Collapse Life, Released on 3/1/25
In this episode of the Collapse Life podcast, civil liberties attorney and returning guest, John Whitehead, reminds us just how we are sleepwalking our way to autocracy – on a road paved with 42 active national emergencies, unchecked executive power, and a $500 billion AI system that threatens your rights. From SWAT raids to a government that doesn’t care, Whitehead explains how the Bill of Rights is under siege — and what you can do to fight back.
Key topics discussed:
• How the expansion of executive power signals a dangerous trend toward autocratic rule
• How the government uses fear and crises (e.g., terrorism, mass shootings) to justify overreach
• How our ignorance of the Bill of Rights weakens our resistance to government tyranny
• How those in power do not care about the little guy at all
• How Stargate and other AI initiatives have the potential to sideline our rights and freedoms
John Whitehead is a constitutional attorney, advocate for citizens impacted by government overreach, and founder of the Rutherford Institute.
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Is the Constitution dead?
If only it were true!
Why would I say such a thing? Because it was what officially commenced America’s suicidal trek to the precipice upon which she teeters.
Don’t believe me. Then, perhaps you will Patrick Henry who refused to attend the constitutional convention, declaring, “I smelt a rat!”:
“…Convinced the Constitution would fail to secure and protect liberty, Patrick Henry voiced his concerns to the Virginia Ratifying Convention in 1788:
‘…I say our privileges and rights are in danger. …the new form of Government … will … effectually … oppress and ruin the people…. In some parts of the plan before you, the great rights of freemen are endangered, in other parts, absolutely taken away…. There will be no checks, no real balances, in this Government: What can avail your specious imaginary balances, your rope-dancing, chain-rattling, ridiculous ideal checks and contrivances? …And yet who knows the dangers that this new system may produce: they are out of the sight of the common people: They cannot foresee latent consequences…. I see great jeopardy in this new Government.’67
“In contrast to the federalists’ failed predictions, this and nearly everything the anti-federalists forecast about the Constitution has come true [even after the Bill of Rights, aka Bill of Goods,* was added]….”
For more, see Chapter 3 “The Preamble: We the People vs. Yahweh” of free online book “Bible Law vs, the United States Constitution: The Christian Perspective” at bible versus constitution dot org. Click on the top entry on our Online Book page and scroll down to Chapter 3.
Find out how much you really know about the Constitution as compared to the Bible. Take our 10-question Constitution Survey in the sidebar and receive a free copy of the 85-page “Primer” of “BL vs. USC.”
*Listen to Michael Gaddy’s radio interview with me entitled Bill of Rights or Bill of Goods? Click on our Audio Messages page and scroll down to T 1306.
Second hour at T 1307.