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Author Whitehead, John W., 1946- author.

Title A government of wolves : the emerging American police state / John W. Whitehead ; with an introduction by Nat Hentoff.

Publication Info. New York : SelectBooks, Inc., [2013]

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  323.49 W58    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Is this America? I am afraid ; Who will protect us from our government? ; On the road to a police state -- The future is here. Fiction has become reality ; Reality check ; Smiling at Big Brother -- Welcome to the police state. 1984 ; America's new way of life ; SWAT Team mania ; Dominate. Intimidate. Control. ; The New York prototype -- The electronic concentration camp. The Matrix: where they live ; The federal "Gestapo"? ; Living in Oceania ; The watchers and the watched ; A total control society -- America the battlefield. Subduing a populace: THX 1138 ; Tactics of intimidation ; Tasering us into compliance ; The goodbye effect ; Attack of the drones ; The new American order. Soylent Green is people ; Are we all criminals now? ; The criminalization of America's school children ; The prison industrial complex ; The psychology of compliance -- The point of no return? V for Vendetta ; Have we reached the point of no return? ; Know your rights or you will lose them ; Compliant lambs or nonviolent gadflies? ; What kind of revolutionary will you be?
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-269) and index.
Subject Civil rights -- United States.
United States -- Politics and government.
Police power -- United States.
Constitutional law -- United States.
ISBN 9781590799758 hardcover alkaline paper
1590799755 hardcover alkaline paper
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