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020 _a1590793099 (hardbound book : alk. paper)
020 _a9781590793091 (hardbound book : alk. paper)
035 _a(OCoLC)900624054
040 _aDLC
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092 _a323.4909
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100 1 _aWhitehead, John W.,
_d1946-
_9286583
245 1 0 _aBattlefield America :
_bthe war on the American people /
_cJohn W. Whitehead.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSelectBooks, Inc.,
_c[2015]
300 _axiv, 337 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aForeword / 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.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aAbuse of administrative power
_zUnited States.
_9217613
650 0 _aCivil rights
_zUnited States.
_98069
650 0 _aElectronic surveillance
_zUnited States.
_9119835
650 0 _aPolice
_zUnited States.
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