Battlefield America : The War On The American People

"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"--;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. In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry in the Constitution. Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the military, towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people have been turned into enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process. Yet this police state did not come about overnight. As Whitehead notes, this shift into totalitarianism cannot be traced back to a single individual or event. Rather, the evolution has been so subtle that most American citizens were hardly even aware of it taking place. Yet little by little, police authority expanded, one weapon after another was added to the police arsenal, and one exception after another was made to the standards that have historically restrained police authority. Add to this mix the merger of Internet megacorporations with government intelligence agencies, and you have the making of an electronic concentration camp that not only sees the citizenry as databits but will attempt to control every aspect of their lives. And if someone dares to step out of line, they will most likely find an armed SWAT team at their door. 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. 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.