Kamala’s press chief tried to censor me by James Bovard, August 5, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is not missing any chance to condemn Republicans for threatening to censor libraries and school textbooks. But she is overlooking the heavy-handed record of her chief spokesperson, Brian Fallon. Unfortunately, a recent Supreme Court decision opens the […]
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Thrashing Gun Grabbers & Championing Second Amendment on Brian Wilson Podcast
from the BrianWilsonWrites substack summary: It’s the “Shooting Blanks and Bulleyes” episode of the Two and Only! Brian Wilson and James Bovard gallop with a rip-snortin’ chat fest about Chapter 3 and the 2nd Amendment from Jim’s new book. You can download or listen to the podcast by clicking here https://nfscd.buzzsprout.com/1991115/14549657 Jim Bovard is a […]
U.S. Marshals Received Valor Awards for Their Ruby Ridge Ambush
U.S. Marshals Service marked the 30th anniversary of Ruby Ridge by touting the marshal who was killed there (after he fired 7 shots). Here is my 1996 Wall Street Journal piece on the outrageous Valor Awards presented to the surviving marshals. The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, March 13, 1996 They Call This ‘Valor’ By James […]
New York Post: Ruby Ridge Helps Explain FBI’s Gestapo Image
New York Post, August 24, 2022 Ruby Ridge, 30 years ago, helps explain the FBI’s ‘Gestapo’ image By James Bovard In the wake of the massive raid at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, politicians and pundits are hectoring Americans to blindly trust the FBI. “The men and women of the FBI,” Attorney General Merrick Garland proclaimed, […]
MP3 Talking Ruby Ridge & FBI Outrages on David Knight Show with Gardner Goldsmith
My old friend Gardner Goldsmith interviewed me this morning – he was guesthosting on the David Knight Show. Gardner asked me to recap Ruby Ridge and subsequent FBI outrages – such as the FBI-contrived plot to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. His story about how he didn’t give a wedgie to a congressman was a […]
Randy Weaver, R.I.P. Ruby Ridge is not Forgotten
Randy Weaver has passed away. Three decades ago, he was entrapped by an ATF agent. Federal agents subsequently killed his son and wife. The Justice Department denied that anyone’s rights were violated but still paid a multi-million dollar settlement for the Weaver family’s wrongful death lawsuit. Federal abuses at Ruby Ridge, the subsequent FBI coverup, […]
My Time with the FBI
Mises Institute, September 25, 2021 My Time with the FBI by James Bovard From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, […]