Author Archives: John W. Whitehead

Is the U.S. government the enemy of the people?

America’s lost liberties post-9/11

Take heed, America. Continue reading

The American Gulag: Brick by brick, our prison walls get more oppressive by the day

This is how freedom dies. Continue reading

American apocalypse: The government’s plot to destabilize the nation is working

The U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation. Continue reading

Who inflicts the most gun violence in America? The U.S. government and its police forces

Yes, gun violence is a problem in America, although violent crime generally remains at an all-time low. Continue reading

We’re all enemies of the state: Draconian laws, pre-crime & the surveillance state

We’ve been down this road many times before. Continue reading

The rise of the American Gestapo: Has it already happened here?

Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich. Continue reading

Monsters with human faces: The tyranny of the police state disguised as law-and-order

Enough already. Continue reading

It’s un-American to be anti-free speech

Unjust. Brutal. Criminal. Corrupt. Inept. Greedy. Power-hungry. Racist. Immoral. Murderous. Evil. Dishonest. Crooked. Excessive. Deceitful. Untrustworthy. Unreliable. Tyrannical. Continue reading

The heart of darkness: The sexual predators within America’s power elite

Power corrupts. Continue reading

It’s time to declare your independence from tyranny, America

It’s time to declare your independence from tyranny, America. Continue reading

How evil wins: The hypocritical double standards of political outrage

Please spare me the media hysterics and the outrage and the hypocritical double standards of those whose moral conscience appears to be largely dictated by their political loyalties. Continue reading

The jackboots are coming: Mass arrests, power grabs and the politics of fear

How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none? Continue reading

The omnipresent surveillance state: Orwell’s ‘1984’ is no longer fiction

Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. Continue reading

You’re under arrest: How the police state muzzles our right to speak truth to power

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

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