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Freedom Under Fire with John Whitehead™, available free of charge, provides listeners and radio stations alike with insightful, relevant and provocative commentary on popular culture and constitutional issues.

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The System Is Rigged: Qualified Immunity Is How the Police State Stays in Power

June 17, 2020 19:48 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

The system is rigged and the U.S. Supreme Court—the so-called “people’s court”—has exchanged its appointed role as a gatekeeper of justice for its new role as maintainer of the status quo, ensuring there will be little if no consequences for the cops who brutalize and no justice for the victims of police brutality. This is how unarmed Americans keep dying at the hands of militarized police. By refusing to accept any of the eight or so qualified immunity cases before it this term that strove t...

This Is Not a Revolution. It’s a Blueprint for Locking Down the Nation

June 02, 2020 15:44 - 8 minutes - 11.3 MB

What is unfolding before us is not a revolution. The looting, the burning, the rioting, the violence: this is an anti-revolution. The protesters are playing right into the government’s hands, because the powers-that-be want this. They want an excuse to lockdown the nation and throw the switch to all-out martial law. They want a reason to make the police state stronger. It’s happening faster than we can keep up. This is how it begins. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead warns in this ...

From 9/11 to COVID-19, It’s Been a Perpetual State of Emergency

May 27, 2020 17:08 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB

From 9/11 to COVID-19, this year’s crop of graduates have spent their entire lives in a state of emergency. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, those coming of age right now were born in the wake of the 9/11 attacks; raised without any expectation of privacy in a technologically-driven, mass surveillance state; educated in schools that teach conformity and compliance; saddled with a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion; made vulnerable by t...

The Slippery Slope to Despotism: Paved with Lockdowns, Raids and Forced Vaccinations

May 23, 2020 15:53 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

What started out as an apparent effort to prevent a novel coronavirus from sickening the nation (and the world) has become yet another means by which world governments (including our own) can expand their powers, abuse their authority, and further oppress their constituents. Until now, the police state has been more circumspect in its power grabs, but this latest state of emergency has brought the beast out of the shadows. We are on a slippery slope to outright despotism. This road we are tra...

The Worst Is Yet to Come: Contact Tracing, Immunity Cards and Mass Testing

May 13, 2020 18:49 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB

Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon. As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better. It’s already worse. Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the viru...

Technofascism: Digital Book Burning in a Totalitarian Age

May 06, 2020 14:04 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MB

Welcome to the age of technofascism. Big Tech wedded to Big Government has become Big Brother. While on paper, we are technically free to speak—at least according to the U.S. Constitution—in reality, however, we are only as free to speak as the government and its corporate partners such as Facebook, Google or YouTube may allow. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, that’s not a whole lot of freedom. Especially if you’re inclined to voice opinions tha...

Human Lab Rats: The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments

April 29, 2020 14:46 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

Grisly experiments, barbaric behavior and inhumane conditions have become synonymous with the U.S. government, which has meted out untold horrors against humans and animals alike. For instance, did you know that the U.S. government has been buying hundreds of dogs and cats from “Asian meat markets” as part of a gruesome experiment into food-borne illnesses? The cannibalistic experiments involve killing cats and dogs purchased from Colombia, Brazil, Vietnam, China and Ethiopia, and then feedin...

Draconian Lockdown Powers: It’s a Slippery Slope from Handwashing to House Arrest

April 05, 2020 22:36 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB

We still have choices. Just because we’re fighting an unseen enemy in the form of a virus doesn’t mean we have to relinquish every shred of our humanity, our common sense, or our freedoms to a nanny state that thinks it can do a better job of keeping us safe. Whatever we give up willingly now—whether it’s basic human decency, the ability to manage our private affairs, the right to have a say in how the government navigates this crisis, or the few rights still left to us that haven’t been dise...

Suspending the Constitution: Police State Uses Crises to Expand Its Lockdown Powers

March 29, 2020 14:02 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

You can always count on the government to take advantage of a crisis, legitimate or manufactured. This coronavirus pandemic is no exception, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast. Not only are the federal and state governments unraveling the constitutional fabric of the nation with lockdown mandates that are sending the economy into a tailspin and wreaking havoc with our liberties, but they are also rendering the citizenry fully dependent on the gove...

