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Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead’s terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids. The insidious shift was so subtle that most of us had no idea it was happening. This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A Government of Wolves is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!—the police state has arrived.

ISBN-13: 9781590795224

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: SelectBooks

Publication Date: 02-08-2022

Pages: 368

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

John W. Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated, and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. Whitehead’s concern for the persecuted and oppressed led him, in 1982, to establish The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties and human rights organization whose international headquarters are located in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is an American author, activist, physician, and retired politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 22nd congressional district from 1976 to 1977 and again from 1979 to 1985, and then for Texas's 14th congressional district from 1997 to 2013. On three occasions, he sought the presidency of the United States: as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988 and as a candidate for the Republican Party in 2008 and 2012.

Table of Contents

Foreword Dr. Ron Paul xi

Preface xv

Part I A Declaration of war 1

1 It Can Happen Here 5

2 Welcome to the Police State 9

3 A State of Martial Law 13

4 The Dismal State of Our Freedoms 19

5 Waking Up to Reality 25

6 Fascism American Style 31

7 We Hired Hitler! 37

Part II The War on the American People 47

8 The Building Blocks Are in Place 51

9 The Very Definition of Tyranny 59

10 Robbed Blind by the Government 69

11 Ravaged, Raped, and Stripped of Our Dignity 77

12 Lessons in Indoctrination and Compliance 83

13 Snitches for the Police State 91

14 The Double Standard in Defense 97

15 Who's to Blame for Battlefield America? 103

Part III The American Police State 111

16 A Country at War with Itself 115

17 Vigilantes with a Badge 123

18 When Police Shoot First and Ask Questions Later 129

19 In the War Zone 139

20 America's Standing Armies 147

21 The Complicity of the Courts 153

22 The Mastermind Behind It All 161

23 The Banality of Evil 169

Part IV The American Surveillance State 177|24 24 The Watchers 181|25 25 The Abyss of No Return 189|26 26 Orwell's Nightmare: Big Brother Meets Big Business 197|27 27 The Twilight Zone Awaits Us 205|28 28 The FBI: America's Thought Police 213|29 29 The Brave New World 221|30 30 The Matrix 229|31 31 Welcome to the Posthuman Era 239

Part V The Resistance 247

32 Are You a Slave or Rebel? 251

33 Militant Nonviolent Resistance 261

34 Prisons Without Walls 269

Acknowledgments 278

Notes 279

Index 324

About the Author 339