{"id":8664,"date":"2015-08-27T15:45:07","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2015-08-27T15:45:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T19:45:07","slug":"economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8666\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\" alt=\"jpb press tv cover for federal reserve interview 8 27 2015\" width=\"400\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg 714w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015-150x68.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From today&#8217;s interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2015\/08\/27\/426606\/US-Dollar-Value-Federal-Reserve-\">Press TV<\/a>.\u00a0 Their journalist caught me early in the day before I had done any cussing, so I probably wasn&#8217;t as caustic as I should have been.<\/p>\n<p>******<\/p>\n<p>Experts are correct in blaming the US Federal Reserve\u2019s policies for a nosedive that the US dollar has taken in value, says an American analyst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dollar has lost more than 95 percent of its value since the Federal Reserve was created in 1913,\u201d author James Bovard,\u00a0told Press TV on Thursday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Reserve was supposed to \u201cmaintain a stable currency; instead it has destroyed the value of US dollar,\u201d added Bovard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one more example of why we can\u2019t trust politicians that guard the value of money or anything else,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>They have \u201ckept the interest rates at basically zero for year after year,\u201d he maintained. \u201cThat has crucified the middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it has worked out very well for the politicians and for the super rich who are able to play the market and sometimes have inside information on what the Federal Reserve is going to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGold has maintained its value far better than has the US dollar and that is one more reason why the current situation where folks are basically forced to put their reliance on a government-issued currency that has no backing, that is a recipe for economic suicide,\u201d the analyst concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s interview with Press TV.\u00a0 Their journalist caught me early in the day before I had done any cussing, so I probably wasn&#8217;t as caustic as I should have been. ****** Experts are correct in blaming the US Federal Reserve\u2019s policies for a nosedive that the US dollar has taken in value, says an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[712,22,415,83,485,327,711,497,53,678,209,45,339,700,710,27,669,38,369,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-8664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"tag-712","8":"tag-attention-deficit-democracy","9":"tag-boondoggle","10":"tag-corruption","11":"tag-corruption-2","12":"tag-cynicism","13":"tag-dollar","14":"tag-economics","15":"tag-federal-reserve","17":"tag-fraud-2","18":"tag-freedom","19":"tag-hillary-clinton","21":"tag-inflation","22":"tag-lying","23":"tag-obama","25":"tag-property-rights-2","26":"tag-secrecy"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.\" \/>\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\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"James Bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"714\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"325\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@jimbovard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jim\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jim\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"headline\":\"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":3,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"1%\",\"Attention Deficit Democracy\",\"Boondoggle\",\"corruption\",\"Corruption\",\"Cynicism\",\"dollar\",\"Economics\",\"Federal Reserve\",\"Federal Reserve\",\"Fraud\",\"Freedom\",\"hillary clinton\",\"hillary clinton\",\"inflation\",\"Lying\",\"Obama\",\"Obama\",\"Property rights\",\"Secrecy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/\",\"name\":\"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\"},\"description\":\"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg\",\"width\":714,\"height\":325},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/2015\\\/08\\\/27\\\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"James Bovard\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f\",\"name\":\"Jim\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r\",\"caption\":\"Jim\"},\"description\":\"Bovard's homepage is at http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \\\"the roving inspector general of the modern state\\\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \\\"one-man truth squad.\\\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism &amp; Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \\\"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\\\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.jimbovard.com\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/jim.bovard\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/jimbovard\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/jimbovard.com\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/admin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard","description":"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard","og_description":"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.","og_url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/","og_site_name":"James Bovard","article_author":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","article_published_time":"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00","og_image":[{"width":714,"height":325,"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Jim","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@jimbovard","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jim","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/"},"author":{"name":"Jim","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"headline":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar","datePublished":"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/"},"wordCount":243,"commentCount":3,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg","keywords":["1%","Attention Deficit Democracy","Boondoggle","corruption","Corruption","Cynicism","dollar","Economics","Federal Reserve","Federal Reserve","Fraud","Freedom","hillary clinton","hillary clinton","inflation","Lying","Obama","Obama","Property rights","Secrecy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/","name":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar - James Bovard","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg","datePublished":"2015-08-27T19:45:07+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f"},"description":"The Federal Reserve has destroyed 95% of the value of the dollar, ravaged the middle class, enriched the 1%, and is sowing seeds of economic ruin.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/jpb-press-tv-cover-for-federal-reserve-interview-8-27-2015.jpg","width":714,"height":325},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/27\/economic-suicide-federal-reserve-destroys-the-dollar\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Economic Suicide: Federal Reserve Destroys the Dollar"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/","name":"James Bovard","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/79550830ad81c14be529a2c37469974f","name":"Jim","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d95466cfd0934e38803c5035629df727ae4ec1f3f96c6883c05b5c52e2044505?s=96&d=mm&r=r","caption":"Jim"},"description":"Bovard's homepage is at http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com He can be contacted at jim@jimbovard.com James Bovard is the author of ten books. The Wall Street Journal called Bovard \"the roving inspector general of the modern state\" and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a \"one-man truth squad.\" His 1994 book, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty, received the Free Press Association\u2019s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism &amp; Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner \"Best Book on Liberty in 2003\" award. He received the Thomas Szasz Award for Civil Liberties work, awarded by the Center for Independent Thought and the Freedom Fund Award from the Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association. Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8667,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}