This Is a Test: How Will the Constitution Fare During a Nationwide Lockdown?

March 13, 2020 14:40 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

This is a test. This is not a test of our commitment to basic hygiene or disaster preparedness or our ability to come together as a nation in times of crisis, although we’re not doing so well on any of those fronts. No, what is about to unfold is a test to see how well we have assimilated the government’s lessons in compliance, fear and police state tactics; a test to see how quickly we’ll march in lockstep with the government’s dictates, no questions asked; and a test to see how little resis...

Coronavirus vs. the Mass Surveillance State: Which Poses the Greater Threat?

March 04, 2020 15:21 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MB

How will the government’s War on the Coronavirus impact our freedoms? For a hint of what’s in store, you can look to China—our role model for all things dystopian—where the contagion started. In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus, which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world, free rein. The problem is what happens after: once the outbreak is controlled, it’s unclear whether the government will retra...

Compliance 101: Gun-Toting Cops Endanger Students and Turn the Schools into Prisons

March 01, 2020 13:56 - 8 minutes - 12.3 MB

Two years after President Trump announced his intention to “harden” the schools, our nation’s children are reaping the ill effects of gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead explains in this week's podcast, the fallout has been what you’d expect, with the nation’s young people treated like hardened criminals: handcuffed, arrested, tasered, tackled and taught the painful lesson tha...

Red Flag Nation: Anti-Gun Laws, Sanctuary Cities and the Second Amendment

January 20, 2020 14:37 - 8 minutes - 12 MB

Mark my words: gun control legislation, especially in the form of red flag gun laws, which allow the police to remove guns from people suspected of being threats, push us that much closer towards a society where everyone must be preemptively rendered harmless. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead explains in this week's podcast, these laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, are yet another T...

Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?

December 17, 2019 13:14 - 12 minutes - 16.5 MB

While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment drama that continues to monopolize headlines, Congress passed and President Trump signed into law legislation extending three key provisions of the USA Patriot Act, which further normalize the U.S. government’s mass surveillance ...

John Lennon vs. the Deep State: One Man Against the ‘Monster’

October 15, 2019 00:12 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

It’s getting harder by the day to reconcile John Lennon's dream of peace with the reality of the American police state. Indeed, those who dare to speak up are being labeled dissidents, troublemakers, terrorists, lunatics, or mentally ill and being tagged for surveillance, censorship, involuntary detention or, worse, even shot and killed in their own homes by militarized police. Yet as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, all of the many complaints we ha...

Welfare Checks Turn Deadly: You Might Want to Think Twice Before Calling the Cops

September 29, 2019 14:31 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MB

Think twice before you call the cops to carry out a welfare check on a loved one. Especially if that person is autistic, hearing impaired, mentally ill, elderly, suffering from dementia, disabled or might have a condition that hinders their ability to understand, communicate or immediately comply with an order. Particularly if you value that person’s life. At a time when growing numbers of unarmed people are being shot and killed for just standing a certain way, or moving a certain way, or ho...

Martial Law Masquerading as Law and Order: The Police State’s Language of Force

September 22, 2019 14:40 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MB

There can be no free speech for the citizenry when the government speaks in a language of force. What is this language of force? Militarized police. Riot squads. Camouflage gear. Black uniforms. Armored vehicles. Mass arrests. Pepper spray. Tear gas. Batons. Strip searches. Surveillance cameras. Kevlar vests. Drones. Lethal weapons. Less-than-lethal weapons unleashed with deadly force. Rubber bullets. Water cannons. Stun grenades. Arrests of journalists. Crowd control tactics. Intimidation ta...

Is the U.S. Government the Enemy of the People? America’s Lost Liberties, Post-9/11

September 08, 2019 14:16 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MB

Take heed, America. Our losses are mounting with every passing day. What began with the post-9/11 passage of the USA Patriot Act has snowballed into the eradication of every vital safeguard against government overreach, corruption and abuse. The rights embodied in the Constitution, which have been steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded, are now on life support. Since the towers fell on 9/11, the U.S. government has posed a greater threat to our...

