John and Nisha Whitehead – The Rutherford Institute July 10, 2024
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or the president/leaders will do that will cross the line. It’ll never come because they won’t cross it. They’ll move the line. That line you think you stand behind is shifting everyday with little actions, bills, legislations… That line will stop moving one day, & it’ll be too late… Every day, your sensitivity is being eroded by these willful atrocities. The envelope for what you’ll accept is being pushed. One day, all of these things will be your new normal.”—Nigerian writer Suyi Davies Okungbowa
The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state.
This has remained true over the past 50-plus years no matter which political party held office.
This will remain true no matter who wins the 2024 presidential election.
In the midst of the partisan furor over Project 2025, a 920-page roadmap for how to re-fashion the government to favor so-called conservative causes, both the Right and the Left have proven themselves woefully naive about the dangers posed by the power-hungry Deep State.
Yet we must never lose sight of the fact that both the Right and the Left and their various operatives are extensions of the Deep State, which continues to wage psychological warfare on the American people.
Psychological warfare, according to the Rand Corporation, “involves the planned use of propaganda and other psychological operations to influence the opinions, emotions, attitudes, and behavior of opposition groups.”
For years now, the government has been bombarding the citizenry with propaganda campaigns and psychological operations aimed at keeping us compliant, easily controlled and supportive of the government’s various efforts abroad and domestically.
The government is so confident in its Orwellian powers of manipulation that it’s taken to bragging about them. For example, in 2022, the U.S. Army’s 4th Psychological Operations Group, the branch of the military responsible for psychological warfare, released a recruiting video that touts its efforts to pull the strings, turn everything they touch into a weapon, be everywhere, deceive, persuade, change, influence, and inspire.
“Have you ever wondered who’s pulling the strings?” the psyops video posits. “Anything we touch is a weapon. We can deceive, persuade, change, influence, inspire. We come in many forms. We are everywhere.”
This is the danger that lurks in plain sight.
Of the many weapons in the government’s vast arsenal, psychological warfare may be the most devastating in terms of the long-term consequences.
As the military journal Task and Purpose explains, “Psychological warfare is all about influencing governments, people of power, and everyday citizens.”
Mind you, these psyops (psychological operations) campaigns aren’t only aimed at foreign enemies. The government has made clear in word and deed that “we the people” are domestic enemies to be targeted, tracked, manipulated, micromanaged, surveilled, viewed as suspects, and treated as if our fundamental rights are mere privileges that can be easily discarded.
This is what is referred to as “apple-pie propaganda.”
Aided and abetted by technological advances and scientific experimentation, the government has been subjecting the American people to “apple-pie propaganda” for the better part of the last century.
Consider some of the ways in which the government continues to wage psychological warfare on a largely unsuspecting citizenry in order to acclimate us to the Deep State’s totalitarian agenda.
Weaponizing violence in order to institute martial law. With alarming regularity, the nation continues to be subjected to spates of violence that terrorizes the public, destabilizes the country’s ecosystem, and gives the government greater justifications to crack down, lock down, and institute even more authoritarian policies for the so-called sake of national security without many objections from the citizenry.
Weaponizing surveillance, pre-crime and pre-thought campaigns. Surveillance, digital stalking and the data mining of the American people add up to a society in which there’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence. When the government sees all and knows all and has an abundance of laws to render even the most seemingly upstanding citizen a criminal and lawbreaker, then the old adage that you’ve got nothing to worry about if you’ve got nothing to hide no longer applies. Add pre-crime programs into the mix with government agencies and corporations working in tandem to determine who is a potential danger and spin a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged “words,” and “suspicious” activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies, and you having the makings for a perfect dystopian nightmare. The government’s war on crime has now veered into the realm of social media and technological entrapment, with government agents adopting fake social media identities and AI-created profile pictures in order to surveil, target and capture potential suspects.
Weaponizing digital currencies, social media scores and censorship. Tech giants, working with the government, have been meting out their own version of social justice by way of digital tyranny and corporate censorship, muzzling whomever they want, whenever they want, on whatever pretext they want in the absence of any real due process, review or appeal. Unfortunately, digital censorship is just the beginning. Digital currencies (which can be used as “a tool for government surveillance of citizens and control over their financial transactions”), combined with social media scores and surveillance capitalism create a litmus test to determine who is worthy enough to be part of society and punish individuals for moral lapses and social transgressions (and reward them for adhering to government-sanctioned behavior). In China, millions of individuals and businesses, blacklisted as “unworthy” based on social media credit scores that grade them based on whether they are “good” citizens, have been banned from accessing financial markets, buying real estate or travelling by air or train.
