9/11 at 25: TSA turned Americans into peasants who must kowtow to feds at airports. From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview
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9/11 at 25: The TSA Pox
From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview with Brian Lamb: “So when you go through that TSA checkpoint, you don’t feel any safer? Bovard: “No, I don’t feel any safer. The chance of me being arrested are a lot higher than they were before 9/11.”
Tom Blanton, Heroic Hell-raiser for Freedom, R.I.P.
One of America’s top political satirists and funniest hellraisers passed away this week. Tom Blanton did one of the best daily roundups of government oppression and outrages stories on the Internet. His Project for a New American Revolution was an inspiration for me and thousands of other folks over the years. Tom was also one […]
Time to End TSA License to Loot
Time to End TSA License to Loot By James Bovard For more than a decade, TSA agents have plundered passengers at airport security checkpoints on the flimsiest or most shameless pretexts. If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, TSA agents can fleece you. More than 10,000 travelers […]
“Consent” as the Ticket for Tyranny
“Consent” as the Ticket for Tyranny James Bovard, Counterpunch, April 23, 2026 Facebook Twitter Reddit Bluesky Email Presidents have been perverting “consent of the governed” for centuries. “Consent of the governed” was a signature line of the Declaration of Independence, and it has echoed in official declarations ever since Jefferson’s time. President Harry Truman assured […]
Consenting to Endless Coercion
Consenting to Endless Coercion by James Bovard Presidents perennially claim that they possess their power thanks to “the consent of the governed.” This phrase, a signature line of the Declaration of Independence, has echoed in official declarations ever since Jefferson’s time. President Harry Truman assured Congress in 1952, “No government can be invested with a […]
N.Y. Post: Your Bucks Stop with the TSA
New York Post, February 15, 2026 A class-action lawsuit seeks to stop TSA from unlawfully seizing flyers’ cash by James Bovard If you get stopped at an airport security checkpoint with $100 or more in cash, Transportation Security Administration agents can fleece you. TSA has stripped more than 10,000 travelers of their money since 2014, […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
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Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay