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:
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."
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
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!
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.
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
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
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
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
This is a battlefield, a war zone—if you will—governed by martial law and disguised as a democracy
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
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.
In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do
This is what happens when you fail to take alarm at the first experiment on your liberties.
Criminalization of parenthood
Fascism, American style
Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear
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
A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State