Battlefield America

The War on the American People

By: John W. Whitehead, Ron Paul - foreword

Narrated by: Eric G. Dove

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.

©2015 John W. Whitehead (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

A sobering reality

This is a well written and well researched book which peels back the veneer of the police state which our great nation has become, revealing the unseemly underbelly of it all.
It is sobering in the sense that you get that the fox is already running the hen house, but it also gives some cause for hope because of the voices such as John Whitehead, Ron and Rand Paul and others
Well worth reading.

Jay

This accounts all the trends towards greater government control for what appears to be good reason. But the point is all of this, in the wrong hands, can too easily be used against us. Very good insight of obvious trends regarding the police state and a controlling corporate world as well.

Wake up, America

This is a thoroughly well-documented exposition of current-day America and American fascism. Resist. Carefully. Non-violently.

A good listen but...

This was a very informative book. The narration is pleasant and engaging. However the author repeats statistics and incidents several times across many chapters. I do agree with the main point, that we are living in unprecedented times where we are surveiled 24/7 with little we can do to stop it. However I draw issue his apparent conclusion that cops (I'm not sure if he feels all cops) are part of a standing army, waiting to do the bidding of their government masters and his disdain for 'military grade' weapons and supplies being on the streets. While I do agree that most police departments probably don't need a tank, I feel very strongly that the average citizen has the right to have one should they have the means and ability. All in all a good book and worth the listen.

Great Book Easy to Understand and to the Point

Information everyone should know but sadly most don't or deny about the world they live in.