Weaponizing compliance. Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation. The war on terror, the war on drugs, the war on COVID-19, the war on illegal immigration, asset forfeiture schemes, road safety schemes, school safety schemes, eminent domain: all of these programs started out as legitimate responses to pressing concerns and have since become weapons of compliance and control in the police state’s hands.
Weaponizing entertainment. For the past century, the Department of Defense’s Entertainment Media Office has provided Hollywood with equipment, personnel and technical expertise at taxpayer expense. In exchange, the military industrial complex has gotten a starring role in such blockbusters as Top Gun and its rebooted sequel Top Gun: Maverick, which translates to free advertising for the war hawks, recruitment of foot soldiers for the military empire, patriotic fervor by the taxpayers who have to foot the bill for the nation’s endless wars, and Hollywood visionaries working to churn out dystopian thrillers that make the war machine appear relevant, heroic and necessary. As Elmer Davis, a CBS broadcaster who was appointed the head of the Office of War Information, observed, “The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people’s minds is to let it go through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized.”
Weaponizing behavioral science and nudging. Apart from the overt dangers posed by a government that feels justified and empowered to spy on its people and use its ever-expanding arsenal of weapons and technology to monitor and control them, there’s also the covert dangers associated with a government empowered to use these same technologies to influence behaviors en masse and control the populace. In fact, it was President Obama who issued an executive order directing federal agencies to use “behavioral science” methods to minimize bureaucracy and influence the way people respond to government programs. It’s a short hop, skip and a jump from a behavioral program that tries to influence how people respond to paperwork to a government program that tries to shape the public’s views about other, more consequential matters. Thus, increasingly, governments around the world—including in the United States—are relying on “nudge units” to steer citizens in the direction the powers-that-be want them to go, while preserving the appearance of free will.
Weaponizing desensitization campaigns aimed at lulling us into a false sense of security. The events of recent years—the invasive surveillance, the extremism reports, the civil unrest, the protests, the shootings, the bombings, the military exercises and active shooter drills, the lockdowns, the color-coded alerts and threat assessments, the fusion centers, the transformation of local police into extensions of the military, the distribution of military equipment and weapons to local police forces, the government databases containing the names of dissidents and potential troublemakers—have conspired to acclimate the populace to accept a police state willingly, even gratefully.
Weaponizing politics. The language of fear is spoken effectively by politicians on both sides of the aisle, shouted by media pundits from their cable TV pulpits, marketed by corporations, and codified into bureaucratic laws that do little to make our lives safer or more secure. Fear, as history shows, is the method most often used by politicians to increase the power of government and control a populace, dividing the people into factions, and persuading them to see each other as the enemy. This Machiavellian scheme has so ensnared the nation that few Americans even realize they are being manipulated into adopting an “us” against “them” mindset. Instead, fueled with fear and loathing for phantom opponents, they agree to pour millions of dollars and resources into political elections, militarized police, spy technology and endless wars, hoping for a guarantee of safety that never comes. All the while, those in power—bought and paid for by lobbyists and corporations—move their costly agendas forward, and “we the suckers” get saddled with the tax bills and subjected to pat downs, police raids and round-the-clock surveillance.
Weaponizing genetics. Not only does fear grease the wheels of the transition to fascism by cultivating fearful, controlled, pacified, cowed citizens, but it also embeds itself in our very DNA so that we pass on our fear and compliance to our offspring. It’s called epigenetic inheritance, the transmission through DNA of traumatic experiences. For example, neuroscientists observed that fear can travel through generations of mice DNA. As The Washington Post reports, “Studies on humans suggest that children and grandchildren may have felt the epigenetic impact of such traumatic events such as famine, the Holocaust and the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.”
Weaponizing the dystopian future. With greater frequency, the government has been issuing warnings about the dire need to prepare for the dystopian future that awaits us. For instance, the Pentagon training video, “Megacities: Urban Future, the Emerging Complexity,” predicts that by 2030 (coincidentally, the same year that society begins to achieve singularity with the metaverse) the military would be called on to use armed forces to solve future domestic political and social problems. What they’re really talking about is martial law, packaged as a well-meaning and overriding concern for the nation’s security. The chilling five-minute training video paints an ominous picture of the future bedeviled by “criminal networks,” “substandard infrastructure,” “religious and ethnic tensions,” “impoverishment, slums,” “open landfills, over-burdened sewers,” a “growing mass of unemployed,” and an urban landscape in which the prosperous economic elite must be protected from the impoverishment of the have nots. “We the people” are the have-nots.
The end goal of these mind control campaigns—packaged in the guise of the greater good—is to see how far the American people will allow the government to go in undermining our freedoms.
