A Message to New “Conspiracy Theorists”
By The Corbett Report So, it’s 2020 and you’ve fallen down the rabbit hole. Disorienting, isn’t it? Well, don’t worry: you are not alone. On…
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P is for Predator State: The Building Blocks of Tyranny from A to Z
By John W. Whitehead “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public…
Jacksons Convenience Stores Use Cop-Run Facial Recognition Cameras To Identify Customers
By MassPrivateI Two years ago, I wrote about the dangers of a cop-run company that profits from installing facial recognition cameras in retail stores. But few people…
DARPA To Put Nuclear, Biological And Chemical Detectors In Public Venues
By MassPrivateI Can you imagine living in a country that puts surveillance devices in every city and public venue? What would be the first country…
How Evil Wins: The Hypocritical Double Standards of Political Outrage
By John W. Whitehead “She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel,…
Technotyranny: The Iron-Fisted Authoritarianism of the Surveillance State
By John W. Whitehead “There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My…
D Is for a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy
By John W. Whitehead “When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public…
2018: The Year Public Watchlists Became Commonplace
By MassPrivateI A few months ago I called 2018 the “Rise of Spying Transit Police,” but after looking through my archives, I noticed a more…
Government Shutdown or Not, the Police State Will Continue to Flourish
By John W. Whitehead “There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men.”—Ludwig von Mises The government…
How The Government Uses Its Giant Facial Recognition Database
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man In July 1996, flight TWA 800 exploded in mid-air, 12 minutes after taking off from JFK International Airport in New…
The Presidential Alert Text Is Everything You Need to Know About the US Government
Op-Ed by Carey Wedler The Internet erupted in a flurry of posts about President Trump’s message to millions of people Tuesday afternoon. The text, which…
TSA Bosses Covered Up Internal Sexual Harassment; What Does That Mean For The Public Cases?
By Aaron Kesel The Transportation Security Administration, the agency always fingered for groping allegations of passengers boarding airplanes, has reportedly had bad bosses for quite…
2018: The Rise of Spying Transit Police
By MassPrivateI Today’s Public Transit Police Departments offer a frightening glimpse into the future of commuter surveillance. Last year the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)…
Suspending the Constitution: In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants
By John W. Whitehead “That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets….