9/11 at 25: TSA turned Americans into peasants who must kowtow to feds at airports. From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview
Archive | September 10, 2026
9/11 at 25: Have We Lost Control of Government Forever? (2003 Booknotes Excerpt)
Two years after 9/11 attacks, CSPAN Booknotes host Brian Lamb asked me: Have we lost control of government forever? My answer was grim and subsequent events have comforted cynics everywhere.
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.”
9/11 at 25: The Patriot Act and Total Surveillance – My 2003 Booknotes Interview
After the 9/11 attacks, Congress rushed to enact the Patriot Act, vastly expanding federal surveillance of American citizens. The Patriot Act Pandora’s Box has unleashed far more attacks on Americans’ privacy, rights, and liberties than the feds have admitted.
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
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