Talk show mastermind Brian Wilson and I discussed the 20th anniversary of Ruby Ridge on WSPD this afternoon. Unfortunately, former FBI director Louis Freeh was not available to join us for the show. (He has a previous engagement flacking for the Iranian terrorist group MEK.) You can listen or download the 20 minute MP3 by […]
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20 Years Ago at Ruby Ridge: Heroic U.S. Marshals Kill a Boy and his Dog
Today is the 20th anniversary of the firefight between U.S. marshals and Kevin Harris and Sammy Weaver. Three and a half years after the feds launched an ambush on Ruby Ridge, the U.S. Marshals Service gave its highest valor award to the five surviving marshals from that fracas. Following are a couple pieces I wrote […]
Forgotten Lessons of the D.C. Sniper Rampage
From the Future of Freedom Foundation… Freedom Daily, April 2012 FORGOTTEN LESSONS FROM THE D.C. SNIPER RAMPAGE by James Bovard A decade ago, the Washington, D.C., area was traumatized by two guys who rode around shooting people from the trunk of their ancient Chevrolet Caprice. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo have long since […]
Anniversary of a Federal Fraud: Freedom of Information Act
On July 4, 1966, President Lyndon Johnson signed the first federal Freedom of Information Act. The federal government has pretended to be open to citizens ever since. The National Security Archive, a private non-profit research arm, celebrated the anniversary with this notice. That Archive has done a superb job of using FOIA to pry out […]
TSA: Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare
From the February issue of Freedom Daily, posted online today by the Future of Freedom Foundation – TSA — Tenth Anniversary of a National Nightmare by James Bovard Less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, George W. Bush promised Americans, “We will not surrender our freedom to travel.” In hindsight, he may have been […]
Feds’ Gross Negligence on Concocting Terrorist Plots? (Not Counting Oregon)
While some people are cheering the latest news out of Cleveland, the fact remains that the FBI has failed to concoct terorrist plots in more than 75 metropolitan areas. The comment from the Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit spurred my memory on the Justice Department’s anti-terror PR coup in Oregon. Here’s my riff on that case from […]
America’s Long History of Entrapment Insanity
From the Future of Freedom Foundation’s Freedom Daily – January issue — The Long History of Entrapment Insanity by James Bovard America has seen a profusion of entrapment schemes in recent years. Many of the most high-profile domestic-terrorism cases have been ginned up by FBI agents who preyed on persons who had little competence for […]
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R R Schoettker
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