To some tea-party types, anyway, says Jim Bovard.
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Articles by James Bovard
back to columnists »I Am a Traitor, a Nazi, a Communist, a Racist
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/james-bovard/i-am-a-traitor-a-nazi-a-communist-a-racist/
4/27/2010
The Lethal Hypocrisy of the State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/james-bovard/the-lethal-hypocrisy-of-the-state/
And of Bill Clinton.
4/21/2010
Frightening Us into Submission
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/02/james-bovard/frightening-us-into-submission/
Jim Bovard on the government's game.
2/19/2010
Transmission Belts for Government Lies
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/11/james-bovard/transmission-belts-for-government-lies/
The media.
11/6/2009
Rounding Up the Innocents
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/09/james-bovard/rounding-up-the-innocents/
What really happened after 9-Eleven.
9/11/2009
Delusions of Democracy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/08/james-bovard/delusions-of-democracy/
And the current deluder-in-chief.
8/21/2009
Will the Feds Declare Martial Law?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/07/james-bovard/will-the-feds-declare-martial-law/
Jim Bovard on the "war on terror," next installment.
7/29/2009
His Other Crime
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/07/james-bovard/his-other-crime/
Jim Bovard on McNamara and the World Bank.
7/10/2009
Oppose Obama
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/07/james-bovard/oppose-obama-2/
And his latest attack on our privacy.
7/9/2009
Celebrate Torture Day
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/06/james-bovard/celebrate-torture-day/
By punishing the torturers, says Jim Bovard.
6/26/2009
Nobody Here But Us Non-Torturers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/03/james-bovard/nobody-here-but-us-non-torturers/
Jim Bovard on how Abu Ghraib was politically defused.
3/14/2009
Obama Is Grabbing Your Medical Records
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/03/james-bovard/obama-is-grabbing-your-medical-records/
Jim Bovard on the health of the state.
3/3/2009
More Freedom Hokum
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2009/01/james-bovard/more-freedom-hokum/
Jim Bovard on Bush's parting baloney.
1/29/2009
Smile and Cower to the TSA
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/08/james-bovard/smile-and-cower-to-the-tsa/
James Bovard on the new "attitude-detection" finks.
8/29/2008
The Hero of the Vietnam War
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/07/james-bovard/the-hero-of-the-vietnam-war/
James Bovard on Daniel Ellsberg's lessons for our time.
7/28/2008
Warring As Lying
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/05/james-bovard/warring-as-lying/
Jim Bovard on an American tradition.
5/8/2008
Permission To Declare Martial Law
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/04/james-bovard/permission-to-declare-martial-law/
James Bovard on another "law" for dictatorship.
4/10/2008
The Religion of 9/11
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/03/james-bovard/the-religion-of-911/
And American servility to it.
3/27/2008
Do Elections Guarantee Liberty?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/01/james-bovard/do-elections-guarantee-liberty/
Don't make James Bovard laugh.
1/21/2008
Putting Government on a Leash
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2008/01/james-bovard/putting-government-on-a-leash/
James Bovard on the drug war in Thailand.
1/10/2008
The FBI’s Threat of Torture
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/10/james-bovard/the-fbis-threat-of-torture/
James Bovard on the police state.
10/27/2007
Highway Tyranny
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/10/james-bovard/highway-tyranny/
James Bovard on drunk-driving checkpoints.
10/23/2007
A Perk of the Presidency
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/10/james-bovard/a-perk-of-the-presidency/
Killing people.
10/6/2007
Bogus Fears
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/10/james-bovard/bogus-fears/
How they brought us four more years.
10/2/2007
What Do Citizens Owe the Government?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/08/james-bovard/what-do-citizens-owe-the-government/
About zero.
8/7/2007
7/24/2007
How Foreign Warring Subverts Freedom at Home
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/07/james-bovard/how-foreign-warring-subverts-freedom-athome/
7/24/2007
Perverting Freedom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/05/james-bovard/perverting-freedom/
James Bovard on Bush's worst bosh.
5/12/2007
Happy ‘Mission Accomplished’!
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/05/james-bovard/happy-mission-accomplished/
James Bovard on the fourth anniversary.
5/2/2007
What We Can Learn From the Hungarians
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/04/james-bovard/what-we-can-learn-from-the-hungarians/
About resisting the state.
4/7/2007
Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/03/james-bovard/gonzaless-fall-bushs-impeachment/
Jim Bovard on what's really going on, and what's really at stake.
3/20/2007
Judicial Murder
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/03/james-bovard/judicial-murder/
James Bovard on the Tower of London, and the Tower of DC (under construction).
3/3/2007
Thumb Screws for Freedom
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/02/james-bovard/thumb-screws-for-freedom/
James Bovard on the Bush torture memos.
2/6/2007
US Out of Lebanon
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2007/01/james-bovard/us-out-of-lebanon/
James Bovard on all the damage so far.
1/30/2007
Fever and Disease
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/11/james-bovard/fever-and-disease/
Make that lies and leviathan.
11/8/2006
‘Every Day Is 1956′
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/10/james-bovard/every-day-is-1956/
James Bovard on the Hungarian Revolution today.
10/28/2006
Spreading Democracy Abroad
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/10/james-bovard/spreading-democracy-abroad/
"Democracy" meaning, of course, US rule.
