James Bovard

[David]

I met him at the 05 porcfest.  He was a speaker.  The man is brilliant. 
I ran across this short intro of him here.  http://fff.org/conference2008/speakers/index.htm#jbovard

I highlighted what interested me the most.   

James Bovard is the author of Attention Deficit Democracy (St. Martin's/Palgrave, January 2006), and eight other books.He has written for the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, New Republic, Reader's Digest, and many other publications.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 The 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 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 (FBI), 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 Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.