{"id":623,"date":"2008-12-02T14:24:04","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-12-02T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T19:24:04","slug":"youtube-version-of-my-bushs-war-on-civil-liberties-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/youtube-version-of-my-bushs-war-on-civil-liberties-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube version of my &#8220;Bush&#8217;s War on Civil Liberties&#8221; speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\">Lew Rockwell <\/a>\u00a0kindly posted today the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/bovard\/bovard60.html\">links <\/a><\/strong>to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fff.org\">Future of Freedom Foundation <\/a>conference speech on &#8220;Bush&#8217;s War on Civil Liberties.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The speech is a bit dated, since Bush recently renounced his authoritarianism and is showing a new devotion to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Whoops &#8211; last line was a typo.<\/p>\n<p>According to my insider sources, Bush will not renounce his despotic ways until January 19.\u00a0 Or maybe the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lew Rockwell \u00a0kindly posted today the links to my Future of Freedom Foundation conference speech on &#8220;Bush&#8217;s War on Civil Liberties.&#8221; The speech is a bit dated, since Bush recently renounced his authoritarianism and is showing a new devotion to the Constitution. Whoops &#8211; last line was a typo. According to my insider sources, Bush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>YouTube version of my &quot;Bush&#039;s War on Civil Liberties&quot; speech - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/02\/youtube-version-of-my-bushs-war-on-civil-liberties-speech\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"YouTube version of my &quot;Bush&#039;s War on Civil Liberties&quot; speech - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lew Rockwell \u00a0kindly posted today the links to my Future of Freedom Foundation conference speech on &#8220;Bush&#8217;s War on Civil Liberties.&#8221; The speech is a bit dated, since Bush recently renounced his authoritarianism and is showing a new devotion to the Constitution. 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