John W. Whitehead

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book The Freedom Wars (TRI Press) is available online at amazon.com. The Rutherford Institute is available at rutherford.org

Most Recent Articles by John W. Whitehead:

Welcome to the American Gulag September 12, 2012
Using Involuntary Commitment Laws to Silence Dissenters
Minority Report: Fiction Has Become Reality September 4, 2012
RFID chips, UAVs, cybugs,
How the Thought Police Use Your Cell Phone to Track Your Every Move August 22, 2012
The Corporate Surveillance State:
Violence Begets Violence: Making Sense of the Dark Knight Massacre July 23, 2012
Enacting tighter gun policies and increasing police surveillance and patrols will accomplish little more than propelling us the final step of the way into a police state.
The Selling of the Presidency: Politics in the Age of Television July 16, 2012
Televised politics is deceptive, corrupt and manipulative
Everyday People and the American Revolution June 30, 2012
The Stamp Act, no taxation without representation, Townshend Acts, Quartering Act
Arrested Development: The Criminalization of America’s Schoolchildren May 7, 2012
America’s classrooms are becoming little more than breeding grounds for compliant citizens of the police state.
Strip-Searching America: Florence v. County of Burlington April 4, 2012
State-sponsored humiliation and visual rape
Everybody’s a Target in the American Surveillance State March 26, 2012
There's a storm brewing
Making Sense of School Shootings February 28, 2012
There are no easy explanations—such as mental illness, drugs or video games—for their actions.
Dawn of the Drones: The Realization of the Total Surveillance State February 13, 2012
Electronic concentration camp which is slowly enveloping our society
U.S. v. Jones: The Battle for the Fourth Amendment Continues January 23, 2012
Iris Scanners, Facial-recognition software, Wi-Fi Data, Radio Frequency Identifications, Smart dust devices, Surveillance cameras, Drones, GPS Devices
Tanks on Main Street: The Militarization of Local Police January 3, 2012
The government—local law enforcement now being extensions of the federal government—has trained its sights on the American people
Bill of Rights Day: Are Our Freedoms in Jeopardy? December 15, 2011
Freedoms enshrined in those first ten amendments are in dire jeopardy
The Stop Online Piracy Act: Yet Another Stealth Maneuver to Control the Internet December 12, 2011
Even if this legislation is stalled, however, the government will find others to achieve its ultimate goal: total control—of the nation, of the internet, and ultimately of you and me
The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People October 19, 2011
Botched SWAT team raids have resulted in the loss of countless lives, including children and the elderly
Identity Ecosystem: Big Brother Logs On September 27, 2011
President Obama’s Cybersecurity Czar, another thinly disguised attempt to monitor, regulate and control the internet
Television News: Are We Amusing Ourselves to Death? August 2, 2011
Real news of national significance is either under-reported or unreported altogether while contrived media spectacles are allowed to dominate the news headlines for weeks
The Plight of Marco Sauceda and the Loss of Our Freedoms July 27, 2011
Third and Fourth Amendments
Fulfilling Orwell’s Prophecy: 15 Futuristic Films You Should See July 18, 2011
Let us hope this is not an epitaph for our times
VIPR Searches and the American Citizen: ‘Dominate. Intimidate. Control.’ July 8, 2011
Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response