It is easy to be distracted right now by the circus politics that dominate the news headlines. But stop being distracted. Don’t be fooled, not even a little, no matter how tempting it seems to just take a peek. Why? We’re being subjected to the oldest con game in the books, the magician’s sleight of hand that keeps you focused on the shell game in front of you while your wallet is being picked clean by ruffians in your midst. This is how tyranny rises and freedom falls.
*Follow us here at Newsbud Twitter
**Subscribe here at BFP-Newsbud YouTube Channel
***Free Newsletter Subscription at The Rutherford Institute
***Follow John W. Whitehead and The Rutherford Institute on Facebook
Watch Episode Preview
Watch Members Only Full Episode Here
***Subscribing Members must be logged in to see the full video
Featured Video MP3 Audio Clip
***Subscribing Members must be logged in to listen to the audio
Show Notes
Sean O’Hagan, “One angry man,” The Guardian
John W. Whitehead, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State
H.L. Mencken, “Bayard vs. Lionheart,” Baltimore Evening Sun (Jul. 26, 1920) as cited in Roger Cohen, “The Man Who Would Not Be President,” The New York Times (Nov. 18, 2016)
Christopher Ingraham, “How police took $53,000 from a Christian band, an orphanage and a church,” The Washington Post
Les Christie, “The other foreclosure crisis: Losing a home over $400 in back taxes,” CNN Money
Brad Heath, “DEA regularly mines Americans' travel records to seize millions in cash,” USA Today
Andrew Dugan, “Majority of Americans See Congress as Out of Touch, Corrupt,” Gallup
Norah O’Donnell, “Dialing for Dollars,” CBS News
Isaac Arnsdorf, “The lobbying reform that enriched Congress,” Politico
Christopher Ingraham, “Congress to constituents: ‘Show me the money,’” The Washington Post
Jon Schwarz, ““Yes, We’re Corrupt”: A List of Politicians Admitting That Money Controls Politics,” The Intercept
Brian Christopher Jones, “Don’t Be Silly: Lawmakers ‘Rarely’ Read Legislation and Oftentimes Don’t Understand It . . . But That’s Okay,” Penn State Law Review, Vol. 118
Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” The Atlantic
Reuters, “US spending three times more on prisons than schools: Federal report,” Raw Story
Jason M. Breslow, “New Report Slams “Unprecedented” Growth in US Prisons,” PBS Frontline
Steven Nelson, “Single Mother 'Arrested for Grass' After Not Mowing,” U.S. News
Donna Murch, “Paying for Punishment,” Boston Review
Jennifer Golbeck, “All Eyes On You,” Psychology Today
Kim Zetter, “DHS Launches ‘Minority Report’ Pre-Crime Detection Program,” Wired
Jillian York, “The chilling effects of surveillance,” Al Jazeera
“Fatal Force,” The Washington Post
Sam Brodey, “SWAT Teams Keep Killing Innocent People in Their Homes,” Mother Jones
Bonnie Kristian, “The troubling rise of SWAT teams,” The Week
“Baltimore police conducted more than 60 illegal strip searches, some in public – DoJ,” RT
Rebecca Klein, “Set to Stun,” The Huffington Post
Tom Coburn and Adam Andrzejewski, “Why Does the IRS Need Guns?” The Wall Street Journal
Emily Heil, “Mark Twain on Congress: idiots, criminals, dumber than fleas,” The Washington Post
Morris Berman, Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire
Etienne de La Boétie, “The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: How Do Tyrants Secure Cooperation?”
This Is How Tyranny Rises and Freedom Falls: The Experiment in Freedom Is Failing
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
Rutherford Institute