10-25-18 -- L Neil Smith - James Bovard -- (VIDEO & MP3s LOADED)
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Hour 1 - Freedom's Phoenix Headline News
Hour 2 - L Neil Smith (Libertarian Author) comes on the show to give us an update on what he has been doing of late, new novel coming soon, thoughts on the current political circus
Hour 3 - James Bovard (libertarian author) on a variety of issues, including Trump/Saudi Arabia, Russia, #MeToo, Economy, Surveillance State
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Letters of Marque Paperback
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Letters of Marque Paperback – September 25, 2018
by Marque dePlume (Author)
"The Crown calls it 'piracy' to explore frontiers beyond its grasp. So the time has come to define the conduct among pirates." Captain Marque
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Feature Article • Global Edition Freedom's Phoenix Declare Your Independence APP now on Google Play Donna Hancock Listen to any recent show of "Declare Your Independence" at the click of a button! |
October 25th, 2018
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Ernest Hancock
Freedom's Phoenix Headline News
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Topics Discussed...
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Hour 2 - L Neil Smith (Libertarian Author) comes on the show to give us an update on what he has been doing of late, new novel coming soon, thoughts on the current political circus
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Letters of Marque Paperback
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON NOW BY CLICKING HERE!
Letters of Marque Paperback – September 25, 2018
by Marque dePlume (Author)
"The Crown calls it 'piracy' to explore frontiers beyond its grasp. So the time has come to define the conduct among pirates." Captain Marque
http://pirateswithoutborders.com/
Join us 'Above the Grid'
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L Neil Smith
Award-winning novelist and essayist L. Neil Smith is a retired gunsmith, former Reserve police officer, an Eagle Scout, and Publisher/Senior Columnist of _L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise_ He is the author of over thirty books and thousands of columns and articles fiercely defending individual rights, fighting the continuing war against tyranny since the mid-1960s. Look him up on Google, Wikipedia, and Amazon. com. His writings may also be found at _L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise (http://www.ncc-1776.org/)_, at JPFO. org or at https://www. patreon. com/lneilsmith. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado with his wife, Cathy, his daughter, best known to the Internet as Gio, and two cats, Paulo and Strider.
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Some pertinent links...
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/040551-2008-10-31-voting-never-brought-freedom-to-anyone.htm
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/189368-2016-01-09-why-trust-the-politicians-who-take-your-guns.htm
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/186619-2015-11-16-tomorrowland-speech-publisher-the-solution-to-war-fear-generation-nexts.htm
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Opinion/000058-2005-09-28-freedom-activism-101.htm
Hour 3
Hour 3 - James Bovard (libertarian author) on a variety of issues, including Trump/Saudi Arabia, Russia, #MeToo, Economy, Surveillance State
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Letters of Marque Paperback
AVAILABLE ON AMAZON NOW BY CLICKING HERE!
Letters of Marque Paperback – September 25, 2018
by Marque dePlume (Author)
"The Crown calls it 'piracy' to explore frontiers beyond its grasp. So the time has come to define the conduct among pirates." Captain Marque
http://pirateswithoutborders.com/
Join us 'Above the Grid'
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Hour 3
James Bovard
Libertarian Author
Webpage: JimBovard.Com
James Bovard is the author of ten books, including Public Policy Hooligan (2012), Attention Deficit Democracy (2006), The Bush Betrayal (2004), and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994). He has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, and many other publications. His books have been translated into Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, and Korean. He is a contributing editor for American Conservative magazine and The Freeman and a regular contributor to the Future of Freedom magazine.
The Wall Street Journal called Bovard "the roving inspector general of the modern state," the New York Times tagged him "an anti-czar Czar," and Washington Post columnist George Will called him a "one-man truth squad." His 1994 book Lost Rights received the Free Press Association's Mencken Award as Book of the Year. His 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 Firearms Civil Rights Defense Fund of the National Rifle Association.
His writings have been publicly denounced by the chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by the Sierra Club, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Washington Post.
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2018-10-15 Feature Article Believe women: Apply Congress' Christine Blasey Ford test to TSA's female victims Do members of Congress care about any sexual assault that does not permit them to politically grandstand? Hold TSA agents responsible for assaults. Send Letter to Editor |
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James's recent articles posted on his blog:
35th Anniversary of Biggest Pre-9/11 U.S. Antiterrorism Debacle
This week is the 35th anniversary of one of the biggest antiterrorism disasters in American history. President Reagan sent U.S. troops to Beirut in the chaotic aftermath of the 1982 Israeli invasion. 243 Marines were killed on October 23, 1983 when a lone terrorist drove a truck bomb past the poorly-guarded perimeter and detonated his […]
Podcast: My Latest Brawl with the TSA
Here's the story of my latest security checkpoint clash with those fine public servants from the Transportation Security Administration. I filed a formal request for a video of that patdown six months ago. But TSA treats the Freedom of Information Act like the F**k Off Information Act and they are ignoring their legal duty to […]
Endless U.S. Government Lies on the Afghanistan War
The U.S. military tried to cover up the Taliban's shooting of a U.S. general on Thursday in Kandahar. What other Afghan debacles is the Pentagon hiding? Here's a 2009 piece I did for Counterpunch and the Future of Freedom Foundation on the lies that permeated the first 8 years of the Afghan war. The New […]
USA TODAY: TSA Must End Sexual Abuse of Female Travelers
USA TODAY, October 15, 2018 Believe women: Apply Congress' Christine Blasey Ford test to TSA's female victims by James Bovard Do members of Congress care about any sexual assault that does not permit them to politically grandstand? Hold TSA agents responsible for assaults. In the uproar over Christine Blasey Ford's allegations against Supreme Court nominee […]
Did my New York Times Oped Inspire Latest Terrorist Plot?
Paul Rosenfeld of Tappan, New York was just arrested for building a 200 pound bomb that he planned to detonate on Election Day on the National Mall. According to news reports, he planned the explosion (and suicide) to bring attention to "sortition" – a system which randomly selects politicians from the citizenry. U.S attorney Geoffrey […]
Forgotten FBI Anti-Terrorism Entrapment Debacles
The owner of the limousine company that killed 20 people in New York last weekend was an FBI informant who helped carry out two big entrapment operations against Muslims after 9/11. Prior to being recruited by the FBI, he was caught helping people cheat on DMV tests. Before that, he was arrested for murder in […]
MP3 Interview on Former FBI Boss Comey's Role in the Torture Scandal
Scott Horton of the Libertarian Institute and I had a rowdy 35 minute exchange on my article on James Comey's forgotten linchpin role in the Bush administration torture scandal. After the photos from Abu Ghraib prison shocked Americans, Deputy Attorney General Comey rescued the Bush Torture Regime with shameless legal hair-splitting. Comey was sainted by […]
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