The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a convenient, traumatic, devastating distraction.
The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so distracted and divided that they have failed to notice the building blocks of tyranny being laid down right under their noses by the architects of the Deep State.
Biden, Trump, Obama, Bush, Clinton: they have all been complicit in carrying out the Deep Stateโs agenda.
Frankly, it really doesnโt matter who occupies the White House, because it is a profit-driven, unelected bureaucracyโcall it whatever you will: the Deep State, the Controllers, the masterminds, the shadow government, the corporate elite, the police state, the surveillance state, the military industrial complexโthat is actually calling the shots
Our losses are mounting with every passing day, part of a calculated siege intended to ensure our defeat at the hands of a totalitarian regime.
Free speech, the right to protest, the right to challenge government wrongdoing, due process, a presumption of innocence, the right to self-defense, accountability and transparency in government, privacy, media, sovereignty, assembly, bodily integrity, representative government: all of these and more are casualties in the governmentโs war on the American people.
Set against a backdrop of government surveillance, militarized federal police, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, overcriminalization, armed surveillance drones, whole body scanners, stop and frisk searches, and the likeโall of which have been sanctioned by Congress, the White House and the courtsโour constitutional freedoms are being steadily chipped away at, undermined, eroded, whittled down, and generally discarded.
As a result, the American people continue to be treated like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.
None of these dangers have dissipated in any way.
They have merely disappeared from our televised news streams.
Thus, in the interest of liberty and truth, hereโs an A-to-Z primer that spells out the grim realities of life in the American Police State that no one seems to be talking about anymore.
A is for the AMERICAN POLICE STATE.ย A police state โis characterized by bureaucracy, secrecy, perpetual wars, a nation of suspects, militarization, surveillance, widespread police presence, and a citizenry with little recourse against police actions.โ
B is for our battered BILL OF RIGHTS.ย In the militarized police culture that is America today, where you can be kicked, punched, tasered, shot, intimidated, harassed, stripped, searched, brutalized, terrorized, wrongfully arrested, and even killed by a police officer, and that officer is rarely held accountable for violating your rights, the Bill of Rights doesnโt amount to much.
C is for CIVIL ASSET FORFEITURE.ย This governmental scheme to deprive Americans of their libertiesโnamely, the right to propertyโis being carried out under the guise of civil asset forfeiture, a government practice whereinย government agents (usually the police and now TSA agents) seize private property they โsuspectโ may be connected to criminal activity. Then, whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, the government keeps the citizenโs property and itโs virtually impossible to get it back.
D is for DRONES.ย It was estimated that at least 30,000 drones areย now airborne in American airspace, part of anย $80 billion industry. Although some drones may be used for benevolent purposes, many are also being equipped with lasers, tasers and scanning devices, among other weaponsโall aimed at โwe the people.โ
E is for EMERGENCY STATE.ย From 9/11 to COVID-19, we have been the subjected to an โemergency stateโ that justifies all manner of government tyranny and power grabs in the so-called name of national security. The governmentโs ongoing attempts to declare so-called national emergencies in order to circumvent the Constitutionโs system of checks and balances constitutes yet another expansion of presidential power that exposes the nation to further constitutional peril.
F is for FASCISM.ย A study conducted by Princeton and Northwestern University concluded that theย U.S. government does not represent the majority of American citizens. Instead, the study found that the government is ruled by the rich and powerful, or the so-called โeconomic elite.โ Moreover, the researchers concluded that policies enacted by this governmental elite nearly always favor special interests and lobbying groups. In other words, we are beingย ruled by an oligarchyย disguised as a democracy, and arguably on our way towards fascismโa form of government where private corporate interests rule, money calls the shots, and the people are seen as mere economic units or databits.
G is for GRENADE LAUNCHERS and GLOBAL POLICE.ย The federal government hasย distributed more than $18 billion worth of battlefield-appropriate military weapons, vehicles and equipmentย such as drones, tanks, and grenade launchers to domestic police departments across the country. As a result, most small-town police forces now have enough firepower to render any citizen resistance futile. Now take those small-town police forces, train them to look and act like the military, and then enlist them to be part of the United Nationsโย Strong Cities Network program, and you not only have a standing army that operates beyond the reach of the Constitution but one that is part of a global police force.
