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The Schizotocracy, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The New Normal Reich

CJ Hopkins Well, 2023 is almost in the books, and things couldn’t be going better for the New Normal Reich. It’s been a long, strange seven years, but we’re finally back to the Global War on Terror, which, as you may recall, was abruptly preempted in 2016 by the War on Populism, which, as you may recall, …

The White House’s Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

John & Nisha Whitehead “We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.” William O. Douglas, dissenting in Osborn v. United States (1966) The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as …

What If the Constitution No Longer Applied? Freedom’s Greatest Hour of Danger Is Now

John & Nisha Whitehead “What if the rights and principles guaranteed in the Constitution have been so distorted in the past 200 years as to be unrecognizable by the Founders? What if the government was the reason we don’t have a Constitution anymore? What if freedom’s greatest hour of danger is now?” Andrew P. Napolitano We …

A Nation of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans to Report on Each Other

John Whitehead “There were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn’t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.” Professor Robert Gellately, …

Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11

John whitehead “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln Those who gave us the Constitution and the Bill of Rights believed that the government exists at the behest of its citizens. It is there …

From Press Room Raids to Indictments, Anything Goes When the Government Piles On

John Whitehead “When players are piled on top of each other after a mad scramble for a loose ball, it’s a free-for-all. There are no rules. Anything goes. That’s because there’s nobody in the pile to monitor what’s going on.” Mike Thomas, sports editor What is playing out before our eyes right now should be familiar to …

We’re All Suspects Under the Government’s Precrime Program

John & Nisha Whitehead “There is now the capacity to make tyranny total in America.” James Bamford, journalist We’re all being targeted now. We’re all guilty until proven innocent now. And thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s spy network of fusion centers, we are all now sitting ducks, just waiting …

Distract, Divide and Conquer: The REAL State of Our Union

John whitehead Step away from the blinders that partisan politics uses to distract, divide and conquer, and you will find that we are drowning in a cesspool of problems that individually and collectively threaten our lives, liberties, prosperity and happiness. These are not problems the politicians want to talk about, let alone address, yet we cannot …