To some tea-party types, anyway, says Jim Bovard.
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Articles by James Bovard
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4/27/2010
The Lethal Hypocrisy of the State
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard74.1.html
And of Bill Clinton.
4/21/2010
Frightening Us into Submission
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard73.1.html
Jim Bovard on the government's game.
2/19/2010
Transmission Belts for Government Lies
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard72.1.html
The media.
11/6/2009
Rounding Up the Innocents
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard70.1.html
What really happened after 9-Eleven.
9/11/2009
Delusions of Democracy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard69.1.html
And the current deluder-in-chief.
8/21/2009
Will the Feds Declare Martial Law?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard68.1.html
Jim Bovard on the "war on terror," next installment.
7/29/2009
His Other Crime
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard67.html
Jim Bovard on McNamara and the World Bank.
7/10/2009
Oppose Obama
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard66.html
And his latest attack on our privacy.
7/9/2009
Celebrate Torture Day
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard65.html
By punishing the torturers, says Jim Bovard.
6/26/2009
Nobody Here But Us Non-Torturers
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard63.html
Jim Bovard on how Abu Ghraib was politically defused.
3/14/2009
Obama Is Grabbing Your Medical Records
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard62.html
Jim Bovard on the health of the state.
3/3/2009
More Freedom Hokum
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard61.html
Jim Bovard on Bush's parting baloney.
1/29/2009
Smile and Cower to the TSA
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard59.html
James Bovard on the new "attitude-detection" finks.
8/29/2008
The Hero of the Vietnam War
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard58.html
James Bovard on Daniel Ellsberg's lessons for our time.
7/28/2008
Warring As Lying
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard57.html
Jim Bovard on an American tradition.
5/8/2008
Permission To Declare Martial Law
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard56.html
James Bovard on another "law" for dictatorship.
4/10/2008
The Religion of 9/11
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard55.html
And American servility to it.
3/27/2008
Do Elections Guarantee Liberty?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard54.html
Don't make James Bovard laugh.
1/21/2008
Putting Government on a Leash
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard53.html
James Bovard on the drug war in Thailand.
1/10/2008
The FBI’s Threat of Torture
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard52.html
James Bovard on the police state.
10/27/2007
Highway Tyranny
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard51.html
James Bovard on drunk-driving checkpoints.
10/23/2007
10/6/2007
Bogus Fears
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard49.html
How they brought us four more years.
10/2/2007
What Do Citizens Owe the Government?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard48.html
About zero.
8/7/2007
7/24/2007
7/24/2007
Perverting Freedom
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard45.html
James Bovard on Bush's worst bosh.
5/12/2007
Happy ‘Mission Accomplished’!
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard44.html
James Bovard on the fourth anniversary.
5/2/2007
What We Can Learn From the Hungarians
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard43.html
About resisting the state.
4/7/2007
Gonzales’s Fall, Bush’s Impeachment?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard42.html
Jim Bovard on what's really going on, and what's really at stake.
3/20/2007
Judicial Murder
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard41.html
James Bovard on the Tower of London, and the Tower of DC (under construction).
3/3/2007
Thumb Screws for Freedom
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard40.html
James Bovard on the Bush torture memos.
2/6/2007
US Out of Lebanon
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard39.html
James Bovard on all the damage so far.
1/30/2007
11/8/2006
‘Every Day Is 1956′
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard37.html
James Bovard on the Hungarian Revolution today.
10/28/2006
Spreading Democracy Abroad
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard36.html
"Democracy" meaning, of course, US rule.
10/14/2006
The Forging of Our Fetters
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard35.html
James Bovard on Bush's signing-statement dictatorship.
10/11/2006
The Torture Deal
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard34.html
James Bovard on the United States of Barbarism.
9/26/2006
Mass Killing is A-OK
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard33.html
In the name of the god democracy.
9/1/2006
8/8/2006
Israel’s Prior Peacekeeping
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard31.html
James Bovard on an earlier invasion.
7/18/2006
Just Another Fraud By Our Rulers
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard30.html
James Bovard on elections.
7/11/2006
The Most Absurdities per Kilo
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard29.html
The war on drugs is ridiculous as well as evil.
6/8/2006
Constitutional Illiteracy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard28.html
And Attention Deficit Democracy.
4/15/2006
Another Bush 9/11 Lie
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard27.html
This time about Flight 93.
4/14/2006
Bush’s Drive for Dictatorship
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard26.html
James Bovard on the bogus theory of absolute presidential power.
4/8/2006
Hoover’s State Agriculture
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard25.html
James Bovard on the pre-Roosevelt.
4/6/2006
Learning To Distrust ‘Freedom’
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard24.html
It's a ticket to power, says James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy.
3/28/2006
Fascist Farming
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard22.html
James Bovard on how the feds mussolinized agriculture.
3/6/2006
The Real Security Threat
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard21.html
The taxing, spying, controlling feds.
2/28/2006
The Farcical Definition
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard20.html
At the heart of the terror war. Article by James Bovard.
1/31/2006
Attention Deficit Democracy
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard23.html
James Bovard on the Patriot Act.
1/26/2006
Harebrained Pot and Wheat Decisions
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard18.html
James Bovard on los Supremos.
1/19/2006
The FISA Farce
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard17.html
A secret court is no protection against dictatorship. Article by James Bovard.
1/10/2006
Federal Screwups
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard16.html
And how they entitled Bush to absolute power.
12/23/2005
Post-9/11 Hoax
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard15.html
James Bovard on a fascinating – and suppressed – incident.
12/8/2005
Dissent Haters in DC
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard14.html
James Bovard on their new war on opposing opinion-holders.
11/17/2005
Bush’s Foreign-Aid Bonanza
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard13.html
James Bovard on another part of the Republican spendathon.
10/25/2005
Our Afghan Satellite
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard12.html
James Bovard on lies about the other war.
9/30/2005
LBJ George
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard11.html
James Bovard on the biggest Medicare fraud.
9/1/2005
Uncle Sam’s Iron Curtain
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard10.html
James Bovard on totalitarian secrecy.
8/2/2005
Ravenous Government
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard9.html
James Bovard on Ashcroft, 9/11, and the state as victim.
7/14/2005
Bush Profiteering From Housing Defaults
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard8.html
Anti-discrimination pays.
6/11/2005
Another Bush Power-Grab
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard7.html
On presidential papers. Article by James Bovard.
4/16/2005
Gun Nuts at 30,000 Feet?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard6.html
James Bovard on how to make flying safer.
3/9/2005
Thinking of Intervening in the Sudan?
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard5.html
Don't forget past follies, says James Bovard.
12/7/2004
The Blundering FBI
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard4.html
James Bovard on the World Trade Center bombings.
10/12/2004
Bush Supporters Vindicate the President
http://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard3.html
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://archive.lewrockwell.com/orig4/bovard1.html
d 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://archive.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard60.html
Jim Bovard on the police state (video).
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