American Apocalypse: The Government’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working

August 27, 2019 01:10 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MB

The U.S. government is working hard to destabilize the nation. No, this is not another conspiracy theory. Observe for yourself what is happening right before our eyes. Domestic terrorism fueled by government entrapment schemes. Civil unrest stoked to dangerous levels by polarizing political rhetoric. A growing intolerance for dissent that challenges the government’s power grabs. Police brutality tacitly encouraged by the executive branch, conveniently overlooked by the legislatures, and gran...

We’re All Enemies of the State: Draconian Laws, Precrime & the Surveillance State

August 10, 2019 12:22 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB

If the government is consistent about any one thing, it is this: it has an unnerving tendency to exploit crises and use them as opportunities for power grabs under the guise of national security. Cue the Emergency State, the government’s Machiavellian version of crisis management that justifies all manner of government tyranny in the so-called name of national security. The government’s proposed response to the latest round of mass shootings—red flag gun laws, precrime surveillance, fusion ce...

The Rise of the American Gestapo: Has It Already Happened Here?

August 04, 2019 15:16 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MB

Despite the finger-pointing and outcries of dismay from those who are watching the government discard the rule of law at every turn, the question is not whether Donald Trump is the new Adolf Hitler but whether the American Police State is the new Third Reich. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, the warning signs are unmistakable for those who can view the present and past political landscape without partisan blinders: the Deep State’s love affair w...

Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order

July 29, 2019 12:44 - 9 minutes - 13.2 MB

We are in desperate need of a populace that can stand united against the government’s authoritarian tendencies. So disagree all you want about healthcare, abortion and immigration—hot-button issues that are guaranteed to stir up the masses, secure campaign contributions and turn political discourse into a circus free-for-all—but surely we can manage to stand united on certain principles that should be non-negotiable in the midst of the destructive, disrupting, diverting, discordant babble bei...

It’s Un-American To Be Anti-Free Speech: Protect the Right to Criticize the Government

July 21, 2019 14:02 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

The First Amendment does more than give us a right to criticize our country: it makes it a civic duty. Certainly, if there is one freedom among the many spelled out in the Bill of Rights that is especially patriotic, it is the right to criticize the government. The right to speak out against government wrongdoing is the quintessential freedom. Unfortunately, as constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, those who run the government don’t take kindly to indiv...

The Heart of Darkness: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite

July 10, 2019 19:09 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MB

Politics, religion, sports, government, entertainment, business, armed forces: it doesn’t matter what arena you’re talking about, they are all riddled with the kind of seedy, sleazy, decadent, dodgy, depraved, immoral, corrupt behavior that somehow gets a free pass when it involves the wealthy and powerful elite in America. In this age of partisan politics and a deeply polarized populace, corruption—especially when it involves sexual debauchery, depravity and predatory behavior—has become the...

The Jackboots Are Coming: Mass Arrests, Power Grabs and the Politics of Fear

June 23, 2019 13:34 - 7 minutes - 10.7 MB

How do you persuade a populace to embrace totalitarianism, that goose-stepping form of tyranny in which the government has all of the power and “we the people” have none? You persuade the people that the menace they face (imaginary or not) is so sinister, so overwhelming, so fearsome that the only way to surmount the danger is by empowering the government to take all necessary steps to quash it, even if that means allowing government jackboots to trample all over the Constitution. This is how...

You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power

June 15, 2019 12:05 - 8 minutes - 12.2 MB

Those who seek to exercise their First Amendment rights during encounters with the police are increasingly finding that there is no such thing as freedom of speech. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead points out in this week's podcast, this is the painful lesson being imparted with every incident in which someone gets arrested and charged with any of the growing number of contempt charges (ranging from resisting arrest and interference to disorderly conduct, obstruction, and failure ...

Drivers Beware: The Deadly Perils of Traffic Stops in the American Police State

June 02, 2019 17:38 - 8 minutes - 11.1 MB

Trying to predict the outcome of any encounter with the police is a bit like playing Russian roulette: most of the time you will emerge relatively unscathed, although decidedly poorer and less secure about your rights, but there’s always the chance that an encounter will turn deadly. Indeed, the most common reason for a citizen to come into contact with the police is being a driver in a traffic stop. On average, one in 10 Americans gets pulled over by police, who have been given free range to...

D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

May 20, 2019 20:58 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MB

What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. Played out on the national stage and eagerly broadcast to a captive audience by media sponsors, this farcical exercise in political theater can, at times, seem riveting, life-changing and suspenseful, even for those who know better. Yet as constitutional attorney John W. White...

