Michael Adams

Professor Onwuzuruoha
English 1010
5/1/2015
Annotated Bibliography
The public servants, sworn to protect and serve American citizens now accomplish neither of
those two objectives. The police forces of the United States have been radicalized and weaponized into
a privatized army to which they only revere the almighty state. This is becoming increasingly apparent
with abundant reports of police brutality and murder, and gross abuses of authority and trampling of
constitutional rights. Why is this alarming phenomenon escalating and what can the people of the
United States do to arrest the country's spiral on the slippery slope to tyranny?
Bunker, Robert J.Global Criminal and Sovereign Free Economies and the Demise of the Western
Democracies: Dark Renaissance. London: Routledge, 2015. Print. The book makes an in
depth analysis of the changing social and political landscape of the United States, and how it
is evolving for the worse. It describes why the middle class is being eroded, and how an ever
expanding paramilitary police force is being utilized to transform the American way of life
into a dystopian nightmare.
Davis, Peter L. Rodney King and the Decriminalization of Police Brutality in America: Direct and
Judicial Access to the Grand Jury as Remedies for Victims of Police Brutality When the
Prosecutor Declines to Prosecute. N.p.: n.p., 1994. Print. In his article, Davis blatantly points
out how the brutal, violent, crimes committed by the police force, of whom have been
instituted and sworn to protect us, have become nothing more than the status quo. Davis tries
in his article to shake the reader out of this social paradigm which we have been conditioned to
believe is acceptable.
Roberts, Paul Craig. How America Was Lost From 9/11 to the Police/Welfare State. Cork: BookBaby,

2014. Print. The book explains how the people of the United States have been frightened into
giving up their constitutional rights in the promise of safety by profoundly stating,
Washington's argument is that unless Americans accept the most complete police state In
human history, they are not safe.
Whitehead, John W. A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. N.p.: Select ,
Incorporated, 2013. Print. A widely-respected constitutional attorney and author, Whitehead
charts America's transition from a democratic society governed by "we the people" to an
environment where the adherence to the law becomes another tool of oppression. Hailed by
those on the left and right of the political spectrum and at every point in between, for its
masterful chronicling of America's shift away from the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, which
historically shielded us from government abuses, A Government of Wolves reveals the inner
workings of an increasingly pervasive and militaristic surveillance state in which there is
nowhere to run and nowhere to hide from the government's all-knowing, all-seeing eyes.
Civil disobedience and peaceful demonstration are the preferred methods to restoring our
Republic and the rights guaranteed to everyone within to what it once was, however it seems as time
goes on these methods are becoming increasingly ineffective. The alternative, is fortunately available to
us via our Second Amendment right, the true expression of that right is designed to be a deterrent to
totalitarianism in every form; however war is a devastating burden to bear. Then there is always the
option to submit, and sink quietly into the abyss of tyranny, the future is in the hands of every one of
us.