James Bovard: The Death of Liberty in America is Not Foreordained
Geopolitics & Empire
Geopolitics & Empire
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🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
James Bovard discusses his new book on the death of liberty in America. The U.S. government has become an oppressive force which steals upwards of hundreds of millions of dollars annually from its citizens through civil asset forfeiture, silences Americans through its Orwellian Ministry of Truth, and imposes burdensome security theater (e.g. TSA) among many other forms of tyranny. He describes the attempts to take guns away and whether he thinks they will succeed, this idea of a second civil war, and how people were stampeded into submission on Covid. There is no substitute for courage and self-reliance is part of that. The death of liberty in America is not foreordained.
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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty https://www.amazon.com/Last-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP9VCNDH
About James Bovard
James Bovard is the author of Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty (2023) Public Policy Hooligan (2012), Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), and eight other books. He is a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors, a frequent contributor to the New York Post, and has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, and the Washington Post, and is a fellow with the Libertarian Institute. 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 book 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 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 Transportation Security Administration, U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In 2015, the Justice Department sought to suppress his articles in USA Today.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another edition of Geopolitics and Empire. |
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| 0:24.2 | We're joined today by James Bovert, who is the author of 10 books. |
| 0:29.4 | He's written for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, |
| 0:33.7 | many other publications. |
| 0:35.0 | And his latest book, I've got a copy right here, The Kindle, Last |
| 0:40.2 | Writes, The Death of American Liberty. |
| 0:43.2 | Welcome to the podcast, Jim. |
| 0:45.2 | Hey, thanks very much for having me on. |
| 0:46.8 | I appreciate that. |
| 0:48.2 | I've been following your work for a number of years now, and perhaps for listeners who |
| 0:52.6 | are new to you, if you could just, |
| 0:54.5 | you know, anything you want to tell us about yourself and the arc of your work over the years? |
| 0:59.1 | Well, I've never been indicted. |
| 1:03.1 | I've been writing, I guess, over 40 years, doing a lot of investigative type work, trying to help |
| 1:10.6 | people recognize how oppressed they are |
| 1:13.2 | becoming, how misgoverned they are, how dishonest politicians are as a class, and how so much |
| 1:20.0 | of the economic medicine the government injects is actually poisoning the entire society. |
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