For too long now, the American people have allowed themselves to be persuaded that the government’s job is to take care of us: to feed us, clothe us, house us, educate us, raise our children, heal our infirmities, manage our finances, protect us from our enemies,...
John W. Whitehead
2016: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Year
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“What’s past is prologue.” ― William Shakespeare, The Tempest What a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year this has been. Endless wars. Toxic politics. Violence. Hunger. Police shootings. Mass shootings. Economic downturns. Political circuses. Senseless...
When It Comes to Fake News, the US Government Is the Biggest Culprit
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.” —Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news...
Not Guilty: The Power of Nullification to Counteract Government Tyranny
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The people have the power, all we have to do is awaken that power in the people. The people are unaware. They’re not educated to realize that they have power. The system is so geared that everyone believes the government will fix everything. We are the...
The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government and Its Silent Coup
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 24, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Today the path to total dictatorship in the US can be laid by strictly legal means,unseen and unheard by Congress, the President, or the people. Outwardly we have a Constitutional government. We have operating within our government and political system … a...
The Imperial President’s Toolbox of Terror: A Dictatorship Waiting to Happen
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
Presidents don’t give up power. Executive orders don’t expire at the end of each presidential term. And every successive occupant of the Oval Office since George Washington, who issued the first executive order, has expanded the reach and power of the presidency. The...
A Few Uncomfortable Truths You Won’t Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell In the interest of liberty and truth, here are a few uncomfortable truths about life in the American police state that we will not be hearing from either...
The Election Has Been Hacked: The Dismal Reality of Having No Real Electoral Choices
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
The FBI is worried: foreign hackers have broken into two state election databases. The Department of Homeland Security is worried: the nation’s voting system needs greater protection against cyberattacks. I, on the other hand, am not overly worried: after all, the...
Children of the American Police State: Just Another Brick in the Wall
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We don’t need no education We don’t need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone… All in all it’s just another brick in the wall All in all you’re just another brick in the wall. —Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” The...
Killer Instincts: When Police Become Judge, Jury and Executioner
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 9, 2016 | Featured Articles
Any police officer who shoots to kill is playing with fire. In that split second of deciding whether to shoot and where to aim, that officer has appointed himself judge, jury and executioner over a fellow citizen. And when an officer fires a killing shot at a fellow...
Stop Drinking the Kool-Aid, America: Political Fiction in an Age of Televised Lies
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 26, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The mess in Washington’—‘More bang for a buck’—punch lines and glamour.”— A Face in the Crowd...
Don’t Just Blame the Cops: Who Is Responsible for America’s Killing Fields?
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
“I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for...
Programmed to Kill: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Dogs
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 6, 2016 | Featured Articles
Almost two years after the firestorm that took place in Ferguson, Missouri, when a white police officer shot an unarmed black teenager and militarized police descended in a brutal show of force to quell local protests, not much has really changed for the better....
‘We the Prisoners’: The Demise of the Fourth Amendment
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“Our carceral state banishes American citizens to a gray wasteland far beyond the promises and protections the government grants its other citizens… When the doors finally close and one finds oneself facing banishment to the carceral state—the years, the walls, the...
Violence Begets Violence: The Orlando Shootings and the War on Terror
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 14, 2016 | Featured Articles
Until we start addressing the US government’s part in creating, cultivating and abetting domestic and global terrorism—and hold agencies such as the FBI and Defense Department accountable for importing and exporting violence, breeding extremism and generating...
Congress’ Treachery, the FBI’s Double-Crossing and the American Citizenry’s Cluelessness: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Enemies?
by John W. Whitehead | May 31, 2016 | Featured Articles
As the grandfather of three young ones, ages 5 to 9, I get to see my fair share of kid movies: plenty of hijinks, lots of bathroom humor, and an endless stream of slapstick gags. Yet even among the worst of the lot, there’s something to be learned, some message being...
Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films
by John W. Whitehead | May 28, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979) “You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in...
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed: The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 25, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death. However, where many Americans go wrong is in assuming that you have to be doing...
Fleecing the American Taxpayer: The Profit Incentives Driving the Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 12, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” ― Ron Paul If there is an absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets...
America’s Gestapo: The FBI’s Reign of Terror
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
“We want no Gestapo or secret police. The FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail. J. Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.”—President Harry S....
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