John Whitehead makes his case for America as a rising ‘Fourth Reich’: FBI ‘Gestapo tactics’ bear hallmarks of that 1930s totalitarian regime

John Whitehead makes his case for America as a rising ‘Fourth Reich’: FBI ‘Gestapo tactics’ bear hallmarks of that 1930s totalitarian regime - By John Whitehead, Rutherford.org

• We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.”—Harry Truman

With every passing day, the United States government borrows yet another leaf from Nazi Germany’s playbook: 

• Secret police. 
• Secret courts. 
• Secret government agencies. 
• Surveillance. 
• Censorship. 
• Intimidation. 
• Harassment. 
• Torture. 
• Brutality. 
• Widespread corruption. 
• Entrapment. 
• Indoctrination. 
• Indefinite detention.

These are not tactics used by constitutional republics, where the rule of law and the rights of the citizenry reign supreme. 

Rather, they are the hallmarks of authoritarian regimes, where secret police control the populace through intimidation, fear and official lawlessness on the part of government agents...