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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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June 25, 2013
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6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
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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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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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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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