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One year later, is Trump a blessing or a curse to the Deep State?
Here’s the question I pose to you: has Donald Trump been a blessing or a curse to the architects of the American police state? Continue reading
Don’t call the cops if you’re autistic, deaf, mentally ill, disabled or old
Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the end of a loaded gun: don’t talk back to police officers, don’t even think about defending yourself against a SWAT team raid (of which there are 80,000 every year), don’t run when a cop is nearby lest you be mistaken for a fleeing criminal, don’t carry a cane lest it be mistaken for a gun, don’t expect privacy in public, don’t let your kids walk to the playground alone, don’t engage in nonviolent protest near where a government official might pass, don’t try to grow vegetables in your front yard, don’t play music for tips in a metro station, don’t feed whales, and on and on. Continue reading
This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls: The experiment in freedom is failing
It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that have dominated the news headlines for the past year, but don’t be distracted. Continue reading
Power corrupts: A culture of compliance breeds despots and predators
Power corrupts. Continue reading
Mass shootings: The military-entertainment complex’s culture of violence turns deadly
This latest mass shooting in Las Vegas that left more than 50 people dead and more than 500 injured is as obscure as they come: a 64-year-old retiree with no apparent criminal history, no military training, and no obvious axe to grind opens fire on a country music concert crowd from a hotel room 32 floors up using a semi-automatic gun that may have been rigged to fire up to 700 rounds a minute, then kills himself. Continue reading
Freedom is a myth: We are all prisoners of the police state’s panopticon village
First broadcast in Great Britain 50 years ago, The Prisoner—a dystopian television series described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant today: the rise of a police state, the freedom of the individual, round-the-clock surveillance, the corruption of government, totalitarianism, weaponization, group think, mass marketing, and the tendency of humankind to meekly accept their lot in life as a prisoner in a prison of their own making. Continue reading
What country is this? Forced blood draws, cavity searches and colonoscopies
Our freedoms—especially the Fourth Amendment—are being choked out by a prevailing view among government bureaucrats that they have the right to search, seize, strip, scan, shoot, spy on, probe, pat down, Taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation. Continue reading
Battlefield America is the new normal: We’re not in Mayberry anymore
America, you’ve been fooled again. Continue reading
Anything goes when you’re a cop in America
President Trump needs to be reminded that no one is above the law, especially the police. Continue reading
Policing for profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s thinly veiled plot to rob us blind
Let’s not mince words. Continue reading
Zombies R Us: ‘We the people’ are the walking dead of the American police state
RIP George Romero (1940–2017). Continue reading
Tear gas, guns and riot squads: The police state’s answer to free speech is brute force
Forget everything you’ve ever been taught about free speech in America. Continue reading
You want a picture of the future? Imagine a boot stamping on your face
We have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Continue reading
The age of no privacy: The surveillance state shifts into high gear
The government has become an expert in finding ways to sidestep what it considers “inconvenient laws” aimed at ensuring accountability and thereby bringing about government transparency and protecting citizen privacy. Continue reading
Execution by firing squad: The militarized police state opens fire
Legally owning a gun in America could get you killed by a government agent. Continue reading
Lynching free speech: The intolerant state of America
My hometown of Charlottesville, Va., has become the latest poster child in a heated war of words—and actions—over racism, “sanitizing history,” extremism (both right and left), political correctness, hate speech, partisan politics, and a growing fear that violent words will end in violent actions. Continue reading
Twilight of the courts: The elusive search for justice in the American police state
We have entered a new regime and it’s called the American police state. Continue reading
The lessons of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ 50 years later: Stop fighting one another and focus on the real enemy
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Continue reading
The republic has fallen: The Deep State’s plot to take over America has succeeded
No doubt about it. Continue reading
America’s reign of terror: A nation reaps what it sows
Who designed the malware worm that is now wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of computers internationally by hackers demanding a king’s ransom? The U.S. government. Continue reading
You are the true guardians of the galaxy: A graduation message for a tyrannical age
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. Continue reading
Big Brother is still watching you: Don’t fall for the NSA’s latest ploy
Supposedly the National Security Administration is going to stop collecting certain Internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target. Continue reading
The iron jaws of the police state: Trump’s America is a Constitution-free zone
Please. Continue reading
Run 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. Continue reading
Beware the dogs of war: Is the American empire on the verge of collapse?
Waging endless wars abroad (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and now Syria) isn’t making America—or the rest of the world—any safer, it’s certainly not making America great again, and it’s undeniably digging the U.S. deeper into debt. Continue reading
When government evil triumphs, freedom falls
It is often said that if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Continue reading
Death at your door: Knock-and-talk police tactics rip a hole in the US Constitution
It’s 1:30 a.m., a time when most people are asleep. Continue reading
Stealing from the citizenry: How government goons use civil asset forfeiture to rob us blind
In jolly old England, Robin Hood stole from the rich to give to the poor. Continue reading
Rule by thieves: One week in the life of the American kleptocracy
The American kleptocracy (a government ruled by thieves) continues to suck the American people down a rabbit hole into a parallel universe in which the Constitution is meaningless, the government is all-powerful, and the citizenry is powerless to defend itself against government agents who steal, spy, lie, plunder, kill, abuse and generally inflict mayhem and sow madness on everyone and everything in their sphere. Continue reading
Financial tyranny: ‘We the people’ are the new permanent underclass in America
Posted on November 17, 2017 by John W. Whitehead
Americans can no longer afford to get sick and there’s a reason why. Continue reading →