The following op-ed is being shotgunned out today by the Future of Freedom Foundation. THE FBI’S RIGHT TO THREATEN TORTURE by James Bovard A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But […]
Drunk Driving Checkpoints vs. Freedom
The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online a piece I wrote for their Freedom Daily on the scourge of drunk driving checkpoints. DRUNK DRIVING CHECKPOINTS: EVERY DRIVER GUILTY by James Bovard Tens of thousands of innocent Americans are stopped each month at police checkpoints that treat every driver as a criminal. These checkpoints, supposedly started […]
My Troubles with the No Fly List Finally Explained
For those of you who missed the comment by Tom Blanton, the mastermind of the Project for the New American Revolution, on the “Raving Editors” blog entry… It has come to my attention that many of these hostile editors may have you confused with Blind Sheik al-Bovard. This guy was a piano player who penned a […]
Speaking Monday (10/22) in Orlando
I will be talking at Students for Liberty event at Valencia Community College West on Monday, October 22, from 5 till 7 pm. Here’s the invite – If you need more info, shoot me an email at jim@jimbovard.com Or contact the presdient of VCC’s Student for Liberty, Alicia Barker, at abarker4@atlas.valenciacc.edu Should be lots of […]
Editors Rave Over my “President’s Right to Kill” article
The good folks at the Future of Freedom Foundation kindly forwarded to me some of the lively responses they received after sending out my op-ed, “Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?” I’m not certain, but I’m pretty sure all these editors decided not to publish the article. Here’s a response from Bob Weir, the executive editor […]
Bush Stands Up for Genocide
Bush today vigorously opposed a congressional resolution to finally recognize the Turkish slaughter of more than a million Armenian Christians as genocide. Bush declared: “We all deeply regret the tragic suffering of the Armenian people that began in 1915. This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings, and its passage would do […]
Excellent new DVD on FBI National Security Letter Abuses
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee just released an excellent new DVD: FBI Unbound: How National Security Letters Violate Our Privacy.” The DVD features interviews with George Christian, the executive director of Library Connection, the Connecticut organization that courageously refused to comply with an FBI National Security Letter (NSL) and helped make the letters a national controversy. Lisa Graves […]