H is for HOLLOW-POINT BULLETS.ย The governmentโs efforts to militarize and weaponize its agencies and employees is reaching epic proportions, with federal agencies as varied as the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration stockpiling millions of lethal hollow-point bullets, which violate international law. Ironically, while the government continues to push for stricter gun laws for the general populace, the U.S. militaryโs arsenal of weapons makes the average Americanโs handgun look like a Tinker Toy.
I is for the INTERNET OF THINGS, in which internet-connected โthingsโ monitor your home, your health and your habits in order to keep your pantry stocked, your utilities regulated and your life under control and relatively worry-free. The key word here, however, is control. Thisย โconnectedโ industryย propels us closer to a future where police agencies apprehend virtually anyone if the government โthinksโ they may commit a crime, driverless cars populate the highways, and a personโs biometrics are constantly scanned and used to track their movements, target them for advertising, and keep them under perpetual surveillance.
J is for JAILING FOR PROFIT.ย Having outsourced their inmate population to private prisons run by private corporations, thisย profit-driven form of mass punishmentย has given rise to a $70 billion private prison industry that relies on the complicity of state governments to keep their privately run prisons full by jailing large numbers of Americans for petty crimes.
K is for KENTUCKY V. KING.ย In an 8-1 ruling, the Supreme Courtย ruled that police officers can break into homes, without a warrant, even if itโs the wrong homeย as long as they think they may have a reason to do so. Despite the fact that the police in question ended up pursuing the wrong suspect, invaded the wrong apartment and violated just about every tenet that stands between the citizenry and a police state, the Court sanctioned the warrantless raid, leaving Americans with little real protection in the face of all manner of abuses by law enforcement officials.
L is for LICENSE PLATE READERS, which enable law enforcement and private agencies to track the whereabouts of vehicles, and their occupants, all across the country. This data collected on tens of thousands of innocent people is also beingย shared between police agencies, as well as with government fusion centers and private companies. This puts Big Brother in the driverโs seat.
M is for MAIN CORE.ย Since the 1980s, the U.S. government has acquired and maintained, without warrant or court order, a database of names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation. As Salon reports, this database,ย reportedly dubbed โMain Core,โย is to be used by the Army and FEMA in times of national emergency or under martial law to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security. There are at least 8 million Americans in the Main Core database.
N is for NO-KNOCK RAIDS.ย Owing to the militarization of the nationโs police forces, SWAT teams are now increasingly being deployed for routine police matters. In fact, more thanย 80,000 of these paramilitary raids are carried out every year. That translates to more than 200 SWAT team raids every day in which police crash through doors, damage private property, terrorize adults and children alike, kill family pets, assault or shoot anyone that is perceived as threateningโand all in the pursuit of someone merely suspected of a crime, usually possession of some small amount of drugs.
O is for OVERCRIMINALIZATION and OVERREGULATION.ย Thanks to an overabundance of 4500-plus federal crimes and 400,000 plus rules and regulations, itโs estimated that the average American actually commits three felonies a day without knowing it. As a result of thisย overcriminalization, weโre seeing an uptick in Americans being arrested and jailed for such absurd โviolationsโ as letting their kids play at a park unsupervised, collecting rainwater and snow runoff on their own property, growing vegetables in their yard, and holding Bible studies in their living room.
P is for PATHOCRACY and PRECRIME. When our own government treats us as things to be manipulated, maneuvered, mined for data, manhandled by police and other government agents, mistreated, and then jailed inย profit-driven private prisonsย if we dare step out of line, we are no longer operating under a constitutional republic. Instead, what we are experiencing is aย pathocracy: tyranny at the hands of a psychopathic government, which โoperates against the interests of its own people except for favoring certain groups.โ Couple that with the governmentโs burgeoning precrime programs, which will useย fusion centers, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition,ย predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioralย epigeneticsย in order to identify and deter so-called potential โextremists,โ dissidents or rabble-rousers. Bear in mind that anyone seen as opposing the governmentโwhether theyโre Left, Right or somewhere in betweenโis now viewed as an extremist.
Q is for QUALIFIED IMMUNITY.ย Qualified immunityย allows police officers to walk away without paying a dime for their wrongdoing. Conveniently, those deciding whether a cop should be immune from having to personally pay for misbehavior on the job all belong to the same system, all cronies with a vested interest in protecting the police and their infamous code of silence: city and county attorneys, police commissioners, city councils and judges.
