John W. Whitehead
“If you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?”—Sunil Dutta, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department for 17 years
Life in the American police state is an endless series of don’ts delivered at the end of a loaded gun: don’t talk back to police officers, don’t even think about defending yourself against a SWAT team raid (of which there are 80,000 every year), don’t run when a cop is nearby lest you be mistaken for a fleeing criminal, don’t carry a cane lest it be mistaken for a gun, don’t expect privacy in public, don’t let your kids walk to the playground alone, don’t engage in nonviolent protest near where a government official might pass, don’t try to grow vegetables in your front yard, don’t play music for tips in a metro station, don’t feed whales, and on and on.
For those who resist, who dare to act independently, think for themselves, march to the beat of a different drummer, the consequences are invariably a one-way trip to the local jail or death.
What Americans must understand, what we have chosen to ignore, what we have fearfully turned a blind eye to lest the reality prove too jarring is the fact that we no longer live in the “city on the hill,” a beacon of freedom for all the world.
Far from being a shining example of democracy at work, we have become a lesson for the world in how quickly freedom turns to tyranny, how slippery the slope by which a once-freedom-loving people can be branded, shackled and fooled into believing that their prisons walls are, in fact, for their own protection.
Having spent more than half a century exporting war to foreign lands, profiting from war, and creating a national economy seemingly dependent on the spoils of war, we failed to protest when the war hawks turned their profit-driven appetites on us, bringing home the spoils of war—the military tanks, grenade launchers, Kevlar helmets, assault rifles, gas masks, ammunition, battering rams, night vision binoculars, etc.—to be distributed for free to local police agencies and used to secure the homeland against “we the people.”
It’s not just the Defense Department that is passing out free military equipment to local police. Since the early 1990s, the Justice Department has worked with the Pentagon to fund military technology for police departments. And then there are the billions of dollars’ worth of federal grants distributed by the Department of Homeland Security, enabling police departments to go on a veritable buying spree for highly questionable military-grade supplies better suited to the battlefield.
Is it any wonder that we now find ourselves in the midst of a war zone?
We live in a state of undeclared martial law. We have become the enemy.
In a war zone, there are no police—only soldiers. Thus, there is no more Posse Comitatus prohibiting the government from using the military in a law enforcement capacity. Not when the local police have, for all intents and purposes, already become the military.
In a war zone, the soldiers shoot to kill, as American police have now been trained to do. Whether the perceived “threat” is armed or unarmed no longer matters when police are authorized to shoot first and ask questions later.
In a war zone, even the youngest members of the community learn at an early age to accept and fear the soldier in their midst. Thanks to funding from the Obama administration, more schools are hiring armed police officers—some equipped with semi-automatic AR-15 rifles—to “secure” their campuses.
In a war zone, you have no rights. When you are staring down the end of a police rifle, there can be no free speech. When you’re being held at bay by a militarized, weaponized mine-resistant tank, there can be no freedom of assembly. When you’re being surveilled with thermal imaging devices, facial recognition software and full-body scanners and the like, there can be no privacy. When you’re charged with disorderly conduct simply for daring to question or photograph or document the injustices you see, with the blessing of the courts no less, there can be no freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
And when you’re a prisoner in your own town, unable to move freely, kept off the streets, issued a curfew at night, there can be no mistaking the prison walls closing in.
This is not just happening in Ferguson, Missouri. As I show in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, it’s happening and will happen anywhere and everywhere else in this country where law enforcement officials are given carte blanche to do what they like, when they like, how they like, with immunity from their superiors, the legislatures, and the courts.
You see, what Americans have failed to comprehend, living as they do in a TV-induced, drug-like haze of fabricated realities, narcissistic denial, and partisan politics, is that we’ve not only brought the military equipment used in Iraq and Afghanistan home to be used against the American people. We’ve also brought the very spirit of the war home.
