Jim Bovart is with us folks, and so let me bring this up on the screen.

Jim, you had a very, very good, you always have great pieces, but you recently put out something

that sort of ties in with some of the things that people might have heard recently have been going on.

Revelations about the FBI and how they, as usual, seem to be targeting people,

especially people who have ideologies that they don't seem to like.

And over at FFF, the Future Freedom Foundation, they might have seen one of your most recent pieces.

And I think it's kind of nice because you get to tie in contemporary stories with stories about people that can sort of enrich us and give us a little better historical perspective and appreciation,

a positive, that we can get out of these frustrations. In particular, you were talking about

habeas corpus, and you mentioned McCauley and the Ghosts of Tyranny Pass, part two. It's a two-part piece, and I'd love for you to talk to people about what inspired you to write this two-part piece.

They can find this over at Future Freedom Foundation, and how you felt as you started to go into it, why you went into it, and some of the key parts of what you put into this excellent two-part

piece.

Well, it was trying to put a handle on the things I learned over the decades, and what I learned

from one of the greatest English writers writers who's a wonderful writing style and

gung-ho pro-freedom and understood the nature of government politics far better than

the vast majority of historians.

This is Thomas McCauley.

He was born in 1800, died in 1859.

He was famous as one of the best essayist to ever write in English language.

He also did a history of England, which I found fascinating when I read it when I was about

20 years old in the late 1970s.

But I mean, and it was, what I learned from him is how the legal procedures are vital for individual

liberty.

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