The facts speak for themselves.
Whatever else it may be—a danger, a menace, a threat—the U.S. government is certainly not looking out for our best interests, nor is it in any way a friend to freedom.
When the government views itself as superior to the citizenry, when it no longer operates for the benefit of the people, when the people are no longer able to peacefully reform their government, when government officials cease to act like public servants, when elected officials no longer represent the will of the people, when the government routinely violates the rights of the people and perpetrates more violence against the citizenry than the criminal class, when government spending is unaccountable and unaccounted for, when the judiciary act as courts of order rather than justice, and when the government is no longer bound by the laws of the Constitution, then you no longer have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people.”
What we have, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, is a government of wolves.
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ABOUT JOHN W. WHITEHEAD
Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His most recent books are the best-selling Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the award-winning A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, and a debut dystopian fiction novel, The Erik Blair Diaries. Whitehead can be contacted at staff@rutherford.org. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.
Humans are social cooperative creatures. The imperative to delegate leadership to others for practical reasons has seemingly always been there, as has been the proclivity to abuse this trust. But has “delegation” per se actually been what has happened? Did leadership originally happen when a few “heavies” in the Sumerian city states say to their agrarian kinsmen :”make sure you give us some of your crops so we can make good our armour and weapons training to defend you from others (like us) from neighbouring cities.” It has hard to believe that on one level, governance is no more than a protection racket.
Although common place to accept the wealthy are our rulers if we step back and view it from an ideal of “delegation”, the notion that the “best” people to rule are the most wealthy is absurd. What we have, generation after generation is the sugar coating of rulers as “beneficent”. The adjective “philanthropic” has been continually attributed to the Rothschilds in their obituaries and the like.
I’ve read a bit, tut.
“The U.S. government is working to re-shape the country in the image of a totalitarian state.”
It’s not the government, it’s a regime, largely comprised of the ‘uniparty’. The work on behalf of the MIC, the social media platforms, the fake news media and the oligarchs who work with the deep state. The Nazi SS works for the DOJ, and it’s the DOJ who’s been trying to nail Trump to the cross, and now the FBI and Nazi SS try an assassination, that only failed due to an unantisipated head movement to check immigration data on a high-ish screen.
The no work required to turn Nazi Amerika into a totalitarian state, because it’s been one since 9/11, when they put together security legislation that could not be read by the legislators.
The totalitarian boat sailed 20 plus years ago, and it’s the same in Nazi UK. I’m totally perplexed by so say alternative and truther creatives who keep trying to reset the start date, when it’s been and gone. ‘Oh, look what’s coming, look what they’re going to do now?’
Oh, they’re going to chip us all? No, they can’t afford it, and two, they don’t need to. Where are the riots over Trump’s very close call?
As Ray McGovern, probably the most honest pundit out there from the inside says, ‘ If Trump survives’, and that’s a huge question. I still hold the view Trump has done a deep state deal, but that doesn’t mean everyone in Nazi land knows about the deal, or if they’ll be safe if Trump is elected, because even a deal doesn’t stop fallout, and some big Nazis will be thrown under the Trump bus.
This video is rather long, but I think wise old bird Ray McGovern is worth listening to. He covers quite a bit off deep state assassination history and those involved.
https://www.youtube.com/live/cOyKXbhzU-8?si=gtS_w_uw2dcZlEbX
Regarding “people waiting for A Big Sign”: Here’s the answer to that! “But He answered and said unto them, ‘An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas: for as Jonas was three days and three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And He shall send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. (Mat.12:39-40; 24:29-31) Time to tap into God’s Sign Language!
Regarding “They’ll move the line.” Of course, they will! “For the lips of a strange woman (Babylon the Whore!) drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are MOVEABLE, that thou canst not know them.” (Pro.5:3-6)
All of these people wearing red Chabad threads on their wrists such as Carlson and Putin, and you have to wonder where Chabad stands in relation to UN and WEF globalism, which on analysis is simply a marriage between bankster and corporate fascism and international communism. Also, what kind of organisation is it and what commitments have all of the various red-wrist types made to the seeming very bad Chabad’s? Does anyone know?
Yeah you don’t need to be Wernher von Braun to realize that a planet populated by 7-8 billion wogs & ballooning isn’t going to end well for the white race & ‘civilization’.
And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery, and to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering.
Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man.
And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.– Letter to Sam Kercheval about reform of the Virginia Constitution, July 12, 1816; The Writings of Thomas Jefferson.
Poor old Carl can’t get it through his head that globalism is the MARRIAGE between the corporate fascists and the international communist movement all overseen by the international banking cartel. He still thinks Marxism is sacrosanct from totalitarianism and the globalist meatgrinder. Instead of just reacting to very little issues which they feed us to keep us divided, we have to wake up to know that the only enemy of the evil establishment running things is ourselves.
