In BATTLEFIELD AMERICA: THE Battle OVER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Authorities of Wolves: The Emerging American Law enforcement State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying family portrait of a nation at battle with itself and on the verge of undermining and destroying the basic freedoms guaranteed to all or any citizens in the Constitution.

Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the armed forces. Towns and cities have grown to be battlefields as well as the about Battlefield America American people turned into enemy combatants to become spied on, monitored, scanned, frisked, and searched-subjected to all types of intrusions because they are intimidated, silenced, raided, manhandled, shot at, locked up, and refused due process.

Yet this police state didn’t happen overnight. As Whitehead observes, this change into totalitarianism cannot be traced back again to a single individual or event. Rather, the evolution has been so subtle that a lot of Americans were barely aware of it occurring.

BATTLEFIELD AMERICA docs how, in exchange for the promise of safe streets, safe schools, blight-free neighborhoods, reduce taxes, lower crime prices, and readily accessible technology to improve our protection, the American people opened the entranceway to militarized police, government monitoring, asset forfeiture, restrictive zero-tolerance insurance policies in academic institutions, invasive crimson light cams, SWAT team raids, health care mandates, and overcriminalization of our citizens aided by government corruption.