Here’s a photo of Montgomery County MD SWAT team members standing by the covered corpse of Duncan Lemp, killed minutes earlier when a SWAT officer shot him 5 times through his bedroom window. This is a police video made shortly after the killing – no video exists of Duncan’s death. Thanks to Judicial Watch lawsuit […]
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Pandemic Follies: Tyranny Won’t Keep Us Safe by James Bovard September 30, 2020 ==== Politicians have destroyed more than 13 million jobs this year in a deluge of edicts aimed to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 200,000 Americans still died from the coronavirus, but the anti-COVID government crackdowns probably did far more damage than the […]
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American Institute for Economic Research, September 9, 2020 The War on Terror Presaged Covid Mania by James Bovard This week is the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. America never recovered politically from those attacks, and government responses to the Covid pandemic are repeating many of […]
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Salem Radio host Dan Proft and I had fun smacking around COVID-spurred school shutdowns on his nationally syndicated show. Those shutdowns are inflicting so much damage on so many kids. Some teachers insist that they cannot work again until schools are absolutely safe. But as Thoreau said, “A man sits as many risks as he runs.” Dan is doing a great job of turning up the heat on the teacher unions and the shutdowns.
Independence Day in the Midst of Dictatorship
– July 2, 2020
Thanks to Peter Quinones for this meme
by James Bovard
Folks protested the SWAT killing of Duncan Lemp this morning at Montgomery County Police Headquarters. Lemp family members showed up regardless of the county prosecutor’s threat that they might be arrested for violating Gov. Hogan’s ban on “non-essential” activities during the pandemic. Roughly 25 to 30 folks showed up; to their credit, the police did not seek to disperse the protest because it exceeded the “ten people or fewer” Hogan guideline.