The only solution for our protection is to unite and fight all censorship pretexts designed to shut us up and prevent the spread of the facts. More so, however, we further have to wake up to the fact that without FULL DISCLOSURE of the facts TO US on everything which matters to us, all of our rights, and even that of freedom of speech, is meaningless. Only by people is positions of power realizing there are very, very serious consequences to lying to and deceiving the public will things start to change.
We are controlled by mass fearmongering and constant media brainwashing and lies. We are RULED BY STEALTH whether it is mega-corporate stealth, international communist stealth, Chabad diamond-power stealth, or bankster money-power stealth. They are all working and woking together to screw us by constantly keeping us in the dark and spinning their fake narratives. Had there been full disclosure of the fake methods being utilized to usher in the UN Agendas there would have been no steam behind CO2 global warming or the Covid plandemic. They could not use their totalitarian methods, and there would have been a more balanced and rational approach to the globalist sustainability pretexts, and all that they deem as “necessary”.
Full disclosure means they can no longer spin their fake narratives. It means a more equal distribution of knowledge which empowers people and enables them to make more rational decisions in their lives both for their own interests and for the common good. That is exactly what the control freaks and phonies on the world stage do not want. Full disclosure does not mean people will not use the facts for evil ends, but it will make it far more difficult for them to do so.
if some people believe there must come a red line ,
gods help or messys help they are stupid . the red
line already was crossed by PNAC + 9.11, inventing
the “war against terror” but in reality creating terror
with hundred false flags + cheating for a jewish poison
euthanasy vaccine disguised for health, cheating citizens
with help of corrupt politicians + secret masonry mafia
in highest positions (police,military,justice, medias),
swamping the nations with CIA drugs + massinvaders .
only idiots believe there must still be some law + order
for everybody . THERE IS NO ! as TPTB show to everybody .
only law police is watchful that you keep the trafficregulations
since they can charge fines for the state + tax you and that you
shut your mouth . more inteligence they dont need .
Fred B: dick beater, stop putting words and your fake idea down as if I’ve said them.
The Fred B moniker spews 100s, 1000s of bot comments, and only when the mustard get really hot, then you attack with your lies.
Globalism used to make money for the Nazis, but this ended in the 1970s, and since then it’s been a debt based economy to keep the elites in corn and power.
You and these tropes used by the fake news media want to keep the thicko sheeple in the dark, while I am doing my best to give an unbiased perspective.
Poor Carl still doesn’t get it. All evil people to him are Nazis, but no one else, and especially the commies whom he appears to love and are just as totalitarian, ruthless, and pig headed as the Nazis.
In a recent video Sean Foo says NATO is telling the EU it should confiscate China’s assets in the bloc. If this is NATO telling the EU then it’s the US pushing it but they’re too cowardly to admit that, no doubt the US intending to further damage the EU’s industry and economic wellbeing. China is making moves to pull its assets back east, and like Sean says China can impose seizures of its own. Big companies like Apple could lose not just assets but a massive income stream if China decides it’s keeping their stuff.
In Britain Keir Starmer’s government has announced it intends to introduce a total smoking ban on people born after 2009 as part of a plan to outlaw smoking in Britain altogether. Apart from the fact the tax duty on smoking is massive and will have to be replaced somehow, I wonder how much of this is to introduce Starmer’s authoritarian tendency? He’s getting tough on the youth but not the adult population so like all bullies he’s picking on the weakest, but all the same a total ban for them is very authoritarian.
Things had gone too far long ago, whether it was when the men tasked with rewriting the Articles of Confederation up and decided to replace it with a federal constitution (absent a written guarantee of rights), or when the Jews managed to slap their hateful little poem onto that huge Masonic statue of a transvestie squatting in New York Harbor.
The general population caught the Cabal out that first time, forcing them to amend their constitution with the Bill of Rights, but with the passage of time the people grew more and ever more ignorant stupefied, and downright stupid. This included open the borders to “others,” not of our Anglo-Saxon heritage. “Hey Stash! Yo, Guido!” Hey, Paddy! Come to America! You will love it here; the landlord isn’t allowed to rape your daughter!”
Compulsory public schooling was the final fatal event. The new factory school system did it’s job well: by the time the 17th amendment was up for ratification, the American people were totally mindless, with no defense against the usepatious cabal that had just converted every “statesman” in every state from a Senator– appointed by the state’s legislature — into a “Senator,” a tweaking elected whore, put in place by “democracy.”
The rest has been “history.”