{"id":37001,"date":"2018-08-24T05:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37001"},"modified":"2018-08-24T05:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T10:59:52","slug":"battlefield-america-the-ongoing-war-on-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37001","title":{"rendered":"Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mediaObject\">\n<div class=\"mediaObjectPrimary\">\n<h3 class=\"articleTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rutherford.org\/publications_resources\/john_whiteheads_commentary\/battlefield_america_the_ongoing_war_on_the_american_people\">Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cA government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.\u201d\u2014John Salter<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Police in a small Georgia town\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/happened-mayberry-asks-relative-87-year-georgia-woman\/story?id=57193494\">tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a kitchen knife to cut dandelions for use in a recipe<\/a>. Police claim they had no choice but to taser the old woman, who does not speak English but was smiling at police to indicate she was friendly, because she failed to comply with orders to put down the knife.<\/p>\n<p>Police in California are being sued for using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/crime\/article\/76-year-old-deaf-woman-sues-Alameda-County-13159009.php\">excessive force against a deaf 76-year-old woman who was allegedly jaywalking<\/a>\u00a0and failed to halt when police yelled at her. According to the lawsuit, police searched the woman and her grocery bags. She was then slammed to the ground, had a foot or knee placed behind her neck or back, handcuffed, arrested and cited for jaywalking and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p>In Alabama, police first tasered then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2018\/08\/alabama_police_officer_argues.html\">shot and killed an unarmed man who refused to show his driver\u2019s license after attempting to turn in a stray dog<\/a>\u00a0he\u2019d found to the local dog shelter. The man\u2019s girlfriend and their three children, all under the age of 10, witnessed the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In New York, Customs and Border Protection officers have come under fire for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/in-horrifying-detail-women-accuse-us-customs-officers-of-invasive-body-searches\/2018\/08\/18\/ad7b7d82-9b38-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html\">subjecting female travelers (including minors) to random body searches<\/a>\u00a0that include strip searches while menstruating, genital probing, and forced pelvic exams, X-rays and intravenous drugs at area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People \u201cA government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.\u201d\u2014John Salter Police in a small Georgia town\u00a0tasered a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21391,13197,632,635,827,862],"class_list":["post-37001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-battlefield-america","tag-john-w-whitehead","tag-police","tag-police-state","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37002,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37001\/revisions\/37002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}