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John Whitehead

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book Battlefield America: The War on the American People  (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected].

The American Delusion: Distracted, Diverted And Insulated From The Grim Reality Of The Police State

“When we’re being bombarded with wall-to-wall news coverage and news cycles that change every few days, it’s difficult to stay focused on one thing—namely, holding the government accountable to abiding by the rule of law—and the powers-that-be understand this.”

September 3rd, 2014
John Whitehead
September 3rd, 2014
By John Whitehead
police

“In the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours. There is no need for wardens or gates or Ministries of Truth. When a population

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We’re All Criminals And Outlaws In The Eyes Of The American Police State

“Never in the civilised world have so many been locked up for so little.”—“Rough Justice in America,” The Economist

August 8th, 2014
John Whitehead
August 8th, 2014
By John Whitehead

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 rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room? Mind you, we’re not talking tickets or fines or even warnings

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The Naked Truth About The American Police State

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

July 10th, 2014
John Whitehead
July 10th, 2014
By John Whitehead

It’s vogue, trendy and appropriate to look to dystopian literature as a harbinger of what we’re experiencing at the hands of the government. Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm have much to say about government tyranny, corruption, and control, as does Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report. Yet there are

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238 Years Later, Would Americans Still Choose Freedom Over Slavery?

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”—Patrick Henry

July 4th, 2014
John Whitehead
July 4th, 2014
By John Whitehead
Declaration_independence

Commentary Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Imagine that in this very same country, you’re watched all the time, and if you look even a little bit suspicious, the police stop and frisk you or pull you over to search you on the off

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Has The Department of Homeland Security Become America’s Standing Army?

If the United States is a police state, then the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is its national police force, with all the brutality, ineptitude and corruption such a role implies.

June 17th, 2014
John Whitehead
June 17th, 2014
By John Whitehead
Bertus, a K-9 unit of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, watches over the festivities near Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis, Friday, Feb. 3, 2012.

“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. Somebody in Washington needs to call a timeout.”—Dan Klein, retired Albuquerque Police

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Why You Shouldn’t Trust The Government

Our government now openly kills, maims, tortures, lies, spies, cheats, and treats Its citizens like criminals,

June 10th, 2014
John Whitehead
June 10th, 2014
By John Whitehead
Shawn Lamouree

“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 for law enforcement agencies and arbitrarily authorizes targeted assassinations?

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Just Shoot: Turning Search Warrants Into Death Warrants, And SWAT Teams Into Death Squads

If ever there were a time to de-militarize and de-weaponize police forces, it’s now, starting at the local level, with local governments and citizens reining in local police.

June 5th, 2014
John Whitehead
June 5th, 2014
By John Whitehead

“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 citizens have to be injured, terrorized or killed before we call a halt to the

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