“The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people.”—Justice William O. Douglas Justice in America makes less sense with each passing day. A Michigan couple that has been raising chickens in their backyard as a source...
John W. Whitehead
Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 14, 2014 | Featured Articles
“It’s been over five months since the night a SWAT team broke into the house in which we were staying…We were staying with relatives and my whole family was sleeping in one room. My husband and I, our three daughters and our baby (nicknamed “Baby Bou Bou”) in his...
Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State: ‘See Something, Say Something’ and Community Policing
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
“There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people...
An Unbearable and Choking Hell: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 16, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in — and the West in general — into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”—Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What a strange and harrowing...
Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 10, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well...
From Boston to Ferguson: Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State?
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 15, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I thought I was losing my capacity to be shocked -- but events in Missouri over just the last couple of hours have crossed a frightening line, one that makes me pray that this assault on fundamental American values is just the aberration of one rudderless Heartland...
We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 4, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist Why are we seeing such an uptick in Americans being arrested for such absurd “violations” as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting...
The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid ‘dens of crime’ that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in...
The Stealing of America by the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 21, 2014 | Featured Articles
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy Call it what you will—taxes, penalties, fees, fines, regulations, tariffs, tickets, permits, surcharges, tolls, asset...
The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Naked Truth About the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 8, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself… Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken, American journalist It’s vogue,...
The US Supreme Court Is Marching in Lockstep with the Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 24, 2014 | Featured Articles
“[I]f the individual is no longer to be sovereign, if the police can pick him up whenever they do not like the cut of his jib, if they can ‘seize’ and ‘search’ him in their discretion, we enter a new regime. The decision to enter it should be made only after a full...
Has the Dept. of Homeland Security Become America’s Standing Army?
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 17, 2014 | Featured Articles
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison “Here [in New Mexico], we are moving more toward a national police force. Homeland Security is involved with a lot of little things around town....
Why Should Anyone Trust a Government That Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats, and Treats Its Citizens Like Criminals?
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 9, 2014 | Featured Articles
“Why should anyone trust a government that has condoned torture, spied on at least 35 world leaders, supports indefinite detention, places bugs in thousands of computers all over the world, kills innocent people with drone attacks, promotes the post office to log mail...
Just Shoot: The Mindset Responsible for Turning Search Warrants into Death Warrants, and SWAT Teams into Death Squads
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 2, 2014 | Featured Articles
“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter How many children, old people, and law-abiding...
The War on America’s Military Veterans, Waged with SWAT Teams, Surveillance and Neglect
by John W. Whitehead | May 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” —John F. Kennedy Just in time for Memorial Day, we’re once again being treated to a generous serving of praise and grandstanding by...
The Bundy Paradigm: Will You Be a Rebel, Revolutionary or a Slave?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 23, 2014 | Featured Articles
Photo: Shannon Bushman (click to enlarge) “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”—John F. Kennedy Those tempted to write off the standoff at the Bundy Ranch as little more than a show of force by militia-minded citizens...
Why Are Americans Paying to Be Searched, Spied On, Shot At and Robbed Blind by the Government?
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 7, 2014 | Featured Articles
“To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.”—Benjamin Tucker, 19th century advocate of American individualist anarchism The State Department wants $400,000 to purchase a fiberglass sculpture of a camel looking...
‘Just Salute and Follow Orders’: When Secrecy and Surveillance Trump the Rule of Law
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 1, 2014 | Featured Articles
“The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them when...
A Military Plot to Take Over America: Fifty Years Later, Was the Mission Accomplished?
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 25, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I’m suggesting Mr. President, there’s a military plot to take over the Government of these United States, next Sunday...”—Col. Martin ‘Jiggs’ Casey, Seven Days in May (1964) With a screenplay written by Rod Serling, creator of The Twilight Zone, director John...
Lights, Camera, Arrested: Americans Are Being Thrown in Jail for Filming Police
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 11, 2014 | Featured Articles
“I thought I had freedom of speech here,” the man said to the police officer. “You don’t. You just lost it,” the officer replied. Once again, the U.S. government is attempting to police the world when it should be policing its own law enforcement agencies. We’ve got a...
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