Predator Police Are a Menace to Society

May 11, 2019 14:09 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB

Police sexual misconduct is a systemic problem, and the dangers arise every time police are dispatched: traffic stops, domestic abuse calls, minor offenses, drug arrests, police interactions with teenagers, investigations into sex trafficking. Rather than being part of the solution, America’s police forces—riddled with corruption, brutality, sexual misconduct and drug abuse—have increasingly become part of the problem. In a number of cases, victims of sex trafficking report that police are am...

The Essence of Evil: Sex with Children Has Become Big Business in America

April 26, 2019 20:42 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MB

Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in America. The average age for a young woman being sold for sex is now 13 years old. Sex trafficking—especially when it comes to the buying and selling of young girls—has become big business in America, the fastest growing business in organized crime and the second most-lucrative commodity traded illegally after drugs and guns. It is estimated that at least 100,000 children—girls and boys—are bought and sold...

From Jesus Christ to Julian Assange: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State

April 17, 2019 17:21 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals. In the current governmental climate, where laws that run counter to the dictates of the Constitution are made in secret, passed without debate, and upheld by secret courts that operate behind closed doors, obeying one’s conscience and speaking truth to the power of the police state can render you an “enemy of the state.” That list of so-called “enemies of the state” is growing. As constitutional attorney...

Financial Tyranny: America Has Become a Pay-to-Play Exercise in Fascism

April 10, 2019 17:01 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

We’re not living the American Dream. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, we’re in the grip of a financial nightmare. “We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America. We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where we go, taxed on what we drive, and taxed on how much is left of our assets when we die, and yet we have no real say in how the government runs, or how our taxpayer funds ar...

The Making of a Monster: We’re All Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments

April 07, 2019 17:55 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

The U.S. government has unleashed untold horrors upon the world—including its own citizenry—in the name of global conquest, the acquisition of greater wealth, scientific experimentation, and technological advances. These horrors are being meted out against humans and animals alike. As constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, you don’t have to dig very deep or go very back in the nation’s history to uncover numerous cases in which the government deliberatel...

Don’t Shoot the Dogs: The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs

March 31, 2019 17:25 - 7 minutes - 10.4 MB

The absurd cruelties of the American police state keep reaching newer heights. Consider that if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you’d murdered someone or abused a child. If a cop kills your dog, however, there will be little to no consequences for that officer. Not even a slap on the wrist. In this, as in so many instances of official misconduct by government officials, the courts have ruled that the cops have qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that in...

Pity the Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America

March 23, 2019 17:35 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MB

Don’t be fooled into thinking that your hard-earned tax dollars are being used for national security and urgent military needs. As John W. Whitehead makes clear in this week's podcast, it’s all a ruse. In one month alone, government agencies—including the Department of Defense—went on a $97 million shopping spree that included $670,000 for golf carts, $1.7 million for musical equipment including pianos, tubas, and trombones, $4.6 million for lobster tail and crab, almost $8 million for iPhone...

Forced Blood Draws & Implied Consent Laws Make a Mockery of the Fourth Amendment

March 06, 2019 18:20 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MB

You think you’ve got rights? Think again. All of those freedoms we cherish—the ones enshrined in the Constitution, the ones that affirm our right to free speech and assembly, due process, privacy, bodily integrity, the right to not have police seize our property without a warrant, or search and detain us without probable cause—amount to nothing when the government and its agents are allowed to disregard those prohibitions on government overreach at will. Our so-called rights have been reduced...

The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance: We’re Being Branded, Bought and Sold for Our Data

March 01, 2019 21:37 - 8 minutes - 11.6 MB

With every smartphone we buy, every GPS device we install, every Twitter, Facebook, and Google account we open, every frequent buyer card we use for purchases—whether at the grocer’s, the yogurt shop, the airlines or the department store—and every credit and debit card we use to pay for our transactions, we’re helping Corporate America build a dossier for its government counterparts on who we know, what we think, how we spend our money, and how we spend our time. Yet it’s not just the surveil...