R is for ROADSIDE STRIP SEARCHES and BLOOD DRAWS.ย The courts have increasingly erred on the side of giving government officialsโespecially the policeโvast discretion in carrying out strip searches, blood draws and even anal and vaginal probes for a broad range of violations, no matter how minor the offense. In the past, strip searches were resorted to only in exceptional circumstances where police were confident that a serious crime was in progress. In recent years, however, strip searches have become routine operating procedures in which everyone is rendered a suspect and, as such, is subjected to treatment once reserved for only the most serious of criminals.
S is for the SURVEILLANCE STATE.ย On any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20 different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. A byproduct of the electronic concentration camp in which we live, whether youโre walking through a store, driving your car, checking email, or talking to friends and family on the phone, you can be sure thatย some government agency, whether the NSA or some other entity, is listening in and tracking your behavior. This doesnโt even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
T is for TASERS.ย Nonlethal weapons such as tasers, stun guns, rubber pellets and the like have been used by police as weapons of compliance more often and with less restraintโeven against women and childrenโand in some instances, even causing death. Theseย โnonlethalโ weapons also enable police to aggress with the push of a button, making the potential for overblown confrontations over minor incidents that much more likely. A Taser Shockwave, for instance, can electrocute a crowd of people at the touch of a button.
U is for UNARMED CITIZENS SHOT BY POLICE.ย No longer is it unusual to hear about incidents in which police shoot unarmed individuals first and ask questions later, often attributed to a fear for their safety. Yet theย fatality rate of on-duty patrol officers is reportedly far lower than many other professions, including construction, logging, fishing, truck driving, and even trash collection.
V is for VIRUSES and VACCINE PASSPORTS.ย What started out as an apparent effort to prevent a novel coronavirus from sickening the nation (and the world) has become yet another means by which world governments (including the U.S.) can expand their powers, abuse their authority, and further oppress their constituents. The road we are traveling is paved with lockdowns, SWAT team raids, mass surveillance, forced vaccinations, contact tracing, vaccine passports, and heavy fines and jail time for those who dare to venture out without a mask, congregate in worship without the governmentโs blessing, or re-open their businesses without the governmentโs say-so.
W is for WHOLE-BODY SCANNERS.ย Using either x-ray radiation or radio waves, scanning devices and government mobile units are being used not only to โseeโ through your clothes but to spy on you within the privacy of your home. While theseย mobile scannersย are being sold to the American public as necessary security and safety measures, we can ill afford to forget that such systems are rife with the potential for abuse, not only by government bureaucrats but by the technicians employed to operate them.
X is for X-KEYSCORE, one of the many spying programs carried out by the National Security Agency that targets every person in the United States who uses a computer or phone. This top-secret program โallows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals.โ
Y is for YOU-NESS.ย Using your face, mannerisms, social media and โyou-nessโ against you, you are now be tracked based on what you buy, where you go, what you do in public, and how you do what you do. Facial recognition software promises to create a society in which every individual who steps out into public is tracked and recorded as they go about their daily business. The goal is for government agents to be able to scan a crowd of people and instantaneously identify all of the individuals present.ย Facial recognition programs are being rolled out in states all across the country.
Z is for ZERO TOLERANCE.ย We have moved into a new paradigm in which young people are increasingly viewed as suspects and treated as criminals by school officials and law enforcement alike,ย often for engaging in little more than childish behaviorย or for saying the โwrongโ word. In some jurisdictions, students have also been penalized under school zero tolerance policies for such inane “crimes” as carrying cough drops, wearing black lipstick, bringing nail clippers to school, using Listerine or Scope, and carrying fold-out combs that resemble switchblades. The lesson being taught to our youngestโand most impressionableโcitizens is this: in the American police state, youโre either a prisoner (shackled, controlled, monitored, ordered about, limited in what you can do and say, your life not your own) or a prison bureaucrat (politician, police officer, judge, jailer, spy, profiteer, etc.).
As I make clear in my bookย Battlefield America: The War on the American People,ย the reality we must come to terms with is that in the post-9/11 America we live in today, the government does whatever it wants, freedom be damned.
We have moved beyond the era of representative government and entered a new age.
You can call it the age of authoritarianism. Or fascism. Or oligarchy. Or the American police state.
Whatever label you want to put on it, the end result is the same: tyranny.
- Battlefield America: The Federal War on the “Enemy Within” - October 1, 2025
- How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs - September 11, 2025
- The Real National Emergency - June 23, 2025