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Tag Archives: Overcriminalization
A Nanny State Idiocracy: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
By John & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”—Simone Weil, French philosopher It’s hard to say whether … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, Economics, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, Bureaucracy, Dystopia, Economics, fascism, idiocracy, kakistocracy, Kleptocracy, law, Mass Incarceration, Nanny State, Overcriminalization, overregulation, police state, SWAT, Technocracy
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One Nation Under Greed: The Profit Incentives Driving the American Police State
By By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, censorship, civil disobedience, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, corporate news, Corruption, culture, Dystopia, education, elites, Empire, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, military spending, Oligarchy, police state, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Asset Forfeiture, Authoritarianism, censorship, Compulsory Education, contact tracing programs, corporatocracy, Corruption, Despotism, fascism, Government, Government Contractors, heightened surveillance, law, Lockdowns, mandates, Mass Incarceration, Militarized Police, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police state, Police Violence, Private Prisons, restrictions, schools, security industrial complex, surveillance state, US Legal System, war, war profiteers, war spending
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America After the Election: A Few Hard Truths About the Things That Won’t Change
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”—George Orwell The American people remain eager to be persuaded that a new … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, Corruption, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, Empire, Financial Crisis, imperialism, Inequality, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
Tagged Corruption, Dystopia, Election 2020, empire, financial crisis, imperialism, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, Plutocracy, police shootings, police state, Poverty, surveillance state, Technocracy, war
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P Is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in short, a people … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, Corporate Crime, culture, Deep State, Dystopia, elites, freedom of speech, internet freedom, Law, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, news, Oligarchy, police state, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, State Crime, surveillance state, Technocracy
Tagged Authoritarianism, BILL OF RIGHTS, Civil Asset Forfeiture, civil liberties, Deep State, Drones, fascism, FORCED VACCINATIONS, free speech, Global Police, Internet of Things, Main Core, Mass Incarceration, NO-KNOCK RAIDS, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, police state, Precrime, qualified immunity, surveillance state, tasers, tyranny, X-KEYSCORE, Zero Tolerance
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America Is on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Dirty Politics, divide and conquer, Dystopia, education, Empire, Environment, Law, Mass Incarceration, media, Militarization, news, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state
Tagged America, American Culture, Authoritarianism, Civil Unrest, Classism, Dystopia, Infrastructure, Mass Hysteria, Mass Incarceration, Militarization, Oligarchy, Overcriminalization, police state, Police Violence, racism, Societal Collapse, State Terror, surveillance state, tyranny, US government, Violence, xenophobia
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