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A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State Hardcover – June 25, 2013
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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!
- Print length288 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherSelectBooks
- Publication dateJune 25, 2013
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions6 x 1 x 9.1 inches
- ISBN-101590799755
- ISBN-13978-1590799758
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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.
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.
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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The missing star is for some minor issues, e.g. GPS does not track anybody, and the alarmist conclusions.





