John Whitehead

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John Whitehead

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State and The Change Manifesto.

You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power

John Whitehead June 6, 2019

Virginia: Government Sued over Parents’ Rights To Maintain Quality Of Life For Disabled Daughter’s Care

John Whitehead June 2, 2019

SCOTUS Upholds Arrest Over ‘Contempt of Cop’ Charge – Limits Right to Challenge Police Use of Retaliatory Arrests to Punish Speech

John Whitehead May 31, 2019

Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State

John Whitehead May 30, 2019

How to Survive the Journey Ahead: A Graduation Message for a Terrifying Age

John Whitehead May 21, 2019

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State

John Whitehead May 16, 2019

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

John Whitehead May 7, 2019

Texas: Man Facing a Year in Prison for Telling Police They are ‘Pissing on the Constitution’

John Whitehead May 6, 2019

Predator Cops, Who Are Guilty of Sex Crimes Against Women & Children, Are a Menace to Society

John Whitehead May 1, 2019

Overkill: Government Officials Deploy 700 Police, Spend $3 Million to Lockdown City Only to Arrest Disabled Veteran for Buying Canned Iced Tea, Bug Spray

John Whitehead April 29, 2019

The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America

John Whitehead April 23, 2019

From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

John Whitehead April 16, 2019

Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism

John Whitehead April 9, 2019

American Idiocracy: 50 Years Later, We’re Still Stranded in the Twilight Zone

John Whitehead April 2, 2019

The Making of a Monster: We’re All Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments

John Whitehead March 26, 2019

Don’t Shoot the Dogs: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs

John Whitehead March 20, 2019

Pity the Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America

John Whitehead March 12, 2019

Forced Blood Draws & Implied Consent Laws Make a Mockery of the Fourth Amendment

John Whitehead March 5, 2019

Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought & Sold for Our Data

John Whitehead February 26, 2019

Rule by Fiat: National Crises, Fake Emergencies & Other Dangerous Presidential Powers

John Whitehead February 19, 2019

I’m Not Breaking Up with America This Valentine’s Day, and Neither Should You

John Whitehead February 13, 2019

The State of the Union: The Real Division Is Not Between Conservatives & Revolutionaries But between Authoritarians & Libertarians

John Whitehead February 4, 2019

Jackboots in the Morning: No One Is Spared From This American Nightmare

John Whitehead January 29, 2019

Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

John Whitehead January 22, 2019

The Danger Within: Border Patrol Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

John Whitehead January 15, 2019

Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable & Unconstitutional

John Whitehead January 9, 2019

Break the Cycle: In 2019, Say No to the Government’s Cruelty, Brutality & Abuse

John Whitehead January 1, 2019

Government Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish

John Whitehead December 25, 2018

Say No to Government Grinches and Corporate Scrooges

John Whitehead December 18, 2018

School Principal Prohibits Christmas Symbols & Words, Colors Red and Green, Candy Canes & Carols

John Whitehead December 11, 2018

Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

John Whitehead December 11, 2018

To a Nation of Snowflakes, Christmas Has Become Another Trigger Word

John Whitehead December 5, 2018

Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed

John Whitehead November 27, 2018

This Thanksgiving, Don’t Just Give Thanks. Pay Your Blessings Forward

John Whitehead November 20, 2018

Red Flag Gun Laws: Yet Another Government Weapon for Compliance and Control

John Whitehead November 13, 2018

A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans

John Whitehead November 7, 2018