:

Wednesday, November 24, 2010 is NATIONAL OPT-OUT DAY!
It’s the day ordinary citizens stand up for their rights, stand up for liberty, and protest the federal government’s desire to virtually strip us naked or submit to an [...]

Thursday 18th November 2010

TSA hand work in the New York Times

10:26 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 10

Congratulations to everyone raising hell about the TSA. When the New York Times Business Section has to notice the hubbub, the issue has traction.

Wednesday 17th November 2010

TSA Busted: Ron Paul’s Reform Legislation

Here is Ron Paul’s statement on HR 6416
Introducing the American Traveler Dignity Act
Mr. Speaker, today I introduce legislation to protect Americans from physical and emotional abuse by federal Transportation Security Administration employees conducting screenings at the nation

TSA Tyranny: Ron Paul to Announce Legislation Today to Rein the Rascals in

1:15 pm | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1

from a Ron Paul Twitter: I will introduce legislation later today addressing TSA abuses. Look for my floor speech on C-SPAN, probably between 5-6 PM EST…

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. [...]

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