4/14/22 Jim Bovard on the Michigan Acquittals, Terrorism Entrapments and the FBI’s All-Around Awfulness

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Scott talks with Jim Bovard about the recent acquittals in the Michigan Kidnapping case and FBI entrapments in general. Bovard explains how the Supreme Court changed the definition of entrapment which allowed federal agents to take more active roles in organizing the plots they would later use to arrest and charge participants. Bovard and Scott discuss how the FBI really kicked up these operations to target young Muslim men after 9/11. Now as the government pivots to so-called domestic terrorism, there’s no indication that the tactics have changed. Discussed on the show: “Inside the FBI’s infiltration and entrapment of a Michigan militia crew” (NY Post) “A Stunning Surprise In The Michigan Kidnapping Case Calls The Government’s Domestic Terror Strategy Into Question” (Buzzfeed News) The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson “Uncle Sam Wants You” (Playboy) “Two Types of Terror in Michigan” (AIER) “Inspector general's report on FBI and Clinton's emails shows secrecy threatens democracy” (USA Today) “After the FBI's Pulse nightclub failure, why should we trust James Comey anymore?” (USA Today) Scott’s 2004 interview with FBI whistleblower Frederic Whitehurst Jim Bovard is a columnist for USA Today and the author of Public Policy Hooligan: Rollicking and Wrangling from Helltown to Washington. Find all of his books and read his work on his website and follow him on Twitter @JimBovard. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
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0:53.4	Welcome back to the show, how you doing, Jim?
0:55.7	Hey Scott, thanks for head me on.
0:57.7	It's a really long list of books.
0:59.7	The Farm fiasco and Freedom and chains and feeling your pain.
1:03.4	Oh, the fair trade fraud, that was a good one there.
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1:08.8	don't let me forget the Bush betrayal.
1:11.5	And then my very favorite is attention deficit democracy, but then you had that
1:15.4	great memoir too, which was dang on the right on the tip of my tongue.
1:20.0	Oh, public policy hooligan.
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