About: John and Nisha Whitehead
Posts by John and Nisha Whitehead
Electing the Next Dictator: Ugly Truths You Won’t Hear From Trump or Biden
The Constitution opens with three vital words: “We the people.” No matter which candidate wins this election, we need to wake up to the fact that we’re the only...
Timely Lessons About Tyranny From the Father of the Constitution
Let's get back to our Founding principles as frequently explained by James Madison. It's not too late for our country if we learn our rights that are protected by...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom
This overbearing despotism is what happens when government representatives (those elected and appointed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notion that the government knows best and therefore must...
Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe From Government Peeping Toms
Government agents—with or without a warrant, with or without probable cause that criminal activity is afoot, and with or without the consent of the homeowner—are now justified in mounting...
The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies From A to Z
Listed are just some of the egregious governmental abuses wreaking havoc on our freedoms. The solution is found in the Tenth Amendment — Nullify everything the government does that...
Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified...
Down With Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution
Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference…. The Thought Police would get him just the same…. The arrests invariably...
Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It
The government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. This is what comes of...
The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and...
The Language of Force: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power
Tyrants don’t like people who speak truth to power. Cue the rise of protest laws, which take the government’s intolerance for free speech to a whole new level and...
Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve as a Front for Government Censors
Relying on a set of privacy loopholes, the White House (under Presidents Obama, Trump and now Biden) has been sidestepping the Fourth Amendment by paying AT&T to allow federal,...
COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing.
COVID-19 was merely one crisis in a long series of crises that the government has shamelessly exploited in order to justify its power grabs and acclimate the citizenry to...
The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer
The global welfare system is riddled with corruption and waste. Among other things, American taxpayers are funding “choir directors in Turkmenistan, filmmakers in Peru, aid for poultry farmers [in]...
2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex
2024 is the new 1984. Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the...
Terror by Night: Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do.
We have come full circle to a time before the American Revolution when government agents — with the blessing of the courts — could force their way into a...