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Your freedoms don’t have to be muzzled just because you’re wearing a mask
Despite all appearances to the contrary, martial law has not been declared in America. Continue reading
COVID-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. Continue reading
COVID-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. Continue reading
Draconian lockdown powers: It’s a slippery slope from handwashing to house arrest
We still have choices. Continue reading
Suspending 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. Continue reading
Detect, 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? Continue reading
This is a test: How will the Constitution fare during a nationwide lockdown?
This is a test. Continue reading
Coronavirus vs. the mass surveillance state: Which poses the greater threat?
Emboldened by the citizenry’s inattention and willingness to tolerate its abuses, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expands its powers. Continue reading
We’re all in this together: A case for not giving up on the American Dream
Listen, we don’t have to agree about everything. Continue reading
Compliance 101: Gun-toting cops endanger students and turn the schools into prisons
Just when you thought the government couldn’t get any more tone-deaf about civil liberties and the growing need to protect “we the people” against an overreaching, overbearing police state, the Trump administration ushers in even more strident zero tolerance policies that treat children like suspects and criminals, greater numbers of school cops, and all the trappings of a prison complex (unsurmountable fences, entrapment areas, no windows or trees, etc.). Continue reading
The pornification of America: How young girls are being groomed by sexual predators
What can we do to protect America’s young people from sexual predators? Continue reading
The Super Bowl’s biggest losers: The boys and girls being sold for sex 20 times a day
There can only be one winner emerging from this year’s Super Bowl LIV showdown between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs, but the biggest losers will be the hundreds of young girls and boys—some as young as 9 years old—who will be bought and sold for sex during the course of the big game. Continue reading
Deadly distractions: Laying the groundwork for the next civil war
And so it continues. Continue reading
Red flag nation: Anti-gun laws, sanctuary cities and the Second Amendment
We never learn. Continue reading
Come home, America: Stop policing the globe and put an end to wars-without-end
I agree wholeheartedly with George S. McGovern, a former senator and presidential candidate who served in the Vietnam War, about one thing: I’m sick of old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. Continue reading
Nullify government tyranny: In 2020, harness the power of your discontent
Twenty years into the 21st century, and what do we have to show for it? Continue reading
Sin taxes & other Orwellian methods of compliance that feed the government’s greed
“Taxman,” the only song written by George Harrison to open one of the Beatles’ albums (it featured on the band’s 1966 Revolver album), is a snarling, biting, angry commentary on government greed and how little control “we the taxpayers” have over our lives and our money. Continue reading
Betraying the Constitution: Who will protect us from an unpatriotic Patriot Act?
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Continue reading
Don’t just give thanks, pay your blessings forward
Once again, it’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning kind of year. Continue reading
Impeach the government: Rogue agencies have been abusing their powers for decades
By all means, let’s talk about impeachment. Continue reading
Casualties of war: military veterans have become America’s walking wounded
War drives the American police state. Continue reading
A new kind of tyranny: The global state’s war on those who speak truth to power
All of us are in danger. Continue reading
They live, we sleep: Beware the growing evil in our midst
We’re living in two worlds, you and I. Continue reading
The pathocracy of the Deep State: Tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government
Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” Continue reading
Terrorized, traumatized and killed: The police state’s deadly toll on America’s children
Children learn what they live. Continue reading
John Lennon vs. the Deep State: One man against the ‘monster’
John Lennon, born 79 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. Continue reading
Guns for hire: No, the government shouldn’t be using the military to police the globe
Eventually, all military empires fall and fail by spreading themselves too thin and spending themselves to death. Continue reading
Welfare checks turn deadly: You might want to think twice before calling the cops
Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one. Continue reading
Martial law masquerading as law and order: The police state’s language of force
Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. Continue reading
The Bill of Rights turns 230, and what do we have to show for it? Nothing good
It’s been 230 years since James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights—the first ten amendments to the Constitution—as a means of protecting the people against government tyranny, and what do we have to show for it? Continue reading
The worst is yet to come: Contact tracing, immunity cards and mass testing
Posted on May 15, 2020 by John W. Whitehead
No one is safe. Continue reading →