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In A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, John W. Whitehead charts America's transition from a society governed by "we the people" to a police state governed by the strong arm of the law. In such an environment, the law becomes yet another tool to oppress the people. As a constitutional attorney of national prominence, and as president of The Rutherford Institute, an international civil liberties organization, Whitehead has been at the forefront of the fight for civil liberties in this country. The recurring theme at the heart of A Government of Wolves is that the American people are in grave danger of losing their basic freedoms. The simple fact is that the Constitution - and in particular the Bill of Rights - is being undermined on virtually every front. Indeed, everything America was founded upon is in some way being challenged. The openness and freedom that were once the hallmarks of our society are now in peril. We were once a society that valued individual liberty and privacy. But in recent years we have turned into a culture that has quietly accepted surveillance cameras, police and drug-sniffing dogs in our children's schools, national databases that track our finances and activities, sneak-and-peek searches of our homes without our knowledge or consent, and anti-terrorism laws that turn average Americans into suspects. In short, America has become a lockdown nation, and we are all in danger. A Government of Wolves not only explains these acute problems but is a call to action offering timely and practical initiatives for Americans to take charge of present course of history and stop the growing police state. But time is running out. We are at critical juncture and every citizen who values his or her personal freedom needs to pay close attention to the message in this book!

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Using a handful of movies as metaphors– not to mention a healthy dose of George Orwell – attorney John W. Whitehead's book is an overzealous investigation of the increasingly invasive methods various surveillance agencies are using under the guise of protecting citizens. He offers example after example of the erosion of civil liberties. The Patriot Act, Whitehead says, has given government agencies like the NSA and even local police departments the ability to use electronic surveillance via GPS, cell phones, and cameras to monitor our activities, often without our knowledge. His increasingly strident tone as he describes mobile scanners that can monitor your every movement, even in your own home, and a society in which pharmaceuticals are used to keep the populace anaesthetized and obedient cranks up the melodrama. With photos clippings, diagrams, bullet points, full page graphics, the execution of this book may come off as a riled-up rant but his multiple examples, backed up with copious footnotes and references, are enough to give even the most optimistically obedient citizen cause for concern. Whitehead is a concerned citizen bursting at the seams to get his point across. (June)

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? Where is Thomas Paine now that we need him? He's here just in the nick of time in the person of John Whitehead, an uncompromising debunker of lies, rhetoric mongers, rights-shredders and the criminal acts of our shameless, double-crossing government. Drop everything and read A Government of Wolves before it's too late! I loved and was horrified by this disturbing and courageous book! -- David Dalton, New York Times bestselling author and a founding editor of Rolling Stone Magazine

A masterfully documented chronicle of frightened citizen vassalage to a Leviathan state in a hopes of a risk-free existence. An end to liberty is at hand. -- Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan and author of American Empire Before The Fall

I was privileged to have Duke Ellington as a mentor, who said of the jazz that was unsuccessfully banned in their countries by Stalin and Hitler: The music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country. But only a basically free country could have produced back then such freedom of expression that has become so energizing a global presence. If we are to be again this free a nation, John Whitehead will have had a lot to do with our being able to swing again. -- Nat Hentoff, American historian and nationally syndicated columnist

John Whitehead is one of the most eloquent and knowledgeable defenders of liberty, and opponents of the growing American police state, writing today. I am pleased to recommend A Government of Wolves to anyone interested in learning how modern America increasingly resembles a dystopian science fiction film instead of a Constitutional Republic. -- Ron Paul, 12-term US Congressman and former Presidential candidate

The loss of liberty doesn't begin with invading armies, but with creeping government that slowly and almost imperceptibly invades our privacy with cameras, drones, wiretaps and monitoring of email communication. We are told this is for our own good. In this book, John Whitehead sounds a warning about overreaching government we had better heed before the point of no return has been reached. -- Cal Thomas, Syndicated and USA Today Columnist/Fox News Contributor

"? Where is Thomas Paine now that we need him? He's here just in the nick of time in the person of John Whitehead, an uncompromising debunker of lies, rhetoric mongers, rights-shredders and the criminal acts of our shameless, double-crossing government. Drop everything and read A Government of Wolves before it's too late! I loved and was horrified by this disturbing and courageous book!"
--David Dalton, New York Times bestselling author and a founding editor of Rolling Stone Magazine

"A masterfully documented chronicle of frightened citizen vassalage to a Leviathan state in a hopes of a risk-free existence. An end to liberty is at hand."
--Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan and author of American Empire Before The Fall

"I was privileged to have Duke Ellington as a mentor, who said of the jazz that was unsuccessfully banned in their countries by Stalin and Hitler: "The music is so free that many people say it is the only unhampered expression of complete freedom yet produced in this country." But only a basically free country could have produced back then such freedom of expression that has become so energizing a global presence. If we are to be again this free a nation, John Whitehead will have had a lot to do with our being able to swing again."
--Nat Hentoff, American historian and nationally syndicated columnist

"John Whitehead is one of the most eloquent and knowledgeable defenders of liberty, and opponents of the growing American police state, writing today. I am pleased to recommend A Government of Wolves to anyone interested in learning how modern America increasingly resembles a dystopian science fiction film instead of a Constitutional Republic."
--Ron Paul, 12-term US Congressman and former Presidential candidate

"The loss of liberty doesn't begin with invading armies, but with creeping government that slowly and almost imperceptibly invades our privacy with cameras, drones, wiretaps and monitoring of email communication. We are told this is for our own good. In this book, John Whitehead sounds a warning about overreaching government we had better heed before the point of no return has been reached."
--Cal Thomas, Syndicated and USA Today Columnist/Fox News Contributor

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ SelectBooks; First edition (June 25, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1590799755
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1590799758
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.21 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9.1 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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Scott Wallis

Engaging Culture for Enduring Results

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 27, 2022

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Whitehead provides a roadmap to engage our culture with enduring results. He identifies those threats we face from a bureaucracy intent on suppressing our freedoms of thought, speech and association.

