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John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's aggressive, pioneering approach to civil liberties has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom. His concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization in Charlottesville, Va. Whitehead serves as the Institute's president and spokesperson. His thought-provoking commentaries call people to action and address a wide range of contemporary issues from faith to politics and television to constitutional rights. He is also a frequent commentator on a variety of issues in the national media, as well as the editor of the award-winning pop culture magazine, Gadfly. Whitehead's book A Government of Wolves will be published in June 2013. Please visit On Target to view Whitehead's weekly video commentaries. He also blogs daily about the emerging police state at http://agovernmentofwolves.com/
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Thursday, August 13, 2020This Is Amerika: Where Fascism, Totalitarianism and Militarism Go Hand In Hand In Charlottesville, the government failed to uphold its constitutional mandates. The police failed to carry out their duties as peace officers. And the citizens found themselves unable to trust either the police or the government to do its job in respecting their rights and ensuring their safety.
Friday, August 7, 2020P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z While America continues to fixate on the drama-filled reality show scripted by the powers-that-be, directed from the nation's capital, and played out in high definition across the country, the American Police State has moved steadily forward.
Thursday, July 9, 2020Tyranny Without a Tyrant: The Deep State's Divide-and-Conquer Strategy Is Working The seemingly righteous indignation full of sound and fury that in the end signifies nothing, the partisan divide that grows more impassable with every passing day -- is not leading us anywhere good.
Wednesday, June 24, 2020The Summer of Hate Meets the Age of Intolerance Censoring speech-toppling monuments-kowtowing to political correctness-is not the answer to what ails this nation.
Thursday, June 18, 2020Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power The system is rigged, the government is corrupt, and "we the people" continue to waste our strength by fighting each other rather than standing against the tyrant in our midst.
Monday, June 1, 2020This Is Not a Revolution. It's a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation What is unfolding before us is not a revolution. The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution. The protesters are playing right into the government's hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lock down the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger. It's happening faster than we can keep up.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020From 9/11 to COVID-19, It's Been a Perpetual State of Emergency Don't pity this year's crop of graduates because this COVID-19 pandemic caused them to miss out on the antics of their senior year and the pomp and circumstance of graduation. Pity them because they have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency.
Wednesday, May 20, 2020The Slippery Slope to Despotism: Paved with Lockdowns, Raids and Forced Vaccinations You have no rights. That's the lesson the government wants us to learn from this COVID-19 business. Well, the government is wrong.
Wednesday, May 13, 2020The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age Welcome to the age of technofascism. Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother. While on paper, we are technically free to speak-at least according to the U.S. Constitution-in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. That's not a whole lot of freedom.
Wednesday, April 29, 2020Your Freedoms Don't Have to Be Muzzled Just Because You're Wearing a Mask Blindly following the path of least resistance -- acquiescing without question to whatever the government dictates -- can only lead to more misery, suffering and the erection of a totalitarian regime in which there is no balance.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020Police-State Arrogance in the Era of the Corona Virus All over the country, government officials are weaponizing COVID-19 restrictions to muzzle protesters.
Tuesday, April 21, 2020Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government's Secret History of Grisly Experiments Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. Did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from "Asian meat markets" as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses?
Tuesday, April 14, 2020COVID-19 and the War on Cash: What Is Behind the Push for a Cashless Society? Cash may well become a casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. As these COVID-19 lockdowns drag out, more and more individuals and businesses are going cashless (for convenience and in a so-called effort to avoid spreading coronavirus germs), engaging in online commerce or using digital forms of currency (bank cards, digital wallets, etc.). As a result, physical cash is no longer king.
Monday, April 6, 2020COVID-19's Challenge to the Christian Church: What Would Jesus Do? In every age, we find ourselves wrestling with the question of how Jesus Christ--the itinerant preacher and revolutionary activist who died challenging the police state of his time, namely, the Roman Empire--would respond to the moral questions of our day.
Tuesday, March 24, 2020Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception. Unless we find some way to rein in the government's power grabs, the fall-out will be epic.
Monday, March 16, 2020Detect, Deter and Annihilate: How the Police State Will Deal with a Coronavirus Outbreak What do zombies have to do with the U.S. government's plans for dealing with a coronavirus outbreak? Everything.
Tuesday, March 10, 2020This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nation-Wide Lock Down? The coronavirus epidemic may well be a legitimate health concern, but it's the government's response to it that worries me more in the long term.
Wednesday, March 4, 2020Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat? How will the government's War on the Coronavirus impact our freedoms? For a hint of what's in store, you can look to China-our role model for all things dystopian-where the contagion started. In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus, which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world, free rein.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat? We are indeed at our most vulnerable right now, but it's the American Surveillance State -- not the coronavirus -- that poses the greatest threat to our freedoms.
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