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Friday 9th July 2010
“Freedom & the War on Terrorism” - my Pennslyvania speech…
2:24 pm | Afghanistan | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bailout | Bush | Elective Dictatorship | Justice Department | Obama | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | Comments: 2
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. [...]
Friday 14th May 2010
Counterpunch: Operation Tarmac
11:05 am | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | FBI | Justice Department | Lying | Patriot Act | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1
From Counterpunch -
OPERATION TARMAC
by James Bovard
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Unfortunately, few people recognize the political racketeering involved in the post–9/11 roundups of airport workers. That practically ensures that, if there is another major terrorist attack or some similar debacle, mass arrests will once again be used to burnish the government’s image.
Thursday 13th May 2010
The Feds’ Post-9/11 Purge of Airport Workers
12:03 pm | Ashcroft | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Lying | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 1
From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily (February 2010)…
American travelers are at far greater risk from weasely cabinet secretaries than from fast-food workers. Operation Tarmac illustrated how “retail†lying is dangerous and can result in a prison sentence — while “wholesale†lying is a steppingstone to fame and greater power.
The Feds’ Post-9/11 Airport [...]
Tuesday 20th April 2010
The Slippery Definition of Extremism
11:04 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bush | Census | Elective Dictatorship | FBI | Justice Department | Rule of Law | Surveillance | Terrorism | Torture | Transportation Security Admin. | War crimes | Wiretapping | lese majeste | Comments: 2
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 [...]
Wednesday 27th August 2008
Federal Attitude Police
1:20 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Bush | Rule of Law | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 5
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my article from the June issue of Freedom Daily.
TSA is an agency that never gets enough of what it deserves. But it’s fun to try anyhow.
FEDERAL ATTITUDE POLICE
by James Bovard
The Transportation Security Administration has created more gantlets at American airports than most travelers realize. It has continually [...]
Saturday 16th June 2007
Finally! My Northwest Territory Breakthrough!
9:22 am | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Surveillance | Terrorism | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 13
I’ll be on in Yellowknife at 7:35 a.m. Monday.
Maybe even better, I’ll be on in Gander at 7:20 a.m. and in Whitehorse at 8:30 a.m.
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will be doing a series of 6 minute interviews with me Monday morn. Canada is adapting a U.S.-style “No Fly List.” The CBC wants me to offer some [...]
Friday 16th March 2007
My Editor & Publisher hit on TSA’s Miami Killing
5:25 pm | Attention Deficit Democracy | Bovard | Transportation Security Admin. | Comments: 9
I wrote a piece for Editor & Publisher in late 2005 on TSA’s killing of a passenger in Miami. The link is no longer working, so here’s the piece….
Editor & Publisher, December 15, 2005
Media Docility & Another No Cost Federal Killing?
by James Bovard
 In the weeks after the Hurricane Katrina debacle, many media commentators gushed about [...]