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born 1956 United States
James Bovard (born 1956) is a bestselling libertarian author and lecturer, whose political commentary targets examples of waste, failures, corruption, cronyism and abuses of power in government.
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Instead of revealing the “will of the people,” election results are often only a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions.
Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.
Attention Deficit Democracy produces the attitudes, ignorance and arrogance that pave the way to political collapse.
The better that people understand what Clinton did in office, the greater the nation's chances for political recovery.
There is no technological magic bullet that will make the government as smart as it is powerful.
We need a constitutional amendment to make the federal government obey the Constitution.
There are no harmless political lies about a war. The more such lies citizens tolerate, the more wars they will get.
Clinton exploited and expanded the dictatorial potential of the U.S. presidency.
The worse government fails, the less privacy citizens supposedly deserve.
The principle of government supremacy is Clinton's clearest legacy.
Government cannot make trade more fair by making it less free.
For scores of millions of Americans, Clinton's "caring" was more important than his lying.
As long as rulers are above the law, citizens have the same type of freedom that slaves had on days when their masters chose not to beat them.
So much of political philosophy throughout history has consisted of concocting reasons why people have a duty to be tame animals in politicians’ cages.
Nothing happened on 9/11 that made the federal government more trustworthy.
Trusting government nowadays means dividing humanity into two classes: those who can be trusted with power to run other people’s lives, and those who cannot even be trusted to run their own lives.
The U.S. government has created a trade lynch law that can convict foreign companies almost regardless of how they operate.
Bogus fears can produce real servitude.
The Night Watchman State has been replaced by Highway Robber States – governments in which no asset, no contract, no domain is safe from the fleeting whim of politicians.
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