By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “I tell you, freedom and human rights in America are doomed. The U.S. government will lead the American people in, and the West in general, into an unbearable hell and a choking life.”, Osama bin Laden (October 2001), as reported by CNN What
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It’s time to bring all our troops home. Bring them home from Somalia, Iraq and Syria. Bring them home from Germany, South Korea, and Japan. Bring them home from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Oman. Bring them home from Niger, Chad, and Mali. Bring
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Once upon a time in the United States, parents breathed a sigh of relief when their kids went back to school after a Summer’s hiatus, content in the knowledge that for a good portion of the day their kids would be gainfully occupied,
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The government has a history of shamelessly exploiting national emergencies for its own nefarious purposes. Terrorist attacks, mass shootings, civil unrest, economic instability, pandemics, natural disasters: The government has been taking advantage of such crises for years in order to gain greater power
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a convenient, traumatic, devastating, distraction. The American people, the permanent underclass in the United States, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Imagine it: A national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status, but allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: By gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status. It is the
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead It is time to recalibrate the government. For years, we have suffered the injustices, cruelties, corruption and abuse of an entrenched government bureaucracy that has no regard for the Constitution or the rights of the citizenry. By “government,” I’m not referring to the
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead History has a funny way of circling back on itself. The facts, figures, faces, and technology, may change from era to era, but the dangers remain the same. This year is no different, whatever the politicians and talking heads may say to the
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead A federal COVID-19 vaccination strike force soon may be knocking on your door, especially if you live in a community with low vaccination rates. Will you let them in? More to the point, are you required to open the door? The Joe Biden
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” —The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution You can largely determine where a person will fall
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” — George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: The fiction of George Orwell (June 25, 1903-January. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day, surveillance
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead If there is an absolute maxim by which the American government seems to operate, it is that the taxpayer always gets ripped off. Not only are Americans forced to spend more on state, municipal, and federal taxes than the annual financial burdens of
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Almost every tyranny being perpetrated by the U.S. government against the citizenry, purportedly to keep us safe and the nation secure, has come about as a result of some threat manufactured in one way or another by our own government. Think about it.
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “When you upload your DNA, you’re potentially becoming a genetic informant on the rest of your family.” — Law professor Elizabeth Joh Guilt by association has taken on new connotations in the technological age. All of those fascinating, genealogical, searches that allow you
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead We’re being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies, and techno-warriors. This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend. Beware of what you say,
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead If you’re nervous about traffic stops, you have every reason to be nervous. Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: Most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” -James Bamford It never fails. Just as we get a glimmer of hope that maybe, just maybe, there might be a chance of crawling out of this totalitarian cesspool in which we’ve
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead With all that is crashing down upon us, from government-manipulated crises to the blowback arising from a society that has repeatedly prized technological expedience and mass-marketed values over self-ownership and individual sovereignty, those coming of age today are facing some of the greatest
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has become a monster. It is not a new development, nor is it a revelation. It is a government that in recent decades has unleashed untold horrors upon the world, including its own citizenry,
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead “If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton, or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m
