Obama had far worse economic policies than most Americans recall, beating the bushes to sway more Americans to take federal handouts. His civil liberties policies were also dreadful. Hat tip to Muriel for the great question after my speech that spurred my riff on dodging border guards and sub-machine guns in the East Bloc in […]
My 2004 speech in Las Vegas on why the war on terror is a war on liberty. Bush’s war on Iraq is thrashed including the spiraling torture scandal.
9/11 at 25: TSA turned Americans into peasants who must kowtow to feds at airports. From my 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview
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.
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.”
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.
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“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
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Montaigne also wrote: Laws remain in credit not be
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“There is nothing so grossly and widely faulty a
