How the US Government Buys and Sells Its Citizens for Profit and Power
John Whitehead Americans have become easy prey for hackers, scammers, snitches, spies, and con artists. But don’t be fooled into thinking the government is protecting you. To the contrary,...
Stop Drinking the Political Kool-Aid, America: Voting Will Not Save Us
John Whitehead “We’ve got to face it. Politics have entered a new stage, the television stage. Instead of long-winded public debates, the people want capsule slogans—‘Time for a change’—‘The...
Authoritarians Drunk on Power: It’s Time to Recalibrate the Government
John Whitehead “There is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think...
Evil Walks Among Us: Monsters with Human Faces Wreak Havoc on Our Freedoms
John Whitehead “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters...
Postcards from a Police State: 22 Years of Patriot Act Blowback
John & Nisha Whitehead “Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. All you have to do is tell them they...
Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives
John Whitehead “Man is born free but everywhere is in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be...
A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other
John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who...
Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11
John whitehead “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”...
9/11: Twenty-Two Years On
Today marks twenty-two years since the towers – all three of them – fell in New York. The 9/11 attacks are a subject OffG has always rated as vitally...
The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation
John & Nisha Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of...
How the Government Weaponizes Surveillance to Silence Its Critics
John & Nisha Whitehead “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...
From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On
John Whitehead “When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball, it’s a free-for-all. There are no rules. Anything goes. That’s because there’s...
Indoctrination, Intimidation & Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today
John whitehead “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of...
Technocensorship: The Government’s War on So-Called Dangerous Ideas
John Whitehead “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.” Ray Bradbury What we are...
Mental Health Round-Ups: The Next Phase of the Government’s War on Thought Crimes
John & Nisha Whitehead “There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is a dangerous activity.” Hannah Arendt Get ready for the next phase of the government’s war on thought crimes:...
We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program
John & Nisha Whitehead “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” James Bamford, journalist We’re all being targeted now. We’re all guilty until proven innocent...
America Is a Military Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
John Whitehead “What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” Thomas Jefferson The...
FBI Entrapment Schemes: Creating Criminals in Order to Arrest Them
John & Nisha Whitehead “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” Friedrich Nietzsche We’re not dealing with a government...
Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution
John whitehead “Rule by indefinite emergency edict risks leaving all of us with a shell of a democracy and civil liberties just as hollow.”Justice Neil Gorsuch We have become a...
Conspirators for the Constitution: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes “Sedition”
John & Nisha Whitehead “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” attributed to George Orwell Let’s be clear about one thing: seditious conspiracy isn’t a real...
