Battlefield America
The War on the American People
SelectBooks · Print & ebook · February 8, 2022
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military.
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- Genres
- Privacy & Surveillance, Civil Rights, Military Policy & Defense
- Published
- SelectBooks, February 8, 2022
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Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead’s terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself.
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In exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and SWAT team raids. The insidious shift was so subtle that most of us had no idea it was happening. This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A Government of Wolves is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!—the police state has arrived.
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| Privacy & Surveillance | 57% |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | 44% |
| Military Policy & Defense | 28% |
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Publisher categories
- Civil Liberties
- Privacy & Surveillance
- Authors
- John W. Whitehead, Eric G. Dove, Ron Paul - foreword
- Publisher
- SelectBooks
- Published
- February 8, 2022
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Civil Liberties