“Whenever any American’s life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or...
“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...
“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....
“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...
“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...
“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 “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...
John & Nisha Whitehead “No president from either party should have the sole power to shut down or take control of the internet or any other of our communication channels during...
John & Nisha Whitehead “When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal.” Richard Nixon Many years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the...
John & Nisha Whitehead Figure One: Just stop a few of their machines and radios and telephones and lawn mowers…throw them into darkness for a few hours and then...
John & 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 are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” William O. Douglas, dissenting...
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,...
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...