John Whitehead

Raging Bulls in Blue: The Deadly Toll of Warrior Policing on Steroids
“This is warrior policing on steroids.”—Paul Butler, law professor That the police officers charged with the beating death of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols are Black is a distraction. Don’t be distracted. This latest instance of police brutality is not about racism…

Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case That Could Give the Government a Green Light to Chill Political Speech on Social Media
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging part of Colorado’s stalking law to determine what constitutes a true threat. The Court’s decision could affect whether such a law could be used…

Evil Walks Among Us: Child Trafficking Has Become Big Business in America
“Children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day.”—John Ryan, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children It takes a special kind of evil to prostitute and traffick a child for sex, and yet this…

How Police & Teaming Up With Corporate Fascists To Spy On You
“We live in a surveillance state founded on a partnership between government and the technology industry.”— Law Professor Avidan Y. Cover In this age of ubiquitous surveillance, there are no private lives: everything is public. Surveillance cameras mounted…

Don’t Trust The Government With Your Privacy, Property Or Your Freedoms
How do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the people” are being bullied, beaten, bamboozled, targeted, tracked, repressed, robbed, impoverished, imprisoned and…
What To Expect From The Government In 2023? More Of The Same
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher For those wondering what to expect from the government in 2023, it looks like…

2022’s Danger Signs: From Totalitarian Paranoia to Authoritarian Madness
The danger signs were everywhere in 2022. With every new law enacted by federal and state legislatures, every new ruling handed down by government courts, and every new military weapon, invasive tactic and egregious protocol employed by government…








