Articles by John W. Whitehead
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John W. Whitehead ·
“When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you—pull your beard, flick your face—to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to...
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John W. Whitehead ·
“It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars...
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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out ... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is...
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John W. Whitehead ·
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” ― Benjamin Franklin
What a mess.
As America has become ever more polarized, and those polarized factions have become more militant and...
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As a nation, we have a tendency to sentimentalize cultural icons in death in a way that renders them non-threatening, antiseptic and easily digested by a society with an acute intolerance for anything controversial, politically...
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John W. Whitehead ·
Enough is enough.
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John W. Whitehead ·
In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later.
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John W. Whitehead ·
“Our current and past strategies can no longer hold. We are facing environments that the masters of war never foresaw. We are facing a threat that requires us to redefine doctrine and the force in radically new and different ways. The...
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John W. Whitehead ·
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
— Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in The Works of Benjamin Franklin
Divide and conquer.
It’s one of the oldest military strategies in the books, and it’s...
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John W. Whitehead ·
“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979)
“You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every night, you...
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