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		<title>Empire at 250: Can the Principles of 1776 Survive the American Police State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.” James Madison This is a year of strange anniversaries. Two hundred and fifty years ago, a band of revolutionaries declared their independence from a king. America’s founders rejected concentrated power. They denounced standing armies. They distrusted government secrecy. They risked their lives to escape a ruler &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” Thomas Paine They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said it was for the good of the nation. They always say it’s for something good… until it isn’t. Nearly a quarter-century after 9/11, we are still &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the Presidency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John &#038; Nisha Whitehead “He says, ‘You’re not going to be a dictator, are you?’ I said: ‘No, no, no, other than day one. We’re closing the border, and we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that, I’m not a dictator.’” Donald Trump to Sean Hannity on being asked if he would abuse power after being re-elected Once &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Postcards from a Police State: 22 Years of Patriot Act Blowback</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Oct 2023 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John &#38; Nisha Whitehead &#8220;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 are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.&#8221; Hermann Goering For &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.” Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Next Crisis Is Anyone’s Guess, But the Government Is Ready to Lockdown the Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John &#038; 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 hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” HL Mencken First came 9/11, which the government used to transform itself into a police state. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit, &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>How do we Reach the Brainwashed?</title>
		<link>https://off-guardian.org/2023/09/10/how-do-we-reach-the-brainwashed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 10:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[VN Alexander You may recall that, during the thick of it in 2020-2021, Covidians were immune—no, that’s not the right metaphor—they were allergic to facts. They did not respond well even to the common sense statement that, since the C0Vld-19 shots hadn’t been through long-term trials, it might be unwise to take one. Like terrorized lab animals &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Rule by Decree: The Emergency State’s Plot to Override the Constitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jun 2023 17:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 nation in a permanent state of emergency. Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand its powers and &#8230;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dictator-in-Chief: The President’s Secret, Unchecked Powers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[John &#038; Nisha Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness have given way to permanent crisis management: to policing the planet and fighting preventative wars of ideological containment, usually on terrain chosen by, and favorable to, our enemies. Limited government and constitutional accountability have been shouldered aside by the kind &#8230;]]></description>
		
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