James Bovard

Bush’s Will to Power

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Jim Bovard, author of Terrorism and Tyranny, The Bush Betrayal, Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the end of the rule of law in America, the Mukasey nomination for attorney general, the newly revealed torture memos, the definition of torture, the el-Masri case, John D. Rockefeller IV’s campaign money and immunity for the telecoms.

MP3 here. (17:24)

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin’s/Palgrave, January 2006), and eight other books. He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader’s Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.

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’s Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His Terrorism and Tyranny won the Lysander Spooner Award for the Best Book on Liberty in 2003. 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.

His writings have been been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 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, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.

8 thoughts on “James Bovard”

  1. His writings have been been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 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, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.

    Badge of Honor, imo.

  2. Badge of honor? Hardly! This man is just another anti-government extremist, which is synonymous with racist fascist! Have any of you read Richard Hofstadter? You need to read Richard Hofstadter! Richard Hofstadter will tell you how things really are.

  3. James Bovard is not a racist, is not a fascist, and is hardly an extremist. I have met him, and had long conversations with him. He is a bright articulate man who is championing the freedoms our government is busily destroying. The real “extremists” are those who do not trust us, and therefor are trying to rule us, and crush all resistance. The real extremists are the Democrats and Republicans who run Washington DC. They are extremists because they are trying to destroy a five hundred year tradition of civil liberties. That they are doing it in the name of protecting us is not an excuse. I would encourage you to read Bovard’s book Attention Defeicit Democracy. It reveals a great deal of what I am talking about. There is a reason those in power have denounced his work: they are threatened by his exposes–Paul the Cab Driver

    1. I was being sarcastic. I thought that saying Richard Hofstadter’s name 3 times might be a hint. Ah well. Yes, Bovard is awesome. In fact I mentioned Hofstadter because he’s trashed quite awesomely in Attention Deficit Democracy.

  4. Read Bovard’s BODY OF SECRETS first. It reveals what our government is really capable of.

  5. Obviously his to the point, pull no punches, writings, picked up even by some of the popular press, truly fight the power, the powers that be, darn it.

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