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,
Interview: Minnesota ICE Killings And The Echos Of Ruby RidgeLibertarian author @JimBovard (https://t.co/aHriqgS4oe) draws chilling parallels between the federal killing in Minnesota and Ruby Ridge, warning that the same playbook—lies, suppressed evidence, exaggerated threats,… pic.twitter.com/DJVdHE5ixe— David Knight Show LIVE 10am Eastern, M-F (@libertytarian) January 30, 2026 I’ll add some outtakes from the interview here in […]
Barron’s: Potomac River Blindness (2012)
My 1996 Speech: Robbery with a Badge Asset Forfeiture Stanford University
My Waco Finale from My 1994 Second Amendment Rally Speech at Lincoln Memorial
New York Times: Bankrupt Environmentalism (1985)
Stanford University 1996 Finale: 37 Seconds of Lost Rights’ Brimstone
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Trump caused this. Do Not Forget.
Mac
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