“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or...
“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” Justice...
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted....
“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights...
“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us...
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” Simone Weil, French philosopher We are...
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a...
“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer...
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social,...
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and...
“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth<.” Martin Luther King Jr When exposing a crime is...
John & Nisha Whitehead “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of...
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces...
John & Nisha Whitehead “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was...
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly...
John & Nisha Whitehead “The remedy is worse than the disease.” Francis Bacon The government never cedes power willingly. Neither should we. If the COVID-19 debacle taught us one...
John & Nisha Whitehead “The madmen are in power.” Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that...
John & Nisha Whitehead Big Brother is Watching You.” George Orwell, 1984 2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of...
John & Nisha Whitehead “We’re all potential victims.” Peter Christ, retired police officer Sometimes ten seconds is all the warning you get. Sometimes you don’t get a warning before...
John & Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.” Hunter S. Thompson According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government...