{"id":23069,"date":"2026-08-05T09:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=23069"},"modified":"2026-08-05T09:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T13:15:26","slug":"terrorism-tyranny-2003-c-span-booknotes-interview-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/05\/terrorism-tyranny-2003-c-span-booknotes-interview-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism &#038; Tyranny: 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes Interview (complete)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism &amp; Tyranny&#8221; Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin&#8217;s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2003 Booknotes: Terrorism &amp; Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msfvNBG3qhs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Some excerpts:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Flattery ruins more politicians than sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is an old trick for politicians to flatter those who they wanna control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To talk about ridding the world of evil is like throwing a bunch of dust in the air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governments are a far greater danger to people and to peace than are terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The federal government now has so much power that it really doesn&#8217;t matter who&#8217;s president, they&#8217;re probably gonna do a lousy job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the weeks after the 9\/11 attacks, trust in government skyrocketed. But excessive trust in government can be subversive of democracy. People need to keep skeptical and critical.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Attention Deficit Democracy in this country&#8230; Most people are very poorly informed on most political issues, and politicians exploit that ignorance to increase their power and further burden the American people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government have become a lot more powerful at the same time that people have become comparatively more ignorant as far as the actual workings of government, and that&#8217;s a very dangerous mix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush sought to portray Saddam Hussein as a 20th hijacker on 9\/11. Bush constantly linked Saddam and 9\/11 in his speeches, in his interviews, in his off-the-cuff comments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s sad to see how Bush has exploited the gullibility on the link to 9\/11 to justify his war with Iraq&#8230;. War was never forced upon the American people, at least not by the foreign government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush is creating more terrorists than he&#8217;s vanquishing at this point, especially in places like Iraq.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bush, Ashcroft, and others come and take power, and we&#8217;re supposed to pretend that there&#8217;s no danger anymore in federal power, that federal power is our friend, and anybody who doubts it is a traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s certainly a grim scenario as far as the future, as far as Americans being able to, reassert control over their government. But it could<br \/>\nhappen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lamb: &#8220;So when you go through that TSA checkout point you don&#8217;t feel any safer?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bovard: &#8220;No, I don&#8217;t feel any safer. And the chance of me being arrested are a lot higher than they were before 9\/11.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lamb: &#8220;What does the federal government do that you like?<\/p>\n<p>Bovard: &#8220;Uh, tough question. Well, I&#8217;m a big fan of the General Accounting Office. They&#8217;ve done a lot of good reports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Brian Lamb: &#8220;Do you think you could do better if you were in the government?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bovard: &#8220;Uh, do better what?&#8230;. The first thing I would do is recognize the things which the government is incompetent at and stop doing those things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 2003 C-SPAN Booknotes interview on my book, Terrorism &amp; Tyranny&#8221; Trampling Freedom, Justice, and Peace to Rid the World of Evil (St. Martin&#8217;s Press). Host Brian Lamb asked great questions and we managed to have a few laughs on the grim topic. 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