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John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead's aggressive, pioneering approach to civil liberties has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom. His concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization in Charlottesville, Va. Whitehead serves as the Institute's president and spokesperson. His thought-provoking commentaries call people to action and address a wide range of contemporary issues from faith to politics and television to constitutional rights. He is also a frequent commentator on a variety of issues in the national media, as well as the editor of the award-winning pop culture magazine, Gadfly. Whitehead's book A Government of Wolves will be published in June 2013. Please visit On Target to view Whitehead's weekly video commentaries. He also blogs daily about the emerging police state at http://agovernmentofwolves.com/
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, September 16, 2022 All the ways in which our rights have been usurped
"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
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 3, 2022 America - Meet Your New Dictator-in-Chief
Power-hungry and lawless, the government has weaponized one national crisis after another in order to expand it's powers and justify all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security.
(23 comments) SHARE Friday, September 3, 2021 Bring All The Troops Home: Stop Policing the Globe and Put An End to Endless Wars
The government is destabilizing the economy, destroying the national infrastructure through neglect and a lack of resources and turning taxpayer dollars into blood money with its endless wars, drone strikes, and mounting death tolls.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 3, 2021 A New State of Segregation: Vaccine Cards Are Just the Beginning
In this age of COVID-19 that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government's power to lock down communities at a moment's notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power "we the people" have been on the losing end of the deal.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 7, 2021 Make Way for the Snitch State
We're being spied on by a domestic army of government snitches, spies and techno-warriors. This government of Peeping Toms is watching everything we do, reading everything we write, listening to everything we say, and monitoring everything we spend.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 24, 2021 Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Blank-Check Traffic Stops
If you're nervous about traffic stops, you have every reason to be. For better or worse, from the moment you're pulled over, you're at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to "serve and protect."
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 13, 2021 The Age of Fear: A Graduation Message for Terrifying Times
With all that is crashing down upon us, from government-manipulated crises to the blowback arising from a society that has repeatedly prized technological expedience and mass-marketed values over self-ownership and individual sovereignty, those coming of age today are facing some of the greatest threats to freedom the world has ever witnessed.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, April 30, 2021 The Global Deep State: A new world order brought to you by COVID-19
For good or bad COVID-19 has changed the way we navigate the world. It is also redrawing the boundaries of our world and our freedoms and altering the playing field faster than we can keep up.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, April 21, 2021 Comply or Die: The Only Truly Compliant Person in a Police State Is a Dead One
At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people have been shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or holding something-anything-that police could misinterpret to be a gun, or igniting some trigger-centric fear in a police officer's mind that has nothing to do with an actual threat to their safety, even the most benign encounters with police can have fatal consequences.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 30, 2021 Stand Up to Tyranny: How to Respond to the Evils of Our Age
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state and never its tool.
(19 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 24, 2021 After a Year Under Lockdown, Will Our Freedoms Survive the Tyranny of COVID-19?
What started out a year ago as an apparent effort to prevent a novel coronavirus from sickening the nation (and the world) has become yet another means by which world governments (including our own) can expand their powers, abuse their authority, and further oppress their constituents.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 16, 2021 Digital Trails: How the FBI Is Identifying, Tracking and Rounding Up Dissidents
With every new smart piece of smart technology we acquire, every new app we download, every new photo or post we share online, we are making it that much easier for the government and its corporate partners to identify, track and eventually round us up.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Home Invasions: All the Ways the Government Can Lay Siege to Your Property
Americans are not safe in their homes. Not anymore. This present menace comes from the government and its army of bureaucratized, corporatized, militarized mercenaries who are waging war on the last stronghold left to us as a free people: the sanctity of our homes.
SHARE Tuesday, February 23, 2021 Machinery of Death: When the Government Acts as Judge, Jury and Executioner
The government should not be in the business of killing its citizens. Nevertheless, the U.S. government continues to act as judge, jury and executioner over a populace that have been pre-judged and found guilty, stripped of their rights, and left to suffer at the hands of government agents trained to respond with the utmost degree of violence.