In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.In fact, police don’t usually need much incentive to shoot and kill members of the public.Police have shot and killed Americans of all ages—many of them unarmed—for standing a...
John W. Whitehead
Merchants of Death: America’s Toxic Cult of Violence Turns Deadly
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 19, 2018 | Featured Articles
We are caught in a vicious cycle.With alarming regularity, the nation is being subjected to a spate of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country’s fragile ecosystem, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and...
Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 9, 2018 | Featured Articles
“The warlords of history are still kicking our heads in, and no one, not our fathers, not our Gods, is coming to save us.”— Journalist Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Despite the fact that a 26-year-old...
America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 7, 2017 | Featured Articles
'This country has been having a nationwide nervous breakdown since 9/11. A nation of people suddenly broke, the market economy goes to shit, and they’re threatened on every side by an unknown, sinister enemy. But I don't think fear is a very effective way of dealing...
This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls: The Experiment in Freedom Is Failing
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that have dominated the news headlines for the past year, but don’t be distracted.Don’t be fooled, not even a little.We’re being subjected to the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand...
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 22, 2017 | Featured Articles
“If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other, it is the principle of free thought — not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.”— Supreme Court Justice Oliver...
Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
“Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque...
You Want a Picture of the Future? Imagine a Boot Stamping on Your Face
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 3, 2017 | Featured Articles
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary...
The Age of No Privacy: The Surveillance State Shifts Into High Gear
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 26, 2017 | Featured Articles
“We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme Court Justice (1966) The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it...
Lynching Free Speech: The Intolerant State of America
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
My hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has become the latest poster child in a heated war of words—and actions—over racism, “sanitizing history,” extremism (both right and left), political correctness, hate speech, partisan politics, and a growing fear that violent...
Twilight of the Courts: The Elusive Search for Justice in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jun 6, 2017 | Featured Articles
“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – lest we become unwitting...
The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State’s Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded
by John W. Whitehead | May 23, 2017 | Featured Articles
“You have such a fervent, passionate, evangelical faith in this country…why in the name of God don’t you have any faith in the system of government you’re so hell-bent to protect? You want to defend the United States of America, then defend it with the tools it...
America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
by John W. Whitehead | May 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
“The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.” ― James Madison Who designed the malware worm that is now wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers internationally by hackers demanding a king’s ransom? The US...
Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy
by John W. Whitehead | May 1, 2017 | Featured Articles
“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Supposedly the National Security Administration is going to stop collecting...
The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump’s America Is a Constitution-Free Zone
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 25, 2017 | Featured Articles
Please.Somebody give Attorney General Jeff Sessions a copy of the Constitution.And while you’re at it, get a copy to President Trump, too.In fact, you might want to share a copy with the nation’s police officers, as well.I have my doubts that any of these...
Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You
by John W. Whitehead | Apr 17, 2017 | Featured Articles
“We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent.... These tactics are ......
Constitutional Q&A: The Legality of Stop and ID Procedures
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles
We are not supposed to be living in a “show me your papers” society.Despite this, the US government has recently introduced measures allowing police and other law enforcement officials to stop individuals (citizens and noncitizens alike), demand they identify...
Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution
by John W. Whitehead | Mar 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
It’s 1:30 a.m., a time when most people are asleep.Your neighborhood is in darkness, except for a few street lamps. Someone—he doesn’t identify himself and the voice isn’t familiar—is pounding on your front door, demanding that you open up. Your heart begins racing....
The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 8, 2017 | Featured Articles
“After five years of Hitler’s dictatorship, the Nazi police had won the FBI’s seal of approval.”— Historian Robert Gellately Lately, there’s been a lot of rhetoric comparing Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. The concern is that a Nazi-type regime may be rising in...
Rule by Brute Force: The True Nature of Government
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 31, 2017 | Featured Articles
The torch has been passed to a new president.All of the imperial powers amassed by Barack Obama and George W. Bush—to kill American citizens without due process, to detain suspects indefinitely, to strip Americans of their citizenship rights, to carry out mass...
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