Police forces across the United States have been transformed into
extensions of the military. Our towns and cities have become
battlefields, and we the American people are now the enemy combatants to
be spied on, tracked, frisked, and searched. For those who resist, the
consequences can be a one-way trip to jail, or even death. Battlefield
America: The War on the American People is constitutional attorney John
W. Whitehead’s terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself. In
exchange for safe schools and lower crime rates, we have opened the
doors to militarized police, zero tolerance policies in schools, and
SWAT team raids. The insidious shift was so subtle that most of us had
no idea it was happening. This follow-up to Whitehead’s award-winning A
Government of Wolves, is a brutal critique of an America on the verge of
destroying the very freedoms that define it. Hands up!―the police state
has arrived.