10/14/2006
The Forging of Our Fetters
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/10/james-bovard/the-forging-of-our-fetters/
James Bovard on Bush's signing-statement dictatorship.
10/11/2006
The Torture Deal
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/09/james-bovard/the-torture-deal/
James Bovard on the United States of Barbarism.
9/26/2006
Mass Killing is A-OK
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/09/james-bovard/mass-killing-is-a-ok/
In the name of the god democracy.
9/1/2006
The Inevitability of Democracy?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/08/james-bovard/the-inevitability-of-democracy/
Nonsense.
8/8/2006
Israel’s Prior Peacekeeping
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/07/james-bovard/israels-prior-peacekeeping/
James Bovard on an earlier invasion.
7/18/2006
Just Another Fraud By Our Rulers
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/07/james-bovard/just-another-fraud-by-our-rulers/
James Bovard on elections.
7/11/2006
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/06/james-bovard/the-most-absurdities-per-kilo/
The war on drugs is ridiculous as well as evil.
6/8/2006
Constitutional Illiteracy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/04/james-bovard/constitutional-illiteracy/
And Attention Deficit Democracy.
4/15/2006
Another Bush 9/11 Lie
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/04/james-bovard/another-bush-911-lie/
This time about Flight 93.
4/14/2006
Bush’s Drive for Dictatorship
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/04/james-bovard/bushs-drive-for-dictatorship/
James Bovard on the bogus theory of absolute presidential power.
4/8/2006
Hoover’s State Agriculture
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/04/james-bovard/hoovers-state-agriculture/
James Bovard on the pre-Roosevelt.
4/6/2006
Learning To Distrust ‘Freedom’
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/03/james-bovard/learning-to-distrust-freedom/
It's a ticket to power, says James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy.
3/28/2006
Fascist Farming
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/03/james-bovard/fascist-farming/
James Bovard on how the feds mussolinized agriculture.
3/6/2006
The Real Security Threat
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/02/james-bovard/the-real-security-threat-2/
The taxing, spying, controlling feds.
2/28/2006
The Farcical Definition
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/01/james-bovard/the-farcical-definition/
At the heart of the terror war. Article by James Bovard.
1/31/2006
Attention Deficit Democracy
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/01/james-bovard/attention-deficit-democracy/
1/26/2006
Harebrained Pot and Wheat Decisions
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/01/james-bovard/harebrained-pot-and-wheat-decisions/
James Bovard on los Supremos.
1/19/2006
The FISA Farce
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/01/james-bovard/the-fisa-farce/
A secret court is no protection against dictatorship. Article by James Bovard.
1/10/2006
Federal Screwups
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/12/james-bovard/federal-screwups/
And how they entitled Bush to absolute power.
12/23/2005
Post-9/11 Hoax
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/12/james-bovard/post-911-hoax/
James Bovard on a fascinating – and suppressed – incident.
12/8/2005
Dissent Haters in DC
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/11/james-bovard/dissent-haters-in-dc/
James Bovard on their new war on opposing opinion-holders.
11/17/2005
Bush’s Foreign-Aid Bonanza
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/10/james-bovard/bushs-foreign-aid-bonanza/
James Bovard on another part of the Republican spendathon.
10/25/2005
Our Afghan Satellite
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/09/james-bovard/our-afghan-satellite/
James Bovard on lies about the other war.
9/30/2005
LBJ George
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/09/james-bovard/lbj-george/
James Bovard on the biggest Medicare fraud.
9/1/2005
Uncle Sam’s Iron Curtain
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/08/james-bovard/uncle-sams-iron-curtain/
James Bovard on totalitarian secrecy.
8/2/2005
Ravenous Government
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/07/james-bovard/ravenous-government/
James Bovard on Ashcroft, 9/11, and the state as victim.
7/14/2005
Bush Profiteering From Housing Defaults
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/06/james-bovard/bush-profiteering-from-housing-defaults/
Anti-discrimination pays.
6/11/2005
Another Bush Power-Grab
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/04/james-bovard/another-bush-power-grab/
On presidential papers. Article by James Bovard.
4/16/2005
Gun Nuts at 30,000 Feet?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/03/james-bovard/gun-nuts-at-30000-feet/
James Bovard on how to make flying safer.
3/9/2005
Thinking of Intervening in the Sudan?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/12/james-bovard/thinking-of-intervening-in-the-sudan/
Don't forget past follies, says James Bovard.
12/7/2004
The Blundering FBI
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/10/james-bovard/the-blundering-fbi/
James Bovard on the World Trade Center bombings.
10/12/2004
Bush Supporters Vindicate the President
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2004/10/james-bovard/bush-supporters-vindicate-the-president/
Letters to James Bovard about his new book, The Bush Betrayal. N.B.: some bad language (and bad spelling).
10/12/2004
More Soldiers Dead for the Empire
http://www.lewrockwell.com/2003/10/james-bovard/more-soldiers-dead-for-the-empire/
It's been twenty years since the Marine barracks in Beirut were blown up. Where are we, asks James Bovard.
10/23/2003
Bush’s War on Civil Liberties
http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/james-bovard/bushs-war-on-civil-liberties/
Jim Bovard on the police state (video).
The Bush Betrayal
http://www.lewrockwell.com/1970/01/james-bovard/the-bush-betrayal/
Chapter one, by James Bovard.
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