The Change Manifesto Quotes

“beauty salon and $19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence, but rejected a healthcare reform bill that would offer affordable”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“2006 Congressional Pig Book were”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Under such a unified court structure, author Jerome R. Corsi foresees an immediate challenge to First Amendment free speech laws, as well as the Second Amendment's right to bear arms. As he explains in Human Events ,”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“In November 2006, Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) voiced his concerns over proposals to do away with the United States as a stand-alone entity: “The president of the United States is an internationalist. He is going to”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Air Force authorities defended the abaya policy as a gesture of sensitivity to”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“garment, McSally said, “to me is defying Christ” and accepting treatment as “a Muslim piece of property.”54 By depriving her of the opportunity to express her own faith and imposing upon her the symbolic speech of another religion, the dress code stood in gross violation of”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“the wake of September 11, George W. Bush's $2.13 trillion budget (which put the country $80 billion in the red) increased the Pentagon's annual account to $451 billion by 2007. This is more than the budgets”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Article I, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution: “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“fighting the war on drugs and supporting civilian authorities”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“which is run by unelected officials, would become the most powerful governmental authority.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“FEMA essentially has the power to put the Constitution and the Bill of Rights”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“As a result, the Department of Defense now spends billions of dollars on counternarcotic crusades, and American troops have become an adjunct to many local police forces in the country.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Health screening tests such as Teen Screen and YRBSS are often given to students without parental knowledge or consent. While the CDC insists that local parental permission procedures are followed prior to administering the test, many school systems use so-called passive parental notification procedures, which assume that parents have given their consent unless they notify the school of an objection. But passive notification is simply a way to avoid obtaining written parental consent. In the end, whether”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“President George W. Bush recommended mental health screenings for all school-age children. In April 2002, President Bush launched the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. After supposedly conducting a”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“In handing down a ruling in Hedgepeth v. Washington Metro , Judge Roberts stated that “no one is very happy about the events that led to this litigation.” Ansche Hedgepeth, he recounted, “was arrested, searched, and handcuffed. Her shoelaces were removed, and she was transported in the windowless rear compartment of a police vehicle to a juvenile processing center, where she was booked, fingerprinted,”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Nearly all U.S. public schools have zero-tolerance policies for firearms or other “weapons,” and most have such policies for drugs and alcohol.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“And software developed by Raptor Technologies, a Houston-based firm, is commonly used to track school visitors by checking their driver's licenses against a national database of sex offenders.10”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“including three-year-olds—were regularly left home alone to care for themselves.5”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Through the use of identity cards, the Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998, while the Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978–79 expulsion. The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans (1937), Volga Germans (1941), Kamyks and Karachai (1943), Crimean Tartars, Meshkhetian Turks, Chechens, Ingush, and Balkars (1944), and ethnic Greeks (1949). Ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993, as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (CASPIAN) has called for initiation of the Right to Know Act, which would require that commodities containing RFID tags bear labels stating that fact in order to protect consumer privacy.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Some people have even had a chip implanted in their arm to provide personal and medical information to doctors and emergency personnel when needed.36 Human microchip implantation took a leap forward in July 2007 when the American Medical Association (AMA) announced”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“The Hitachi Corporation has created the world's smallest, thinnest RFID tags. Referred to as the “powder type,” these tags are barely detectable to the naked eye. They are so small that they can be easily incorporated into thin paper or a single clothing fiber. These tiny tracking devices”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“identification card (dubbed “an internal passport” by its critics) has been hailed by many as a necessity in America's fight against terrorism. What once was seen as a tool for controlling immigration and zeroing”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“enable a dictator “to impose total tyranny” upon an utterly defenseless American public, Church declared that he did not “want to see this country ever go across the bridge” of constitutional protection, congressional oversight, and popular demand for privacy. He avowed that “we,” implicating both Congress and its constituency in this duty, “must see to it that this agency and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so that we never cross over that abyss. That is the abyss from which there is no return.”94”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“ThinThread, a pilot program developed by the NSA in the late 1990s, would have enabled the NSA to collect, analyze, and secure massive quantities of communications data while protecting personal privacy in the process. ThinThread combined four advanced”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the Constitution empowers Congress and makes the United States a democracy by guaranteeing that the people's representatives will know what governmental agencies are”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“Equally important, the words of the First Amendment assume, and even insist on, a citizenry that not only has access to whatever information the government may have on them but control over the information as well.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“ChoicePoint is a private intelligence agency. Several years”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“a victim of “dataveillance,” as a particular type of consumer.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America

“fears that the FBI, whose computer technology record has been marred by expensive failures, could not guarantee the data's security. “If someone steals and spoofs your iris image, you can't just get a new eyeball,” Saffo said.”
― John W. Whitehead, The Change Manifesto: Join the Block by Block Movement to Remake America