Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy and I had a rollicking time rehashing the crimes and outrages of Ruby Ridge on his podcast.
“As long as rulers are above the law,
citizens have the same type of freedom
that slaves had on days
when their masters chose not to beat them.”
Mises Institute Senior Fellow Robert Murphy and I had a rollicking time rehashing the crimes and outrages of Ruby Ridge on his podcast.
My 1996 speech on Lost Rights & Government Tyranny at the Stanford University Hoover Institute. I discussed asset forfeiture outrages, zoning tyranny, affirmative action absurdities, Ruby Ridge and Waco, and all-round federal oppression. Here’s a link to my 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, discussed in this speech.
There is more robust and rambunctious free speech on X in many ways than existed before Elon Musk bought and renamed Twitter. But my experience this week with X blacking out images of the FBI in my posts reminded me of dealing with Facebook in 2017. I walloped Facebook in USA Today for blocking my […]
The video I made on Tuesday tied to my article, “How I Busted the Ruby Ridge Coverup,” now has 50,000 views on Twitter. This is ironic since X blacked out the first image I posted with the video – the Playboy magazine article showing a rifle and sniper crosshair on a Madonna and child. I […]
Update: Almost 50,000 views for this video on Twitter/X On June 30, 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I got hold of a 542 page confidential Justice Department and wrote a Wall Street Journal piece exposing the official lies on the FBI killing of Vicki Weaver as she […]
How I Busted the Ruby Ridge coverup By James Bovard, June 30, 2026 On this day in 1995, I helped shatter the coverup of federal killings at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. For millions of Americans, those brazen killings epitomized how the U.S. government had become a deadly peril to their rights and liberties. In 1991, an […]
‘s fascinating to hear Border Patrol chief Bovino and DHS Secretary Noem both talking about how if a protester merely touches a federal agent, then that agent basically has unlimited power over them, to arrest them, to knock them down, physically assault them,