All of Us Are in Danger: When Anti-Government Speech Becomes Sedition
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead Anti-government speech has become a four-letter word. In more and more cases, the government is declaring war on…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “In so many of the little places of everyday life in which life is lived out, somehow democracy…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals…
By John and Nisha Whitehead “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.”—Harry Truman With every passing day,…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison The…
By John W. Whitehead “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go,…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “There are no private lives. This a most important aspect of modern life. One of the biggest transformations…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught.”—Hunter S. Thompson The burden of…
By John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead “We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to…