Tag Archives | Terrorism

Now Online: Podcast of BMW Horse**** Interview!

Talk show host Brian Wilson and I had a rattlin’ good chat on WSPD in Toledo today.   We kicked hell out of the Homegrown Terrorism and Violent Radicalization BS Act now before the Senate.    There were wine, beer, and cigar jokes, as well as expressions of condolence to the Israeli Prime Minister who might be […]

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Terrorist Cabal on the Potomac?

I don’t know for sure that those two were with Hezbollah – or maybe Hamas – but  you can’t be too careful in an area perfect for launching kayak attacks on the DC bridges.  Unless of course the kayakers drowned before getting that far (as often happens in these waters). Seems like half the people that […]

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The 9/11 Servility Reflex

The Future of Freedom Foundation posted online today my Freedom Daily piece on the tidal wave of groveling that swept America after 9/11. THE 9/11 SERVILITY REFLEX                 Freedom Daily, December 2008 by James Bovard  Many citizens react to their rulers like little kids who recognize that a stranger is acting suspiciously and may be up […]

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My Favorite Cartoon (from Playboy 2002)

Clay Butler did this wonderful cartoon for Playboy for a 2002 article of mine bashing the Patriot Act.  His cartoon was so good that I urged St. Martin’s/Palgrave to use it for the cover of Terrorism & Tyranny.  Alack – my editors there did not share my mania for cartoons. The full size of the cartoon […]

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The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture

The following op-ed is being shotgunned out today by the Future of Freedom Foundation.   THE FBI’S RIGHT TO THREATEN TORTURE by James Bovard A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But […]

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The “Terrorist” Batting Average

The Future of Freedom Foundation today posted online my article from the June 2007 Freedom Daily on the Bush administration’s endlessly inaccurate terrorist accusations.  The title of the piece is about as close to baseball as I have gotten in the last decade or so. The “Terrorist” Batting Average by James Bovard For almost six years, […]

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Finally! My Northwest Territory Breakthrough!

I’ll be on in Yellowknife at 7:35 a.m. Monday. Maybe even better, I’ll be on in Gander at 7:20 a.m. and in Whitehorse at 8:30 a.m. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will be doing a series of 6 minute interviews with me Monday morn.  Canada is adapting a U.S.-style “No Fly List.” The CBC wants me to […]

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