This is what it feels like to be a conquered people. This is what it feels like to be an occupied nation. This is what it feels like to live in fear of armed men crashing through your door in the middle of the night, or to be accused of doing something you never even knew was a crime, or to be watched all the time, your movements tracked, your motives questioned.
This is what it’s like to be a citizen of the American police state. This is what it’s like to be an enemy combatant in your own country.
So if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, by all means, stand down. Cower in the face of the police, turn your eyes away from injustice, find any excuse to suggest that the so-called victims of the police state deserved what they got.
But remember, when that rifle finally gets pointed in your direction—and it will—when there’s no one left to stand up for you or speak up for you, remember that you were warned.
It works the same in every age. Martin Niemoller understood this. A German pastor who openly opposed Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in a concentration camp, Niemoller warned:
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
@Michael Cook, I see the exact same thing here in South Africa, we have a genocide on whites happening here and racism is worse now that what it ever was during apartheid. Black on white racism and violence is sung about at every opportunity, even by the state President himself. Murder, robbery, hijackings rape, assault, government corruption and general lawlessness is the order of the day and we are not even a war zone! Our police cannot be trusted as there is so much corruption taking place. White Christians are the target and we are doomed if we don’t start doing something about it! We need to start protesting and getting the message out there, Biblical prophecy and the new world order is quickly coming together!
If amurikwa would just vomit its jews and their gentile appeasers, enwurds and illegals, we would be well on our way to that shining beacon on the hill. These are the usurpers, the gimmiedats, the social deconstructors that stand in the way of making this nation what it could be.
BREAKDOWN OF NATIONS ARE SPREADING WORLDWIDE.
The moral decline of all nations as the ruling global elite pursue their global goals are there for all to see.That ruling global elite are using those ageless prejudices that have been the cause of all wars and that are written in stone as the history of the world and all its hostilities bear witness to. That pattern of human history and its hostile differences are used by those who rule to further their global agenda. The reality is, racial pride in ones culture and religion and race do not need the motivation of others, it is part of the inner psyche of us all, and is added to as we grow within that racial and cultural and religious group. National groups have been identified for millenia because of their particular characteristics, be it in colour, physical features, religious beliefs, and cultural identity. Racial diversity has been the cause of many wars, as people try to preserve their racial, cultural and religious uniqueness. Racial hostilities exist just beneath the surface, and it does not take much for them to erupt into the open, and those who rule know how to exploit and ignite racial tensions.
I hear and live everyday in a country that is angry as hell at what those who rule, and what they have done in letting millions of unwanted bums and stiffs, many are diseased, many are fleeing from acts of criminality in their own country, many are terrorists who have fled from their own cesspit of chaos and have come into a once green and pleasant land. I have lived through it, and watched our society torn apart, crime become epidemic, black ghettos, foreign gangs, prostitution, drugs, people trafficking, albanian, jamaican, nigerian, asian, chinese, mafias, etc, etc, etc. A way of life decimated by those who rule, that have put together that which has NEVER mixed. That and more, much more are the realities of multi-culturalism. Make no mistake about it we will ALL be killing each other shortly BECAUSE of our differences. We will not need any prompting from government, as the basic essentials of life become scarce then we will see how much we love our fellow man when it comes down to life and death situations. We have difficulty living with our own kind, the alien will become dead meat once we get into that survival scenario, which is fast approaching.
The government admits that there are over 190 different nationalities now living in the UK. If we accept that there are good and bad in all races, then that means not only have we taken in the good of those 190 different nationalities, but the bad also. So not only do we have to deal with our own scum, but we also have the scum of those 190 different nationalities to deal with. That is why our jails are full and overflowing, that is why we see in the media everyday, alien after alien in some form or another of criminality as they see our way of life as easy pickings for them. Thousands of our people’s have been murdered and raped by these aliens, tens of thousands robbed and assaulted, millions now live in fear in this “mixed” unstable society, which is not of our making, but an agenda by those who wish to destroy the white western christian world. Who are they? Just follow the money.