How can the life of such a man Be in the palm of some fool’s hand? To see him obviously framed Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land Where justice is a game.—Bob Dylan, “Hurricane” Justice in America is not all it’s cracked up to be. Just ask...
John W. Whitehead
Freedom or the Slaughterhouse? The American Police State from A to Z
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Who needs direct repression when one can convince the chicken to walk freely into the slaughterhouse?”—Philosopher Slavoj Žižek Despite the best efforts of some to sound the alarm, the nation is being locked down into a militarized, mechanized, hypersensitive,...
Jade Helm, Terrorist Attacks, Surveillance, and Other Fairy Tales for a Gullible Nation
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.” ― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly Once upon a time, there was a nation of people who believed everything they were told by their government. When terrorists attacked the country, and government officials...
The Emergence of Orwellian Newspeak and the Death of Free Speech
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
“If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those...
Keeping Government Bureaucrats Off the Backs of the Citizenry: The Supreme Court Responds
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
“No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”—Texas Rangers In one swoop, on June 22, 2015, a divided US Supreme Court handed down three consecutive rulings affirming the right of raisin farmers, hotel owners and prison...
Free Speech, Facebook and the NSA: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
“A person under surveillance is no longer free; a society under surveillance is no longer a democracy.”—Writers Against Mass Surveillance THE GOOD NEWS: Americans have a right to freely express themselves on the Internet, including making threatening—even...
The NSA’s Technotyranny: One Nation Under Surveillance
by John W. Whitehead | May 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control.”—William Binney, NSA whistleblower We now have a fourth branch of government. As I document in my new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this fourth branch came into being without any...
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
by John W. Whitehead | May 21, 2015 | Featured Articles
“If we’re training cops as soldiers, giving them equipment like soldiers, dressing them up as soldiers, when are they going to pick up the mentality of soldiers? If you look at the police department, their creed is to protect and to serve. A soldier’s mission is to...
‘We the People’ Need to Circle the Wagons: The Government Is on the Warpath
by John W. Whitehead | May 13, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.” ― Mark Twain How many Americans...
In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much
by John W. Whitehead | May 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
Police officers are more likely to be struck by lightning than be held financially accountable for their actions.—Law professor Joanna C. Schwartz (paraphrased) “In a democratic society,” observed Oakland police chief Sean Whent, “people have a say in how they are...
Kick Open the Doorway to Liberty: What Are We Waiting For?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The greatness of America lies in the right to protest for right.”—Martin Luther King Jr. Everything this nation once stood for is being turned on its head. Free speech, religious expression, privacy, due process, bodily integrity, the sanctity of human life, the...
The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 17, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The game is rigged, the network is bugged, the government talks double-speak, the courts are complicit and there’s nothing you can do about it.”—David Kravets, reporting for Wired Nothing you write, say, text, tweet or share via phone or computer is private anymore....
How DNA Is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 9, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The year is 2025. The population is 325 million, and the FBI has the DNA profiles of all of them. Unlike fingerprints, these profiles reveal vital medical information. The universal database arrived surreptitiously. First, the Department of Defense's repository of...
Private Police: Mercenaries for the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 3, 2015 | Featured Articles
Corporate America is using police forces as their mercenaries.” —Ray Lewis, Retired Philadelphia Police Captain It’s one thing to know and exercise your rights when a police officer pulls you over, but what rights do you have when a private cop—entrusted with all of...
From Neighborhood Cops to Robocops: The Changing Face of American Police
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 14, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.” ― Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means If 2014 was the year of militarized police, armored tanks, and stop-and-frisk searches, 2015 may well be the year of technologized police,...
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
“There will come a time when it isn't ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way...
We Are the Enemy: Is This the Lesson of Ferguson?
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
If you dress police officers up as soldiers and you put them in military vehicles and you give them military weapons, they adopt a warrior mentality. We fight wars against enemies, and the enemies are the people who live in our cities — particularly in communities of...
Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and it applied to a good many...
The Devil’s Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
Arnold Abbott, 90, arrested for feeding the homeless Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of...
The FBI: America’s Secret Police
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 4, 2014 | 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. Truman...
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