“Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead’s terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids. The insidious shift was so subtle that most of us had no idea it was happening. This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A Government of Wolves, is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!—the police state has arrived.”
John Whitehead at the Rutherford Institute has incredible yet true observations about the state of our society. If you don’t read this book at least check out his weekly editorials. Mr Whitehead is spot on. I was reminded of this a few weeks back when I was treated like a Jew in Auschwitz by a Seymour MO cop. I now carry a camera or two on me at all times, as I doubt that this thug would have acted the way he did if I had filmed it. I suggest that you do the same and always have a camera ready to roll. As things now stand I have to make an appearance in the local star chamber. They were not abolished, that is what our Missouri “courts” have become, and it should terrify you as it does me, as I will not be able to film there, for my protection. ~MFP
Battlefield America: The War On The American People
