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.”
Tag Archives | Patriot Act
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.
25 Years After 9/11: My 2003 Booknotes interview on George W. Bush Lies About Receiving Warnings on Terrorist Attacks
On 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks – Never forget how President George W. Bush & his top officials lied and denied that the FBI and CIA had not received clear warnings of a pending terrorist attacks
FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights
FBI Boss Robert Mueller Conned America to Ravage Our Rights by James Bovard Former FBI director Robert Mueller was a twenty-first century version of J. Edgar Hoover, trampling the Constitution and seizing new power on any pretext. When Mueller died in March, the New York Times eulogized him as a “button-down, lockjawed, rock-ribbed exemplar of […]
The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner
Also posted on Zero Hedge, Counterpunch, Eurasia Review, etc. Libertarian Institute, March 23, 2026 The Late Robert Mueller, Bill of Rights Executioner by James Bovard Obituaries on eminent Washingtonians usually omit the dreadful precedents they set that will vex Americans long after their death. Not this piece. Former FBI director Robert Mueller died last week […]
My 2012 Election Prophecy: Leviathan Wins Again
Prior to the 2012 election, the American Conservative asked my thoughts on the presidential race. Here’s my 2 cents (also in the Jpeg below): If I vote, I’ll either select Gary Johnson or write in Ron Paul. This election has almost guaranteed that America will have at least four more years of bad government. Obama’s […]
20 Years of Epigrams on the War on Terror
Here is a round-up of some of my epigrams on the War on Terror. I tweaked a few lines for this repost and I may have missed or forgotten other lines that I should have included. I welcome any suggestions to add (or delete) for this list. Investors Business Daily, October 2, 2001: Like a […]
R R Schoettker
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.”
Jim
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Alan Strange
Great video, visited there a few years back to pay