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:
If you don't like the way justice is being meted out in America, then start demanding justice in your own hometown, before your local judges
Gaming Spectacles Designed to Keep the Police State in Power
February 2, 2016
Television, Football and Politics
We allowed our so-called representatives to distance themselves from us, so much so that we are prohibited from approaching them in public, all the while they enjoy intimate relationships with those who can pay for access
The State of the Nation: A Dictatorship Without Tears
January 11, 2016
There are too many Americans who are reasonably content with the status quo and too few Americans willing to tolerate the discomfort of a smaller, more manageable government and a way of life
What we're grappling with is a double standard in what the government metes out to the citizenry, and how the citizenry is supposed to treat the government.
"We the people"--the citizenry, not the politicians--are the only ones who have ever been able to enact effective change, and there is a lot that needs to change.
Turn off the news, settle down with your loved ones, and turn on a Christmas movie that reinforces your faith in humanity
We are at a critical crossroads in American history, and we have a choice: freedom or fascism.
To France from a Post-9/11 America: Lessons We Learned Too Late
November 23, 2015
To sum things up, the destruction that began with the 9/11 terror attacks has expanded into an all-out campaign of terror, trauma, acclimation and indoctrination aimed at getting Americans used to life in the American Police State
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
November 10, 2015
Hidden face of the police state: entrenched bureaucracy is unaffected by elections, unaltered by populist movements, and beyond the reach of the law
Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim
October 26, 2015
Surveillance. Military drills. Awareness training. Militarized police forces. Martial law.
If there is to be any hope of freeing ourselves, it rests--as it always has--at the local level, with you and your fellow citizens taking part in grassroots activism
Remove the metal detectors and surveillance cameras, re-assign the cops elsewhere, and start treating our nation's young people like citizens of a republic and not inmates in a police state.
Fiction, in essence, has become fact--albeit, a rather frightening one
If we end up with a militarized police state, it will largely be because we welcomed it with open arms
Public School Students Are the New Inmates in the American Police State
September 14, 2015
John Paul Jones, one of the city's most dangerous schools, was a perfect example of the school-to-prison, police state apparatus at work among the nation's youngest and most impressionable citizens
Our individual freedoms have been eviscerated so that the government's powers could be expanded, while reducing us to a system of slavery disguised as a democracy.
The Raping of America: Mile Markers on the Road to Fascism
August 24, 2015
If there is any hope to be found it will be found in local, grassroots activism. In the words of Martin Luther King Jr., it's time for "militant nonviolent resistance."
We Are the Government: Tactics for Taking Down the Police State
August 18, 2015
If you're to have any hope of remaining free--and I use that word loosely--your best bet remains in your fellow citizens.
Clearly, the language of freedom is no longer the common tongue spoken by the citizenry and their government.
America no longer operates under a system of justice characterized by due process, an assumption of innocence, probable cause, and clear prohibitions on government overreach and police abuse
Here is an A-to-Z, back-to-the-basics primer of what life in the United States of America is really all about.
Suddenly, the overall picture seems that much more sinister. Clearly, there's a larger agenda at work here, and it's one the American people had better clue into before it's too late to do anything about it.
Stay Alert. Take the warning signs seriously. And take action because the paths to destruction are well disguised by those in control.
The government's unauthorized and unwarranted surveillance powers go far beyond anything thus far debated by Congress or the courts.
The new face of policing in America.
Militarization Is More Than Tanks and Rifles
May 19, 2015
It’s a Cultural Disease, Acclimating the Citizenry to Life in a Police State
With the Constitution under constant attack, the military's power, influence and authority have grown dramatically
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
April 20, 2015
If you haven't managed to read the writing on the wall yet, the war has begun.
This resistance to arrant tyranny first became part of our heritage when Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty formed the original Committees of Correspondence