National Security State

Tyranny Without a Tyrant

by John W. Whitehead July 15, 2020

In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all ...

The U.S. Government’s Secret History of Grisly Experiments

by John W. Whitehead April 24, 2020

“They were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children I have never known any government to put the best interests of its people first, and this COVID-19 pandemic is no exception. Now this isn’t intended ...

The Deep State’s Demolition of Democracy

by James Bovard February 1, 2020

“Thank God for the Deep State,” declared former acting CIA chief John McLaughlin while appearing on a panel at the National Press Club last October. In 2018, the New York Times asserted that Trump’s use of the term “Deep State” and similar rhetoric “fanned fears that he is eroding public trust in institutions, undermining the idea of objective truth ...

Rogue Agencies Have Been Abusing Their Powers for Decades

by John W. Whitehead November 22, 2019

“When a man unprincipled in private life desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour — known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty — when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity — to join in the cry of danger to liberty ...

Yes, Virginia, There Is A Deep State And It’s Feeding The Anti-POTUS Mob

by David Stockman November 1, 2019

The prepared statement of the latest UkraineGate whistle-blower is well worth the read. It tells you all you need to know about why the Deep State apparatchiks are coming out of the woodwork in a massive assault on America's duly elected president. They are deathly afraid Trump will begin to dismantle a far-flung Empire which has wreaked havoc around the ...

A Limited-Government Republic versus a National-Security State

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2019

The worst mistake that the American people have made in the entire history of the United States was to permit the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That conversion has played a major role in the diminishment of limited government and the destruction of our liberty, privacy, and economic well-being. What is a national-security state? It ...

John Lennon vs. the Deep State

by John W. Whitehead October 8, 2019

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students or whether there’s a revolution. It’s not thinking logically, it’s out of control.”—John Lennon (1969) John Lennon, born 79 years ago on October 9, 1940, was a musical genius and pop cultural icon. He was also a ...

The Libertarian Angle: Free Assange and Repeal the Espionage Act

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 4, 2019

Does the first amendment protect journalists or people? Is the Espionage Act suitable for a free society? FFF president Jacob G. Horngberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling answer these questions and more. Go to the podcast.

The Making of a Monster

by John W. Whitehead April 2, 2019

“But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late.” — Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children The ...

Washington’s Biggest Fairy Tale: “Truth Will Out”

by James Bovard February 1, 2019

The arrest of Julian Assange has produced rapturous cheering from the American political elite. Hillary Clinton declared that Assange “must answer for what he has done.” Unfortunately, Assange’s arrest will do nothing to prevent the vast majority of conniving politicians and bureaucrats from paying no price for deceiving the American public. “Truth will out” is a phrase that is routinely ...

Creating a Suspect Society

by John W. Whitehead October 3, 2018

“If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used ...

The Evolution of a Police State Lockdown

by John W. Whitehead August 16, 2018

“It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place 125 square miles in size. ...