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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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Monday, April 21, 2014The Bundy Paradigm: Will You Be a Rebel, Revolutionary or a Slave? Unfortunately, the intrepid, revolutionary American spirit that stood up to the British, blazed paths to the western territories, and prevailed despite a civil war, multiple world wars, and various economic depressions has taken quite a beating in recent years. Nevertheless, the time is coming when each American will have to decide: will you be a slave, rebel or revolutionary?
Wednesday, February 8, 2017The FBI: The Silent Terror of the Fourth Reich When and if a true history of the FBI is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American police state but it will also chart the decline of freedom in America, in much the same way that the empowerment of Germany's secret police tracked with the rise of the Nazi regime.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019They Live, We Sleep: Beware the Growing Evil in Our Midst We're living in two worlds, you and I. There's the world we see (or are made to see) and then there's the one we sense (and occasionally catch a glimpse of), the latter of which is a far cry from the propaganda-driven reality manufactured by the government and its corporate sponsors, including the media. Indeed, what most Americans perceive as life in America-privileged, progressive and free-is a far cry from reality.
Wednesday, May 20, 2015Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles: It's a Cultural Disease While the Obama administration has said all the right things about the need to scale back on a battlefield mindset, it has done all the wrong things to perpetuate the problem.
Monday, December 21, 2015What If Jesus Had Been Born 2,000 Years Later in the American Police State? What if Jesus, the revered preacher, teacher, radical and prophet, had been born 2,000 years later? How would Jesus' life have been different had he be born and raised in the American police state?
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.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016Your Money or Your Life: What's Behind the Latest Government Scam to Rob You Blind? The government and its corporate partners in crime have come up with a new scheme to not only scam taxpayers out of what's left of their paychecks but also make us foot the bill, and it's coming at us in the form of a war on cash.
Tuesday, April 25, 2017The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump's America Is a Constitution-Free Zone 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 individuals--all of whom swore to uphold and defend the Constitution--have ever read any of the nation's founding documents.
Monday, August 1, 2016If Voting Made Any Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It The American people are being guilted, bullied, pressured, cajoled, intimidated, terrorized and browbeaten into voting. Nothing in the Constitution requires that you vote. Whether or not you cast your vote in this year's presidential election, you have every right to kvetch, complain and criticize the government when it falls short of your expectations.
Wednesday, September 10, 2014Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State In interactions with the police, if you don't want to get probed, poked, pinched, tasered, tackled, searched, seized, stripped, manhandled, arrested, shot, or killed, don't say, do or even suggest anything that even hints of noncompliance. This is the new "thin blue line" over which you must not cross in interactions with police if you want to walk away with your life and freedoms intact.
Monday, April 17, 2017Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You Daily, all across America, individuals who dare to resist--or even question--a police order are being subjected to all sorts of government-sanctioned abuse ranging from forced catheterization, forced blood draws, roadside strip searches and cavity searches, and other foul and debasing acts that degrade their bodily integrity and leave them bloodied and bruised.
Monday, October 12, 2015How Do You Prepare a Child for Life in the American Police State? In an age dominated with news of school shootings, school lockdowns, anpolice shootings of unarmed citizens (including children), I find myself wrestling with the question: how do you prepare a child for life in the American police state?
Wednesday, March 20, 2019Don't Shoot the Dogs: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs The absurd cruelties of the American police state keep reaching newer heights. Consider that if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you'd murdered someone or abused a child. If a cop kills your dog, however, there will be little to no consequences for that officer. Not even a slap on the wrist.
Thursday, August 29, 2019The American Gulag: Brick by Brick, Our Prison Walls Get More Oppressive by the Day We in the American Police State may enjoy the illusion of freedom, but that is all it is: an elaborate deception, rooted in denial and delusion, that hides the grasping, greedy, power-hungry, megalomaniacal force that lurks beneath the surface. Brick by brick, the prison walls being erected around us by the government and its corporate partners-in-crime grow more oppressive and more pervasive by the 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.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014America's Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business With a growing demand for sexual slavery and an endless supply of girls and women who can be targeted for abduction, this is not a problem that's going away anytime soon.
Tuesday, February 24, 2015Forced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans: What Country Is This? orced cavity searches, forced colonoscopies, forced blood draws, forced breath-alcohol tests, forced DNA extractions, forced eye scans, forced inclusion in biometric databases--these are just a few ways in which Americans are being forced to accept that we have no control over what happens to our bodies during an encounter with government officials.
Tuesday, December 29, 2015What's in Store for Our Freedoms in 2016? More of Everything We Don't Want We in the emerging American police state find ourselves reliving the same set of circumstances over and over again: egregious surveillance, strip searches, police shootings of unarmed citizens, government spying, the criminalization of lawful activities, warmongering, etc. What remains to be seen is whether 2016 will bring more of the same
Tuesday, November 3, 2015The Real Issues You Won't Hear from the 2016 Presidential Candidates This Election Year We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election. Despite the dire state of our nation, however, you can rest assured that none of the problems that continue to undermine our freedoms will be addressed in any credible way by the presidential candidates--certainly not if doing so might jeopardize their standing with the unions, corporations or the moneyed elite bankrolling their campaigns.
Monday, October 26, 2015Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim The zombie narrative plays to our fears and paranoia. Yet while dystopian stories used to reflect our anxieties, now they reflect our reality, mirroring how we as a nation view the world around us, how we as citizens view each other, and most of all how our government views us.
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