Battlefield America Quotes

“License plate readers—which collect upwards of 1,800 images per hour—can identify the owner of any car that comes within its sights. (Illustration by Molly Zisk, courtesy of The Register)”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People

“Obedience is the precondition to totalitarianism, and the precondition to obedience is fear.”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People

“[W]e as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a “person-oriented” society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are all incapable of being conquered.14”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People

“Television results in a kind of zombification—not a great thing for a genuinely democratic society.”1 —BRUCE LEVINE, clinical psychologist”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People

“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.”1 —JAMES MADISON”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People

“The Secret Government is an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals, profiteers and superpatriots, who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them when they can’t win the support of the Congress or the people, creating that unsupervised power so feared by the framers of our Constitution. …”1 —BILL MOYERS, journalist and White House press secretary under President Johnson”
― John W. Whitehead, Battlefield America: The War On the American People