Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Continue reading
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Technotyranny: The iron-fisted authoritarianism of the surveillance state
Red pill or blue pill? You decide. Continue reading
How to survive the journey ahead: A graduation message for a terrifying age
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. Continue reading
Drivers beware: The deadly perils of traffic stops in the American police state
We’ve all been there before. Continue reading
D Is for a dictatorship disguised as a democracy
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Continue reading
Predator cops, guilty of sex crimes against women and children, are a menace to society
How could this be happening right under our noses? Continue reading
The essence of evil: Sex with children has become big business in America
Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. Continue reading
From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: when dissidents become enemies of the state
When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. Continue reading
Financial tyranny: America has become a pay-to-play exercise in fascism
We’re not living the American Dream. We’re in the grip of a financial nightmare. Continue reading
American idiocracy: 50 years later, we’re still stranded in the Twilight Zone
Have you noticed how much life increasingly feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone? Continue reading
The making of a monster: We’re all lab rats in the government’s secret experiments
The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. Continue reading
Don’t shoot the dogs: The growing epidemic of cops shooting family dogs
The absurd cruelties of the American police state keep reaching newer heights. Continue reading
Pity the Nation: War spending is bankrupting America
War spending is bankrupting America. Continue reading
Forced blood draws & implied consent laws make a mockery of the Fourth Amendment
You think you’ve got rights? Think again. Continue reading
The age of tyrannical surveillance: We’re being branded, bought and sold for our data
Uncle Sam wants you. Continue reading
Rule by fiat: national crises, Fake emergencies and other dangerous presidential powers
Who pays the price for the dissolution of the constitutional covenant that holds the government and its agents accountable to the will of the people? Continue reading
I’m not breaking up with America this Valentine’s Day and neither should you
Life in America has become a gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence. Continue reading
The State of the Union: These are dangerous times and the government is to blame
These are dangerous times. Continue reading
The day the music died: Remembering Buddy Holly (1936-1959)
The snow was heavy on that night 60 years ago. Continue reading
Jackboots in the morning: No one is spared from this American night
The American Police State does not discriminate. Continue reading
Uncle Sam wants your DNA: The FBI’s diabolical plan to create a nation of suspects
Uncle Sam wants you. Continue reading
The danger within: Border Patrol Is turning America Into a Constitution-free zone
How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders against illegal aliens? Continue reading
Beware the emergency state: Imperial, unaccountable and unconstitutional
It’s all happening according to schedule. Continue reading
Government shutdown or not, the police state will continue to flourish
The government has shut down again. Continue reading
A crisis in the making: Know your rights or you will lose them
We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. Continue reading
To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become another trigger word
To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become yet another trigger word. Continue reading
Yes, you have the right to talk back to the government, but it could get you killed
What the architects of the police state want are submissive, compliant, cooperative, obedient, meek citizens who don’t talk back, don’t challenge government authority, don’t speak out against government misconduct, and don’t step out of line. Continue reading
This Thanksgiving, don’t just give thanks, pay your blessings forward
Listen: I know it’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning kind of year. Continue reading
Red flag gun laws: Yet another government weapon for compliance and control
We never learn. Continue reading
A badge of shame: The government’s war on America’s military veterans
Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. Continue reading
You’re under arrest: How the police state muzzles our right to speak truth to power
Posted on June 7, 2019 by John W. Whitehead
What the First Amendment protects—and a healthy constitutional republic requires—are citizens who routinely exercise their right to speak truth to power. Continue reading →