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Rutherford Scholar: We Live In An “Electronic Concentration Camp”

Are we living in an electronic concentration camp? John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute released a chilling report that went mostly under the radar of both mainstream and alternative media. Whitehead believes that it’s not the militarized police killing unarmed citizens, the intrusive surveillance regime, or the corporations buying Congress that are most frightening. Instead, Whitehead says: “No, what has been most disconcerting about the emergence of the American police state is the extent to which the citizenry appears content to passively wait for someone else to solve our nation’s many problems. Unless Americans are prepared to engage in militant nonviolent resistance in the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi, true reform, if any, will be a long time coming.” Rutherford.org reports: Yet as I detail in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, if we don’t act soon, all that is in need of fixing will soon be unfixable, especially as it relates to the police state that becomes more entrenched with each passing day. By “police state,” I am referring to more than a society overrun by the long arm of the police. I am referring to a society in which all aspects [...]