by John & Nisha Whitehead
"There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear
The American police state has become America’s new crime boss.
Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent ...
by John & Nisha Whitehead
"He sees you when you’re sleeping
He knows when you’re awake
He knows when you’ve been bad or good
So be good for goodness’ sake!”
—“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town”
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: ...
by John & Nisha 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
It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the ...
by John & Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute—Commentary
“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 towards a pervasive authoritarianism.
The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have ...
by John & Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute—Commentary
“Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference … The Thought Police would get him just the same … the arrests invariably happened at night … In the vast majority of cases there ...
by John & Nisha Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute—Commentary
“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 extremist if you’ve:
a) purchased a Bible or other religious materials,
b) used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump,” ...
by John & Nisha Whitehead
This essay originally appeared in Rutherford on November 29, 2023.
“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 in Osborn v. United States ...
by 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 the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a ...
By John & Nisha Whitehead
September 19, 2023
“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 were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary ...
By John & Nisha Whitehead
August 21, 2023
“Make no mistake about it … your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would ...
