Quotes from John W. Whitehead

The issue is freedom. Freedom internally. Freedom domestically.

Some people have even had a chip implanted in their arm to provide personal and medical information to doctors and emergency personnel when needed.36 Human microchip implantation took a leap forward in July 2007 when the American Medical Association (AMA) announced

Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) has called for initiation of the Right to Know Act, which would require that commodities containing RFID tags bear labels stating that fact in order to protect consumer privacy.

Prudence" is practical wisdom or good sense.

As a result, the Department of Defense now spends billions of dollars on counternarcotic crusades, and American troops have become an adjunct to many local police forces in the country.

FEMA essentially has the power to put the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

including three-year-olds—were regularly left home alone to care for themselves.5

which is run by unelected officials, would become the most powerful governmental authority.

This frightening state of affairs–where a person can actually be arrested and incarcerated for the most innocent and inane activities, including feeding a whale538 and collecting rainwater on their own property539 (these are actual court cases)–is due to what law

And software developed by Raptor Technologies, a Houston-based firm, is commonly used to track school visitors by checking their driver's licenses against a national database of sex offenders.10

Nearly all U.S. public schools have zero-tolerance policies for firearms or other "weapons," and most have such policies for drugs and alcohol.

fighting the war on drugs and supporting civilian authorities

Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

The second principle revolves around the belief that no one is above the law, not even those

or the inordinate influence of corporate powers on governmental decision-making.

In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that "no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation." Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, "was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted

Indeed, while ALEC keeps the names of its corporate members under tight wraps, its roster includes some of the biggest names in the corporate world.612

the wake of September 11, George W. Bush's $2.13 trillion budget (which put the country $80 billion in the red) increased the Pentagon's annual account to $451 billion by 2007. This is more than the budgets

President George W. Bush recommended mental health screenings for all school-age children. In April 2002, President Bush launched the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. After supposedly conducting a

garment, McSally said, "to me is defying Christ" and accepting treatment as "a Muslim piece of property."54 By depriving her of the opportunity to express her own faith and imposing upon her the symbolic speech of another religion, the dress code stood in gross violation of

A nation of sheep will "beget a government of wolves." – EDWARD R. MURROW CBS BROADCAST JOURNALIST 1908-1965

W]e as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are all incapable of being conquered.14

Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.

It is a mistake to think that early in a fascist shift you see the profile of barbed wire against the sky. In the early days, things look normal on the surface: