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Today’s book is:
Battlefield America: The War On The American People - by John Whitehead
Police forces across the United States have been transformed into extensions of the military. Towns and cities have become battlefields, and 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.
You can buy the book here (Amazon link).
I admire his work but a common myth from him and the left is that schools are totalitarian. As a teacher who knows many teachers around the country, I assure you that quite often there is chaos and a general lack of decent standards. Very disorderly and defiant kids must be included to the detriment of the rest.
Check out the Rape of the Mind by Joost Meerloo. I don't remember who recommended this book, but it's worth reading. It's about 'influencers' and 'thought leasers', but surprisingly it was written in 1956. If you think things have changed since then, they haven't. Meerloo, a psychiatrist, explains why people form beliefs that are provably false.
https://www.amazon.com/Rape-Mind-Psychology-Menticide-Brainwashing/dp/1614277877/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2YW4XNCXC3JAH&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.yKo_PQvkQAlVcUIGgn35h6mlWakkxxwqqBwQk3j4dzroLO0RS8JlvqTHlhatmE38aGISAjhCTvog-wfaAfSN1de9QrG9yvVN7Dcmh-9_vnCK5KQmoYw8zdQ5GirK3O51Ik1CXiT4GZnqoP3PUufpNcxYf0R0UrBEd2qqYWypys6gnPK81DOXUbemvj5LaQHOdx2bJ1VlBM6qn3D1_HZhn_xTgaq1IbKK9ZTKiRVzKJo.nxYt2sFLyKLwU3ZHiOhL674jTBFqPREyDX0Ef50-GHg&dib_tag=se&keywords=rape+of+the+mind&qid=1729083815&s=books&sprefix=rape+of+the+mind%2Cstripbooks%2C65&sr=1-1