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:

The Wolf Is Guarding the Hen House: The Government’s War on Cyberterrorism March 17, 2015
How DNA Is Turning Us Into a Nation of Suspects March 9, 2015
For those who know their history, the probability of our government acting in a way that is not only illegal but immoral becomes less a question of "if" and more a question of "when."
Forced Blood Draws, DNA Collection and Biometric Scans: What Country Is This? February 24, 2015
Once again, technology has outdistanced both our understanding of it and our ability to adequately manage the consequences of unleashing it on an unsuspecting populace
Creepy, Calculating and Controlling: All the Ways Big Brother Is Watching You February 16, 2015
How do you survive in the American police state?
Why I’m Not Breaking Up with America This Valentine’s Day February 9, 2015
Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun!
Handcuffs, Leg Shackles and Tasers: The New Face of Punishment in the Public Schools January 26, 2015
If we do not rein in the police state's influence in the schools, the future to which we are sending our children will be characterized by a brutal, totalitarian regime.
Welcome to the Matrix: Enslaved by Technology and the Internet of Things January 7, 2015
Make no mistake: the Internet of Things is just Big Brother in a more appealing disguise.
The Christmas Hope: A To-Do List for a Better World December 22, 2014
My adult Christmas wish list.
The Game Is Rigged: Why Americans Keep Losing to the Police State December 9, 2014
It’s time to change the rules of the game. For that matter, it’s time to change the game.
America’s Children: The Trials of Growing Up in a Police State December 3, 2014
It’s getting harder by the day to tell young people that we live in a nation that values freedom and which is governed by the rule of law without feeling like a teller of tall tales
Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age? November 17, 2014
If free speech is not vigilantly protected, democracy is more likely to drift toward fear, repression, and violence. In such a scenario, we will find ourselves threatened with an even more pernicious injury than violence itself: the loss of liberty
The Devil’s Bargain: The Illusion of a Trouble-Free Existence in the American Police State November 10, 2014
It's time for a bracing dose of reality, America. Wake up and take a good, hard look around you
The FBI: America’s Secret Police November 4, 2014
When and if a true history of the FBI is ever written, it will not only track the rise of the American police state but it will also chart the decline of freedom in America
Zombies Are Us: The Walking Dead in the American Police State October 28, 2014
Whether the threat to national security comes in the form of actual terrorists, imaginary zombies or disgruntled American citizens infected with dangerous ideas about freedom, the government’s response to such threats remains the same
Hollow Justice and Courts of Order in an Age of Government-Sanctioned Tyranny October 21, 2014
The need for a guardian of the people’s rights has never been greater.
Shielded from Justice: The High Cost of Living in a Police State October 14, 2014
The next time you hear of a police shooting in your town of an unarmed citizen, don't just shrug helplessly and turn the page or switch the channel
Should We Just Follow Orders? Rules of Engagement for Resisting the Police State October 7, 2014
Outright tyranny, the loss of our freedoms, and a totalitarian regime the likes of which the world has never seen before.
America’s Dirty Little Secret: Sex Trafficking Is Big Business September 29, 2014
You don’t hear much about domestic sex trafficking from the media or government officials, and yet it infects suburbs, cities and towns across the nation
Turning Americans into Snitches for the Police State September 22, 2014
‘See Something, Say Something’ and Community Policing
An Unbearable and Choking Hell: The Loss of Our Freedoms in the Wake of 9/11 September 15, 2014
Consider the state of our freedoms, and judge for yourself whether this Constitution Day should be a day of mourning, celebration or a robust call to action
Resistance is Futile: The Violent Cost of Challenging the American Police State September 9, 2014
This is a battlefield, a war zone—if you will—governed by martial law and disguised as a democracy
The American Delusion: Distracted, Diverted and Insulated from the Grim Reality of the Police State September 3, 2014
The regularly scheduled trivia and/or distractions that have kept us tuned into the various breaking news headlines and entertainment spectacles and tuned out to the government’s steady encroachments on our freedoms
The Final Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools August 26, 2014
American school children are indeed powerless. And they will remain helpless, powerless and in bondage to the police state unless "we the people" take the steps to set them free.
Turning America Into a War Zone, Where ‘We the People’ Are the Enemy August 20, 2014
In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do
From Boston to Ferguson: Have We Reached a Tipping Point in the Police State? August 14, 2014
This is what happens when you fail to take alarm at the first experiment on your liberties.
The Tyranny of the Nanny State, Where the Government Knows What’s Best for You August 11, 2014
Criminalization of parenthood
We’re All Criminals and Outlaws in the Eyes of the American Police State August 4, 2014
Fascism, American style
The Absurd, Bureaucratic Hell That Is the American Police State July 28, 2014
Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear
The Stealing of America by the Cops, the Courts, the Corporations and Congress July 21, 2014
The American police state is a multi-billion dollar boondoggle, meant to keep the property and the resources of the American people flowing into corrupt government agencies and their corporate partners
What I Don’t Like About Life in the American Police State July 14, 2014
A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State