I’m Not Breaking Up with America, and Neither Should You

February 16, 2019 15:24 - 7 minutes - 10.5 MB

Life in America has become a gut-wrenching, soul-sucking, misery-drenched, demoralizing existence. Even so, I’m not breaking up with America this Valentine’s Day, and neither should you. Instead, get outraged at what has been done to our country. What has been done to our freedoms. Get off your duff, get out of your house, get in the streets, get in people’s faces, get down to your local city council, get over to your local school board, get your thoughts down on paper, get your objections pl...

Jackboots in the Morning: No One Is Spared From This American Nightmare

February 08, 2019 13:02 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB

Nationwide, SWAT teams routinely invade homes, break down doors, kill family pets (they always shoot the dogs first), damage furnishings, terrorize families, and wound or kill those unlucky enough to be present during a raid. These raids are one more vivid example of how the government’s short-sighted use of immoral, illegal and unconstitutional tactics become dangerous weapons turned against the American people.

Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

January 30, 2019 15:40 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MB

Get ready, folks, because the government—helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget)—is embarking on a diabolical campaign t...

The Danger Within: Border Patrol Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

January 21, 2019 19:49 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MB

Every decade or so, the government makes the case for expanding its wartime powers and curtailing the citizenry’s freedom—in the war on terrorism, war on drugs, war on communism, war on foreigners, war on extremism, war on dissidents, war on peace activists, war on anti-government speech, etc.—all for the sake of national security, of course, and as expected, the American people fall in line. This time around, the government wants us to buy into the fiction that this war on illegal aliens is ...

Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional

January 09, 2019 16:52 - 8 minutes - 12 MB

President Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency in order to build a border wall is more manufactured political theater, a Trojan Horse intended to camouflage the real threat to our freedoms: yet another expansion of presidential power exposing us to constitutional peril. This is not about illegal immigration or porous borders or who will pay to build that wall. This is about unadulterated power and the rise of an “emergency state” that justifies all manner of government tyranny in th...

A Crisis in the Making: Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

December 13, 2018 14:29 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. The government is pushing us ever closer to a constitutional crisis. What makes the outlook so much bleaker is the utter ignorance of the American people—and those who represent them—about their freedoms, history, and how the government is supposed to operate.

To a Nation of Snowflakes, Christmas Has Become Another Trigger Word

December 05, 2018 15:12 - 8 minutes - 11.7 MB

To a nation of snowflakes, Christmas has become yet another trigger word. The latest Christmas casualties in the campaign to create one large national safe space are none other than the beloved animated classic "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (denounced for promoting bullying and homophobia) and the Oscar-winning tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” (accused of being a date rape anthem). Also on the endangered species Christmas list are such songs as “Deck the Halls” (it supposedly promotes “gay” ...

Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed

November 27, 2018 21:09 - 8 minutes - 11.4 MB

Yes, You Have the Right to Talk Back to the Government, But It Could Get You Killed by John W. Whitehead

This Thanksgiving, Don’t Just Give Thanks. Pay Your Blessings Forward

November 20, 2018 14:21 - 8 minutes - 12 MB

Fixing what’s wrong with this country is not going to happen overnight, but there are things we can all do right now to make this world (or at least our small corners of it) a little bit kinder, a lot less hostile and more just.

"The Freedom Crisis in America": A lecture by John W. Whitehead

November 16, 2018 19:30 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MB

"The Freedom Crisis in America": A lecture by John W. Whitehead

Red Flag Gun Laws: Yet Another Government Weapon for Compliance and Control

November 15, 2018 13:36 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

Mark my words: red flag gun laws, which allow the police to remove guns from people suspected of being threats, will only add to the government’s power. These laws, growing in popularity as a legislative means by which to seize guns from individuals viewed as a danger to themselves or others, are yet another Trojan Horse, a stealth maneuver by the police state to gain greater power over an unsuspecting and largely gullible populace. Thirteen states now have red flag laws on their books. That ...

A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans

November 06, 2018 17:58 - 8 minutes - 17.2 MB

The government’s efforts to wage war on military veterans, especially those who speak out against government wrongdoing, is downright appalling. The government even has a name for its war on America’s veterans: Operation Vigilant Eagle.

America Is on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown

November 06, 2018 17:02 - 8 minutes - 16.2 MB

Things are falling apart. When things start to fall apart or implode, ask yourself: who stands to benefit? In most cases, it’s the government that stands to benefit by amassing greater powers at the citizenry’s expense.

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