Scott Horton Interviews James Bovard
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James Bovard, author of Attention Deficit Democracy, discusses the farcical Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, the failure of U.S. courts to check rampant government criminality, the “battered citizen syndrome” that leaves Americans too scared of external threats to protest their lost liberties and why 2012 may be the last chance to elect Ron Paul and stop our national suicide.
MP3 here. (23:00)
James Bovard is a contributor to The American Conservative magazine and policy advisor at The Future of Freedom Foundation. He is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal and many other books.
Herman King
September 25th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Even if Ron Paul would win the presidency the elites would steal it from him.
eCAHNomics
September 26th, 2010 at 9:43 am
To fight back on battered citizen syndrome, make fun of them. For example, more U.S.ians died of dog bites last year than of terrorism (25). So my suggestion is that we replace dogs with terrissts as man's best friend.
reed
September 26th, 2010 at 10:05 am
If Ron Paul won the presidency it would mean the voters had already awakened and committed to a new paradigm, freedom instead of bureaucratism. the elite would be out of work since they have no productive skills.
angrygnat
September 27th, 2010 at 8:50 am
Here's liberman saying relax, it won't be used every day, "national security", china has it so should we…. what an ass-hat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7p4enV4Uw
Orville H. Larson
September 27th, 2010 at 4:36 pm
Bovard's a doughty fighter for liberty, that's for damn sure. (Horton mentions Bovard's book "Attention Deficit Democracy." I've read it, and it's first-rate.)
Of course the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is bullshit. Anything created by government usually is.
A "court of law" is supposed to be a place where the individual's rights are asserted and vindicated. Today, American courts are part of the police state.