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Battlefield America: The War On The American People Hardcover – April 14, 2015

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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.

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April 14, 2015
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1590793099
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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 concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, Whitehead’s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom and the 2010 Milner S. Ball Lifetime Achievement Award for “[his] decades of difficult and important work, as well as [his] impeccable integrity in defending civil liberties for all.” As nationally syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff observed about Whitehead: “John Whitehead is not only one of the nation’s most consistent and persistent civil libertarians. He is also a remarkably perceptive illustrator of our popular culture, its insights and dangers. I often believe that John Whitehead is channeling the principles of James Madison, who would be very proud of him.” Born in 1946 in Tennessee, John W. Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974. He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ SelectBooks; 1st Edition (April 14, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590793099
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590793091
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.37 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 1.1 x 9.29 inches

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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 concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Deeply committed to protecting the constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all people, The Rutherford Institute has emerged as a prominent leader in the national dialogue on civil liberties and human rights and a formidable champion of the Constitution. Whitehead serves as the Institute’s president and spokesperson.

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most vocal and involved civil liberties attorneys, Whitehead’s approach to civil liberties issues has earned him numerous accolades and accomplishments, including the Hungarian Medal of Freedom and the 2010 Milner S. Ball Lifetime Achievement Award for “[his] decades of difficult and important work, as well as [his] impeccable integrity in defending civil liberties for all.”

As nationally syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff observed about Whitehead: “John Whitehead is not only one of the nation’s most consistent and persistent civil libertarians. He is also a remarkably perceptive illustrator of our popular culture, its insights and dangers. I often believe that John Whitehead is channeling the principles of James Madison, who would be very proud of him.”

Born in 1946 in Tennessee, John W. Whitehead earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Arkansas in 1969 and a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Arkansas School of Law in 1974. He served as an officer in the United States Army from 1969 to 1971. He lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Kristie

This book is an eye opener!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2023

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Very well researched and documented. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is brave enough to look for truth in the cloud of lies permeating our world today.

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Ray

This was a good book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 20, 2022

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I thought that this is a good book. Actually, I already know a lot of this stuff, but if you don't know, it can be scary, that America is a dangerous place, but not because of crime, because there is so many government agencies. People should know how many thousands of people want to destroy your life, there are people that want to put you in prison for nothing. The real criminal organizations are these agencies in Govt. Thank you.

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Student_of_Life

Prescient Book for 2015. A great primer.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 29, 2022

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If you've done a good deal of internet (and other) research, maybe none of this will come as a surprise, but it's still a very good and interesting primer of where we are headed as a nation. This stuff is pretty shocking, but that was 2015. It's even worse today. Whitehead did a good job of reporting what's happening behind the scenes...

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WOW!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 10, 2015

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I originally was not sure what this book was about. But I then saw a few reviews from people I respect saying what a great book it is. They were right!!! This book covers so many aspects of what America is becoming and why. Primary of these is that America is become a militarized police state created by the Federal Government by giving/granting money and military equipment to local police departments. The local police in turn feel a need to use the equipment provided and oftentimes does so in direct violation of the U. S. Constitution. Unfortunately the courts have supported this mis-use through its decisions supporting the police. This does not mean local police are not to be supported and protected but local police should always follow the Constitution thus guaranteeing our individual rights and freedoms which you have to admit are eroding in favor of protection from terrorism. Also very well explained and defined is the move towards constant surveillance no matter where you go and what you do. The government has the ability and uses it when they are able to track our every movement, listen to our every conversation over a cell phone, even turn our cell phones on and off without our permission. It has also formed alliances with corporations to track what we buy and why. In fact there is nothing that our own government who is suppose to be working for us and protecting our privacy and freedoms can spy on - nothing. The question becomes what are we as a nation going to do about it. For the most part - apparently nothing as everyone goes about his or business without a concern in the world - WRONG ANSWER! I dare say that the government is monitoring this post as it is unfavorable to the government. More importantly, with every such post the government has more and more reason to mistrust me and put me like you on watchlists and then use those lists to advance their position whenever the need should arise. THIS IS A GREAT BOOK TO MAKE YOU THINK AND MAKE YOU MORE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS AND WHAT YOU DO. Whenever you think when you otherwise may not have, it is a very good thing.

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Dave Todaro

Whitehead's Worst-Case Scenario: A Tough (Too Tough?) Look at How Free We Truly Are

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 11, 2016

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Whitehead does an important service by compiling a single list of some of the worst assaults on Americans’ liberty under our nation’s century-long drift away from constitutional freedoms and toward a government-engineered state. But the book’s overarching emotional tone and Whitehead’s bludgeoning rhetorical approach of repeating himself make this a tough read.

Recently on CSPAN radio, Whitehead came across as a winsome spokesman for the viewpoint that Americans must stand up to government – and not just the Feds – as it enacts laws and regulations that chip away at our liberty. He says the average American commits three crimes per day. It’s not because Americans have a criminal bent; but because bureaucrats have been at work constructing a dizzying maze of incomprehensible regulations. It’s an increasingly dangerous maze, he writes, because the police have much better hardware for watching, catching, and intimidating us when we run afoul.

Credit Whitehead for showing that the “Liberty Movement” is anything but a white, conservative phenomenon. He takes us through the thought of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who he presents as a model libertarian. It would be wonderful for anyone who feels part of an oppressed minority in the U.S. to read Chapter 33 of this book. It’s a good window into the true story of one of the most important, oft-quoted and misunderstood figures of U.S. history.

In the mid 1990s, Robert H. Bork described the ‘new liberalism’ that many of us would now equate with government overreach as “not a conspiracy, but a syndrome.” Bork’s point was that the powerful people who steer our nation’s institutions are many and are like-minded (being the grown up 1960s student protestors), but they are not necessarily operating an organized collaboration to usher in a common vision. Whitehead writes more darkly, apparently believing there is a conspiracy between government and mega-corporations to bully the masses into compliance with their agenda.

Plan to examine the book’s footnotes. On CSPAN, Whitehead boasted about the meticulous documentation of his claims. When you read an example of police or government overreach that elicits a strong reaction, read and consider his source (the Kindle version makes it easy to click on the cited article and get more background). While some of Whitehead’s sources are solid, you might also detect him stretching the truth or significance of some of his citations as evidence that U.S. law enforcement is on the verge of becoming an army of occupation.

Valuable nuggets of good information and thought throughout the book are offset by the author’s habitual extrapolations of the disturbing trends he sees into logical conclusions that represent the worst-possible scenario. For instance, he ends the books by warning that on our current course, the U.S. is turning into a Nazi-like state that is capable of justifying the extermination of a race of people as a matter of good public policy. Fair enough; he wants to awaken us into action. And, as Whitehead reminds, the Founding Fathers themselves remind us to cultivate a healthy mistrust of government. But perhaps the Liberty Movement could more easily gain steam without the undercurrent of near-paranoia that pokes through Whitehead’s work.

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GIEL

Read this book!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 27, 2020

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This is a book everyone should read. The author explained how powerful modern democratic governments have become.
The modern state is run for the benefit of the few.

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POLICE STATE AMERICA, UK AND ISRAEL

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Really good book with lots of detailed examples of how the above countries have morphed into full blown autocratic police states over the past 50 years or so. A must read for every citizen. It's past time for physical revolt - nothing less will do to save the future of mankind from total enslavement by neocon zionists

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