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Battlefield America : the war on the American people / John W. Whitehead.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : SelectBooks, Inc., [2015]Description: xiv, 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1590793099 (hardbound book : alk. paper)
  • 9781590793091 (hardbound book : alk. paper)
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Contents:
Foreword / Dr. Ron Paul -- Part I. A declaration of war -- It can happen here -- Welcome to the police state -- A state of martial law -- The dismal state of our freedoms -- Waking up to reality -- Fascism American style -- We hired Hitler! -- Part II. The war on the American people -- The building blocks are in place -- The very definition of tyranny -- Robbed blind by the government -- Ravaged, raped, and stripped of our dignity -- Lessons in indoctrination and compliance -- Snitches for the police state -- The double standard in defense -- Who's to blame for battlefield America? -- Part III. The American police state -- A country at war with itself -- Vigilantes with a badge -- When police shoot first and ask questions later -- In the war zone -- America's standing armies -- The complicity of the courts -- The mastermind behind it all -- The banality of evil -- Part IV. The American surveillance state -- The watchers -- The abyss of no return -- Orwell's nightmare : big brother meets big business -- The twilight zone awaits us -- The FBI : America's thought police -- The brave new world -- The matrix -- Welcome to the posthuman era -- Part V. The resistance -- Are you a slave or a rebel? -- Militant nonviolent resistance -- Prisons without walls.
Summary: "Author paints a portrait of an evolving American police state as police authority expands into extensions of the military, and government's intrusions undermine basic freedoms guaranteed to American citizens under the Constitution, turning Americans into enemy combatants who are spied upon, raided, manhandled, silenced, locked up, shot at, and denied due process of the law"-- Provided by publisher.
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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!âthe police state has arrived.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Dr. Ron Paul -- Part I. A declaration of war -- It can happen here -- Welcome to the police state -- A state of martial law -- The dismal state of our freedoms -- Waking up to reality -- Fascism American style -- We hired Hitler! -- Part II. The war on the American people -- The building blocks are in place -- The very definition of tyranny -- Robbed blind by the government -- Ravaged, raped, and stripped of our dignity -- Lessons in indoctrination and compliance -- Snitches for the police state -- The double standard in defense -- Who's to blame for battlefield America? -- Part III. The American police state -- A country at war with itself -- Vigilantes with a badge -- When police shoot first and ask questions later -- In the war zone -- America's standing armies -- The complicity of the courts -- The mastermind behind it all -- The banality of evil -- Part IV. The American surveillance state -- The watchers -- The abyss of no return -- Orwell's nightmare : big brother meets big business -- The twilight zone awaits us -- The FBI : America's thought police -- The brave new world -- The matrix -- Welcome to the posthuman era -- Part V. The resistance -- Are you a slave or a rebel? -- Militant nonviolent resistance -- Prisons without walls.

"Author paints a portrait of an evolving American police state as police authority expands into extensions of the military, and government's intrusions undermine basic freedoms guaranteed to American citizens under the Constitution, turning Americans into enemy combatants who are spied upon, raided, manhandled, silenced, locked up, shot at, and denied due process of the law"-- Provided by publisher.

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