Battlefield America: The War On The American People

SelectBooks, 2015. Hardcover. New/New. New hardcover in a new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.04 x 1.1 x 9.29 inches) Includes author's notes, index, and photos. 352 pp.

Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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.