We face a tyranny unlike any other from any other time in our history. We cannot be complacent or we will drift further into the abyss of authoritarianism that has sucked our nation into an irrational void of despotism.

Freedom requires boldness and courage. We must have the willingness to stand for our freedoms or we will fall into the abyss and void. That is not meant to be our lot in life. We have the fortitude to choose a higher better way.

Whitehead pulls us from our own complacency into freedom’s battle armed and equipped with passion, knowledge and dedication to a vision for freedom birthed by America’s founding fathers that’s embedded within the Constitution.

We must heed their solemn call to adhere to the heritage of freedom they left us. And we must remove the iron fisted grip of out of control authoritarians. We must stand up, speak up and overcome the threats posed by men and women seeking to move us from freedom to tyranny.

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Johnny Nineball

Thoroughly researched, well written, and sobering

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 20, 2014

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Mr. Whitehead does an excellent and comprehensive job of pulling together the various threads of current events and recent history that together spell: Police State USA. I'm being stingy here holding back on a star because I think he actually casts his net a bit too wide at times, thereby diluting the power of his message somewhat.

For example, I could have done without the lengthy early section on movies depicting a police state-ish America. There's a point to be made there about art predicting reality, but it can be made briefly, and in context, rather than going through a list of movies and making parallels to what's going on in real life. Maybe as an appendix? As a major early chapter, I found it a distraction. I kept thinking, OK, we're wasting time, let's get to some facts.

Which he eventually does get to, in spades. One of the problems with the mainstream media is that you'll get the facts, but not contextualized, and only in separate drips and drabs. Put together as a pattern, they leave no doubt about the direction the country is headed. Full of frightening and sobering examples of the sickness created when the domestic environment is geared to fight a largely nonexistent terrorist threat, so that it focuses its aim on minor nonviolent criminals at home or, worse, protesters and dissenters; or when the state works hand in hand with for-profit companies to turn the justice and prison system into a money machine; and so forth.

An important book, thoroughly researched and well written.

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Thomas S. Neuberger

A Portrait of our Lost LIberties in the Surveilance State

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 7, 2013

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I just finished John W. Whitehead's important book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. It was chilling, Orwellian and correct about our emerging police state. In a week when we learned that our government admits that it has has been collecting trillions of our telephone calls, emails, videos, facebook posts, etc. and the Supreme Court oks government collecting our DNA if we ever should be arrested for any alleged crime, the author tells us that all this has been happening quitely behind our backs for years.

Fully documented to the end, this book is well written and an easy read. Whitehead puts all the pieces together about the bleak future of liberty in our country in a compelling narrative. He engages the reader and his Orwellian conclusions are frightening.

It appears that the point of no return has passed and I have little hope in an uprising of civil disobedience as Whitehead urges or a second American Revolution which would restore normalcy to the public and revitalize our lost constitutional liberties.

This book can certainly be a manifesto for a movement to that end. I pray it inspires the present generation to the task at hand. But I fear that nothing less than a social upheaval akin to that of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, or the opposition to the war in Vietnam in the late 60s, will do it.

Thomas S. Neuberger, attorney
Wilmington, Delaware

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Dave J P

Frightening descriptions of the matrix we live in

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 9, 2013

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The author devotes many chapters to describing the facts of the total surveillance state under which our constitutional liberties are being trampled, especially in the wake of the evil Patriot Act passed shortly after (but necessarily written long before) the false-flag 9-11 attacks that served as a pretext for perpetual war in the mideast as well as the erection of a domestic police state to control dissenters who have caught on to the lies of the federal government and refuse to engage in "double-think" and "newspeak". I gave the book a rating of four stars rather than five because it doesn't really explain what FORCES are behind the rise of this fascist dictatorship that is cowing the American sheeple into submission through FEAR. Since this pervasive police state has been so extraordinarily expensive to set up and run, the author should have delved more deeply into the wealthy multinational corporations (banks, arms manufacturers) and dynastic families who are capable of such enormous expenditures, and the interests they have in complete power over what have become their subjects/slaves. For such an investigation, Michael Collins Piper's book The New Babylon is more enlightening.

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ATC123

Alarming but Necessary

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on March 14, 2014

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I received a book titled "Rise of the Warrior Cop" and it lead to this book. While this is written for a US audience, there is no doubt that the same issues are present in Canada. The increasing timidity of the courts and the Crown attorneys to hold police to strict standards has allowed them to exist as an army within our society. As we have seen in Canada, a number of killings of people by police - when common sense clearly said they were wrong - has not resulted in them being treated as would a "civilian". As the author points out, we hold our military to a higher standard than the police and this is a recipe for disaster. One could argue that this premise by the author is an extreme one but the evidence is overwhelming.

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William Lohman

What kind of revolutionary will you be?

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 11, 2014

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"A Government of Wolves" is an easy to read chronicle that educates the reader about the erosion of society into a "Corporatist-fascist" police state. Whitehead exposes the quiet militarization of local police forces, the results of a police state and forced servitude to the corporatists. He points to the attacks on our Constitution and the inevitable results unless we know our "Rights" and take appropriate action. "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given up by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed". Martin Luther King Jr.

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Frightening picture of the "police state" USA

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on September 4, 2014

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The author presents in this book a lot of cases and developments that show the decline of the police force from public servants to militarised tyrants. This includes the zero-tolerance policies at schools, the use of tasers to discipline people and the ever increasing use of SWAT teams for jobs formerly done by normal cops.

The missing star is for some minor issues, e.g. GPS does not track anybody, and the alarmist conclusions.

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