Despite the fact that we’ve been burned before, most Americans continue to allow themselves to be bamboozled into casting their votes for one candidate or another, believing that this time they mean what they say, this time they really care about the citizenry, this...
John W. Whitehead
Reality Check: No Matter Who Wins the White House, the New Boss Will Be the Same as the Old Boss
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 29, 2016 | Featured Articles
“The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy—then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel...
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
by John W. Whitehead | Feb 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy... But I knew it wasn't a dream; there was a...
The Right to Tell the Government to Go to Hell: Free Speech in an Age of Government Bullies, Corporate Censors and Compliant Citizens
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 19, 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 Free speech is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who are easily offended, readily intimidated or who need everything wrapped in a neat and...
The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears
by John W. Whitehead | Jan 11, 2016 | Featured Articles
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have...
What’s in Store for Our Freedoms in 2016? More of Everything We Don’t Want
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 29, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”—George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 In Harold Ramis’ classic 1993 comedy Groundhog Day, TV weatherman Phil Connors (played by Bill Murray) is forced to live the same day over and over again...
What If Jesus Had Been Born 2,000 Years Later in the American Police State?
by John W. Whitehead | Dec 22, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Two thousand years later … the memory of the revolutionary zealot who walked across Galilee gathering an army of disciples with the goal of establishing the Kingdom of God on earth, the magnetic preacher who defied the authority of the Temple priesthood in Jerusalem,...
Life in the Electronic Concentration Camp: The Surveillance State Is Alive and Well
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.” ― William O. Douglas, Supreme...
This Thanksgiving, Let’s Say ‘No Thanks’ to the Tyranny of the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 25, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy...
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 10, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt America’s next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of...
Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 26, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection. In the current crop of zombie stories, the...
Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’
by John W. Whitehead | Oct 20, 2015 | Featured Articles
Are you afraid that the government is plotting to confiscate your firearms? Do you believe the economy is about to collapse and the government will soon declare martial law? Do you display an unusual number of political and/or ideological bumper stickers on your car?...
‘Minority Report’ Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 28, 2015 | 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...
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 15, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, from...
‘Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death’: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 8, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Since mankind’s dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We’ve seen where their way leads, through camps and wars,...
Sheep Led to the Slaughter: The Muzzling of Free Speech in America
by John W. Whitehead | Sep 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
“If the freedom of speech be taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”—George Washington The architects of the American police state must think we’re idiots. With every passing day, we’re being moved further down the road towards a...
The Raping of America: Mile Markers on the Road to Fascism
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 24, 2015 | Featured Articles
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”—Martin Luther King Jr. There’s an ill will blowing across the country. The economy is tanking. The people are directionless, and politics provides no answer. And like former...
We Are the Government: Tactics for Taking Down the Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 18, 2015 | 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...
Don’t Be Fooled by the Political Game: The Illusion of Freedom in America
by John W. Whitehead | Aug 11, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country’s equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20 percent of the population that holds 93 percent of the wealth, the happy few who run the corporations and...
Drivers, Beware: The Costly, Deadly Dangers of Traffic Stops in the American Police State
by John W. Whitehead | Jul 30, 2015 | Featured Articles
“The Fourth Amendment was designed to stand between us and arbitrary governmental authority. For all practical purposes, that shield has been shattered, leaving our liberty and personal integrity subject to the whim of every cop on the beat, trooper on the highway and...
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